Sun's latest storage offering is data management service

Sun Microsystems, for the first time after completing its
acquisition of StorageTek, has announced a new strategy to strengthen its
storage business in India. The company aims to do this with a new management
service called the 'Sun Managed Operations for Storage' (SMOS). SMOS, a
subset of the Sun Managed Operations (SMO) portfolio, brings together the
innovation, technical expertise, process capabilities and tools from Sun's
recent StorageTek and SevenSpace acquisitions.

"The combined storage services portfolio from both
companies, combined with the service level management capabilities from Sun,
delivers a powerful combination for customers," said Richard Kallmeyer,
Senior Marketing Manager, Network Storage Solutions, Sun Microsystems.

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The new services will extend to disk array, tape library and
data management service options for new and existing Sun customers. The new
service, will look at reducing storage management costs, improving quality of
storage performance and increasing efficiency of storage usage for customers.

There are three progressive levels of service for SMOS. The
first is storage monitoring, which is designed to provide customers with storage
administrator assistance and provide virtually round the clock, weekend and
holiday monitoring and alerting as well as unified reporting and trending. Next
is storage management that takes over day-to-day storage administration
activities from problem resolution to provisioning and technical analysis.
Finally there is storage and data management, which provides complete tools and
reporting to analyze and improve data lifecycle management, storage management
workflow and capacity planning.

Sun has also paid attention to the new branding strategy for
its storage products. "From now on all product offerings relating to
storage from Sun will be branded as 'Sun StorageTek'," said Richard.

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