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News about SPARC systems and related companies2001, October week 4 |
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| StorageASP | StorageASP's Data
Protection Solution Earns SunTone Certification
TORONTO - October 30, 2001 - StorageASP Inc. announced today that its data protection service, TERA-Back has been successfully certified by the SunTone Certification and Branding Program. StorageASP Inc. is one of a few storage service providers in North America that has achieved SunTone certification for its services under the newly developed storage specification. The SunTone program, led by Sun Microsystems, Inc., is a collaborative industry effort to define best practices and audit solution providers' infrastructure, operational practices, hardware, software, and overall service delivery. SunTone certification provides a quality "seal of approval," confirming that StorageASP's TERA-Back meets stringent scalability, availability, reliability and performance standards necessary for quality deployment of data protection services. ...StorageASP profile See also:- Storage Services & SSPs |
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| Sun Microsystems |
Sun Microsystems Launches New Entry Level Servers
The Sun Fire V880 is available and shipping now. The starting list price is
$29,995 for a system configured with 2 UltraSPARC III 750MHz processors, 4 GB
memory, and 6-36GB hard drives; 4 UltraSPARC III 750MHz processors, 8 GB memory,
and 6-36GB hard drives starts at $49,995; and 8 UltraSPARC III 750MHz
processors, 32 GB memory, and 12-36GB hard drives is priced at $119,995. ...Sun Microsystems
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| Seagate | Seagate Honored with 2001
Supplier Performance Award from Sun SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — 29 October 2001 — Seagate today announced it has received this year's Supplier Performance Award from Sun Microsystems for its role as the computing giant's supplier of data storage technology. This recognition of Seagate's ability to maintain the highest levels of storage product quality, support, and on-time delivery has enabled Sun to successfully deliver leading-edge servers and workstations to its own global customer base. The 2001 Sun Supplier Performance Award for Seagate marks the ninth year Seagate has earned the award for storage excellence. "Sun's Supplier Performance Award recognizes industry-leading suppliers like Seagate that meet and exceed customer expectations for value, performance, quality, leadtime and advanced technology," said Kevin Carroll, vice president of supplier management, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We congratulate Seagate for its high performance standards and in making significant contributions to Sun products and services." ...Seagate profile | |||||||||||
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SBS Technologies Unveils
Full Hot Swap Capable Quad Ethernet Board for High-Density CompactPCI
Applications October 23, 2001 - SBS Technologies® today announced the CP3-Quad100TX, a full hot swap capable, 64-bit/66 MHz 10/100 Ethernet card for 3U CompactPCI computing applications with zero tolerance for system downtime. The high density CP3-Quad100TX provides four independent, high-performance 10BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet interfaces. CP3-Quad100TX's 64-bit/66 MHz PCI interface supports 66 MHz host systems with no degradation of backplane performance. The single slot installation and compact design of the CP3-Quad100TX is well-suited for small, rack-mounted systems. The CP3-Quad100TX supports combined data rates of up to 800 Mb/s full duplex and 400 Mb/s half-duplex. Back-to-back transmission with minimal interface latency is facilitated with 3 Kbytes of transmit and 3 Kbytes of receive FIFO for each port. The built-in Physical Layer Interface Unit in the Ethernet Controller supports auto-negotiating protocol selection. Four front panel RJ45 connectors allow direct network connectivity. LED status indicators for monitoring the link and activity of each port are located on the front panel. A VxWorks® 5.4 driver for PowerPC and Intel platforms is available from SBS Technologies. Other available drivers include: Windows NT®, Linux (eepro100 driver included in the kernel), and FreeBSD (driver included in the kernel). Pricing and Availability The list price for the CP3-Quad100TX is $899. The CP3-Quad100TX will be available in mid-November 2001. ...SBS Technologies profile | |||||||||||
| GraphOn | GraphOn's Remote Computing
Software Earns Sun Tone Certification MORGAN HILL, CA, USA - October 23, 2001 - GraphOn® Corporation announced today that its GO-Global UX remote computing software achieved certification under the SunTone Certification and Branding Program. GraphOn's GO-Global UX software lets desktop or portable personal computers run applications designed to run on the Sun Solaris™ operating environment remotely over LAN, WAN, Internet or even low bandwidth standard phone dial-up connections. Receiving SunTone certification underscores our commitment to provide high quality remote computing software solutions to OEMs, VARs and corporate customers who depend on making business-critical Solaris-based applications available throughout and beyond the enterprise to users wherever they are," said GraphOn Executive Vice President, Robin Ford. "We have invested heavily in the scalability, security and stability of our GO-Global UX remote computing software and are proud to be a member of the SunTone certified community." ...GraphOn profile | |||||||||||
| Alacritech | Alacritech Ships Industry's
First Gigabit Ethernet Accelerator Orlando, Fla. - October 22, 2001 - Storage Networking World Conference & Expo - Alacritech®, Inc. today introduced its 1000x1 Server and Storage Accelerator, the industry's first Integrated Storage Network Interface Card (IS-NIC) to simultaneously accelerate both IP storage and standard Ethernet traffic. Alacritech's new Gigabit Ethernet Server and Storage Accelerator uses the company's patented, standards-compliant SLIC Technology® to offload network processing from software to silicon, delivering proven, enhanced performance of servers, NAS and iSCSI storage devices. "Efficient network processing is the key enabler of the convergence of storage and networking," said Barry Haaser, vice president of marketing, Alacritech, Inc. "By offloading TCP/IP and SCSI onto the adapter, Alacritech's Gigabit Ethernet accelerator will enable NAS appliances and iSCSI devices to efficiently and reliably deliver full-bandwidth Gigabit Ethernet performance. Alacritech's proven, scalable acceleration solutions solve the I/O bottleneck for both storage and networking systems and provide a strong return on investment." ...Alacritech profile |
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