| QLogic
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ALISO
VIEJO, Calif - December 12, 2007 - QLogic Corp. today announced the
availability of its first Fibre Channel host bus adapters with target mode
capabilities for OpenSolaris.
This makes it possible for
developers to build SAN-based
storage systems based on Solaris.
...QLogic profile
Editor's
comments:- in the late 1990s
many Sun compatible
oems got burned by getting too close to
Sun. But nowadays the "OpenSolaris"
initiative provides an insulating layer for most vendors.
Sun Chooses Emulex Fibre Channel AMC
COSTA MESA, Calif -
December 4, 2007 - Emulex Corp today announced its LightPulse adapter cards
have been selected by Sun Microsystems for its new Netra family of
blade servers.
The new Sun StorageTek 4Gb/s
Fibre Channel ATCA HBAs
are based on the Emulex 4Gb/s LightPulse LPe11000 family. They were
designed for use within Sun Netra Blade Servers, and use an AMC (Advanced
Mezzanine Card) form factor which supports the ATCA chassis.
...Emulex profile
Sun's Server Revenue Grew 11% in Q3 - Says Gartner
STAMFORD, Conn - November
26, 2007 - a report from Gartner, Inc. says worldwide server revenue
for the 3rd quarter of 2007 grew just 2.6% to $13.4 billion - compared
to the year ago period.
Ranked by revenue the top 4 server oems
were:- IBM, HP, Dell and Sun.
Sun's SPARC Enterprise servers boosted
revenue results in the quarter which resulted in an 11.4% growth in revenue but
Sun experienced a 4.5% decline in server shipments. ...Gartner profile
Dell Will Offer Solaris on PowerEdge Servers
SANTA
CLARA, CA - November 14, 2007 - Dell and Sun Microsystems have
signed an OEM agreement for Dell to make the Solaris OS and Solaris support
services available directly to customers for select Dell PowerEdge servers.
"Dell's offering of Solaris redefines the market opportunity
for both companies," said Jonathan Schwartz, president and CEO, Sun
Microsystems. "The relationship gives Dell broader reach into the global
free software community with Solaris and OpenSolaris and gives Sun access to
channels and customers across the volume marketplace."
Editor's comments:- back in the late 1990s (while Sun's star
was shining at its brightest) Dell did once offer Solaris as an option on its
website. The route that Sun took getting back to a position that it gave away
by shooting itself in the foot for many years over Linux and Solaris x86 denial
- was long and
tortuous. But in this case stubborn determination seems to have paid off.
Sun Launches T2 Telco Blade
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - November 13, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. today
introduced the first UltraSPARC T2 powered blade server the Sun Netra CP3260
ATCA.
The NEBS Level 3 Certified product family delivers
massive compute density with more than 2,300 threads per rack. ...Sun profile
Sun Storage VP is New CEO at Mendocino Software
FREMONT, Calif - November
6, 2007 - Mendocino Software today announced that Kathleen Holmgren,
a former top storage executive at Sun Microsystems, has been named the
company's new President and CEO succeeding Steve Colman who now takes
over as Chairman.
Holmgren joins Mendocino after more than 2 decades at Sun where she
most recently was Senior VP of Sun's Disk Systems Business and played a key role
in Sun's integration of
StorageTek.
Holmgren also formed the original Storage Product Group at Sun and grew it into
a major strategic business for the company. She graduated with highest honors
with a Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering from California Polytechnic
State University San Luis Obispo and an MBA from Stanford University. ...Mendocino profile,
...Sun profile,
...Sun
bio (2002) - Kathleen Holmgren,
Storage People
Sun's Sales Flat
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - November 5, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported
results today for its fiscal first quarter, which ended September 30, 2007.
Revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2008 were $3.219 billion,
an increase of approximately 1% compared with the first quarter of fiscal
2007. Net income was $89 million.
"Growth remains our top
priority for fiscal 2008 as we look to capitalize on our UltraSPARC T2 servers,
delivering outstanding Solaris and Linux performance with extreme energy
efficiency."
...Sun
Microsystems profile
Editor's comments:- even if Sun's SPARC
business grows 20% a year Sun it would Sun 5 years to get back to the SPARC
revenue highs it achieved in 2000.
It's unlikely - but not impossible.
It depends on various factors:-
- how long SPARC's lead in multicore processors prevails,
- how the demand for telco style servers grows,
- and what other technologies or technological accidents occur meanwhile.
In the last category - "accidents of the shooting in own foot variety"
include Sun's
cache reliability problems in 2001 (or something similar by rivals - such as
Intel's 1997 floating
point bug).
