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June 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Sun Microsystems Inc. is set to unveil Friday open source software that can repurpose any OpenSolaris-based x86 server into a block-based storage device capable of emulating the physical characteristics of a storage array.

Sun contributed the new code, dubbed Comstar, or common multiprotocol SCSI target, to its OpenSolaris.org open source community last month, noted Scott Tracy, director of storage platforms at Sun. He said that Comstar promises to cut enterprise storage management costs by allowing developers to quickly add new data transport protocols that can talk to various devices in a network.

“Customers are working overtime to make sure they get the most out of their existing hardware,” Tracy said.

Very cool, this could be an ideal way of meeting your storage needs, particularly if you have servers with space that could be more efficiently used, I’ll need to check it out.

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