The storage technologies will be available for access to storage developers within the OpenSolaris community – allowing the community to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create compelling storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors.
Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phipps is expected to offer details of the plan when he presents at the Open CeBIT conference on May 3 at the Darling Harbour in Sydney. Mr Phipps’ presentation is titled “The Zen of Free.
Sun said it was seeking to take the lead in creating a community-driven software development platform through OpenSolaris.org to speed-up time to market for storage application development for improving customer datamanagement and archiving needs.
“Just as free and open source code has changed the way server and desktop operating systems are developed, evaluated and deployed, today marks a big step in repeating this model for storage software technology,” Sun executive vice-president for software Rich Green said.
“Sun is taking the lead in changing the market by enabling the creation of compelling low-cost storage solutions via the free and open availability of open source software, including Solaris, on commodity hardware from a wide-range of vendors including HP, Dell, IBM, and Sun,” Mr Green said.
Sun also announced the previously Sun-only flexible administration features of Solaris ZFS will be donated to OpenSolaris.
ZFS is a dynamic file system which simplifies management and adds functionality.
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