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Sun Announces Smaller Blade Chassis
News The 8000 P, like its sibling, can accommodate as many as 10 blades, each with four Opteron processors from AMD, Sun said. In 2007, the machines will accommodate models that use UltraSparc "Niagara" processors, Sun has said.
[November 15, 2006, 9:53]
Sun Lets 'Starkitty' Out Of The Bag
News The Sun Fire 15K can accommodate as many as 106 processors, but business users hooking the systems up to databases are expected to top out at 72. Sun unveiled its "Starkitty" Unix server on Tuesday, a 52-processor machine, which plugs a gap in the...
[April 10, 2002, 9:25]
HP Refreshes Server Lines
News But the two other major server sellers, IBM and Sun, believe high-end x86 servers are worth pursuing. They each have their own high-end processor families to promote - IBM's Power and Sun's Sparc - while Dell and HP prefer to use Intel processors...
[March 30, 2005, 9:30]
Sun And Teradyne Help Contract Manufacturing Leader Stay Competitive
White Papers Mack Technologies (MACK) manages its electronics manufacturing service business using Teradyne's manufacturing execution solution running on Sun Enterpriseservers. Despite many changes in MACK's business over the years, this solution has...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Sun's N1 Grid Architecture Enables EDS To Deliver Cost Savings
White Papers EDS chose Sun's N1 Grid solution. Sun's N1 Grid architecture has enabled EDS to reduce the number of servers used for its SAP infrastructure - reducing systems complexity, simplifying systems management and administration tasks, and significantly...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Confronts Sun In Unix Face-off
News IBM will announce new midrange Unix servers on Monday amid a tightening market that has IBM and its chief competitor, Sun Microsystems, at each others' throats. The new systems, the free-standing p620 and the rack-mountable p660, each can...
[April 23, 2001, 12:45]
Sun's UltraSparc Doubles Down For Power
News UltraSparc IV is important not just because it's a new, faster chip, but because Sun's existing servers will accommodate it. Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc IV chip will debut in the second half of 2003 with two processors etched into the same slice...
[December 18, 2002, 8:48]
Sun Targets New Markets With UltraSparc T2
News To accommodate these various markets, Sun will also introduce different versions of the T2; some will have fewer cores, and some might consume less energy. Sun is getting into the business of selling microprocessors — again.
[August 7, 2007, 9:57]
Sun Goes Big With Blade Servers
News For Sun, which will accommodate quad-core Opterons, that just means the opportunity for even beefier models. After seeing its first efforts in the booming blade market come to naught, Sun has announced a new high-end blade system and launched two...
[July 11, 2006, 13:05]
Gnome Grafted Onto Solaris
News The new version features a reworked file system that can accommodate as many as 16 terabytes of capacity, though Sun doesn't support the use of individual files larger than 1 terabyte. Sun Microsystems has released an update to its Solaris...
[July 30, 2003, 9:00]
Sun And JBoss Bury The Java Hatchet
News Sun executives said JBoss and Geronimo were able to purchase the license because of the changes Sun had made to its licensing system in order to accommodate open-source projects. Sun Microsystems and open-source software maker JBoss Group have...
[November 19, 2003, 9:00]
Sun Slices Servers With Software
News With its next version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems plans to take a new direction that involves dividing a server into a large number of independent partitions. That version of the operating system has languished within Sun and...
[October 16, 2003, 16:15]
Modular Storage On Menu At Sun
News Sun announced on Thursday the first two members of a midrange storage family, the StorageTek 6140 and the StorageTek 6540 disk arrays. Both use a modular design for lower initial cost and for expandability, and both can accommodate SATA-2 or Fibre...
[August 11, 2006, 10:15]
Sun Calls Up Java For Mobiles
News Sun Microsystems and its allies are preparing a new release of Java software for mobile phones that they hope will prevent a splintering of the Java market and stave off rivals such as Microsoft. The first version of MIDP "left some areas open that...
[July 4, 2002, 9:38]
HP Starts Selling Four-Opteron Server
News The ProLiant DL585 can accommodate as much as 64GB of memory; prices range from $8,299 (£4,615) for a system with two 1.6GHz chips and 2GB of memory to $22,396 with four 2.2GHz chips and 4GB of memory.
[April 20, 2004, 8:55]
GlassFish Gives Developers A Glimpse Of Java
News For years, Sun offered Java source code under the Sun Community Source License, or SCSL, a licence that has separate provisions to accommodate research use, internal use and commercial sales. Sun is trying a new way to share its Java server...
[June 21, 2005, 16:10]
Sun Considers Linux Partnerships
News While Sun representatives declined to comment for this story, the head of Sun's software division has said the server seller is willing to make changes to better accommodate software companies that are reluctant to extend to support yet another...
[March 7, 2003, 12:39]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News Fujitsu Technology's new server can accommodate 128 Sparc64-GP chips, which work like Sun's UltraSparc CPUs. Fujitsu Technology Solutions will announce its new top-end Unix server Monday, a 128-processor behemoth that will put pressure on Sun...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
Sun Woos Pundits With Fresh Technology
News Yen said Sun is better positioned to accommodate a technology such as Niagara because Solaris can manage the schedules of more than 200 threads today -- the number a top-end Sun Fire 15K server accommodates with the new UltraSparc IV.
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
Sun Tries To Outshine EMC
News Sun Microsystems tried on Wednesday to elevate the status of its storage strategy, introducing new software and hardware that the company argues beats out the top dog in the storage market, EMC. The HDS systems start at $400,000 and typically cost...
[February 7, 2002, 15:52]
