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Sun acquires Cluster File Systems Inc.

Thursday, September 13. 2007

Sun acquires Cluster File Systems Inc. One of the difficulties of Solaris in HPC deals was the mediocre support of Lustre unter Solaris. This should change now. And as Lustre is the most popular cluster file system in HPC, we have opportunities to talk with more HPC customers.

And as the Register states it about all this steps in regard to storage:

Overall, Sun is looking to reduce the cost of specialized gear sold by the likes of NetApp and Cisco, and you can see why these vendors might be upset about this. The purchase of Lustre won't help matters, since Lustre-based systems have the potential to go after NetApp's most lucrative accounts.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 08:49 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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And now Suns works together with M$

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/95908

It feels a little bit sad

#1 Alex on 2007-09-13 10:10 (Reply)

Why? That isn't bad. I was asked a dozen times from customers, that they want to buy Windows with the computer .... not on a seperate purchase order ... it helps sun to sell x86 servers.

#2 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2007-09-13 10:34 (Reply)

I wonder how the acqusition of Lustre fits together with Sun's QFS.

#3 flawed on 2007-09-13 11:37 (Reply)

QFS and Lustre look similar from the top, but they are really different:
QFS is a SAN-based multiple reader/multiple writer Filesystem whereas Lustre is an object storage dispersed over many nodes with a POSIX interface to give the applications and users an unfied namespace.

pNFS is has more in common with Lustre than QFS. But Lustre is still different enough to justifing it's existence and the investment.

#3.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2007-09-13 12:27 (Reply)

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