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| Sun Microsystems | Sun Launches SunSHINE User
Group Editor:- August 26, 2003 - about 3 months ago I wrote an article suggesting that Sun should get back into the business of launching user groups. Today, for the first time in nearly decade, Sun announced a special Sun user group - SunSHINE - aimed at the medical industry. "Different than the traditional industry user group, SunSHINE plans to offer in-depth education for IT professionals in the healthcare community, and it will provide an interactive forum for healthcare executives to share and discuss best practices," said Mike Haymaker, global healthcare industry manager at Sun Microsystems. |
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Sun and HDS Extend
Marketing Agreements on Storage PALO ALTO, Calif., TOKYO and SANTA CLARA, Calif. - August 25, 2003 - Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Ltd., and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hitachi Data Systems today announced that they have extended the terms of their global distributor agreements and related collaborative agreements for an additional two years, 12 months before the existing agreement was due for renewal. The original agreement, signed in August 2001 and now extended through 2006, has enabled both companies to successfully deliver high-availability and high-performance end-to-end data center solutions. Since the original agreement, Sun has supplied more than five petabytes and 90,000 drives of Sun StorEdge 9900 series systems, based on the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 V Series platform. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will extend their collaboration for hardware, software and services to seamlessly provide improved integration and ease of management in complex environments. Collaboration between the companies consists of marketing, sales support, services and joint customer support centers, in order to provide a better experience for customers in the form of management, interoperability and flexibility in the areas of business continuance and storage management. ...Hitachi Data Systems profile, ...Sun Microsystems profile | |||||||||||||
| Sun Microsystems | Sun will Launch its Linux
Desktop Terminal Soon SANTA CLARA, CA - August 13, 2003 - In response to yet another massive security vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system (the MSBlast Internet worm), Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the opening of early registration for customers seeking an interoperable and secure alternative to their existing desktop deployments. Project Mad Hatter, Sun's open standards-based desktop, addresses the risk and expense associated with Microsoft Windows and Office platforms by engineering security into its infrastructure from the start, Sun's Project Mad Hatter offers a radical reduction in complexity with comparable increases in security designed to protect customers against exposure to viruses such as the MSBlast worm. ...Sun Microsystems profile Editor's comments:- Sun started talking about this nearly a year ago. The fact that they still haven't shipped anything suggests to me that they weren't serious the first time round. Well, the market for Sun's standard products hasn't picked up yet, so they have to show shareholders they're doing something about it. Many other small companies have been shipping Linux desktops for years. Sun's Mad Hatter, a heavily disguised Sun terminal masquerading as a Linux PC, is unlikely to change Sun's fortunes. | |||||||||||||
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Tadpole Ranked # 1 Two
Years in a Row as Most Important SPARC Company by SPARC Product Directory CUPERTINO, Calif. - August 13, 2003 - Tadpole Computer, Inc. announced today that for the second time in a row it has ranked number one as the most important SPARC company by SPARC Product Directory. The award recently given to Tadpole is a testament to the SPARC portable market growing with many new entrants into the space. Tadpole is the only established vendor of portable 64-bit computing in the USA and there is a growing demand for portability in this market for developing, selling, supporting or using Solaris applications. Buyers, pre-sales support people, systems integrators and marketers have used the SPARC Product Directory since 1992. This top 10 SPARC manufacturers list provides reliable feedback about the companies, which the directory's readers' regard as being the most important out of the 200 manufacturers listed. The ranking is based on the page views of the company profiles visited by readers in the 2nd quarter of 2003. Profiles can be reached through a number of sources in the directory including, directory listings, news stories, site search-engine and articles. This provides a reliable sampling of relative reader interest. From the front lines of the military to engineering testing sites, Tadpole has been delivering for over 10 years leading-edge products and services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Focused on 64-bit notebook technology, Tadpole develops and manufactures in the USA the UNIX notebooks that are used to support a broad range of mission-critical systems in the areas of communications, combat systems, battlefield digitization and management. ...read the article, ...Tadpole Computer profile | |||||||||||||
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Peritek Acquired by
Curtiss-Wright Oakland, Calif. - August 11, 2003 - VISTA Controls, a Curtiss-Wright company and a leading manufacturer of mission critical systems for military and severe environment applications today announced that Peritek Corporation has become a business unit of VISTA Controls, following the acquisition of Peritek by parent company Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Peritek, a leading supplier of video and graphic display boards for the embedded computing industry is unique among embedded graphic vendors in that it controls its own high performance graphics processor technology, a significant benefit to customers seeking extended life availability of video and display controller technology. Peritek will maintain its brand identity and continue to operate from its headquarters in Oakland. A third VISTA Controls design and manufacturing center, employing over 125 people, is located in Littleton, Mass. ...Peritek profile | |||||||||||||
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SBE acquires Antares
