High End Server Market
Shows Best Results Since 2004 - Says IDC Report
FRAMINGHAM,
Mass. - November 22, 2006 - According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly
Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 3.5%
year over year to $12.9 billion in the third quarter of 2006, the fastest growth
rate in four quarters and the largest third quarter spending on servers since
the third quarter of 2000.
Worldwide demand for server blades was
largely responsible for this market growth with year-over-year growth of 29.9%.
Sales were strong in most regions with Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) and EMEA
showing particularly strong demand with year-over-year growth of 13.7% and 4.8%
respectively. High-end enterprise server revenue grew 9.1% year over year,
which represented the primary growth engine for the server market overall and
the first positive growth for the segment since the third quarter on 2004.
Linux
server revenue was $1.5 billion for the quarter as growth continues to moderate,
with year-over-year revenue growth of 5.4%. Although Linux servers now represent
11.8% of all server revenue, revenue growth for the quarter was approximately
one sixth the growth rate observed in 3Q05 as volume market growth moderates and
year-over-year compares become more difficult.
Unix servers experienced a 1.7% decline in factory revenue year over
year. Worldwide Unix revenues of more than $3.9 billion for the quarter
represented 30.1% of overall quarterly factory revenue.
Sun's server revenue in the quarter was $1,295 up 15.8% compared to
the year ago period.
In the x86 market segment, AMD based server
revenue grew 79.7% year over year accounting for 19.8% of all worldwide x86
server revenue in the quarter. ...IDC profile,
Market research
Editor's
comments:- I was talking to a manager in a large telco on Tuesday - who told me
that there is no more floor space in their datacenters. The only way that new IT
projects can get provisioned is either by stuffing more servers in a box, or by
virtual servers. The former is a model which benefits Sun as they have the
highest density of processors in a motherboard.
Sun's Server Revenue Grew 16% - Says IDC Report
SANTA
CLARA, Calif. - November 22, 2006 - Sun Microsystems'. server revenue
grew 15.8%, more than double the growth of its closest competitor
according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker released today.
In the Unix segment, Sun grew factory revenue market share by 3.6
points while HP lost 5 points of share. Also noteworthy was IBM losing .2
points of unit market share in the overall server market.
...Sun
Microsystems profile
To Be or Not to Be? - Virtual Servers
Editor:-
November 17, 2006 - the clearest exposition I've seen of which applications
benefit from VMware (and which don't) appeared in Dave Hitz's
blog on Tuesday.
Dave Hitz is the cofounder of
Network Appliance.
The article says that in some environments it can greatly reduce server cost.
While in others it's a waste of money.
See also:- VMware ,
Storage People
Sun and NEC Collaborate on Supercomputer Kits
Tokyo - November 14, 2006 -
NEC Corp today announced that Sun Microsystems has agreed to
expand its alliance with NEC regarding HPC solution business in Europe and North
America.
NEC will provide an optimized "hybrid" supercomputing
environment to end users by integrating NEC's SX series vector supercomputer and
Sun Fire servers. "Hybrid" supercomputing solutions provide a superior
benefit for customers who wish to utilize both vector and scalar computing
environments based on the suitability of customer codes. This solution also
provides the capability to share data between vector and scalar computing
environments.
InfiniBand
...Later:-
November 15, 2006 - Sun announced it has doubled its presence on the newly
updated TOP500 Supercomputers List
compared to last year.
Better Late than Never? - Fujitsu's Next SPARC Chips
Editor:- November
14, 2006 - an article on Techworld.com looks ahead to Fujitsu's
next generation of dual core SPARC processors.
See also:-
article:-
Comparing Fujitsu's and Sun's SPARC Servers and Chips (pdf)
NetApp Acquires Migration Company
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -
November 8, 2006 - Network Appliance, Inc. today announced that it has
entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Topio for approximately
$160 million in an all-cash transaction.
The joint capabilities of Topio and NetApp deliver a broad range of
solutions spanning data protection, data migration, and data cloning.
