Scalar & Sun Microsystems ZFS
Lunch n Learn

Please join Scalar Decisions Inc. & Sun Microsystems for an intimate 2 hour technical session on Solaris 10 ZFS. We will also be launching Sun's newest, cost effective server/storage hybrid, the Sun Fire X4500, ideal for the following environments

High Performance Technical Computing / Grid

Business Intelligence / Data Analytics

Digital Media Streaming

Digital Video Surveillance

Nearline Storage

ZFS: The last word in file systems

The breakthrough file system in Solaris 10 delivers virtually unlimited capacity, provable data integrity, and near-zero administration. Most system administrators take the limitations of current file systems in stride. After all, file systems are what they are: vulnerable to silent data corruption, brutal to manage, and excruciatingly slow. ZFS, the dynamic new file system in Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), will make you forget everything you thought you knew about file systems. ZFS will be available on all Solaris 10 OS-supported platforms, and all existing applications will run with it. Moreover, ZFS complements Sun's storage management portfolio, including the Sun StorEdge QFS software, which is ideal for sharing business data.

• ZFS meets the needs of a file system for everything from desktops to data centers. Designed with the administrator in mind, ZFS is the only self-healing, self-managing general-purpose file system. It offers:
• Simple administration: ZFS automates and consolidates complicated storage administration concepts, reducing administrative overhead by 80 percent.
• Provable data integrity: ZFS protects all data with 64-bit checksums that detect and correct silent data corruption
• Unlimited scalability: As the world's first 128-bit file system, ZFS offers 16 billion billion times the capacity of 32- or 64-bit systems.
• Blazing performance: ZFS is based on a transactional object model that removes most of the traditional constraints on the order of issuing I/Os, which results in huge performance gains.

Sun Fire X4500 Server - an integrated solution for applications and data

The Sun Fire X4500 Server combines the functions of a high-performance, four-way x64 server, network fabric and switch, and storage into a single integrated system. This new class of data server is capable of deploying applications in ways that were previously not possible or cost-effective.

• Fast, energy efficient dual core AMD Opteron processors
• Highest storage density: 24 TB in 4U
• Incredibly high throughput: approximately 1 GBps from disks to network and approximately 2 GBps from disk to memory
• Jaw dropping prices almost half the cost of traditional solutions
• Unprecedented data integrity and dramatically simplified administration with Solaris OS and ZFS
• Enterprise server RAS features; redundant, hot swappable components