Themis Computer Joins
Oracle PartnerNetwork
FREMONT,
California - July 31, 2007 - Themis has joined the Oracle
PartnerNetwork.
Themis' Quorum appliance is an availability and
dynamic workload manager. It can automate the management of Service Level
Agreements, applications and hardware resource in real-time, mission critical
distributed systems. Standards-based, Quorum supports a wide variety of industry
standard platforms including Solaris, Linux, AIX, and Microsoft Windows
servers, as well as various network switches and SMI-compliant
SANs and
NAS devices.
"We are very pleased to bring Quorum appliance and software to
the Oracle PartnerNetwork," stated William E. Kehret, president of Themis
Computer. "Themis' Quorum helps CIOs and IT managers drive down total cost
of ownership for mission critical IT resources and infrastructure. We also
realized the need to provide standards driven APIs for enhanced application
monitoring and control. Quorum uniquely addresses this market need and
integrates well with other managers in a heterogeneous, multi-vendor
environment."
...Oracle
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Software, storage
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Sun's Results Show Failure to Leverage Storage Opportunities
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - July 30, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results
today for its 4th quarter and full fiscal year, which ended June 30.
Revenues for the 4th quarter of fiscal 2007 were $3.835 billion. For
the full fiscal year, the Company reported revenues of $13.873 billion, an
increase of 6.2% over fiscal year 2006.
Net income for the
fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 on a GAAP basis was $329 million. For the full
fiscal year, net income was $473 million as compared with a net loss of $864
million for fiscal 2006.
...Sun
Microsystems profile
Editor's comments:- Sun is back to being
a profitable company - and that's good news for SPARC users. But in the earnings
conference call Sun revealed that its storage revenue in the most recent quarter
was down 10% compared to the year ago period. That's at a time when
many of the other top 10 storage companies were reporting over 20% revenue
growth.
I've been thinking for a long time now that Sun has failed to
grasp the opportunities in the $200 billion storage market. Instead of being a
mover and shaker it has instead behaved more like a me-too reseller. Maybe Sun's
management is more comfortable in that zone. It's difficult for vendors to do
more than one thing well - and surviving as an independent server architecture
company is a great achievement in itself.
Sun will be dropped from
the next edition of STORAGEsearch.com's
long range forecast of the
10 biggest storage
companies - which will be published in the fall.
Univa Corp Announces New Relationship with Sun
CHICAGO
- July 24, 2007 - Univa Corp today announced a multilevel relationship
with Sun Microsystems.
The agreement includes: an OEM and
support agreement for Sun's Grid Engine to be integrated into the Univa Globus
Cluster Edition software, membership to the Sun Partner Advantage Program and
comarketing/ co-sales efforts.
Univa's
Globus Cluster Edition software solution (launched in April) has taken off
rapidly in the Open Source community. The Cluster Edition provides an integrated
cluster solution that dramatically reduces cluster management costs and
productivity.
Solid Data Launches Terabyte Fibre-Channel SSD
SANTA CLARA,
Calif. - July 17, 2007 - Solid Data Systems, Inc. today StorageSPIRE
solid-state disk arrays providing up to a Terabyte of high-speed, non-volatile
storage.
StorageSPIRE
utilizes Solid Data's patented SSD technology, capitalizing on the company's 15
years experience in solid-state
disk solutions. With immediate response to read or write commands, SSDs
eliminate large server queues; thus, dramatically improving server stability and
response times during peak periods.
StorageSPIRE's advanced design provides persistent, non-volatile data
retention and easy configuration with no special device drivers required.
Designed with 4 Gigabit data paths and up to 12
Fibre Channel
connections, StorageSPIRE supports direct-connect, arbitrated loop and switched
fabric mode configurations with 500G to 1T of high-performance data capacity per
enclosure.
StorageSPIRE complements existing
SANs and
NAS by presenting a high
volume of LUNs to servers and serving data 10 to 50x faster than
mechanical disks, eliminating I/O bottlenecks. The StorageSPIRE solution deploys
transparently in the data center to preserve current infrastructure,
applications, file systems, and storage management software.
...Solid Data Systems
profile
Secure Information Sharing Architecture for .GOVs
Washington
- July 10, 2007 -
Cisco, EMC and Microsoft today announced a new
technology alliance targeting government users based around Secure
Information Sharing Architecture.
Historically, information
protection technologies have been enforced system-by-system, creating islands of
protected data. Some government agencies are having trouble providing role-based
access to sensitive content within their own organizations, and the problems
become much more difficult when sharing sensitive content across different
agencies.
By utilizing SISA, government agencies can more easily set
up security-enhanced, virtual networks for different authorized users and
communities to access sensitive files stored in different information protection
systems. SISA will enable new scenarios for cross-government information
sharing.
...Cisco profile,
...EMC profile,
...Microsoft profile,
SAN,
Storage Security,
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Themis Computer
Joins Oracle PartnerNetwork
Sun's Results Show Failure to Leverage
Storage
Univa Corp Announces New Relationship with Sun
Solid
Data Launches Terabyte Fibre-Channel SSD
Secure Information Sharing
Architecture for .GOVs
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| Does the
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flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
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It was
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bigger capacity (160G in 2.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could
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