DoSTOR July11,2008--Sun today announced the further expansion of its industry leading Open Storage portfolio with the introduction of a new line of economical storage arrays and a new highly efficient, high-performance addition to the popular Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" family.

The new Sun Storage J4000 product line offers a 10x savings over traditional arrays when combined with Sun's industry leading servers, OpenSolaris operating system and Solaris ZFS.

Sun also introduced the Sun Fire X4540 storage server version of the award-winning Sun Fire X4500 "Thumper" system that offers 30-50 percent in power and cooling savings at one-half the price versus traditional storage.

"Our portfolio of Open Storage platforms has expanded with the addition of Sun's new Sun Storage J4000 family and an addition to our high-performance, high-value Sun Fire X4500 Thumper systems," said John Fowler, executive vice-president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "These new building blocks deliver impressive density and capacity while empowering customers to take advantage of the efficiencies of general purpose storage powered by open source software."