Itanium Server Revenue
Approaches Half that of SPARC
San
Francisco - September 25, 2006 - The Itanium Solutions Alliance today
announced the availability of 10,000 applications running on Itanium 2-based
platforms.
This number represents over 50% growth in
applications available in the year since the Alliance was formed.
These
announcements came as the Itanium Solutions Alliance hosts the first Itanium
Solutions Summit in San Francisco. At this event, executives from dozens of
companies met to learn more about the latest Intel Itanium 2 processor
developments. The Summit also provided Alliance members companies with an
opportunity to network and extend partnerships to other Itanium-based solutions
providers.
According to IDC,
sales of Itanium-based systems grew 36% percent year over year generating $740
million in revenue for Q2 2006. Itanium-based platform revenue currently
represent approximately 45% of Sun SPARC.
Editor's comments:- these numbers surprised me and show that the
Itanium server market has changed a lot since its early faltering start. The "10,000
applications" milestone resonates with the way that Sun used to promote
SunOS over a decade ago. One day Solaris may be renamed back to SunOS - if
Sun regains enough confidence in itself to shrug off its tattered open source
security blanket.
See also:-
Storage Industry Trade
Associations, Market
research
Fujitsu will Show New SAS & SATA Products at IDF
Sunnyvale, CA -
September 19, 2006 - Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.
announced that it will demonstrate the performance and scalability of its Serial
hard disk drives during the Intel Developer Forum next week in San
Francisco.
To illustrate the outstanding performance of
Serial Attached SCSI
based storage solutions, Fujitsu will display both 1U and 2U SAS
enclosures utilizing 3.5"
and 2.5" hard disk
drives, which will highlight the improved performance, scalability, capacity
and power that is enabled through interchangeable storage systems. Fujitsu will
also showcase an 8TB Serial
ATA HDD-based system demonstrating the lower power and increased storage
density available in today's market. Lastly, Fujitsu will exhibit a system
featuring enclosures that will include small form factor SAS and SATA hard
disk drives.
...Fujitsu profile,
Storage Events
SPARC Product Directory Has a New Logo
Editor:-
September 19, 2006 - SPARC
Product Directory got a new logo today to align with the appearance of
its high volume sister site STORAGEsearch.com
The
image is taken from our
SPARC history
article which has been read by hundreds of thousands of Sun / SPARC readers,
and is still the most popular article on this site.
Here's a timeline
of our publications.
1991 -
ACSL incorporated
as a publisher of computer directories in the UK
1992 - ACSL
publishes the SBus Product Directory (later renamed the SPARC Product Directory)
- the independent guide to Sun compatible cards, systems, and VARs endorsed (for
many years) by Sun Microsystems.
1993 - ACSL becomes an
international publisher with customers in over 20 countries, and generates over
80% of its revenue from outside the UK. Prints directories in both California
and UK.
1996 - ACSL moves to a web based publishing model with
SPARC Product Directory and
creates Marketing Views to help
its partners get up to speed with the needs of internet marketing.
1998
- ACSL publishes STORAGEsearch.com
2001 - STORAGEsearch.com overtakes SPARC Product Directory
in readers and pageviews (in February 2001) and by the end of the year becomes
ACSL's main publication - generating over 80% of ad revenue.
2006
- over 1 million unique readers per year access STORAGEsearch.com - and
readership is still growingover 11% per year (in Q306) .
Sun Enhances SPARC Blades for Telcos
Editor:-
September 13, 2006 - as previously anticipated - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
today announced new servers and workstations.
This includes:-
blade
servers for telecommunications applications using Sun's CoolThreads SPARC
chip and a 3x speedup of Sun's entry level
Ultra 25 workstation.
The
telco market is Sun's biggest customer segment. Sun's recently reported 13%
server revenue growth (albeit from the deep pit of last year) shows these
customers see the value of Sun's dense processor packing. That's an important
factor to organizations which run thousands (and often tens of thousands) of
embedded servers.
Storage Searchers Don't Believe in Tape's Bright Future
Editor:- September 13, 2006 -
STORAGEsearch.com reports that in August pageviews and readership both
grew 11% compared to the year before period.
The biggest
change in storage searches in August was the rapid ascent of
Disk to disk backup to the
#4 slot (up from #15 in July). STORAGEsearch has had a dedicated directory page
for D2d since April 2002.
Changes of this magnitude, following many
years of steady incremental growth reflect significant changes in buyer
perceptions and future buying plans. Recent months have seen a spate of mergers
and revenue attrition in the tape
backup market - and the sharp increase in D2d content may signal that users
no longer give credence to all the brave bullish talk they've been hearing
from tape backup companies.
For more information on the top subjects,
articles etc see Market
research
Sun's New Server and Storage Announcements
Editor:-
September 13, 2006 - details of impending new SPARC server and storage products
from Sun were leaked in an article published today on internetnews.com.
Among the products outlined are new SPARC blades and a speeded up
workstation. ...read the
article
the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - 4th Annual Edition
Editor:- September
12, 2006 - STORAGEsearch.com today published the 4th annual edition of
the Solid State Disks Buyers Guide.
The earlier edition was the
#1 most popular article viewed by our readers in August. Some of the main
predictions made from our 2004 SSD survey have proven to be exactly correct -
which shows that our readers are on the leading edge of this technology wave.
...read the
article, solid state disks
SGI Pulls the Plug on MIPS
Editor:- September 6,
2006 - a report published today by heise.de says that SGI will
discontinue its MIPS/IRIX line at the end of the year.
MIPS (a
word play on Millions of Instructions Per Second - which is how minicomputers
were once rated) was one of the RISC processors which was a hot competitor to
SPARC back in the late
1980s. Nowadays MIPS chips are mainly used in embedded products like cameras
and printers. ...SGI
profile, article:-
MIPS History
Editor's comments:- this summer SGI came to an
arrangement
with its creditors and presumably can no longer afford to sponsor its own
unique brand of server chips.
See also:-
article:-
Alpha Processors Are Toast... So is it Out of the Frying Pan into the Sun Fire?
Solix Launches Secure ILM Solutions
Sunnyvale,
Calif. - September 6, 2006 - Solix Technologies today announced two
new modules for its ARCHIVEjinni active archiving solution which make the
creation of secure subsets of a production database easier and more secure.
"With this release Solix ARCHIVEjinni can secure data using the
most advanced data encryption, data masking and scrambling algorithms, while
preserving the data's integrity" said Solix president & CEO Shekhar
Dasgupta.
...Solix Technologies
profile, Backup Software,
Optical Libraries
DataMirror Enhances Oracle RAC Support
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - September 5, 2006 - DataMirror today announced that it
has extended its Change Data Capture technology for Oracle RAC
environments.
Rather than using triggers or performing queries against the database
- the latest versions of DataMirror's powerful real-time data integration
solutions - incorporate log-based CDC to capture changes in a database by
reading the redo logs of every node in a cluster and then distributing the
changed data to other data stores or applications in the order the transactions
occurred, thereby providing a single view of the organization with guaranteed
data integrity.
...DataMirror
profile, ...Oracle
profile, Backup
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Itanium Server
Revenue Approaches Half that of SPARC
Fujitsu will Show New SAS &
SATA Products at IDF
SPARC Product Directory Has a New Logo
Sun
Enhances SPARC Blades for Telcos
Storage Searchers Don't Believe Tape's
Bright Future
Sun's New Server and Storage Announcements
the
Solid State Disks Buyers Guide - New Edition
SGI Pulls the Plug on MIPS
Solix
Launches Secure ILM Solutions
DataMirror Enhances Oracle RAC
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This
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