Fastest Storage Certified
"Solaris Ready"
HOUSTON, TEXAS -
March 28, 2007 - Texas Memory Systems, Inc. today announced that its
400,000 IOPS RamSan-400 solid state disk has successfully completed the Solaris
Ready certification process.
That makes it the fastest storage
solution certified for Sun servers to date.
Solid state storage
systems are typically deployed alongside traditional storage devices to allow IT
managers and database administrators to increase the number of concurrent users
and simultaneous transactions without resorting to additional servers,
associated licenses and management overhead.
"Sun customers have relied upon the Solaris Ready certified
RamSan SSDs for many years and we are delighted to add the RamSan-400 to the
lineup" said Woody Hutsell, Executive Vice President at Texas Memory
Systems. "The RamSan-400 is the ideal complement to high performance
Solaris servers."
...Texas Memory
Systems profile, Solid
state disks
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Sun Resurrects STB
Editor:-
March 27, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. has resurrected the idea of a
microelectronics group to sell SPARC chips to itself and 3rd party oems.
In
the 1990s when Sun's SPARC chips actually ran a lot faster than Intel processors
- Sun had a very successful group called at various times
Sun
Microelectronics" or "SPARC Technology Business".
They
also sold motherboards as our 1997 entry for the
SPARCengine
Ultra AX recalls. (Scary what you can still find on the web.)
The
new move from Sun suggests either a greater confidence that future SPARC chips
will set the computing world on fire (quite possible) or is simply an arms
length way of preparing to do more business with Sun's pal Fujitsu.
SiliconValley.com Quizzes Sun's Systems Boss
Editor:-
March 26, 2007 - SiliconValley.com today published an interview with
Sun's John Fowler.
In which he teases readers by revealing
nothing very much at all about a new Sun product to be launched in June.
Quorum Simplifies Real-Time Management of Growing Server
Populations
FREMONT,
California - March 22, 2007 - Themis Computer announced the availability
of Quorum its award winning High Availability management appliance.
Quorum enables enterprises to
keep applications "always on" and works with Windows, Linux, Solaris
and AIX servers in real-time with a single interface. It's also compatible with
various network switches and SMI-compliant
SANs and
NAS devices. Themis claims
Quorum can save users 50% compared to traditional H/A clusters. Themis' Quorum
Appliance is also a dynamic workload manager and can automate the
management of Service Level Agreements applications and hardware resource in
real-time, mission critical distributed systems.
"Themis'
Quorum helps CIOs and IT managers drive down total cost of ownership, for
mission critical IT resources and infrastructure. When Themis first started the
development of its Slice scalable computing initiative, it was painfully clear
that there were no real-time computing resource managers that could
automatically manage quality of service for legacy applications," stated
William E. Kehret, president of Themis Computer. "We also realized the need
to provide standards driven API's for forward looking, enhanced application
monitoring and control. Quorum uniquely addresses this market need and
integrates well with other managers in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor environment
of software, servers, switches and storage."
...Themis
Computer profile
Editor's comments:- the
webinar:- IDC Quorum
Webinar discusses Quorum in a utility computing context where it is not
uncommon for large organizations to be managing 10,000 or more servers - and
automating server management and SLAs will reduce operational cost, get better
utilization and enable applications to be more flexibly decoupled from the
infrastructure.
Sun Saves the Planet - (Hey I thought
Flash Gordon did that
Already)
Editor;-
March 20, 2007 - Sun blew hot air today about saving the planet by
saving half a billion pounds of CO2 with its energy saving UltraSPARC T1.
While
that's laudable - I think environmental claims from computer companies should be
met with only slightly less cynicism than so called "green" claims
from oil companies.
I'm not ashamed to say I think the world is a
better place for having microprocessors - which enable people to access
information more easily - and the web - for saving trees. So much better to have
email spam (easily filtered) and web ads (don't click if you're not interested)
than convert ancient forests to paper pulp.
Personally I think
technology will fix the man made contribution to global warming if
bird flu doesn't
do it before. (I've got a pet goose and will be among the first to go.) Or
another looming disaster like
unsanitized
phones.
But - past the smoke and mirrors of Sun's PR hype - was
observed a truly interesting factoid.
"We now calculate that only
15% of the T1000 CPU processor cycles go unused, which compares very
favorably to the 85% wasted cycles from competitive processors" said John
Fowler, executive VP of Sun's Systems business.
I'll put my cynic hat
on again - and suggest that if Sun's SPARC cores were sh*t hotter than the
current lame clock speed (say 3x faster) - then the percentages would look
different - but maybe most of Sun's most loyal customers wouldn't complain.
See
also:- BBC recent book contest winner
How
Green Were The Nazis?
And - on the subject of really serious
books...
global
warming and its unexpected results - feature in my online novella
Pirates and Goblins
Flaming SPARC Notebooks
Editor:-
March 14, 2007 - CrunchGear has an amusing contest for laptop horror
stories - featuring a flaming RDI SPARC notebook story.
It's
many years since I heard a story involving
SPARC notebook
maker RDI Computer.
But
the article uses the wrong image - a product from
Naturetech.
RDI's notebooks (even in 1996) were more
less
clunky than the incorrect rugged notebook image used in the article.
Technology (or bird flue - or
unsanitized
phones) will fix the man made contributions to global warming.
Sun's CEO still tied to tape
Editor:-
March 13, 2007 - Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz inserts a sneaky
argument for tape backup in his most recent blog "Moving A Petabyte of
Data".
But I guess what shocked me was the revelation that
most US households don't have an internet connection faster than 500kbps. That
lower case "b" is "bits" BTW.
Schwartz
also says that's why Sun is
now shipping Solaris
on DVDs - instead of
just hoping that potential users can just download it. There may be some wishful
thinking in this article though - re the need for
tape backup.
Organizations
that own a lot of data can make arrangements to get faster connections. And it's
the rate of change of that Petabyte of data that's important. That's what the
online backup system
has to contend with to make disk
to disk backup viable. But I suspect that Sun may be having second thoughts
about the wisdom of buying that
big old tape backup
company a few years ago. I'm still waiting for some glimmer of an
intelligent storage-aware thinking to emerge from them. I'm not so convinced
they will stay in my next update of the
10 biggest storage
companies - when I publish the 2010 edition.
Worm Turns On SPARC and x86 Solaris Systems
Abingdon,
UK - March 1, 2007 - Experts at SophosLabs have warned of an internet
worm that is exploting a recently announced vulnerability on Sun Solaris
servers.
The Unix/Froot-A worm (also known as Wanuk) exploits a
vulnerability in both x86 and SPARC versions of version 10 of Sun's operating
system, attempting to open a backdoor which could allow hackers to gain remote
access to computers. Under certain conditions the Froot worm can send system
broadcast messages via the 'wall' command.
"Most attacks today are targeted at computers running Microsoft
Windows, but that doesn't mean that businesses running UNIX and other operating
systems don't need to take security seriously," said Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant at Sophos. "This worm takes advantage of a security
hole in Solaris's telnet service that was first disclosed last month. Vulnerable
businesses would be wise to install the vulnerability fix from Sun, and consider
disabling telnet."
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