about the SPARC Product Directory - 1992 to 2010 The SPARC Product Directory played a role in accelerating the growth of the SPARC (Scalable Processor ARChitecture) systems market in the 1990s by helping users, VARs and oems easily find compatible products and suppliers from hundreds of SPARC compatible oems. I'd like to thank everyone (including all the readers, contributors, vendors, customers and other Sun-SPARC-Solaris publishers and ORGs in the market - including thousands of key people inside Sun Microsystems itself) who helped make this independently funded buyers guide possible during an exciting period in the computer market. Zsolt Kerekes, editor and publisher PS - the torch for igniting momentous changes in the computer market has now moved on to the SSD market. Join me now on StorageSearch.com. (You will be redirected in 20 seconds.) SPARC history - 25 years the Top 20 SSD companies Surviving the Solaris x86 Wars Why size matters in SSD architecture Where have all the Sun User Groups Gone? an introduction to enterprise SSD market silos Looking Back at Sun's Cache Memory Problem Why Sun Should Acquire an SSD Company (2004) the Last Market Report on Sun Compatible OEMs? the Rise and Fall of the SPARC Workstation Market Looking Back at 3rd Party SPARC Technology Firsts SSDs and Sun-Oracle... past failures / future challenges the New Solaris Migration? - migrating away from Sun's OS

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leading the way to the new storage frontier Where are we now with SSD software? How fast can your SSD run backwards? Adaptive flash care IP including DSP for SSDs Enterprise SSDs - the Survive and Thrive Guide ..... ..... flash SSD capacity - the iceberg syndrome Have you ever wondered how the amount of flash inside a flash SSD compares to the capacity shown on the invoice? What you see isn't always what you get. There can be huge variations in different designs as vendors leverage invisible internal capacity to tweak key performance and reliability parameters. ...read the article .

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