Sun will release open source network storage software
Sun Microsystems for several years trying to recover from the crisis in the server market. The company has suffered a lot in recent years, when cheap Intel servers with Linux on board gained popularity, cutting off Sun’s foundation for financial well-being. However, it was a good lesson. Now, Sun intends to take revenge and create the same revolution in the network storage area network (NAS) market. If everything works out, then proprietary solutions from NetApp and EMC (and so on) will die out like dinosaurs.
After a year and a half of development (the announcement took place in February 2007), Sun is still ready to present a set of open-source software components for creating network data stores on the x86 platform (OpenSolaris).
The project is codenamed FISHworks (FISH means “Fully Integrated Software and Hardware”), and the first NAS devices on the new platform will appear on the market before the end of this year, Sun promises. These will be high-performance systems for corporate customers. The company will then enter into partnership agreements with manufacturers and supply them with FISHworks under OEM agreements. After some time, the software components of FISHworks will appear in the public domain. The development is still kept secret, but the other day some details leaked to the press .
NAS management software will be reliable, easily configurable, will use ZFS file system (Zettabyte File System) and possess powerful analytical tools based on DTrace technology (Dynamic Tracing). This is a powerful technology that can, for example, produce statistics in real time, which protocols use the most traffic from the NAS, which clients most actively use this protocol and which files are being transmitted right now.
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Theoretically, any company can create its own equipment based on the “designer” of FISHworks, and the system will be an order of magnitude cheaper than solutions from the largest brands in this market, NetApp and EMC. “If you offer a system with 90% of the required functionality, but much better in terms of price / performance, it can capture the market,” said Mike Shapiro, one of Sun's leading engineers and head of the FISHworks development team.
After a year and a half of development (the announcement took place in February 2007), Sun is still ready to present a set of open-source software components for creating network data stores on the x86 platform (OpenSolaris).
The project is codenamed FISHworks (FISH means “Fully Integrated Software and Hardware”), and the first NAS devices on the new platform will appear on the market before the end of this year, Sun promises. These will be high-performance systems for corporate customers. The company will then enter into partnership agreements with manufacturers and supply them with FISHworks under OEM agreements. After some time, the software components of FISHworks will appear in the public domain. The development is still kept secret, but the other day some details leaked to the press .
NAS management software will be reliable, easily configurable, will use ZFS file system (Zettabyte File System) and possess powerful analytical tools based on DTrace technology (Dynamic Tracing). This is a powerful technology that can, for example, produce statistics in real time, which protocols use the most traffic from the NAS, which clients most actively use this protocol and which files are being transmitted right now.
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Theoretically, any company can create its own equipment based on the “designer” of FISHworks, and the system will be an order of magnitude cheaper than solutions from the largest brands in this market, NetApp and EMC. “If you offer a system with 90% of the required functionality, but much better in terms of price / performance, it can capture the market,” said Mike Shapiro, one of Sun's leading engineers and head of the FISHworks development team.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/39271/
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