Can you elaborate more on how Suns Open Storage initiative relates to hardware system components and software?
Open Storage Hardware Systems The Sun Open Storage initiative leverages the trends in storage hardware that are accelerating the shift away from proprietary closed systems. These trends include the rapid adoption of open standards and the increase in storage densities helping to drive down costs. By using standard system components, storage systems can be built that take advantage of rapid innovation, commodity pricing as well as growth curves (indicated by Moore’s law, for example) around capacity, performance etc.. Open Storage Software Open Storage software is open source software used to build storage solutions. This includes storage software built into the Open Solaris operating system as well as storage software that can be layered on top of the OS to provide more value to storage users. OpenSolaris is in the unique position to be the leader in Open Storage by virtue of • 1. ZFS- The combination of reliability, scalability and simplified management not requiring volume manager so
