Workgroup Storage
From Sun Takes
Industry By Storm

More Disk Drive Options and New Expansion Rack for
Sun Workgroup Storage Arrays Provide Small Footprint
and Scalability Growing Businesses Need.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Companies hungry for enterprise-class storage solutions to meet the needs of low-end file and workgroup servers are snapping up Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s new SunTM StorEdgeTM A1000 and D1000 RAID arrays as quickly as the company can manufacture them. Sun today announced new disk drive options and a new expansion rack for the A1000 and D1000 arrays, which have been shipping ahead of projected volumes since their introduction in April. The A1000 and D1000 arrays are Sun's first RAID products tailored toward workgroup applications on the SolarisTM and NT operating environments.

The high demand for the Sun StorEdge A1000 and D1000 arrays is reflective of IDC estimates, which state the combined UNIX® and NT storage subsystem markets will grow 44 percent by 2001. Sun presently is the number one UNIX multi-user disk subsystem vendor in the world.

"The A1000 and D1000 arrays have been a success from the beginning because they provide customers with the same high performance and availability features they have come to expect from Sun at competitive PC storage pricing," said Jeffrey Allen, Sun's senior director of marketing and business strategy for Network Storage. "Just last month, Sun set a new world record for the Analytical Processing Benchmark-1 (APB-1) with the A1000 array and SunTM EnterpriseTM 450 workgroup server, posting results that were 53 percent faster than the best result on a Windows NT system."

The Capacity To Grow

Meeting the needs of file and workgroup servers for customers wanting to start small and grow, the Sun StorEdge A1000 and D1000 subsystems are available as stand-alone, desktop devices or rack-mounted solutions. With today's introduction of 9 gigabyte (GB) and 18 GB drives, the A1000 and D1000 arrays now scale from 16 GB to 144 GB in a single tray. Both products scale up to 1.3 terabytes (TB) with the new nine tray SunTM StorEdgeTM Expansion Rack. The A1000 array delivers controller-based RAID, and the D1000 array provides host-based RAID. Both are supported by multiple UltraSCSI connections, and offer fully redundant, hot swappable power supplies, fans and drives. A 24 megabyte (MB) battery backed-up cache, expandable to 80 MB, is standard with the A1000 subsystem.

For customers wishing to upgrade at a later date from host- to controller-based RAID, an upgrade path from the D1000 array to the A1000 system is available. In addition, later this year, customers will be able to migrate from either the A1000 or D1000 arrays to a dual controller, 64 MB to 256 MB mirrored cache system that scales from 90 GB to more than 2 TB. The new system will provide throughput of up to 80 MB/sec via dual UltraSCSI connections.

"Flexible scalability, high-RAS, peak performance RAID 5, UltraSCSI throughput and competitive pricing make the A1000 array ideally suited for the workgroup or desktop customer. And the expanded drive options and new expansion rack provide the small footprint and scalability required by growing businesses," Allen added.

Pricing and Availability

Prices start at $14,195 for the Sun StorEdge A1000 system and $10,195 for the D1000 array. The A1000 and D1000 arrays are available now in volume for the Solaris operating environment. The A1000 array will be available for the NT operating system later this year.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The ComputerTM", has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW), to its position as leading provider of high-quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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