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From the News Desk
Tuesday, 13. November 2007
Sun’s Honeycomb Now Available
After years of pre announcements and more than a year of alpha and beta testing, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Sun StorageTek 5800 data archiving system, better known as Honeycomb, is finally generally available.
Sun said Honeycomb would differentiate itself because it uses a RAIN (redundant array of independent nodes) architecture based on "cells" of eight or 16 1U commodity servers running open source Solaris. It also runs Reed-Solomon hashing algorithm for fixed-content archiving, which assigns a unique address to each data object for compliance and search purposes.
Sun bills the new Sun StorageTek 5800 storage system as "a new category of storage that is optimized for large-scale storage of fixed data." As promised early in its development, the 5800 system can also run applications, and Sun has opened some code to developers to create new applications through the Storage Beans program (named after Java Beans).
The system will have to compete with data archiving products that established themselves during Honeycomb's long incubation, from fixed-content systems such EMC Corp.'s Centera, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Integrated Archive Platform (IAP, formerly RISS) and Hitachi Data Systems' Hitachi Content Archiving Platform (HCAP), to targeted email and file archiving applications.
Sun said 10 customers are already using more than 400 terabytes of StorageTek 5800 capacity, including the Alberta Library, CareStream Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University, Max Planck Institute, Oxford University, Purdue University, Southampton University, Stanford University, University of Calgary and the University of Michigan.
Pricing for the Sun StorageTek 5800 is USD 245,000 for a 16-node, 32TB configuration. An eight-node configuration is also available.
Sun said Honeycomb would differentiate itself because it uses a RAIN (redundant array of independent nodes) architecture based on "cells" of eight or 16 1U commodity servers running open source Solaris. It also runs Reed-Solomon hashing algorithm for fixed-content archiving, which assigns a unique address to each data object for compliance and search purposes.
Sun bills the new Sun StorageTek 5800 storage system as "a new category of storage that is optimized for large-scale storage of fixed data." As promised early in its development, the 5800 system can also run applications, and Sun has opened some code to developers to create new applications through the Storage Beans program (named after Java Beans).
The system will have to compete with data archiving products that established themselves during Honeycomb's long incubation, from fixed-content systems such EMC Corp.'s Centera, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Integrated Archive Platform (IAP, formerly RISS) and Hitachi Data Systems' Hitachi Content Archiving Platform (HCAP), to targeted email and file archiving applications.
Sun said 10 customers are already using more than 400 terabytes of StorageTek 5800 capacity, including the Alberta Library, CareStream Healthcare, Johns Hopkins University, Max Planck Institute, Oxford University, Purdue University, Southampton University, Stanford University, University of Calgary and the University of Michigan.
Pricing for the Sun StorageTek 5800 is USD 245,000 for a 16-node, 32TB configuration. An eight-node configuration is also available.
