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- NaviSite Chooses Sun Blade Server Modules With Multi-Core Intel Xeon Processors to Virtualize Its Data Center and Help Enable New Dedicated Hosting Offerings
- NaviSite is one of the world's leading providers of managed, dedicated hosting solutions and application services, with 17 data centers around the globe. Supporting hundreds of thousands of new Web sites and servers for small and medium-size businesses required a large data center footprint. To continue to meet demand, they...
- Case studies 2008-11-01
- The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Open Modular Architecture With a Choice of Sun SPARC , Intel Xeon , and AMD Opteron Platforms
- The Participation Age is driving new demands that are focused squarely on capabilities of the datacenter. Web services and rapidly escalating Internet use are driving competitive organizations to lead with innovative new services and scalable, dynamic infrastructure. High Performance Computing HPC is constantly finding new application in both science and...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- Photos: Sun servers on stage
- Execs show off new Sun Fires and its tower of blade power, the Sun Blade 8000, code-named Andromeda.
- Image galleries 2006-07-12
- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARC
- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARCSo you're predicting another losing quarter for Sun.Businesses seem to have templates for purchases. A high cost to us as individuals can appear an insignificant amount as a cost of doing business.Consider, please, the assertion: competition is not primarily about price or performance,...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-01
- Comparing cost/benefit change: x86 vs. SPARC
- On September 19, 2001, Dell's U.S. web site recommended the 17-inch Dell GX150 with 128 MB of RAM, a 20 GB hard disk, a 900-MHz Celeron, and Windows 2000 for desktop use in mid to large businesses. With Office 2000 the package came to $1,698. Today, not quite four years...
- Blog posts 2005-08-01
- AMD chips, Linux line up for Sun blades
- AMD chips, Linux line up for Sun bladesOn a not so related note...anyone try the Jave Desktop Environment yet?Non troll opinions please.
- Discussion threads 2003-12-03
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- Eurocrats killing open source softly, says Ellison
- Not so great......when you're on the receiving end, is it Larry? Seems to me all those who so joyfully cheered the EU on against Microsoft were warned about unintended consequences.Carl RapsonIt s blade with two side , becareful not to cut your hand Well its a 2 sided blade Mr...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) servers: a group test
- Intel's Xeon 5500 processor has made a big splash in the server world as the major manufacturers each have their own brands featuring the 45nm Nehalem architecture. But which one is best? ZDNet UK's Alan Stevens puts the top models to the test and chooses a winner: ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Pivot3 - a different take on unified computing
- Pivot3's Lee Caswell and I spoke about a different take on unified computing architectures and storage centric computing. Lee and I crossed paths while he was with Sun Microsystems. Furthermore, Pivot3's take includes memory virtualization/distributed caching elements as well. Here's how Pivot3 describes itself ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- How many PCs are enough? 5? 10?
- How many PCs are enough? 5? 10?My Count ...8 PC's, 1 Laptop, 2 servers ...But I run my business out of my house ...LudoI want in on this1 RS 60003 Macs2 Laptops2 HP Netservers LH3s4 Desktops.I have been trying to get that number down for years though. Let's See1...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Savvis on Cisco's Unified Computing System
- Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis and I communicated about Cisco's Unifed Computing System UCS. Here are his answers to some questions that were posed to him. Since Savvis currently operates 29 data centers (a total of 1.4 million square feet of space), his views could be seen as...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Dell's analyst meeting: Looking for the big vision
- Dell's analyst powwow on Tuesday is expected to focus heavily on storage and cost cutting, but lack any big transformation plans---although many observers are itching to hear more about the company's acquisition strategy and vision. Caris analyst Robert Cihra sums it up well. Dell has been focusing...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- News to know: Google Search; iPod Touch; Pre launch date; Yahoo; Zune; AMD
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Google: Understanding is the next frontier of search; Meet Wonder Wheel, Google Squared Tom Foremski: How...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Is Oracle serious about hardware?
- Is Oracle serious about hardware?The tech landscape is starting to look like the oil industryWhere 3 or 4 companies own it all. Its not all bad as long as innovation continues. But i hate to see open source products whenever they get popular get sucked into the mix....
- Discussion threads 2009-04-21
- Cisco takes Letterman-style approach to push Unified Computing System savings
- Cisco raised the stakes today in the Great Data Center War of 2009 - and it didn't involve a new product or strategy announcement. Instead, the marketing department took to the Web in a David Letterman-type format to explain to a live audience why its new Unified...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- Data center wars: HP preps its server sortie
- Cisco, Dell, IBM and Sun have all rolled out their plans to cater to the next generation of data centers. Now it's Hewlett-Packard's turn. HP on Monday will reportedly launch a new server system designed for corporate data centers. The Wall Street Journal reports: According to HP...
- Blog posts 2009-04-15
- Dell aims to poach Sun customers
- Popular computer company Dell is attempting to make it easy for customers to migrate from proprietary server platforms and outdated legacy datacenters to more open, flexible, standards-based technology. In other words: Sun customers, Dell's headed your way. Dell's ProConsult Infrastructure Consulting service is positioned...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Sun stays focused on products, not acquisition talks
- There was a funny moment inside a briefing room on Sun Microsystems' Silicon Valley campus this week. Just as the company was about to kick-off a briefing about new products based on Intel's Nehalem chip, the media and analysts in the room were informed - albeit in a very friendly...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Saving energy in a flash. Solid state drives will be hot for keeping data centers cooler.
- Last year, EMC was the first major systems vendor to get solid state drives SSDs into both its enterprise and its midrange-class storage products. Quite a step up from the consumer applications, such as cameras, for which SSDs traditionally have been used. (I'm sure Sun will say they introduce the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-11
- The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategy
- The failure of McNealy's ponytail strategyKind of sad.Sun has brought many great technologies to the market so it's sad to see them go. I don't think Sun knew how to sell open source? It's a tricky thing when a company sells software with it's hardware and then gives...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-04
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