Re the impact of "other technologies" the
combined impact of fast
flash SSDs and lower cost
RAM SSDs will depress
the future demand for enterprise servers - as users fill part of the performance
gap with accelerated storage.
While the market's future is uncertain,
heavily invested SPARC users can breathe a sigh of relief that they got another
generation of SPARC chips recently and so can put off the daunting prospect of
Solaris
Migration for another couple of years.
Themis Signs New VAR in Italy
FREMONT,
California - October 24, 2007 - Themis announced a reseller agreement
with Primeur headquartered Genova, Italy.
Through this
reseller agreement, Primeur will offer Themis's
Quorum server
availability appliances to its international base of VMware customers. ...Primeur,
...Themis profile
Sun to Benefit from Data Center Virtualization
London, UK -
October 23, 2007 - Infiniti Research today published a list of the top
5 emerging trends in the adoption and implementation of virtualization
applications throughout the data center.
Virtualization is
expected to boost the move toward network delivered computing or what is being
termed PC-over-IP. This in turn will place vendors such as Cisco, NEC and Sun
at the heart of the market, but interestingly leaves the door open for a host of
innovative start-ups.
...Infiniti Research
profile, Market
research companies
Spectra's Upgrade Program Targets Wrinkly Tape Libraries
SNW,
DALLAS - October 17, 2007 - Spectra Logic expanded its T-Series tape
library line today.
Spectra preserves data storage investments in
its new midrange Spectra T200, T380 and T680 tape libraries by offering a
seamless growth path from 1 to 24 tape drives, 50 to 680 slots of tape media,
and up to 136TB of disk storage
in a single rack mount unit. Spectra's TranScaleT architecture enables
customers to complete an upgrade and return to
backing up in half a day
or less-guaranteed.
"World-wide, there are literally tens of
thousands of libraries
installed that have reached the end of their economic service life" said
Jeb Bolding, a product manager for Spectra Logic. "In our analysis,
customers will often have a payback period of less than a year when replacing an
obsolete library with our new T200, T380 or T680." ...Spectra profile
Sun Launches UltraSPARC T2 Servers
LAS
VEGAS, NV - October 9, 2007 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Fujitsu
Limited today introduced the first servers using the new UltraSPARC T2
processor.
The new SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers
double the number of processing threads (to 64 per processor chip) and increase
floating point capabilities 8x over the previous generation, and are the first
servers to integrate 10GbE technology and I/O directly on the chip. They are
available immediately with pricing starting at $13,995.
...Sun
Microsystems profile
Editor's comments:- It was a long
forgotten company called Solbourne Computer which shipped the industry's first 8
way multiprocessor SPARC systems running SunOS - the 6/900 (8x 800MIPs SPARC
processors) in 1992.
Earlier scientific array processors using SPARC,
from companies like the CS-2 from Meiko (with 8 to 32 way SPARC processing
elements) didn't run SunOS - but a proprietary OS.
Sun's own first
multiprocessor server - the SPARCserver 600MP - launched in 1991 - was a 4 way
VMEbus system.
These paved the way for the first commercial 64
way SPARC CPU servers in 1993.
These were:- Cray
Research's 6400 (64 x 60MHz SPARC CPUs running Solaris-2) and (Fujitsu owned)
ICL's GoldRush Megaserver (64 x 66MHz HyperSPARC running Unix SVR4). The
GoldRush Megaserver was rated at 6,000 transactions/second.
Today's
new SPARC servers pack just as many operating processors (at clock speeds which
are 30x faster and bus widths which are twice as wide) into a single
motherboard. And they can still run the same old software. That's a true
Scalable Processor ARChitecture.
The Storage is the Computer
Editor:- October 2, 2007 - Jonathan
Schwartz revealed this week in his blog that Sun will combine its
Storage and Server product teams.
For
several years
I've been disappointed with Sun's failure to integrate new storage thinking in
its products. Storage network performance is fundamental to the success of new
high end servers.
Architecting the server separately to the storage
just doesn't make sense. So the new move is better late than never. ...Sun profile,
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QLogic Supports
Solaris SAN Targets
Sun Chooses Emulex Fibre Channel AMC
Sun's
Server Revenue Grew 11% in Q3 - Says Gartner
Dell Will Offer Solaris on
PowerEdge Servers
Sun Launches T2 Telco Blade
Sun Storage VP
New CEO at Mendocino Software
Sun's Sales Flat
Themis Signs
New VAR in Italy
Sun to Benefit from Data Center Virtualization
Upgrade
Program Targets Wrinkly Tape Libraries
Sun Launches UltraSPARC T2
Servers
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