Rudderless
Solaris Market Gets Open Source Drivers for PCIe SSDs
Editor:-
January 26, 2010 -
Texas Memory Systems
today announced
it is delivering open source drivers on
Linux and
Solaris for its
RamSan-20
PCIe SSD accelerator.
This thin driver offers a simple control paradigm and is easy to port
and manipulate as open source. It offers little burden to the host system and
creates a neat division of labor between the host and the device allowing the
host system to operate to its maximum potential.
Editor's comments:-
IBM and
HP long ago had their own
engineers tweak and customize
Fusion-io's PCIe SSDs
- for remarketing to their own respective server customers.
But it's
still unclear today (one day ahead of the
earliest
EU decision date for Oracle's acquisition of Sun) who is going to control
the SPARC Solaris market.
Despite several quarters (some might say years) of uncertainty over
this part of the server market - customers still have to make decisions about
what to do to keep their installed base in good shape. Perhaps the availability
of open source code for these SSD accelerator products will encourage some
systems integrators or users to take architectural tweaking matters into their
own hands.
Themis Launches 8 Core UltraSPARC T2 VPX Server
Editor:-
December 2, 2009 -
Themis
Computer today launched the 1st 6U VPX SBC based on Sun's
multi-core UltraSPARC T2.
Themis' T2VPX features a new system
architecture that combines up to 8
SPARC processor cores and
64 threads, with a VPX IO fabric. The T2VPX is ideal for compute-intensive
military and aerospace applications requiring rugged computing solutions, beyond
the reach of today's VME-64-based systems. It runs both Linux and the Solaris
10 Operating System. The T2VPX will be offered with 6 and 8 core processor
options.
"VPX
is a proposed ANSI standard that breaks the performance bonds of traditional
buses and serial interconnects, enabling Themis to create supercomputer-level
products like this one for the critical embedded systems market," declares
Ray Alderman, executive director of VITA.
New Edition - Top 10 SSD OEMs in Q3 2009
Editor:-
October 2, 2009 - StorageSearch.com
published the new (10th quarterly edition) of the
top 10 SSD oems
ranked by storage search volume.
It's a popular barometer of the
SSD market and includes - as usual - a commentary for each of the companies
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| Novell
Automates Hardware Migration for Solaris 10 |
Waltham,
MA - July 14 - Novell today announced the addition of
physical-to-virtual migration support for Sun's Solaris 10 OS in the
latest version of PlateSpin Migrate.
"We expect PlateSpin
Migrate 8.1 to make it even easier for customers to take advantage of the power
and versatility of Solaris Containers," said Jim McHugh, VP of Data Center
Software Marketing at Sun. "Using PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 to perform
physical-to-virtual migration will also help minimize the risk of introducing
errors into new configurations and speed the completion of virtualization
projects."
PlateSpin Migrate 8.1 is available later this month priced at $1,495
for a one-time
Unix
license.
New Disk Backup Article from BakBone
Editor:- July
14, 2009 - a new article is published today on StorageSearch.com called -
"Aspects of
Disk Backup".
Written by Andrew Brewerton -
Technical Director (Europe) - BakBone Software - the
new article comprehensively reviews the why? how? and where?
of today's modern enterprise disk backup techniques.
StorageSearch.com has had a decade
long affinity with enterprise
disk backup - tracking changes in the market since the concept 1st began.
This overview article brings that coverage right up to date - from the
perspective of a leading company in the
backup software market.
...read the
article
STEC Sells $28 million SSDs to US Military
Editor:-
July 13, 2009 - STEC
today announced it has partnered with a leading defense systems contractor and
will supply its
MACH8 industrial SSDs
for integration into a platform designed on behalf of the U.S. Military as part
of a 12 month,
$28
million supply contract.
"We are proud to have been selected to provide our SSDs for use
in this military initiative," said Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and CEO of
STEC, Inc. "This contract marks the first major
military win for our
MACH8 line of SSDs."
Top 10 SSD OEMs
Editor:- July 7, 2009 -
StorageSearch.com today
published the 9th quarterly edition of
the Top 10 SSD OEMs
- based on search volume in Q 2009.
Who are the top 10 most
important SSD manufacturers - the companies which you absolutely have to look at
if you've got got any new projects involving SSDs? With over 155 oems
now in the SSD market - this article with its commentary and analysis is a must
read. ...read the
article
Notebook SSD Market Overview - is not pretty
Editor:-
June 15, 2009 - StorageSearch.com
published a new article today called -
Overview of
the Notebook SSD Market.
There's a simple way to summarize
the complex view of the SSD Notebook / Netbook market.
Lots of
initial hype and optimism that the market would deliver an astonishingly
new product experience to users, followed by dismay and disillusion due to
a flurry of poorly conceived, badly designed and ineptly executed products.
...read the
article
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| About
These Sun SPARC Reseller Resources |
Editor:-
in the early 1990s
ACSL, publisher of
the SPARC Product Directory
compiled an independently researched database of VARs who sold SPARC compatible
systems and Sun SBus compatible cards. Our worldwide SPARC database reached a
peak of approximately 1,500 companies.
This database was used by most
of the OEMs in the market (including Sun) to accelerate the growth of the SPARC
market and expand the international channels for these products. We discontinued
supplying that list in 1996 when we switched from print to a web format.
Most
Sun VARs were slow in switching to the web, and I estimated that less than 50%
had made this transition when I wrote my February 2000 article -
Why are most Sun
resellers invisible on the web?
At the peak of the dotcom market at
the end of 2000, our online SPARC VAR directories included over 500 companies
which actively sold and promoted Sun compatible workstations, servers, notebooks
or other hardware. I estimated that was about half the number who would have
counted themselves as Sun VARs, but our list included the active half.
In
the following 5 years the SPARC systems market declined in revenue by 50%, and
95% of the OEMs which had once made SPARC computers had exited the market. As a
result the number of active Sun VARs has declined sharply too.
One of
the effects of the web, pioneered by Dell, has been disintermediation - that's
the reduction in the supply chain between OEMs and end-users by a reduction in
unnecessary channels. In the Sun market VARs have always been more highly
regarded than in other segments of the computer market.
The list of
companies on this page is no longer pro-actively updated - but is part of the
historic record of the SPARC market.
Companies who wish to add
themselves or remove their listings may contact the publisher - and such
requests usually get a response on this site in 2 working days. | |
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