| Unix Server
Market Grows while Sun's Server Revenue Shrinks - Says IDC |
FRAMINGHAM, Mass
- August 27, 2008 - According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Server
Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew 6.4% year
over year to $13.9 billion in the second quarter of 2008.
This is
the 9th consecutive quarter of positive revenue growth and the highest Q2 server
revenue since 2000.
IBM held onto its number 1 spot in the worldwide
server systems market with 33.2% market share in factory revenue for 2Q08
growing factory revenue by 13.8% year over year. This growth was driven by solid
performance from its System z and System p servers. HP maintained the number 2
spot with 27.4% share for the quarter, growing revenue 3.1% compared to 2Q07.
HP's growth stemmed from strong Integrity server and BladeSystem performance.
Dell captured the third position with factory revenue growth of 14.1%, increased
their market share by 0.9 points year over year. Sun held the number 4 position
with a factory revenue decline of 7.2% year over year.
Linux servers posted year-over-year revenue growth of 10.0%, for a
total of $1.9 billion in the quarter. Linux servers now represent 13.4% of all
server revenue, up from 9.4% a year ago.
Unix servers experienced
year-over-year revenue growth of 7.7%. The high-end enterprise segment of the
Unix market was strongest of all three segments (volume, midrange enterprise and
high-end enterprise), as worldwide Unix revenues totaled $4.6 billion in 2Q08,
representing 32.7% of quarterly server spending. Unix servers account for the
second-largest segment of spending, by operating system in the worldwide server
market.
...IDC profile
Building Solaris / Linux Servers in Hours not Days
Cork Ireland - July 24, 2008 - Tapasol Ltd
is looking for resellers / integrators / partners for its new bare metal server
restore technology.
Tapasol supports the Solaris OS (on both SPARC &
X86/64 architectures) and Redhat Enterprise Linux . Tapasol say that their
technology reduces installation time by upto 85% and this can be done
from a single piece of media or from another server, without needing skilled
engineers. For more info contact Managing Director,
Dan Hayes (dan.hayes@tapasol.com)
...Tapasol profile
Sun and Fujitsu Unveil New High Performance SPARC Servers
TOKYO -
July 14, 2008 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Fujitsu Limited
today announced a new line of SPARC Enterprise servers (M4000, M5000, M8000, and
M9000) based on the quad-core SPARC64 VII processor and Solaris OS.
The
quad-core SPARC64 VII runs at 2.4GHz / 2.5GHz and has more internal throughput
than previous SPARC designs helped by what Sun/Fujitsu call Vertical
Multithreading. VMT provides another independent dimension of CPU data exchange
which is visible to the OS. The new servers have from 32 to 128 PCI Express
slots and support upto 2TB of RAM. ...Sun Microsystems profile,
...Fujitsu profile
Editor's
comments:- 2TB sounds like a lot of memory - but many heavyweight servers
are already using more. It's inconceivable that you'll get best performance out
of these new servers without using
SSDs. You might also want
to look at PCIe SSDs.
There are a few established products in the PCIe SSD market already, and more
in the pipeline.
Fujits...Who? - A
Primer on Fujitsu's SPARC Heritage
Sun
SPARC M4000... M9000 Sever Architecture (pdf) | |
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| Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance |
A a reader asked me a
very good question.
"Is there an industry roadmap for future
flash SSD
performance?"
That prompted other questions like...
- How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
- What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and
IOPS?
- How close will flash SSDs get to
RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay
scattered all across this web site
and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market... |
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But I agreed there should be
a single place on the web where these answers could be found.
Forget
Moore's
Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article | | | |
