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- Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?
- Sun Microsystems: Can it grow?Java and NiagaraHow can you have an entire discussion about Sun's future growth without even mentioning Java and Niagara? This almost seems like a willful oversight. Niagara is designed for the modern blade-based server cluster farms. It is designed for energy efficiency -...
- Tags: Programming languages, Sun NetBeans, Java, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, Java 6
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- The importance of open source in hardware
- When people think of Sun and open source, they usually think of Java. Or Solaris.Personally I think its UltraSparc open source processor, dubbed Niagara, may be more important in the long run. (That's the lay-out of the new chip, from Sun.)ZDNet Asia reports this week that Sun is happy with...
- Tags: Open Source, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Chip, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Workloads for Niagara: Customer Deployments of Sun Niagara CMT Systems One Year On
- This paper explores customer adoption of the Niagara processor since its market introduction in December 2005, focusing on the range of workloads that are running today on this Chip MultiThreaded CMT platform. In addition, IDC has interviewed customers who have adopted Niagara to learn about the IT requirements that Niagara...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Sun: Niagara sequel more power-efficient
- Sun: Niagara sequel more power-efficientGreat to see Sun pusing the competition. Without Sa killer machine.
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara
- Discussion threads 2006-12-05
- Photos: Next wave of Niagara
- Sun is focusing on its next wave of Niagara-based servers.
- Tags: photograph, Sun Microsystems Inc., server, Niagara
- Image galleries 2006-10-18
- Can Sun make Niagara II shine in late 2007?
- David Kanter offers a sneak peak at Sun's Niagara II processor.Kanter: "Although performance numbers were not forthcoming, the design objectives seem feasible and relatively competitive for a processor slated to arrive in the third quarter of 2007. The improvements in the cores and system architecture for Niagara II are substantial...
- Tags: T1000, Niagara II, Niagara
- Blog posts 2006-09-13
- Sun at work on Niagara, Rock successors
- Sun at work on Niagara, Rock successorsSun ROCKs!Get it .... never mind
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara
- Discussion threads 2006-04-18
- Help needed on Sun POD design and cost
- Help needed on Sun POD design and costabout the router/switchYou could use an F5 Big IP (http://www.f5.com/products/bigip/)It's in use in some very big US hospitals and in use by the British government for their healthcare departement (e.g medical imaging, patient records etc..)Target market?What's the target market for such a pod?It...
- Tags: Storage area networks (SAN), Storage management, SAN, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, storage
- Discussion threads 2006-01-03
- Sun to sell 'Niagara' servers this year
- Sun to sell 'Niagara' servers this yearLittle SUN is innovating left and right >>``Niagara has eight processor cores, each able to handle four instruction'' SMP on a Chip.>> all the while the "software giant" is not able to patch its .... browser. Kudos to SUN for its spirit to advancing...
- Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, Servers, Processors, clock speed, Sun Microsystems Inc., Niagara, server
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Huh? Mactel, for real?
- Huh? Mactel, for real?Goodbye Apple!Did Apple leave a suicide note? Perhaps this switch means that they will not have to write software to be able to use the dreaded and feared OS that "Most" people use and like! Too bad, I kinda liked listning to the Mac Bunch...
- Tags: Linux, Processors, Workstations, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Altivec, Mactel, IBM Corp., operating system, Niagara, PC
- Discussion threads 2005-06-06
- Sun to spotlight Niagara at February show
- Sun to spotlight Niagara at February showx86 is LARGELYIRRELEVANT for server platorms even their 64-bit versions. The problem is the ISA itself which has been tantalizing people for decades. Doesn't matter what's the clock speed or the fact that the unwieldy x86 became 64-bit. These are short term fixes...
- Tags: Processors, 64-bit, Itanium-2, IBM POWER5, Niagara, Intel x86, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-11-30
Additional Resources
- 2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel."
- July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...
- Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Do we need to wipe the slate with x86?
- Â A few days ago an industry colleague and I were having a discussion about Linux and whether or not it is necessary for it to be application compatible or simply just "interoperable" with Windows from a protocol and data exchange standpoint. His view is that Linux...
- Tags: Intel X86, Architecture, IBM Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows, Processors, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Which solar technology will survive?
- Which solar technology will survive?Practical considerations to start a discussionSolar technologies that will make it in the long term will have to be low maintenance. That means strong materials that don't have to be cleaned, few if any moving parts, cheap to make, and will still put out some power...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, solar technology, storage
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all rightEric may be right, it ttmight just be too much legal work, but, Sun couldGPL important parts that could be mixed with Linux. Of course that would mean they would have to move to Linux at some point and give up the...
- Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Sun Solaris, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, nothing, UN*X, Unix, AT&T Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisons
- Hardware comparability in benchmark comparisonsWhat's fair? PRICEMy former employer had a yearly workstation benchmark process. We would invite the big 4 UNIX workstation vendors (HP,Sun,IBM,SGI), give them the applications and test matrix - and let them tune their boxes to their hearts content. After the benchmark was complete, we looked...
- Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Linux, workstation, hardware, paging
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- Sun waits out Microsoft, gets some interoperability bang after all
- What a nut I was. Back when Sun Microsystems and Microsoft announced they would be joining forces on interoperability between Sun, nee Java, and .NET (remember Steve Ballmer [of "Ballmer and Butthead" fame) and Scott McNealy sitting side by side) I thought they meant it. I pushed...
- Tags: Interoperability, Sun Microsystems Inc., Thin Client, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Thin Clients, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Leave Jonathan Schwartz alone!
- Leave Jonathan Schwartz alone!Keep KickingHere's the problem with not calling Sun on their BS. They aren't saying it jsut to validate their lives, they're saying it to sell their solution to businesses. Those of us in the IT side of those businesses don't want some upper management type...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, x86 product line, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Transactional memory and Solaris
- Transactional memory and SolarisWhat’s the timing?When will complete near enough working systems - hardware and software - be available for people outside Sun to evaluate?Soon enough for people to delay projects they are currently considering?Cue a quite possibly justified warning from Anton that this could hit sales of current Sun...
- Tags: Operating systems, Sun Solaris, x86 product, Murph, Sun Microsystems Inc., hardware, Microsoft Windows, software
- Discussion threads 2008-02-19
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