Sun Server Sets New
Performance Record
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - May 31, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced
that its Enterprise class UltraSPARC IV-based Sun Fire E20K system running
Solaris 10 has set a new Manugistics Fulfillment v7.1 benchmark world record.
Many of the world's largest retailers use Manugistics solutions to
reduce costs and improve customer service by replenishment planning at the store
level. The Manugistics applications are built on open standards and architected
to the Java2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment
7.1 benchmark measures throughput results for real world complex retail supply
chain management systems and workloads.
Sun demonstrates
industry-leading performance and price/performance on the 36-way Sun Fire E20K
server by beating IBM's newest 32-way Power5 server, the IBM P5-590 by 23%, with
a 45% price/performance advantage based on hardware category pricing.
These
results demonstrate Sun's ability to run complex workloads efficiently and
effectively, and also showcase Sun's chip multithreading innovation with the
1.35 GHz UltraSPARC IV processors running 10% faster than IBM's 1.65 GHz POWER5
processors.
In order to achieve this record, both database and application servers
were on a single system, demonstrating the server consolidation capabilities of
Sun Fire servers. In addition, the superior batch processing capability of the
Sun Fire E20K server that balances I/O, memory, and CPU processing power, as
well as its ability to scale near linearly as processor are added, played an
instrumental role in delivering unbeatable performance on real world supply
chain workloads.
The performance of the 36-way Sun Fire E20K server
was 3 times faster than the 12-way Sun Fire E4900 server on the same size
workload (with a third of the processors).
...Sun profile,
Record Breaking
Storage
Sun and Dell Tie for 3rd Place in Server Revenue
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
- May 27, 2005 - According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker,
factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew at 5.3% year over year to
$12.1 billion in the first quarter of 2005, marking the eighth consecutive
quarter of positive overall revenue growth.
Dell and Sun tied for 3rd place in factory revenue with 10.8% and 9.9%
share respectively. This is the third consecutive quarter that Dell and Sun have
been within one point of market share as Dell experienced 16.6% year-over-year
revenue growth while Sun's revenues increased 2.7% when
compared to 1Q04.
Volume server revenue grew 15.6% year over year and
continues to represent the primary growth engine for the server market overall.
Revenue for midrange enterprise servers grew 6.1% year over year, marking the
second consecutive quarterly increase in that segment. IDC believes this may
reflect increased IT spending to run more scalable workloads and
consolidation/virtualization initiatives than can be deployed onto volume
servers. Conversely, the high-end enterprise server market, which grew from
the fourth quarter of 2003 through the third quarter of 2004, declined 13.9%
year over year, its second consecutive quarter of reduced spending. One factor
in this drop could be continued price compression, which reduces average sales
prices for servers from the high-end enterprise into the midrange enterprise
space.
Linux servers posted their 11th consecutive quarter of double-digit
growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 35.2% and unit shipments up 31.1%.
Customers continue to expand the role of Linux servers into an ever increasing
array of workloads in both the commercial and technical segments of the market.
Linux server revenue exceeded $1.2 billion in quarterly factory revenue in 1Q05
as Linux server revenues showed 35.2% growth, reaching 10.3% of overall
quarterly server revenue - an all-time high, as a percent of total quarterly
revenue. Worldwide investment in Linux servers for both technical and commercial
workloads remains strong as Linux servers continue to expand their presence in
data centers around the world. HP maintained its number 1 spot in the Linux
server market, with 27.7% market share in terms of revenue, while IBM was second
with 19.8%.
Unix servers experienced 2.8% revenue growth year over year and 5.0%
unit shipment growth over 1Q04. Worldwide Unix revenues of $4.2 billion for the
quarter, coupled with revenue and shipment growth, reflect continued IT
investment in this server market segment.
...IDC profile
Thinklogical DVI Extends to 1,000 Meters
Milford, CT -
May 25, 2005 - Logical Solutions/Thinklogical has expanded their
commitment to the visualization industry by announcing their latest extension
product and a new switch product line.
Unlike traditional analog
fiber extenders and analog matrix switches, Logical Solutions/Thinklogical's
line transmits video and data digitally regardless of source format. Digital
transmission has significant advantages over "outdated" analog
technology by enhancing the "transparency" of extension and switching
systems. The video integrity through the system is never compromised.
