Astute Networks and Sun team up on bladed storage solution | | 2008-06-12 | | San Diego based bladed storage provider Astute Networks today announced the availability of the first high-performance bladed storage solution for the ATCA market, the award-winning Astute Networks Caspian R1100 Edge Storage Blade (Caspian R1100).
In conjunction with Sun Microsystems, the product will be demonstrated at this weeks NXTcomm 2008 show in Las Vegas. The demonstration will utilise the Sun MySQL cluster database running on a Sun Netra CT900 ATCA laded server chassis with the Astute Networks’ Caspian R1100 Edge Storage Blade, and the Sun Netra CP3260 UltraSPARC T2 blade server.
Commenting on the partnership, Sun vice president of Global Communications and Media Industry, Darrell Jordan-Smith said "As we pursued a best-in-class storage blade offering for our communication and media customers, we realized the advantages of coming to market with an ATCA storage blade with the features robust enough to handle the demands of the next generation IP based network,”
“After we learned of the Caspian R1100 Edge Storage Blade from Astute Networks, we quickly recognized the combination of the Sun Netra CT900, the Caspian R1100 and MySQL Cluster is the ideal solution to help OEMs and NEPs migrate from their proprietary implementations to a flexible, highly available, open systems platform."
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