Editing Sun Microsystems (section)

==Storage==
Sun sold its own storage systems to complement its system offerings; it has also made several storage-related acquisitions.
On June 2, 2005, Sun announced it would purchase [[Storage Technology Corporation]] (StorageTek) for US$4.1&nbsp;billion in cash, or $37.00 per share, a deal completed in August 2005.

In 2006, Sun introduced the [[Sun StorageTek 5800 System]], the first application-aware programmable storage solution. In 2008, Sun contributed the source code of the StorageTek 5800 System under the BSD license.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://opensolaris.org/os/project/honeycomb/
 |title       = OpenSolaris Project: HoneyComb Fixed Content Storage
 |access-date  = February 28, 2008
 |date        = February 2008
 |publisher   = Sun Microsystems
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://archive.today/20070422195703/http://opensolaris.org/os/project/honeycomb/
 |archive-date = April 22, 2007
 |df          = mdy-all
}}</ref>

Sun announced the [[Sun Open Storage]] platform in 2008 built with open source technologies.
In late 2008 Sun announced the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems (codenamed Amber Road). Transparent placement of data in the systems' [[solid-state drive]]s (SSD) and conventional hard drives was managed by [[ZFS]] to take advantage of the speed of SSDs and the economy of conventional hard disks.<ref>{{cite web
 |url = http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/zfs_solution_brief.pdf
 |title = Solaris ZFS Enables Hybrid Storage Pools: Shatters Economic and Performance Barriers
 |access-date = April 9, 2009
 |publisher = Sun Microsystems
 |archive-date = February 19, 2009
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090219055122/http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/zfs_solution_brief.pdf
 |url-status = dead
 }}</ref>

Other storage products included Sun Fire X4500 storage server and SAM-QFS filesystem and storage management software.