13 is a Lucky Number for
Sun as Gartner Reports Sun's Server Business Grew 13%
STAMFORD, Conn. - August
23, 2006 - Worldwide server shipments for the second quarter of 2006 increased
12.8% over the same quarter last year, while worldwide server revenue for the
same period climbed 2.5%, according to Gartner, Inc.
Worldwide
server revenue totaled $12.4 billion for the quarter, as worldwide servers
shipments reached 2 million units.
"The two server categories that exhibited the greatest strengths
were x86 and blade servers," said Jeffrey Hewitt, research director at
Gartner. "x86 servers and x86 blade servers continue to be the systems of
choice for growing the front and middle tiers of the Web infrastructure.
RISC-Itanium Unix servers grew 1.8% in shipments for the quarter but dropped a
more significant 2.6% in revenue. This segment continues to be hotly contested
on a global basis, but suffered from constrained revenue overall in the second
quarter."
Sun Microsystems posted significant annual growth in shipments and
revenue for the period:- 13.1% and 13.7% respectively. The only
other global vendor to have growth in the second quarter for revenue and
shipments was Fujitsu/FSC. Sun shipped 107,167 servers in Q206 giving it 5.3%
market share, and ranking 4th in shipments after HP, Dell and IBM. ...Gartner profile,
Market research
Clerity Acquires Sun's Mainframe Rehosting Business
Chicago, Illinois -
August 17, 2006 - Clerity Solutions, Inc. is pleased to announce the
acquisition of Sun Microsystems' mainframe rehosting business.
On
June 30, 2006, Clerity acquired the intellectual property assets and hired Sun
employees directly involved in the mainframe rehosting solution business. This
assures support and product continuity for all current and future Sun rehosting
customers worldwide.
Effective immediately, Clerity will directly market and license the
online and batch application execution environments known as MTP (Mainframe
Transaction Processing) and MBM (Mainframe Batch Manager) software, as well as
3270 Pathway, mainframe migration tools, and associated services. Supported
platforms include Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Linux.
Clerity will
continue its collaborative alliance with Sun and will establish new
relationships with Sun's partners who are involved in the support of MTP/MBM.
Whether customers are looking to rehost, migrate and/or modernize
applications to meet new business demands, Clerity offers customers the means by
which to reduce costs, protect investments, and optimize data center
functionality.
...Clerity
profile, ...Sun
profile, Sun
VARs in the USA , Acquired
storage companies,
Solaris
Migration
See also:-
ITJungle.com's
excellent article about the history of Sun's rehosting tools.
CNET Reports the Latest Sun vs IBM Spats
Editor:-
August 16, 2006 - an article published on CNET today reports on the
latest spats to laud or curse the "open source" street cred of
IBM (infatuated with Linux) and Sun (born again OpenSolaris).
Written
by Stephen Shankland the article doesn't advance our knowledge of the
debate much beyond listing how many contributions have been made to Solaris by
outsiders. But it's always entertaining to see the marketers in big companies
behaving like 3 year olds. ...read
the article, Storage
publications,
Solaris
Migration, article:-
Surviving the Solaris x86 Wars
Sun Announces New SPARC Servers
but has it already lost
the race for the next big advance in operating systems?
SANTA
CLARA, CALIF - August 15, 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced that its SPARC workstations and servers are available with new 1.8GHz
UltraSPARC IV+ processors, double the memory capacity and improved I/O.
The company also announced a range of upgrade options which enable exitsing
users to mix and match old and new CPU boards in the same box.
...Sun
Microsystems profile
Editor's comments:- with these new systems Sun
is delivering on a roadmap we reported on
September 25,
2001 and in more detail
October 5, 2004.
Sun's SPARC systems lead the market in density of processor cores available in
a given volume, but a major bottleneck for most enterprises (which wastes over
half the potential CPU capacity) is slow I/O. One solution is faster networks
(see Neterion announcement below) but users also need to actively consider
solid state disks to
accelerate their storage
networks.
Microsoft's upcoming Vista OS already has built-in
support for SSDs - which will double the speed of battery efficient notebooks.
But if someone smart at Microsoft extends the SSD-aware technology to their
server OS - then Sun will be in deep trouble. Windows will leapfrog Solaris
and Linux in an OS development that is as fundamental to performance and
computer architecture as multiprocessing was in the
first decade of
SPARC . In an article published here in May 2004 (Why Sun Should Acquire
a Solid State Disk Company) I described why I thought it would be Sun and
not Microsoft who won this race. It looks like I may have been wrong.
