EqualLogic Offers Strong
Support for Solaris
Nashua,
N.H. - May 30, 2006 - EqualLogic announced today its certification and
integration support for the Solaris 10 operating system, Update 2, which
supports iSCSI environments.
This most recent certification of
interoperability between Sun Solaris and EqualLogic's PS Series family of
storage arrays ensures the most comprehensive support for Solaris of any
iSCSI SAN in the industry
today. With the Solaris 10 Update 2,
Sun is shipping its native
iSCSI software initiator for Solaris and SPARC platforms. EqualLogic's PS Series
is now fully qualified for seamless interoperability with all of Sun's iSCSI
initiators for Solaris, as well as with the Solaris I/O multipathing feature,
MPxIO. In addition, EqualLogic's integration with Solaris offers boot from
SAN and support of
QLogic iSCSI HBAs for
Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
...EqualLogic
profile, SPARC Product
Directory
Linux on SPARC T1 Promised within Weeks
SANTA
CLARA, CALIF. - May 30, 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Canonical
Ltd. today announced that the June release of Ubuntu GNU/Linux
distribution, will support the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and
T2000 servers.
"Ubuntu is arguably one of the most important
- if not the most important - GNU/Linux distribution on the planet and will soon
blaze new trails in support for SPARC-based servers," said John Fowler,
executive vice-president, Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The availability of
both Solaris and Linux-based operating systems on the Niagara platform will
further expand our lead in delivering chip multi-threaded innovation and choice
to customers."
Canonical's technical support for Ubuntu on SPARC servers starts at
$700 USD per year for a single machine.
...Ubuntu
Editor's comments:-
In current market conditions the T1 platform looks like an attractive
proposition for Linux ports. And Sun will help gain credibility for its SPARC
chips by publicizing a Linux option. In the past more than 15 different
operating systems have been promised to run on SPARC hardware. Not all
were delivered, and most are no longer available.
QLogic Unveils Fastest Cluster Interconnect
Dallas
- May 23, 2006 - QLogic Corp. today announced a new portfolio of
products at Fusion 2006.
These include:- the SANbox 5000
96-Port Stackable Switch, SANbox 6000 Intelligent Storage Router, SANbox 8000
Storage Services Platform, SANbox 9000 Multi-Layer, Multi-Protocol Switch and
InfiniPath InfiniBand
Host Channel Adapter. InfiniPath supports more than 10 million messages per
second, which is over 6 times faster than any other cluster interconnect. ...QLogic profile,
Fusion 2006,
SAN
LeWiz PCI-Express 4 port GigE Achieves Solaris Ready
SAN JOSE, Calif. - May 17, 2006 - LeWiz
Communications announced today that its low-profile PCI-Express 4-port GigE
card has achieved Solaris Ready certification.
The card has been
successfully tested for the Solaris 10 OS on Sun's T2000 SPARC machines and
x64/Opteron based platforms such as X2100 server and Ultra workstations.
For the T2000 SPARC servers, 3 Talon3008 cards can be plugged into the
3 available PCI-E slots adding up to 12 GigE ports to the system for multi-zone
networking and more network throughput. The card's low-profile form factor fits
neatly into this server's small 2U platform with the card plug in straight up.
In bit rate performance, it can reach full wire-rate of Gigabit per second on
each port while running the 4-ports simultaneously. It has the capability to
throttle the network interrupt in the system, thus reducing interrupt overhead
to the system CPUs better for application performance.
...LeWiz profile
Sun Names New Heads of SPARC and Storage
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - May 15, 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc today announced
the appointment of John Fowler as executive vice president of Sun's
Systems Group which combines the SPARC and x64 Systems Groups.
Fowler will have the charter and responsibility to deliver all systems products
at Sun, from the x64-based servers to the UltraSPARC IV+ products and
Coolthreads based T1000 and T2000 systems.
David Yen, former
executive vice president of Sun's Scalable Systems Group is taking a new role
within Sun as EVP of Sun's Storage Group.
Effective immediately, both Fowler and Yen will report directly to
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and chief executive officer. Mark Canepa,
former head of Sun's Data Management Group, has decided to leave Sun after 10
successful years with the company.
...Sun
Microsystems profile, Storage
People
Does Google Give Insight into SPARC and Storage Trends?
