Sun delivers first of its network attached storage devices that scales to 10 Tbyte

Palo Alto 08 May 2001 Sun introduced the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers for the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market. The Sun StorEdge N8000 filer series delivers can grow from 200 gigabytes to over 10 Tbytes of usable capacity in a standalone configuration.

Sun also announced that the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers have successfully completed the Oracle Storage Compatibility Program (OSCP) NAS test suite for Oracle database environments. With OSCP qualification awarded in February to the Sun StorEdge N8200 filer, the entire filer series has now been qualified for seamless integration with datacenters running Oracle databases.

Sun's highly reliable filers are optimized for peak network file system performance. Hardware RAID 5 and built-in component redundancy help provide data protection and high uptime. In addition, support for NFS and CIFS protocols helps enable customers to consolidate storage and provides file sharing for Solaris and Microsoft Windows clients, as well as other UNIX clients.

The Sun StorEdge N8000 filers are shipping with list prices starting from $53,800.


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