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Sun Microsystems - circa 2009
A singular vision - "The Network Is The Computer" -
guides Sun in the development of technologies that power the world's most
important markets. Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building
communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation
Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at
http://sun.com.
see also:-
Sun
Microsystems - editor mentions (1991 to 2010)
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Below are Sun's milestones from
SSD Market
History
Jonathan
Schwartz, Sun's CEO (or his ghostwriter) reads
storagesearch.com. His June
2008 blog -
Anything But a
Flash in the Pan cited projections from the article -
Flash Memory vs. Hard
Disks - Which Will Win?.
And in September 2008 - Sun
employee, Marc Hamilton's blog -
SSD's
Everywhere cited our
SSD Buyer's Guide.
In
November 2008 - Sun launched its 7000 family of rackmount NAS systems
- which includes hybrid HDD / flash SSD arrays. Sun says its Solaris ZFS can
optimize the SSDs intelligently as a part of a storage pool. MSRP for a 4U
system with 44TB of 7,200 RPM hard drives, 36GB flash SSD and 64GB RAM is
$117,995.
In March 2009 -
Sun Microsystems launched
its new Sun Flash
Analyzer - a free Java tool to help users determine how much their (Solaris,
Windows and Linux) servers could benefit from SSD acceleration. The company also
launched a try before you buy marketing promotion for its servers which have
Sun branded 2.5" SLC flash SSDs pre-integrated. The 32GB SATA SSDs have
sequential R/W upto 250MB/s and 170MB/s respectively. Random R/W IOPS are upto
35,000 and 3,300 respectively (4k blocks). Endurance is 3 years - assuming max
write speed and 100% write duty cycle.
In April 2009 - Oracle
announced
an agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems for
approximately $7.4 billion. (Which is similar to Sun's own total spend on
acquiring storage
companies. Thereby valuing Sun's server business as zero - or vice versa.)
In
May 2009 - Sun
Microsystems announced it has
improved
its hybrid rackmount storage systems to support an additional 600GB of
flash SSD cache (compared to the current 64GB internal limit) for enhanced
application performance.
The Sun Storage
7310
is available today and starts at a price of $40,165.
In October
2009 - Sun Microsystems
launched
a new 1U rackmount
SSD - the F5100
Flash Array ($45,995 upwards) - which has 16
SAS ports and provides
upto 1.92TB capacity. R/W IOPS are upto 1.6M and 1.2M respectively (for a system
populated with 80 SSD modules).
Sun also launched the
FlashFire
F20 - a 96GB SLC flash PCIe
SSD with 100k read and 84k write IOPS. R/W rates are upto 1092MB/s and
501MB/s respectively. The card also includes a
SAS controller.
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there was a lot more to Sun than SSDs
and storage
In the notes above I've only talked about Sun
in the SSD market. That was a small dimension of a their overall business
impact.
If you're interested in how Sun impacted server market
history - take a look at some of these archived articles and resources from the
SPARC Product Directory
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