Nirvanix Rains on Amazon
SAN DIEGO - April 22, 2008 - Nirvanix
today announced a 30-day free trial promotion for users who want to test its
online storage service.
Nirvanix also announced the
availability of its 'Amazon
S3 Migration Tool' which enables the easy migration of files from an
Amazon Simple
Storage Service account while preserving folder structures.
"For
a company with just 50 terabytes of archived data, for instance, this fee
holiday can mean a setup savings of well over $9,000 to move to the world's
fastest, most reliable cloud storage platform in the world" said Jonathan
Buckley, Chief Marketing Officer with Nirvanix. ...Nirvanix profile,
online backup and storage
SPARC T2 Gets Carrier Grade Linux
SAN JOSE, CA - April
16, 2008 - Wind River Systems, Inc. today announced it will port its
Carrier Grade Linux and Workbench development suite to Sun's
UltraSPARC T2 processor.
This will be the first carrier grade
Linux for Sun's CMT processors. Sun's Netra Carrier Grade rack servers and ATCA
blades will be the first CMT systems to run Wind River Carrier Grade Linux.
...Wind River
profile,
Operating Systems
for SPARC servers
the Top 10 SSD OEMs in Q1 2008
Editor:- April 2, 2008 -
STORAGEsearch.com today published the 4th edition of - "the Top
10 Solid State Disk OEMs."
Covering the quarter ending
March 31, 2008 - the article also looks at market milestones and comments on
changes since the earlier quarters.
Inevitably - over 60
SSD oems couldn't make it
into the top 10 SSD list (and that includes
enterprise rackmount
SSD wannabe EMC which
lay just outside at #11.)
If you're choosing
SSD suppliers or strategic
partners - this is the must-see predictive list of the top companies that
matter - based on hundreds of thousands of readers searching for SSD content
on the site rated most highly by SSD companies themselves. ...read the article
Fujitsu Targets Fast Growing 2.5" HDD Segment
Sunnyvale, CA -
March 24, 2008 - Fujitsu today announced its 2nd generation 7,200 RPM
SATA hard disk drive - the MHZ2 BJ with upto 320GB in a 2.5" form factor
will start shipping in Q2 08.
R/W power consumption is typically 2.3W and in standby mode power
drops to 0.13W.
"Worldwide shipments of 2.5" 7,200R PM SATA
HDDs increased more than 90% in 2007 while average overall 2.5-inch HDD
capacities grew more than 60%," said John Monroe, a research VP at
Gartner. "As
average HDD capacities
continue to increase, the need for greater performance to take full advantage of
rich media applications in mobile computing environments will create new
dimensions of demand and new opportunities for drive makers and PC OEMs. We
anticipate a combined annual growth rate for 2.5" 7,200 RPM SATA HDDs in
excess of 60% during the next 5 years."
...Fujitsu profile
TSMC SPARC CPUs will Have Even More Cores
SANTA
CLARA, Calif - February 19, 2008 - Sun Microsystems Inc. today
announced that it had selected Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
as its foundry partner for processors based on a 45-nanometer design as well as
future generations.
Sun will continue to design its chips while
long-time Sun partner TI
will continue to test and build the 45-nanometer processors in TSMC.
"After a lengthy evaluation we selected TSMC for one reason:
they're simply the best at turning complex processor designs into silicon,"
said David Yen, Sun's executive vice president, Microelectronics group. "TSMC
is already fully engaged with engineers from both Sun and TI and I expect we'll
all benefit from the cross-pollination of ideas among these three companies."
Sun, which currently designs processors based on 90- and 65-nanometer
processes, is moving to the smaller 45-nanometer to allow more circuitry to be
squeezed onto the same amount of silicon. The result: chip designers are free to
add new features such as processing cores or encryption engines that improve
overall chip performance.
The 45-nanometer design process also allows Sun to increase the
number of threads per processor. storage chips
XML Firewall Supports Solaris on SPARC
Vancouver,
Canada - February 11, 2008 - Layer 7 Technologies announced today its
XML Firewall and XML Networking Gateway software products support Solaris 10
on SPARC platforms from Sun Microsystems.
The SecureSpan
XML Firewall provides advanced identity and message level SOA security for
cross-domain, B2B and portal applications, while the SecureSpan XML Networking
Gateway adds support for complex SOA message routing, mediation, virtualization
and Service Level Agreements. In addition to gateway software Layer 7 also
offers a family of turnkey, hardware-accelerated XML appliances for the data
center.
...Layer 7 Technologies,
Storage Security
It's Groundhog Day for 8Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs
COSTA MESA, Calif -
February 6, 2008 - Emulex Corp today announced availability of its
8Gb/s Fibre Channel host bus adapters.
Designed to maintain
backward compatibility with existing 4Gb/s and 2Gb/s products, Emulex PCI
Express 2.0-based 8Gb/s HBAs enable a seamless transition to next-generation
SANs.
...Emulex profile
Editor's
comments:- my first reaction to this was - hadn't I already run a similar
story about QLogic
sampling 8Gbps HBAs last August? Turns out I had. That's why Emulex's white
paper Fact vs. Fiction -
What QLogic doesn't want you to know (pdf) is also getting a link here.
How Many Apps on Solaris? etc
Editor:- January 24,
2008 - an article published today on ITJungle.com discusses how many
ISVs actually support Solaris.
An interesting part of the article
is speculation about how some other OS's which were important in SPARC's infancy
have fared since. According a Sun survey cited in the article most ISVs still
love Solaris.
That's in stark contrast to IHVs. Most IHVs which
strongly supported the SPARC platform in the 1990s exited the market many
years ago. Although there are genuine opportunities for leveraging Sun's newer
processors many IHVs are safer with Intel architecture processors because of the
availability of alternative sources.
That's the coffee which helped
create the buzz about SPARC in the early 1990s - when many chipmakers made
SPARC chips which could be used in workstations. It could happen again. When
someone is prepared to go public on this I'll let you know on these pages. |
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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 directory (this page) included over 300
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. That's why this page for Sun VARs has, for most of the last 10 years,
been one of the highest volume pages on this site. | |
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Squeak! -
Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $150 billion
in 2005, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
Mice in storage | | |