Editor:-
May 11, 2006 - Google has launched a new experimental service called
Google Trends.
I thought it
would be interesting to see what this shows for the main markets covered by our
publications. You can see the results below.
- SPARC - Google's graph
shows the long term search volume declining (since 2004). But also a short term
uplift in 2006.
How does that compare with our experience in pageviews
on SPARC Product Directory?
Our
SPARC pageviews in the first 4 months of 2006 were 9% lower than the
same period in 2004. That's a smaller decline than suggested by Google's
graph, but we are also seeing the same shape of upward trend in 2006 as Google.
Some
complicating factors when using Google Trends are:- the graph is a percentage
of all searches, and also when a word is used in different market contexts
search engines (not just Google) tend to mix up the results. SPARC for example
can mean Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition or Strategic
Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity and other things too, not just Scalable
Processor ARChitecture.
- Storage - Google's
graph shows the long term search volume since 2004 is spiky but essentially
flat.
Comparing STORAGEsearch.com's
pageviews:- in the first 4 months of 2006 they are 67% higher than
in the same period in 2004.
Although the storage market is bigger in
revenue than 2 years ago - the revenue difference - on the order of 20% doesn't
explain the difference between the flat Google graph and the big increase in
STORAGEsearch's pageviews. The answer probably lies in a transfer of reader
market share to STORAGEsearch away from other publications. Unlike the SPARC
market where there are virtually no other independent publications, the storage
market has hundreds of
publications and there's more scope for shifting readerships.
5 Years After - 4 New Storage Interfaces Compared
Editor:- May 2, 2006 - STORAGEsearch.com
today published a market assessment of the state of iSCSI, Serial SCSI,
InfiniBand and SATA.
It's 5 years since we started dedicated
directory pages for these 4 new storage interfaces. Read the sidebar article on
our main storage news
page to see how these markets have fared.
Why Solaris will Get 128 Bit Addresses
Editor:-
May 1, 2006 - an article today in InformationWeek.com discusses the
Zettabyte File System - a new 128 bit addressing scheme for Solaris.
The
article says that apart from the obvious advantage of being able to access more
storage, Sun is apparently thinking about building in error correction into the
new address scheme.
In a
market forecast
published last year in STORAGEsearch.com
- Storage Reliability and failures were cited as one of the most important
long term problems which oems and users will have to deal with.
The
cause of the problem is that storage interfaces as well as modules and
components (like disks,
tapes,
optical drives etc) use
error correcting schemes which were designed for the much smaller and slower
architectures of the past. As storage systems expand - new algorithms and
correction schemes will be needed to guarantee that users don't get affected by
data failures which are uncorrectable using today's products and
protection schemes.
It's good to see that Sun is working proactively
on one aspect of the problem. I've talked to many storage manufacturers about
the upcoming reliability problem - which could be more serious than the Y2K
threat - if not dealt with in advance. Sun is highly sensitive to data
reliability concerns.
Problems
with its own SPARC server cache memory design back in 2001- were cited at
the time by many large users as reasons for considering a switch to Intel and
PowerPC based systems.
We will be publishing more articles about the
new generation of high reliability storage products as usual on
STORAGEsearch.com | |
| . |
 | |
EqualLogic
Offers Strong Support for Solaris
Linux on SPARC T1 Promised within
Weeks
QLogic Unveils Fastest Cluster Interconnect
LeWiz
PCI-Express 4 port GigE Achieves Solaris Ready
Sun Names New Heads of
SPARC and Storage
Does Google Give Insight into SPARC and Storage
Trends?
5 Years After - 4 New Storage Interfaces Compared
Why
Solaris will Get 128 Bit Addresses
earlier news -
archive |
 |
| SPARC History |
Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around
the campfire, discussing the good old days
of
SPARC computing. | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| . |
Squeak! -
the Top 10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies
This
is the 5th annual edition of this popular article, and is compiled from
analyzing the reported results from the top 1,000 storage companies in 2005.
The
top 5 companies had over 70% year on year revenue growth. If you're looking to
team with successful storage companies or want to emulate their success, this
article will tell you who they are and the market segments they are in. ...read the article,
storage manufacturers,
storage software,
storage VARS - USA,
storage VARs - UK,
storage VARs - Japan | | |