Thinklogical KVM extension systems require only two or three
multi-mode fibers to support either DVI or RGB video, keyboard, mouse, USB,
serial, full duplex stereo audio, DDC, and a stereo graphics port for virtual
reality applications. Video and data can be extended up to 1,000 meters
(3,280 feet).
The latest addition to the line is the Dual-Link DVI
KVM extender which will debut at InfoComm '05 in Las Vegas June 8th thru 10th.
For the first time Dual-Link DVI signals along with keyboard, mouse, serial,
audio, and stereo graphics can be extended up to 500 meters (1640 feet) over 3
fibers.
The new DCS (digital cross-point switch) matrix switching line
integrates seamlessly with Thinklogical extenders. The switches have full
non-blocking matrix capability for 8 to 144 source inputs and 8 to 144 fully
configured remote graphics consoles. The DSC is "fiber-in" and "fiber-out"
for ease of installation and minimal cable congestion. Fully loaded chassis
sizes are 32 x 32, 72 x 72 and 144 x 144 ports.
Demonstrations of the
DCS-72 will be available at InfoComm '05, Booth #2111.
The scientific,
command and control, entertainment, financial and engineering development
markets are the primary users of such equipment.
...Logical
Solutions profile, ...InfoComm
'05, Storage Events,
KVM switches
Solarcom Annointed to Sun's US Storage Elite
ATLANTA - May 18, 2005 - Solarcom
has achieved the status of "Strategic Data Center Elite," a level of
highly advanced sales and technical certification and specialization in Sun
solutions.
This new strategic status recognizes Solarcom's
significantly expanded technical resources and expertise in storage, software
and services and allows Solarcom to deliver targeted, customer-driven Sun
solutions to businesses anywhere in the United States. The expansion to a
nationwide delivery area for Sun solutions and services is effective
immediately.
"Solarcom is a national organization that includes more than 200
technology sales and service specialists serving customers across the nation,"
said Eric Prockow, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Solarcom Holdings,
Inc. "In the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic US, our customers have long relied
on our depth of knowledge and expertise about Sun technology, products and
services. Now, our customers throughout the nation can benefit from our extended
capabilities."
...Solarcom
profile, Sun
VARs in the USA, Storage
VARs
IBM and Red Hat Launch New Sun Away Programs
IBM Claims
over 3,000 Solaris Customer Scalps
SOMERS,
NY - May 17, 2005 - IBM in conjunction with Red Hat today
announced the introduction of a Solaris-to-Linux server migration program that
includes a "Solaris to Linux Migration Factory," and additional
solutions and support offerings designed to help customers migrate from Solaris
to multi-platform Linux servers.
The service includes for the first time a pre-funded, pre-sales
migration assessment from IBM Systems & Technology Group for qualified
customers that will result in no charge to the customer for the
assessment, and will help them answer difficult questions and determine the
right migration strategy to Linux. Once the assessment is completed and the
customer decides they want to continue with the migration, then IBM's Migration
Factory is engaged.
IBM has completed more than 500 HP/UX and Solaris-to-AIX customer
migration engagements since early 2004 and is now bringing that knowledge and
expertise to an extended customer set focused on migrations to Linux with this
announcement. The service will enable customers in all industries to more
quickly migrate to a Linux environment, including those in the Wall Street and
financial services sectors.
IBM also announced today that another wave of 22 financial services
ISVs have committed to porting 48 Solaris applications to Linux on IBM's eServer
platform since last year, of which 33 are already available as of today. Last
year, IBM identified a total of 24 ISVs and 58 applications in interviews with
23 of the top Wall Street companies as the most critical applications to target
for Solaris-to-Linux porting. The adoption of Linux by formerly
Solaris-exclusive ISVs is expected to expand even faster with the recent
introduction of IBM eServer Application Advantage for Linux, also known as the
Chiphopper offering, the IT industry's first combination of support and testing
tools that is helping to deliver on the promise of a cross-platform Linux
solution for ISVs. Since its introduction in February of this year, the
Chiphopper offering has resulted in more than 100 new applications being
available on IBM eServers running Linux.
