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Chris Wood, CTO Storage Solutions Group, Sun, talks with Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Covertson, who invented SAM & QFS, about the future of intelligent storage, namely object-based storage.
Object-based storage addresses the market’s need to store increasingly massive numbers of storage objects with scaling and performance capabilities, while also preserving customers’ investments.
In an eight-minute YouTube video, […]

InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia joins other recent reviewers in acknowledging the Sun Fire X4150 Server as one of the best in the field.
“Sun has developed a 1U chassis design that can handle an impressive number of drives, yet also provide for a standard two-socket Intel-based mainboard and the company’s signature four gigabit Ethernet interfaces, not to […]

All PCIe and PCI-X cards are now supported by Sun Blades thanks to Magma’s ExpressModule that passes PCIe signals from Sun Blades to Magma’s expansion box holding the cards. Magma’s expansion boxes are 1U to 4U and hold x4 to x16 cards in all form factors. Price start at $1900.
“Our blades can be used for […]

If you ever wanted to know how to mount NTFS / Ext2 / Ext3 / FAT 16 / FAT 32 partitions in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), then take a look at a 2007 blog post on Pradhap’s Solaris Corner that takes readers through the steps.

This Sun BluePrints article by Michael Haines and David Edmonson discusses the Sun xVM hypervisor architecture, which is a new approach to virtualization for x86 and x64 systems that makes it possible to run multiple disparate operating systems and applications on a single server.
Quick summary of content:
- Ch. 2: “Creating Efficient Datacenters”, discusses approaches […]

Glenn Brunette, Distinguished Engineer, and Rafat Alvi, Principal Engineer, in Sun’s Global Sales and Services Security Office relay the top five security threats facing Web scale deployments:
1. Rushing Services and Code Updates Without Considering Security Implications
Starting with time-tested building blocks and patterns is essential to Web scale success, say Brunette and Alvi. “That’s why the […]

A newly published white paper attempts to answer this question that has been puzzling the industry since Sun announced it was extending its open storage platform back in April.
Open storage is a new concept for the storage industry, says Sun, which defines it as storage systems that leverage industry-standard hardware and open-source software. By breaking […]

Energy efficiency is becoming more and more relevant to IT decision-makers as its impact on the customer’s bottom-line is realized. Sun has been cognizant of this aspect of its solutions, and has been detailing measured watts on its UltraSPARC products for a few years (2008: UltraSPARC T2+; 2007: UltraSPARC T2; 2005: UltraSPARC T1 and T2000 […]

The recently announced Sun Fire X4440 Server powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors is already making a name for itself. This four-socket, 2U chassis server earned the best score for all Opteron-based servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
This was achieved with a Sun Fire X4440 (4 2.3GHz Opteron QC) (system 606watts measured) running Sun Java SE […]

SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator is an appliance-like solution designed to leverage the hardware design of Intel Xeon processors, and Sun offers this solution on the Sun Blade 6000 family with the Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, Sun StorageTek 6140 arrays, a shared file system and Fibre Channel (FC) and networking switches.
Co-developed by SAP and Intel, […]