'World stores 36% electronic data on Sun'

Your comments on the integration between Sun and StorageTek...

We are integrating very well and taking advan­­tage of each other's
technolo­gies. Because of Storage­Tek, 36 percent of the world's electronic
data is now stored on Sun. Now we are investing in merging Sun servers, as the
engine with Sun software called SAM provides data classi­fication, centralized
meta-data management, policy based data placement, pro­tection, migration,
long-term retention, and reco­very. Earlier, Sun storage portfolio was not well
bran­ded, but StorageTek's was. From now on all product offerings relating to
storage from Sun will be branded as 'Sun StorageTek'. Before the
acquisition, we sold about 95 percent of our storage on Sun servers. With
Storage­Tek acquisi­tion, we  have
star­ted provi­ding mainte­nance services as well. Another tool from Storage­Tek
has been the back up manager. This is an end-to-end solution.

What are the Sun Mana­ged Operations for storage?

We have been managing customer's operations be­fore and have just forma­lized
the process. Sun Managed Operations for Storage is a new manage­ment service
that streng­thens Sun's ability to pro­vide customer's flexibility and
choice in their manage­ment of heterogeneous disk and tape storage. This
announcement is part of Sun's new comprehensive four-step data management
strategy.

What are the new trends that you see in this market?

On the technology side, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is being launched soon.
They would probably be available within two years. We expect SAS to take over
from low-end fiber chan­nels. iSCSI had the promise but hasn't done much. On
the IP based storage front— NAS and SAS, we are investing quite a bit on this
technology as well.

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