“Sun Microsystems Inc., champion of its own Solaris operating
system, is taking a significant step toward embracing open-source
Linux.”
“The Palo Alto, Calif., company has teamed with Linuxcare Inc.,
of San Francisco, to develop a driver that enables Sun’s StorEdge
T3 enterprise storage devices to work with Intel Corp. servers
running Linux.”
“The failover driver-to be distributed free on Linuxcare’s
Web site-also lets IT managers hook up two Stor Edge devices for
redundant data protection.“
“In the [Linux] storage space, this is the first presentation of
a completely redundant storage subsystem,” said Dave Sifry,
Linuxcare’s co-founder and chief technology officer. “It brings an
entirely new class of high availability to the Linux
community.”