Sun Microsystems this week announced a new range of Unified Storage Systems - the Sun Storage 7000 family, also known (rather poetically) as 'Amber Road.'

"The Sun Storage 7000 product family includes three systems, the 7110, 7210 and 7410, which range in capacity from 2 terabytes (TB) to 288 TB," writes InternetNews' Judy Mottl. "All three are built on the company's OpenSolaris platform, part of the company's open source initiatives that it first unveiled in 2005."

"Sun says the 'open' approach, among other things, makes its products less expensive and more flexible than competing offerings," writes the WSJ's Christopher Lawton.

"The iSCSI storage appliances combine standard hard drives with flash memory and the latest AMD processors, with underlying software that optimizes performance by moving data around different tiers depending on changing needs," writes Network World's Jon Brodkin.

"Prices start at $10,000 for the 7110, $34,995 for the 7210, and $57,490 for a single-node 12-TB version of the 7410," writes InformationWeek's Antone Gonsalves. "A clustered 12-TB configuration of the latter starts at $89,490."

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