"A Solaris-to-Linux migration is nothing new at IBM. In fact,
since IBM began its Linux journey several years ago, we estimate that more than
3,000 of our approximately 12,000 Linux customer engagements have been
with customers moving from a Solaris environment to Linux," said Scott
Handy, vice president of worldwide Linux for IBM. "With volumes like these,
we really needed a factory approach. And based on our experience, the number-one
issue is that customers don't know just how easy a UNIX-to-Linux migration is,
which is why we are offering to cover the cost of the initial assessment for
qualified customers. The credibility of our migration specialists working with
real customers wanting to get to Linux, combined with our cost effective Linux
solutions and capabilities, usually results in a customer either embarking on a
successful migration with us or with one of our business partners."
"Enterprise migration from Solaris to Linux is inevitable.
Working with IBM we will make the transition from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux as efficient and easy as possible," said Paul Cormier, Executive Vice
President of Engineering at Red Hat. "The Chiphopper and Migration Factory
programs offer clear concise plans to both customers and ISVs to make the move."
...Red Hat
profile, ...IBM profile,
Linux Portals
See
also:- article:-
the New Solaris Migration?,
article:- Surviving
the Solaris x86 Wars
Logical Solutions will Introduce New KVM over IP Solution at
InfoComm '05
Milford, CT -
May 12, 2005 - Logical Solutions will be debuting their newest product
offering at next month's InfoComm '05 show in Las Vegas.
 The
Thinklogical Simple-Link is an innovative secure KVM over IP device that meets
essential demands of today's systems administrators, telecommuters, and
collaborative computing users: high performance, simple operation, small size,
and low cost.
The Simple-Link supports video resolutions up to 1600x1200, utilizes
SSLv3/TLSv1 encryption (256 bits) and supports SSL certificate management.
The unit measures a compact 2.75"x 4"x 1" providing
ease of placement and connects to the host computer or KVM switch with supplied
cables. Simple-Link is controlled with a browser based program providing
secure remote access to a connected computer from virtually anywhere in the
world. Selling price for the Simple-Link and all essential cables is $549.
Local KVM console capability is possible using an optional cable.
Logical Solutions will be demonstrating a number of new products at InfoComm
'05 including the industry's first Dual-Link DVI fiber KVM extender, and the new
DCS72 (digital cross-point switch) large-scale fiber-in, fiber-out matrix
switching solution that is scalable from 8x8 to 144x144.
InfoComm '05 exhibits will be open June 8th-10th at the Las Vegas
Convention Center. Logical Solutions/Thinklogical™ will be exhibiting in
booth #2111.
...Logical
Solutions profile, ...InfoComm
'05, Storage Events,
KVM switches
Sun Acquires Tarantella
SANTA
CLARA, CALIF. - May 10, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced
it will acquire Tarantella, Inc. for a cash purchase price of
approximately $25 million.
Tarantella is a leading provider of
secure application access software. Tarantella's Secure Global Desktop family of
products enables organizations to access and manage information, data and
applications across virtually all platforms, networks and devices. ...Sun profile,
Storage Security
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. and DUBLIN, Ireland - May 9, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and IONA Technologies today announced a broad technology and marketing
agreement between the two companies. Under this new agreement, Artix, IONA's
extensible Enterprise Service Bus, will be available for Solaris 10 for all
supported platforms. Additionally, the two companies plan to enhance
interoperability between Artix and the Sun Java Enterprise System.
...IONA Technologies,
Sun Training
Companies, Storage
Software
Sun Acquires Procom's NAS Technology
SANTA
CLARA, CALIF. - May 9, 2005 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced
that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase all intellectual
property rights of Procom Technology, Inc. relating to Procom's NAS
offerings in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $50M.
Procom and Sun have had an existing software licensing agreement in
place since April 2004. As a result of that agreement, Procom technology is
already embedded and currently shipping within the Sun StorEdge 5000 Family of
NAS Appliances. With this new agreement, Sun will own the intellectual property
rights relating to this technology and gain additional engineering expertise,
enabling it to build future NAS and next-generation file-based storage systems
much faster and more cost-effectively.
"The entire storage
marketplace is clearly moving toward industry-standard platforms and operating
systems," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer,
Sun Microsystems."As a provider of both, with our leading volume platforms
and the Solaris operating system, Sun is uniquely positioned to leverage
Procom's technology to drive down the cost of NAS appliances for customers,
while aiming to drive margin opportunities for Sun."