Neterion's 10GbE Adapter Accelerates New Sun Servers
Cupertino, CA - August
15, 2006 - Neterion, Inc. today announced the availability of its new
low-profile 10 GbE card, optimized for Sun Fire platforms.
The Neterion Xframe II Sun Fire Adapter, compatible with both
PCI-X 1.0 and 2.0 bus interfaces at Double Date Rate speeds, has been developed
and tuned for the next generation of Sun Fire systems, including the X4100,
X4200, X4500 and X4600. It offers full support for Solaris 10 with the driver
included in the OS, as well as all major operating systems, such as Linux
(included in the Kernel as well as major distributions), and Microsoft Windows,
also included in the OS.
"Sun Microsystems has been regaining an increasing amount of
momentum in the datacenter server market," noted Dave Zabrowski, President &
CEO of Neterion. "As a result customers using the powerful and energy
efficient line of Sun Fire servers are requesting networks with much greater
bandwidth in order to transmit extremely high amounts of data. Today Neterion is
proud to offer them the state-of-the-art Xframe technology, optimized for the
new Sun Fire systems."
With a low-profile, super-fast PCI-X bus interface, the Xframe II SF
is specifically designed to for the new Sun Fire systems, combining support of
Solaris 10, Microsoft Windows and Red Hat and SUSE Linux in one package. ...Neterion profile.
iSCSI,
InfiniBand
Coraid Publishes Linux RAID Disk Recovery Tool
San Clemente,
CA - August 15, 2006 - Eliminating vendor lock-in and proprietary RAID storage
strategies, Coraid today released the SRCAT RAID recovery tool.
This provides Linux
users an open source way to read their stored data on Coraid storage appliances.
While other RAID
controllers use proprietary methods to store data on disks that are part of
RAID sets, Coraid is making access to data freely available in the spirit of
open source. By unlocking the mysteries of RAID-based storage, Coraid is
ensuring users that data retrieval does not have to be costly or tied to a
single vendor.
"Using SRCAT, RAID disks can now be put in any Linux system and
the stored data can be reassembled without using the Coraid EtherDrive RAID
controller." said Jim Kemp, Coraid's CEO.
SRCAT can then
disassemble RAID-stored data from each disk in a RAID group and output the
recovered data to a single contiguous file using standard Linux. SRCAT is
critical for emergency data recovery operations from an otherwise unrecoverable
RAID group.
...Coraid profile,
Data Recovery
Sun Launches New Disk Arrays
SANTA
CLARA, CALIF - August 10, 2006 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
introduced two new disk arrays.
These are the first new products
to be released under the combined Sun StorageTek roadmap following Sun's
acquisition of
StorageTek 12 months
ago.
The StorageTek 6140 houses upto 112
hard disk drives and
pricing starts at $25,000. It's designed for both direct attached and
SAN storage. The system
features a fully redundant architecture with drive intermixing (FC or
SATA-2 disk drives),
8x 4Gbps FC ports, 4GB
cache, application-oriented management and switched drive connectivity.
The
StorageTek 6540 array (from $85,000) has a maximum capacity of 224 disk drives.
...Sun profile,
article:- Sun
SPARC history, article:-
SAN History - the First Decade
Iranian Company Designs New SPARC Chip
Editor:- August 1, 2006 - Tehran,
Iran based Parsé Semiconductor Co. announced last week it has
developed a new embedded SPARC processor.
The company says that
the 32 bit design is fully functional now and will be made in 0.18 um
technology.
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Gartner Reports
Sun's Server Business Grew 13%
Clerity Acquires Sun's Mainframe
Rehosting Business
CNET Reports the Latest Sun vs IBM Spats
Sun
Announces New SPARC Servers
Neterion's 10GbE Adapter Accelerates Sun
Servers
Coraid Publishes Linux RAID Disk Recovery Tool
Sun Launches
New Disk Arrays
Iranian Company Designs New SPARC Chip
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Epoka Group,
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Learn How
to Trust Your Storage Drives - article by the Trusted Computing Group
H
ow much can you trust the security of data on your storage drives?
Snugly nestling in a RAID
system in your datacenter - maybe. Now what about when those self same
drives are in some one else's mitts - because they've been replaced, sold or
stolen?
The Trusted Computing Group has been working with
storage manufacturers
and other industry trade bodies
to create a standard model and framework for extending security into the storage
drive - using extensions of the
SCSI and ATA command sets
- and by extending the features originally designed for internal error logging.
Although at an early stage, readers may be interested in reading and commenting
(to TCG) on the draft document - which is published here as part of their
market liaison exercise. ...read the article,
...Trusted Computing Group
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