Sun's Relationships with
Independent Hardware Vendors - State of the Market Report
Editor:- March 29, 2005
- a new article is published today in the SPARC Product Directory,
called - "Sun and its SPARC IHVs - Paint it Black? or Not Fade Away?."
Active
marketing support for Sun's SPARC platform by Independent Hardware Vendors in
the first quarter of 2005 has declined to a lower level now than it was back in
1990, the year after Sun launched the SPARCstation 1. Does this mean a bleak
prospect for users and stakeholders in the market? This article describes what's
happening now in the SPARC compatible systems market , and puts it into a
historical context. It also predicts which segments in the Sun compatible
hardware market have the most upside potential for suitable partners. ...read the article
Solaris 10 Passes One Million Licenses Milestone
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - March 28, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced that it has distributed more than one million registered licenses for
the Solaris 10 Operating System since the software became available on Sun's
Web site two months ago.
Sun also announced that the Solaris 10
OS has set 14 world-record benchmarks in this same timeframe and demonstrated
application performance improvements greater than 50 times that of previous
versions of Solaris.
...Sun profile
Themis Computer Announces New Subsidiary in Basingstoke, UK
FREMONT,
California - March 22, 2005 - Themis Computer continues to strengthen
its presence in Europe by announcing the opening of Themis Computer Ltd, based
in Basingstoke, England.
Themis Computer Ltd., a subsidiary of its
parent company Themis Computer, headquartered in Fremont, California USA, will
sell its embedded server and single-board computers into communications,
commercial and government markets, in Northern Europe.
"I am pleased to announce our new subsidiary in the United
Kingdom, at a time when we are rolling out new boards and systems," stated
William E. Kehret, president of Themis Computer. "Our new UK office will
allow us to better serve our Northern European customers and support the
increased demand for our products," he added. "The formation of Themis
Computer Ltd., along with Themis Computer GmbH, demonstrates our commitment to
the European market and will allow us to improve our level of services in this
region."
The new Themis Computer Ltd. office is located at Suite 17, Worting
House, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG23 8PX UK and may be contacted by phone at:
+44 (0)1256 345 533. ...Themis Computer
profile, SPARC
VARs in the UK
VERITAS Supports Solaris 10
MOUNTAIN
VIEW, Calif. - March 15, 2005 - VERITAS Software today extended its
storage management and high availability offerings to include full support of
Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Operating System.
VERITAS
Storage Foundation, VERITAS Cluster Server and VERITAS Volume Replicator
software for Solaris 10 are scheduled to become generally available in April
2005.
...VERITAS Software
profile, Backup Software,
SPARC Product Directory
Neterion and Sun Work on 10Gbe Offload Engine
Cupertino, California
- March 14, 2005 - Neterion, Inc. announced that its Xframe family of
products will support the Solaris 10 OS for SPARC, x86 and x64 architectures.
Additionally, its Xframe product line has achieved Solaris Ready
Certification. Neterion will be working with Sun to deliver an iWARP-enabled
offload engine for 10 Gigabit Ethernets to enhance performance and scalability
in intense server/storage environments. Further announcements regarding this
agreement will be made during the course of 2005.
...Neterion profile,
iSCSI
New Rugged ARINC 429 PMC
Leesburg, VA -
March 14, 2005 - Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing has
announced a new rugged avionics communications controller PMC card that combines
4 channels of ARINC 429 (4 transmit & 8 receive) and four serial channels on
a single card.
The new P429A ARINC 429 communications controller
is designed for use in VME and CompactPCI embedded systems. Software Support
Software support for the P429A includes drivers for Windows NT/Windows 2000,
VxWorks and Solaris. ...Curtiss-Wright
Controls profile, ARINC
Interfaces , military
SPARC systems
What Do SPARC Readers Want?
Editor:- March 10, 2005 - ACSL,
publisher of the SPARC Product Directory, today revealed a glimpse into
the changing pattern of readers interests in the Sun compatible SPARC /
Solaris systems market.
The #1 product category viewed by SPARC
readers in February 2005 was
SPARC notebooks,
followed by rackmount
servers, memory
and military
servers.
There have been big changes in the market. Four years
ago, in Feb 2001, SPARC motherboard upgrades and desktop workstations topped the
list.