...NetApp profile,
...Topio profile,
Solaris
Migration
Transitive Demos Solaris/SPARC Applications Running on Intel
Boxes
VMworld
2006, LOS ANGELES, Calif. - November 7, 2006 - Transitive Corp today
announced the availability of a virtual appliance that provides an evaluation
release of QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 pre-installed within a
VMware Virtual Machine.
The virtual appliance provides data center managers with a quick and
easy evaluation of Transitive's innovative hardware virtualization solution by
allowing them to execute their Solaris/SPARC applications inside a VM on a
64-bit x86-based system, running either the free VMware Server or the high-end
VMware Infrastructure 3 platform. No software installation or configuration is
required.
The Transitive virtual appliance with QuickTransit for
Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux/x86-64 pre-installed within a VMware VM is a limited
offering available at no cost to qualified enterprise data center managers.
Solaris
Migration
Microprocessor Report Discusses Internals of UltraSPARC T1
Editor:-
November 6, 2006 - an article in Microprocessor Report discusses the
merits of Sun's UltraSPARC T1
"Although threads run
far more slowly on a Niagara processor than on other server processors, they do
not run 16 times more slowly. Consequently, on throughput measures, UltraSPARC
T1 systems are the highest-performing single-chip systems available today."
...read
the article
Themis Computer Appoints Chief Operating Officer
FREMONT,
California - November 2, 2006 - Themis Computer announced today the
appointment of Michael D. Crocker, 56, to the position of chief
operating officer.
The appointment helps position the company to
achieve its aggressive growth objectives.
Crocker has more than 15
years in the network services and information systems industries, in both
domestic and international markets. Prior to joining Themis Computer, Crocker
worked as chief of staff
DRS Technologies
for the last seven years. Prior to DRS, Crocker was with the U.S. Navy where he
was responsible for one of the Navy's most successful procurement program
offices, PMS 440. In that capacity, Crocker oversaw the Navy's Q-70 program, a
groundbreaking and highly successful introduction of commercial off the shelf
electronics into mission critical military systems.
Crocker has a MBA
degree from the National Defense University of Defense Systems Management and a
M.S. in Computer Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
California.
At Themis, Crocker will be responsible for the sales and
manufacturing of the company's embedded computing products, COTS-based servers,
and its recently announced Quorum real-time resource management software.
...Themis
Computer profile, Storage
People, military
SPARC systems
An Alternative OS for UltraSPARC T1
ALAMEDA, Calif. -
November 1, 2006 - Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced that Wind
River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, will be optimized to
support UltraSPARC T1 processor.
The combination of a Wind River
run-time platform on an open source, 64-bit, multi-threaded architecture will
offer significantly increased performance throughput for high-end ATCA
applications and will enable telecommunications equipment providers and network
equipment providers to build next-generation compute-intensive communications
server platforms. Support for the next generation OpenSPARC processor will be
available in the second half of 2007.
John Bruggeman, chief marketing
officer, Wind River said "As the market-leading provider of Carrier Grade
Linux-based device software platforms, we are pleased to support the OpenSPARC
architecture. Together with Sun, we look forward to offering our customers
tightly integrated, highly optimized ATCA solutions featuring the industry's
most innovative hardware and software technology."
...Wind River
Systems profile,
Operating Systems
for SPARC
Editor's comments:- this isn't the first time that Wind
River has supported SPARC with an OS. In the early 1990s they had a real-time
kernel called VXworks - which ran on SPARC and other processors. | |
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High End Server
Market Shows Best Results Since 2004
Sun's Server Revenue Grew 16% -
Says IDC Report
Where to Use and Not Use Virtual Servers
Sun
and NEC Collaborate on Supercomputer Kits
Better Late than Never? -
Fujitsu's Next SPARC Chips
NetApp Acquires Migration Company
Transitive
Demos Solaris/SPARC Apps on Intel
Microprocessor Report Discusses
Internals of UltraSPARC T1
Themis Computer Appoints Chief Operating
Officer
An Alternative OS for UltraSPARC T1
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