EMC Corp has added support for Sun Solaris to its Symmetrix line of Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop storage systems, making it the first to offer multi-platform fiber channel systems. The company has been shipping Symmetrix systems for Hewlett-Packard Co HP-UX users since August. Users with mixed Sun and HP systems will have simultaneous connectivity, the company said. Symmetrix users can also take advantage of simultaneous support for multiple Fiber Channel and other connectivity options. Over a third of the systems shipped so far with Fiber Channel have also included Fast SCSI, Ultra SCSI or mainframe ESCON channel connections, the company said. Symmetrix for Solaris is available immediately priced at $35,000.