...Procom profile,
...Sun profile,
Acquired, dead &
merged companies.
Editor's comments:- Sun's tally of storage
company acquisitions runs like this:-
Cobalt Networks,
HighGround Systems,
LSC, Pirus Networks,
and now
Procom. My article:-
Market Report on Sun
Compatible OEMs provides a history and current picture of Sun's IHV
strategies.
Penguin Computing Recruits Sun Veteran as Senior VP of Sales and
Services
San
Francisco - Calif. - May 4, 2005 - Penguin Computing announced today
that Bill Cook joined the company as senior vice president of sales and
services.
Cook, formerly senior vice president of U.S. sales at
Sun Microsystems, Inc., brings 24 years of in-depth experience in the high
performance computing and enterprise markets to this new position. In his new
role, he will be responsible for driving aggressive revenue goals for Penguin
Computing in the enterprise server and clustering segments.
"In
his 19 years at Sun, Bill played an instrumental role in taking Sun from a
technical, HPC play to an enterprise play. He knows what it takes to grow a
company from its technology roots to having broad, enterprise-wide appeal,"
said Enrico Pesatori, chairman and chief executive officer, Penguin Computing. "Bill's
pedigree and knowledge of both the HPC and enterprise markets coupled with his
strong customer relationships, makes for a powerful combination that will help
us grow our business amongst Fortune 500 customers and drive the benefits of
Linux clustering further into the enterprise."
Before joining
Penguin Computing, Cook ran sales for all Sun products and services in the
United States for three years. Cook started his career at Sun in 1986, serving
customers in the automotive industry. He rose quickly up the ranks to hold a
series of executive positions, including several roles managing strategic
geographies across the U.S. and building and leading worldwide sales for Sun's
Global Network Storage Line of Business. Cook has a B.A. in Marketing from
Michigan State University. ...Penguin
Computing, Storage
People
Article on Sun Leveraged Buyout Rumors
Editor:-
May 3, 2005 - an article published today in Datamonitor discusses a
story which started in BusinessWeek about a possible management buyout
to take Sun public.
According to the article - "the
numbers in the BusinessWeek story did not add up, and it would take a lot more
than this to bring Sun private or for any other company to acquire it."
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New Performance Record
Sun and Dell Tie for 3rd Place in Server
Revenue
Thinklogical DVI Extends to 1,000 Meters
Solarcom
Annointed to Sun's US Storage Elite
IBM Claims over 3,000 Solaris
Customer Scalps
New KVM over IP Solution
Sun Acquires Tarantella
IONA Technologies will Support
Solaris 10
Sun Acquires Procom's NAS Technology
Penguin
Computing Recruits Sun Veteran
Article on Sun Leveraged Buyout Rumors
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Serial Attached SCSI - Delivering Flexibility to the
Data Center - article by LSI Logic and Maxtor
"SAS gains a
performance advantage through its support of multiple initiators, or the ability
to support I/O requests from more than one controller at a time. With dual ports
and multiple initiator support, SAS RAID arrays can implement dynamic load
balancing, allowing I/O requests to be evenly spread across multiple
controllers, leveraging the full processing power of all of them. Without this
capability, the I/O requests can become skewed, and overload one controller,
while the others may not be at full capacity. SATA technology does not
support this capability."
...read the article,
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How
Do Solid State Disks Make Economic Sense?
When Some 3.5" Drives Cost
$20,000 or More? |
If your
application is speeding up an enterprise server with thousands or tens of
thousands of networked users then it's a mistake to think of the SSD as
replacing storage. In fact the SSD is replacing servers and software licenses.
SSDs can be used either to speed up the response time of existing applications
as an alternative to buying more servers, or to reduce the number of servers and
software licenses deployed. The economics can be compellingly in favor of an SSD
deployment and are discussed in our
case study articles.
Another
server use for SSDs is to prolong the life of server architectures which have
been end-of-lifed such as HP's Alpha. The SSD can work like a processor speedup
and buy the owners more years of useful life while they evaluate viable
alternatives. See the article:-
Out of the
Alpha Frying Pan into the Sun Fire?
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the Solid State
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