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Sun Microsystems today announced that the California Institute of Technology and the National Archive Publishing Company have selected Sun StorageTek Network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliances to host their data and support file sharing among key enterprise applications. Sun NAS Appliances deliver industry-leading total cost of ownership, saving customers more than 50 percent on 3 year-TCO versus competitive offerings. Savings include more than 30 percent on acquisition, 3x less cost for critical data services like replication, 1.5x fewer disk drives for the same usable storage capacity, and the inclusion of network protocols, clustering and snapshot licenses in the system cost. At the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), The Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) exists to help ensure that the university is at the forefront of computational science and engineering. "We are running a variety of systems, from high performance NFS servers for clusters to parallel file systems for massive scientific data sets," explained Mark Stalzer, Executive Director CACR, Caltech. "With our data requirements growing exponentially, CACR recently went through a review of our storage architecture. Our requirement was a highly robust solution to store what is essentially the crown jewel of CACR -- code repositories and images of home directories. The Sun StorageTek NAS Appliance delivers the reliability, expandability, and performance at a fraction of the competition's price." The National Archive Publishing Company (NAPC) specializes in preservation, custom publishing, and other services that enhance and ensure access to scholarly information. It houses one of the world's largest information archives with more than six billion pages of information. "As we were breaking off from our former parent company, we needed to install a new storage infrastructure to host data for our customers," said Brian Kitka, manager of Information Technology, National Archive Publishing Company. "Given the rapid rate at which we're adding content, it was key that the chosen solution would scale to accommodate our growth while keeping costs low. Though we looked at other NAS vendors, Sun delivered an easy-to-use solution marrying the StorageTek 5320 NAS and the StorageTek 6540 modular array with compelling TCO." SUN ADDS ENTRY-LEVEL NAS APPLIANCE Sun today also announced the Sun StorageTek 5220 NAS Appliance, an entry-level NAS appliance ideal for departments, workgroups or remote offices in large enterprises. Based on a NAS OS common to all StorageTek 5000 products, the StorageTek 5220 NAS Appliance offers industry-leading TCO and can go from power-up to simple file serving in about 15 minutes, providing seamless, secure file sharing across the Solaris OS, Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac clients. The StorageTek 5220 NAS appliance: - Offers optional remote data mirroring among StorageTek 5000 NAS appliances to support remote office back up to the data center - Helps lower cost and simplify data access with iSCSI target support, enabling block-level data access over an IP-based Ethernet network - Delivers integrated real time anti-virus scanning and leverages its high-end SATA back-end RAID architecture to help ensure service levels are met - Helps customers meet stringent compliance media retention requirements via optional Sun StorageTek Compliance Archiving Software The StorageTek 5220 NAS Appliance starts at $28,990 (U.S. list price) for a two terabyte configuration and is available immediately. All prices quoted are in U.S. dollars. More information on the StorageTek 5220 NAS Appliance is available at its Web site. More information on Sun's StorageTek 5000 NAS family is available at its Web site.