Microsystems San Ramon, CA - August 11, 2003 - SBE Inc. today announced the purchase of the operating assets of Antares Microsystems. In addition to its existing portfolio of PCI-based boards supporting Solaris and Linux, the Antares product line brings an arsenal of innovative, next generation solutions currently in final stages of development. This advanced breed of new products leverages Antares' R&D investment in TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE), Serial Attach SCSI (SAS), and its expertise in failover and encryption. Antares' field-tested portfolio of Ethernet, SCSI, Fibre Channel, and specialty I/O boards has penetrated the Enterprise Sun and Linux markets. Antares products have been integrated into a variety of applications, including storage area networks and mission-critical data centers. Providing optimized price/performance products for Solaris in financial, IT, manufacturing, and government sectors, Antares has secured a solid customer base of both domestic and global distributors, resellers, and OEMs, including Sun Microsystems, Yahoo, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and General Dynamics. Distribution channels for Antares products have been established both domestically and in overseas markets, such as Europe, Asia, and Australia. ...Antares Microsystems profile, ...SBE profile | |||||||||||||
| Solid State Disks | Solid State Disks - a $10
Billion Market in 2007? Editor:- August 11, 2003 - a new article on STORAGEsearch.com says that the Solid State Disk market could be worth as much as $10 Billion in annual revenue by 2007. That's a bigger market than the NAS market is today. The article includes historic data and the trends which support this view. It's a mistake to think of SSDs as merely storage devices. As server accelerators they're already starting to become a disruptive force changing the way that computer systems are achitected. In the next generation of high performance Sun servers, SSDs will become "must-have" integrated items to achieve rated performance, and not merely optional bolt-on accelerators as they are today. The article says that the entry of Sun, IBM and HP into the SSD market, by badge enginnering and acquisition, will be significant factors which impact the eventual size of the market, which today is dominated by specialist OEMs unknown to most IT users. ...read the article, ...STORAGEsearch.com | |||||||||||||
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General Dynamics Selects
Tadpole Computer to Supply SPARC Notebooks for U.S. Army's CHS-3 Program CUPERTINO, Calif. - August 4, 2003 - Tadpole Computer, Inc. announced today that it will provide 64-bit SPARC/Solaris UNIX notebooks to General Dynamics C4 Systems for the U.S. Army's Common Hardware/Software III (CHS-3) program. The CHS-3 contract, recently awarded to General Dynamics C4 Systems of Taunton, Mass., is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with a potential value of up to $2 billion over ten years. CHS-3 was awarded to General Dynamics by the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. The program will be managed by the Army Tactical Operations Center/Air and Missile Defense Command and Control Systems (TOC/AMDCCS). As a long-term subcontractor to General Dynamics on the predecessor CHS-2 program, Tadpole Computer will continue to provide computer products through 2005 for the duration of that program. Tadpole's 64-bit UNIX notebook computers were the first ruggedized UltraSPARC laptop computers used by the Army's Fire Support element. The units are rugged tactical computers that are built to survive the modern battlefield. The systems will support various military platforms and applications, including fire control. CHS-3 systems will use COTS architectures to support the digitization efforts of the Army, providing users with access to the same power and performance available from commercial counterpart systems. Through the CHS-3 program, General Dynamics will provide U.S. Army, Marine Corps and Air Force tactical computer users with next-generation commercial and ruggedized workstations, as well as hardware and software. Under the contract, all other federal agencies also are eligible to purchase computer products and services. In addition to commercial and rugged computers, General Dynamics will provide network hardware equipment, power subsystems, peripheral devices and commercial software to U.S. DoD customers worldwide. ...Tadpole Computer profile | |||||||||||||
| Sun Microsystems | Sun Upgrades Sun Fire V480
Server SANTA CLARA, Calif. - August 4, 2003 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that its Sun Fire V480 server now features 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processors and provides greater processing power. This increase in processing power has proven a 22% boost in performance and a 26% increase in price-performance. In the four processor rack-optimized server market (all OS), Sun grew more market share in factory revenue in Q1 2003 than any other vendor year-over-year, according to a recent IDC report. This phenomenal growth was propelled by the Sun Fire V480 server. The Sun Fire V480 system starts at $19,995 with two 1.05 GHz CPUs and 4GB of memory and is generally available now. ...Sun Microsystems profile | |||||||||||||
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M-Systems' Fast Flash Disks
Certified "Solaris Ready" KFAR SABA, Israel, - August 4, 2003 - M-Systems today announced that its 3.5" Fast Flash Disk products have received "Solaris Ready" Certification from Sun Microsystems. To earn the "Solaris Ready" designation, M-Systems' 3.5" Ultra-Wide SCSI and 3.5" Narrow SCSI FFD products passed rigorous independent testing and are now certified as compatible with Sun equipment and the Solaris operating system. ...M-Systems profile See also:- article:- How much should you pay for a Solid State Disk? | |||||||||||||
| Sun Microsystems | SunNetwork Conference
Registration Opens SANTA CLARA, Calif. - August 4, 2003 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has opened registration for its 2nd annual SunNetwork Conference, which will be held September 16-18, at Moscone Center in San Francisco. This three-day technology summit enables attendees to network with innovators and technologists, participate in highly interactive educational and panel sessions, and share best practices and solutions with partners, colleagues and potential customers. Register before August 9 and receive the Early Bird discount price of $495. Registration between August 9-14, 2002 is $595. Registration between August 15 - September 13 is $695 and on-site registration is $795. ...SunNetwork Conference See also:- STORAGE Events & trade shows | |||||||||||||
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