Sun To Pump Up High-end Servers
News The top-end improvements, called "Starcat+" after the code name of the company's top-end 15K "Starcat" servers, are part of a deluge of news coming on Monday from the server maker. Sun Microsystems will unveil a series of upgrades to its high-end...
[February 5, 2003, 8:09]
Sun Lets 'Starkitty' Out Of The Bag
News The Starcat system costs more than $1m. The machine, with as many as 52 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, 288GB of memory and a price tag of about $750,000 (£525,000), is half the size of Sun's top-end Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system, which the...
[April 10, 2002, 9:25]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News Sun plans to introduce its new top-end "StarCat" server in September, a source familiar with the plans said. Sun's server chief John Shoemaker said earlier that StarCat will come in two configurations, one for businesses and one for more technical...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
Unix Servers Fight It Out For Top Spot
News The challenge pits Sun's 72-processor E15K Starcat server against IBM's 32-processor p690 "Regatta" machine. Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful.
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
Sun Fights Back With Mid-range Servers
News Khan raised the possibility that the still-unreleased top-end Sun server, "StarCat," could be coming later than Sun hoped, declining to comment on whether the company will meet a deadline of this spring.
[March 21, 2001, 11:25]
IBM Says Amdahl Migration Plan Is Old Hat
News Sun Microsystems and Amdahl IT Services have launched a bid to entice users of IBM-compatible mainframes to move to Sun's Starcat Solaris boxes, but IBM has dismissed the scheme as out of step with the reality of the mainframe market.
[November 21, 2001, 9:37]
IBM Pitches Reliability For Regatta
News It aims to compete with the likes of Sun Microsystems' forthcoming StarCat server. IBM intends to apply some old routines to make its new servers more reliable. The company revealed several new technologies, under a blanket theme called "Who's on...
[August 22, 2001, 8:44]
Can IBM's Regatta Take On Two Rivals?
News Although IBM prefers to position the 32-processor Regatta against Sun's 72-processor Sun Fire 15K "Starcat," real competition is also coming from HP. IBM, which plans to announce on Friday that its top-end p690 "Regatta" Unix server is available in...
[December 14, 2001, 12:14]
HP: Employee Sabotaged Superdome Tests
News Superdome is HP's flagship Unix server, the top end of a line that is key to the company's efforts to sell more profitable hardware that boosts services and software revenue while fending off IBM's top-end p690 "Regatta" system and Sun...
[November 9, 2001, 9:28]
Unix Servers Breaking Out All Over
News The Starkitty is a lesser version of Sun's 72-processor Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system. The Unix server floodgates are opening this week, with Compaq and SGI showing off new systems at the same time that powerhouses IBM and Sun Microsystems release...
[April 9, 2002, 12:03]
Low-end Sun Server Aimed At Intel
News Currently, six of seven models use the older UltraSparc II chip, but the upgrade, along with the new top-end Starcat server, could improve profit margins. Sun Microsystems will debut a new eight-processor server today (Monday) as part of its...
[October 29, 2001, 10:52]
HP Moves Up In Supercomputer List
News Sun Microsystems also has dramatically increased its presence with its Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" server. A supercomputer for simulating nuclear explosions has advanced Hewlett-Packard's position in a ranking to be released Thursday night of the 500...
[November 15, 2002, 8:21]
Sun Releases Plans To Build On Rock
News That means a single low-end server will offer 128 threads, an amount exceeding that of the once top-end thread UltraSparc III-based Starcat Sun Fire 15K server. Sun has begun engineering work on sequels to two new families of
[April 18, 2006, 9:25]
HP Fighting Back In Unix Server Wars
News Though the Unix server leader is benefiting from the September introduction of its 106-processor Starcat, it's suffering financially, with a 43-percent revenue drop in its most recent quarter. In 2003, HP will upgrade its 64-processor Superdome...
[October 26, 2001, 8:51]
HP: Firing Saboteur Boosted Superdome
News Superdome's two biggest contenders, though, are missing from the list: IBM's new 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server and Sun's new 72-processor Sun Fire 15K "Starcat" system. HP also announced a price cut of about 30 percent for the top-end system...
[November 20, 2001, 9:48]
Licensing Issues Delay VPro Security
News Besides Symantec, vendors such as PGP, StarCat, Altiris, Criston, LANDesk and Microsoft are working on management tools for vPro. Symantec has delayed its virtualised security system for Intel's vPro platform because of licensing issues around the...
[August 22, 2007, 9:05]