SPARC
history is the most popular article viewed by readers today. In a recent
reader survey approximately 40% of readers classified themselves as end users
in the government, military, or education segments. ...ACSL profile,
SPARC Product Directory
Curtis Solid State Disk Speeds Up 30 million Customer Telco
Database on Sun Servers
Editor:- March 3, 2005 -
Curtis, Inc. today published an article on STORAGEsearch about
the use of its Nitro solid state disks to speed up the network infrastucture in
a major phone provider in China.
The customer, the
GuangDong Branch of China Mobile is the biggest provincial branch in the Chinese
Telecom industry, with over 30 million users. Their MIS system relies
on real-time, accurate data for efficient employee, finance and material
resource management. Increased demands meant that the performance needed to be
accelerated. They made their selection after testing and turning down fast RAID
devices.
"They were simply not fast enough. The Nitro SSD was
chosen because it was the fastest storage we could find," said Mr. Yong
Zhang Project Manager at GuangDong Branch of China Mobile.
The Nitro
SSD seamlessly installed into GuangDong Branch of China Mobile's SUN
environment, including SUN Fire6800 Servers, SUN StorEdge6120 RAID storage, and
Oracle RDBMS application. It connected to Servers via two SUN Fibre Channel
Switch. The Nitro SSD has met stringent testing requirements for system
compatibility, interoperability, functionality, fault tolerance, and high
availability in an SUN environment. The solid state disk from Curtis halved the
time to run reports. ...read
the article (Word), ...Curtis
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New Report on
Sun's Relationships with IHVs
Solaris 10 Passes One Million Licenses
Milestone
Themis Computer Announces UK Subsidiary
VERITAS
Supports Solaris 10
Neterion and Sun Work on 10Gbe Offload Engine
New
Rugged ARINC 429 PMC
What Do SPARC Readers Want?
Curtis
Speeds Up Telco Database on Sun Servers
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Aboard the 4 Gigabit Train? - by Steve Gardner, Director of Product
Marketing, Engenio |
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future of 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel technology is here and by 2006 it will be
widely adopted by organisations around the world.
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Just 6 -months
ago that statement would have been met with heavy skepticism; but today,
industry analysts, customers and manufacturers all agree that 4 Gbps technology
will be available from the world's leading IT vendors by mid-2005.
Companies with high performance computing needs, such as scientists,
engineers, artists and others who need access to large amounts of data to solve
complex problems, will be the first to adopt the technology. Four Gigabit Fibre
Channel technology will enable auto manufacturers to reduce time to market and
improve the safety of vehicles by making testing and simulations less time
consuming. Energy companies will be able to conduct more iterations of analysis
thereby improving the bidding process and increasing their probability of
finding petroleum. Companies that aren't considered "traditional"
high performance computing customers will also benefit. Food manufacturers, for
example, will be able to redesign and improve packaging in less time by using 4
Gbps technology.
The entertainment industry will produce higher quality animated
movies, in less time, when they adopt 4 Gbps technology. The producers of Polar
Express, an animated film that was a holiday hit, used a new technique called "Performance
Capture" that allows an actor to be covered in hundreds of tiny computer
chips. The data from these chips contains precise information about all of the
actor's movements, including facial expressions. Production of the graphics
involved in the endeavor required millions of time consuming calculations. Had 4
Gbps been available, the time required to produce the movie could have been
reduced significantly.
The most frequently asked question regarding 4 Gbps technology is "Why
do I need this?" After all, most users still aren't taking full
advantage of all that 2 Gbps SANs have to offer. The answer is twofold:
technology and economics. As technology advances components become smaller,
faster and less expensive. Vendors push improvements to differentiate and create
competitive advantage. As a by product, the new technology can drive lower
costs, creating an economic incentive for buyers to use the latest technology,
even if their need is not immediate. When you add the fact that the new 4 Gbps
technology will be compatible with 2 Gbps and 1 Gbps installations. There will
be no need to uninstall 2 Gbps investments, and customers will be able to
seamlessly plug into the improved infrastructure. This understanding changed the
question from "Why do I need this?" to "When can I have this?"
It's important to remember that 4 Gbps Fibre Channel Technology is
only part of the computing equation. If your performance bottleneck is the
server horsepower for example, adding 4 Gbps infrastructure won't produce
improved results. 4Gbps technology is just around the corner. The speed is
impressive, and the costs are attractive. This train will be leaving the station
soon. Don't be left behind. ...Engenio profile,
Fibre-channel adapter cards,
SAN,
article:- Fibre-Channel SAN
History
See also:- another article by Steve Gardner -
Disk to Disk Backup
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