Last SPARC Standing -
TOP500 Supercomputers
Editor:- June 24, 2009 - the 33rd edition
of the TOP500
list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was updated recently.
Only
1 single machine in the list today uses SPARC processors.
That's a
steep decline from 10
years ago - when the TOP500 included 95 SPARC systems.
Cleveland Indians Fix Baseball Backup Headaches
Editor:-
June 23, 2009 -
CommVault Systems
today published a
case study which describes how the
Cleveland Indians migrated to
their backup software due to problems with Symantec.
The
Cleveland Indians were among one of the first teams in Major League Baseball to
develop a state-of-the-art video system to capture nearly 2,600 games
played by all teams throughout the season for use in training and advanced
scouting. According to the team it now takes less than 5 minutes to restore a
video clip that once took more than an hour to locate and retrieve. And admin
overhead has been cut from 45 minutes a day to less than 30 minutes a week.
Fast IOPS Hard Drive Concept Resurfaces
Editor:-
June 22, 2009 - last week Dataslide announced
it was close to
productizing
its revolutionary hard drive technology.
Why mention it here? On
these SPARC VAR pages...
We all thought it safe to assume
there
aren't going to be any faster hard drives.
I know most of you don't
look at the HDD news
any more. That's why I'm repeating it here. It may be out of context
technology-wise - but it's definitely hard core enterprise server subject
matter market-wise.
If successful - Dataslide's technology (which we
first reported on 7 years ago) would deliver similar IOPS and throughput
performance as a mid range PCIe
SSD - but at the media cost of a hard drive.
That would add more
complicated choices to an already complex market for inside the box server
accelerators. | |
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| SPARC History |
Spellabyte and
Terrorbyte loved sitting around
the campfire, discussing the good old days
of
SPARC computing. | |
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| US SPARC VARs with profiles |
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Computing
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Resources
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Rent
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Systems
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Acquisitions
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Systems Design
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Keystone
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Technologies
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Information Technologies
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NewTec Reps
NextCom
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Services
Quest
International
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Rave Computer
Recurrent
Technologies
SiliconIron
SirsiDynix
Solarcom
Solar Systems
& Peripherals
Strategic
Technologies
SunnyTech
Sun Valley Technical
Repair
Tactix
Tech Data
Technologent
Technology Asset Group
The Root Group
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Digital
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Solutions
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Technologies
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Coast Computer Exchange
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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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