Posts Tagged ‘Sun Microsystems’

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part IV

This is the last in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays.  Previous posts in this series can be found here: Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part II Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage...
December 10th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site.  STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day.  So have solid state drives lost their sparkle? Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC earnings call.  The interesting...
November 5th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part II

This is the second in a series of articles on Sun Microsystem’s Unified Storage System, also known as Amber Road.  Previous post(s): Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I So in the first post in this series I discussed the USS and gave a basic overview of the hardware....
May 6th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I

It’s clear from recent technology announcements that storage is moving towards being a commodity offering.  Modular arrays are gaining in popularity as the underlying technology becomes more reliable.  Look at the hard disk drive; SATA devices are now capable of 1.2 million hours MTBF.  Vendors...
April 28th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

So all the debate about IBM buying Sun Microsystems has counted for nothing.  Oracle have stepped in and acquired the company for $9.50 a share in cash.  Here’s the press release. Now I only saw the news a few minutes ago but already my mind is racing.  Firstly, Oracle doesn’t strike...
April 20th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Cisco, IBM, Sun & EMC – A Busy Week

It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing. First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric.  What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets...
March 19th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More