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Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example

Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny exampleVeracity and JournalismIsn't this an example of what makes for a good journalist? Someone that digs deep and uncovers the truth WILL stand out in the crowd (and make themselves a target . . .).As for the funky numbers, I would say...

Tags: Public relations, Servers, Concentric, T1000, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-01-22

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

Additional Resources

VoIP Services Provider Dials in to Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Servers to Help Vonage Lower Total Operating Costs

Vonage is a leading provider of VoIP telephone services with more than two million subscribers, based in Holmdel, New Jersey. The Company's technology enables anyone to make and receive calls almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available. The company wanted to accommodate rapid growth in subscriber base to establish...

Tags: VoIP Service, Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., Sun Fire, Company, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Servers, Networking, Hardware

Case studies 2007-12-01

Major Media Company Saves Power Costs and Space While Improving Performance With Sun Fire T1000 Servers

PlanetOut Inc. is the leading global media and entertainment company exclusively serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender LGBT community. The company wanted refresh and consolidate application infrastructure to provide scalability strategy for growing enterprise. The company's challenge was to improve application performance and reduce server downtime. PlanetOut consolidated its...

Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Fire, Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Case studies 2007-12-01

Samsung NV11

With matte black finishes, prominent, blue-ringed lenses, and unusual touch sensor controls, Samsung's style-minded NV cameras are pretty hard to miss. Sitting at the top of the NV heap is the NV11, a 7.7-ounce, 10-megapixel camera that strikes just the right middle ground between the high-resolution, 3x zoom-equipped NV10, and...

Tags: touch sensor, sensor, Samsung NV11, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., camera

Product reviews 2007-10-02

Sun's High-Performance and Reliable Web Proxy Solution

As individuals and businesses depend on the Web more than ever to conduct business, rapid and reliable content retrieval is critical. Reducing wait time improves productivity and increases user satisfaction. Web proxy technology has emerged as an effective solution to improve performance, help ensure content availability and enhance network security...

Tags: Web, Sun Microsystems Inc., High-performance, Channel Management, Processors, Servers, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-05-17

Power, notebooks and solid state disks

My much-loved HP Omnibook 300 notebook went from a 4-hour battery life to 10+ hours when used with a compact flash card instead of a disk. Your laptop won't. Ever wonder why?Me too.So here's a short course in laptop power.Measuring powerThere are a lot of wrinkles in the power game,...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Intel's 80 core CPU that isn't

Intel's 80 core CPU that isn'tCan not blame Intel for trying ...Murph,On the contrary of almost all of zdnet bloggers I do not have a "silicon provider" of election.I can not understand why everybody as a sort of a "Silicon Tribe", but maybe this is because I endorsed Linux and...

Tags: Processors, Development tools, Intel Corp., Silicon Tribe, CPU, Cell, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

Targeting development for future hardware

Targeting development for future hardwareRudy..Well without Alpha and to a lesster extent MIPS and PA-RISCthere is still less choice today than 5 years back.The new Niagra and POWER chips are a beacon of hope tothose who like to see technically better productsstill survive. But unless the price on this hardwarecomes...

Tags: Linux, Processors, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, Niagra2 chip, Intel Corp., Intel x86, IBM Corp., PPC

Discussion threads 2007-02-20

Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example

Last Thursday Sun issued two sequential press releases signed by the same spokesman. The first, under the title "Sun Expands Solaris/SPARC CMT Innovation Leadership", announced the widespread availability of the 4GB DIMMS in the UltraSPARC T1 line, the corresponding megahertz rate increase to 1.4Ghz, progress on the "Neptune" TCP/IP...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2007-01-22

Sun's startup program has a false start

Sun's startup program has a false startI too applied for Suns Startup Essentials ProgramAnd didn't hear from Sun for at least three weeks. I have historically been a advocate of Sun hardware and software. I decided that a T1000 would be a nice replacement for the Ultra2 server. Unfortunately by...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., startup program, false start

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10

Sun takes aim at Red Hat with Solaris 10Very nice, I'm sureHowever, Sun has a fundamental problem in the hardware dimension. They don't have much in the way of driver support for inexpensive platforms, their hardware though good is pricy, and outside of the basic AMP stack they don't...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Processors, Programming languages, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, hardware, CDE, Sun Sparc, Red Hat Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Solaris 10

Discussion threads 2007-01-16

How important is "Blackbox"?

Just in case you dont know what blackbox is, heres how Sun describes it on the product marketing page 17.October.2006 - After today, youll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the worlds first virtualised...

Tags: General, Hardware, single Project Blackbox, Project, Project Blackbox, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Roomba rival looks to clean up

Roomba rival looks to clean upKindof left us hanging ZDnet[i]Evolution grew out of Idealab, the incubator set up b[/i]Umm... I hope they finish this article some day.roombaif they want to create a more popular robot vacuum, it should do stairs. Watching it navigate around and bump into things is...

Tags: Robots, iRobot Roomba, Skynet

Discussion threads 2006-10-20

Cooltreads and Optimization

Cooltreads and OptimizationAppropriate nameWith the Tx000 servers using such new "radical" architecture, it makes a ton of sense to have a dedicated community site for performance. This should be Sun's biggest selling point - speed - but you need to alter your "thinking" about programming.I would be interested to find...

Tags: Mainframes, Development tools, Servers, Processors, Sun Microsystems Inc., compiler, T2000, PC, mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

Coolthreads and Optimization

Last week I stumbled across a very interesting T2000 test blog from digitar in which the authors report having a single 1Ghz, eight core, T2000 running Solaris 10 with ZFS outperform an HP DL145 G2 with two Opteron 244s and Gentoo by up to 14.5 times. The most interesting...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., PHP, This PHP

Blog posts 2006-09-12

Building a $1,000 Core 2 Duo PC

Building a $1,000 Core 2 Duo PCWhat about the OS?I guess Linux is free...How much for a "barebones" system?Right now, my hardware needs are not much outside wanting a better CPU; My 700MHz Athlon is starting to show its age. I'll be giving that system to my mother,...

Tags: Video cards, Processors, motherboard, video card, Intel Core 2 Duo, eVGA, hardware, PC

Discussion threads 2006-07-21

Horizontal Scaling on a Vertical System Using Zones in the Solaris 10 OS

Multithreaded applications scale well on the new Chip MultiThreading CMT systems like the Sun Fire T1000/T2000 and V490 servers. Carriers and service providers can consolidate the back-end systems using CMT and multithreading. However, some applications are single-threaded, which will always provide an obstacle to performance and scalability. The Solaris 10...

Tags: Sun Solaris 10, Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Scalability, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware

White papers 2006-06-01

APL, COBOL,

APL, COBOL,GOTO "hell"APL is another example of too much rope. Something that is infinitely configurable is infinitely breakable! The ability to write an entire program on one line makes for some VERY hard to read programs. And I DO wonder about the security implications - would code audits become unmanageable?...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, APL, programming language, programming, COBOL, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-04-07

sWaPing out the data center

Regular readers will recall my provisional Sun T2000 pod configuration - basically an APC NetShelter VX 42U Enclosure with an integrated APC Smart-UPS RT 3000VA, dual Linksys 24 port switches, dual T3 routers, one 16GB, 1.2Ghz, T2000 processor with four internal 73GB disks and one 16 disk FC JBOD providing...

Tags: pod

Blog posts 2006-04-03