SPARC's Future Article
Popular
editor:- January
29, 2007 - my recently published article:- "the Next 3 Years in the
SPARC Server Market - (2007 to 2009)" has struck a chord with SPARC
readers.
It's the most popular SPARC article in the past few
years. ...read
the article
Meanwhile the #1 article on
STORAGEsearch.com is the 4th
annual edition of the
Solid State Disks
Buyers Guide
BakBone in Sun's Sights?
editor:-
January 24, 2007 - an article published on CRN.com speculates that BakBone
Software may soon be acquired by Sun.
BTW
BakBone Software has
had many accounting problems in recent years - and its founders started a new
company called Cofio
Software last September.
See also:-
Backup Software,
405 Acquired storage
companies
Sun Returns to Profitability
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - January 23, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported
results today for its fiscal second quarter, which ended December 31, 2006.
Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 were $3.566 billion, an
increase of 7% as compared with $3.337 billion for the second quarter of fiscal
2006. The year-over-year revenue increase was due to sales of SPARC chip
multithreading servers and x64-based servers as well as the increased acceptance
of the Solaris 10 Operating System.
Computer Systems products
revenues increased 14% year-over-year, the fourth consecutive quarter of
year-over-year revenue growth. Net income for the second quarter of fiscal
2007 on a GAAP basis was $126 million.
...Sun
Microsystems profile
Solaris Versus Linux Support Pricing
editor:- January
19, 2007 - an article published today in ITJungle,com discusses Solaris
Versus Linux Support Pricing.
Sun Announces Faster SPARC Chips
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - January 18, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
announced it has successfully completed the tapeout of its new "Rock"
processor.
The "Rock" processor is Sun's next-generation,
high-end SPARC CMT product line which will ship in the second half of calendar
2008.
Sun also announced today a faster version of its UltraSPARC T1
processor which runs at 1.4GHz and can deliver 30% higher throughput than
the existing 1.2GHz processor.
...Sun
Microsystems profile, storage
chips
OpenVZ Virtualization Software Available for Sun UltraSPARC T1
HERNDON, Va.,
January 2, 2007 - The OpenVZ project today announced its open source
virtualization software is available for servers using Sun's UltraSPARC T1
processor.
Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project said
porting OpenVZ software to the the UltraSPARC T1 processor was a simple
procedure since 95% of the code is platform-independent. OpenVZ is easily
portable across different architectures and the project currently supports
servers using x86, x86_64, IA64 and Power 64-bit processors.
OpenVZ is
operating system-level server virtualization software technology, built on
Linux, which creates multiple isolated, secure virtual environments on a single
physical server - enabling greater server utilization and superior availability
with fewer performance penalties. The virtual servers ensure that applications
do not conflict and can be re-booted independently. With the power of Sun's
UltraSPARC T1 processor, hardware is often under utilized. With virtualization
technology, the server can effectively be split into many small ones, each
running its tasks so that the whole server is utilized more efficiently.
"Having open source virtualization software for Sun servers, such as the
Sun Fire T2000, is great news for our users," said Fadi Azhari, director of
marketing, OpenSPARC, Sun Microsystems. "The addition of operating
system-level virtualization technology provided by the OpenVZ project provides
even greater value by helping to increase utilization rates without impacting
performance of SPARC-based servers."
SPARC system users will be able to provision physical servers to run
applications on virtual servers, rather than a full physical server. The OpenVZ
project makes available templates that allow for almost instant (in many cases
about a minute) provisioning of a virtual server.
...OpenVZ,
Solaris
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