Call it sticky and sweet. Senior Test Center analyst Mario Apicella does. With its StorageTek Honeycomb, Sun has taken a different approach than many of its competitors for addressing the special needs of “fixed content” archiving. “Sun has not wedded Honeycomb to any specific application, leaving that task to partners and customers. The upside of Honeycomb’s openness is that the possibilities are endless,” Apicella explains. “In fact, Honeycomb’s powerful, built-in administrative software is complemented by an SDK that allows Java or C developers to define their own metadata schemas consistent with the specifics of their application.” All that said, the usual caveats do apply. “What I feel reasonably sure would remain consistent across different environments are the system’s remarkable resilience and persistence.”Read the full review.