Sun Expands Popular Unified Storage Family with New Highly Available System that Simplifies and Redefines Entry-Level Mission Critical Storage

New Sun Storage 7310 Brings Breakthrough Performance and Simplified Management
to Customers and Delivers Up to 75% Cost Savings Versus Traditional Storage
Products
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced a new addition to the
Sun(TM) Unified Storage family, taking this leading platform and making it
accessible to all enterprises. The new Sun Storage(TM) 7310 is a comprehensive,
Flash-powered storage system that includes leverages Hybrid Storage Pool
capabilities to deliver breakthrough economics, simplicity and analytic insight
to customers. For more information or to download software go to
www.sun.com/unifiedstorage.

"Many customers across wide range of industries have turned to the Sun Unified
Storage family for simplicity and performance at breakthrough economics," said
John Fowler, executive vice-president, Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The new
Sun Storage 7310 expands the line and opens up a door for customers to more
widely deploy high availability clustered storage and experience the power and
economic benefits of Unified Storage."

The Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage system is ideal for customers experiencing
rapid data growth and who require dramatically easier ways to manage and scale
their storage needs. These customers require mission-critical storage across a
range of uses that includes Windows operating environments disaster recovery and
Oracle databases.

New features within the Sun Storage 7310 storage system include:

* Cluster option to support high availability application environments for
continuous data access and to minimize the risk of business downtime;
* Hybrid Storage Pool support-- in addition to the maximum 64GB of DRAM cache,
it can be configured with up to an additional 600GB of SSD cache (1.2TB for
cluster version) for enhanced application performance;
* DTrace Analytics software, standard across the entire Sun Storage 7000 family,
which provides the industry's only comprehensive and intuitive analytics
environment. Sun has released a free test system simulator, which can be
accessed at www.sun.com/storagesimulator.com;
* Three times (3x) less power consumption than traditional storage solutions;
* Scalability up from 12TB to 96TB capacity with no interruption to system
availability;
* High network throughput with four 1Gb Ethernet ports per controller and
optional 10Gb connectivity; Single controller offers two PCI slots for
additional network or tape-backup connectivity for easy plug and play
integration;
* Sun Unified Storage Data Migration Services - Sun Professional Services
consultants offer a range of capabilities from advisory services to
fully-managed resilient infrastructures. These teams are available today to also
evaluate current architectures, to identify, quantify and prioritize gaps and
risks, as well as provide ongoing design assistance, best practices and
management expertise.

For more information, please see www.sun.com/unifiedstorage for demos, product
specifications and software downloads.

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

The Sun Storage 7310 is available today and starts at a price of $40,165 (U.S.
list price. All prices quoted are in U.S. dollars.)

ABOUT SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC.

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Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Alex Plant, 415-786-3451
alex.plant@sun.com

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