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Sun's Rekindled Star
4:15 AM EST Sun. Mar. 04, 2007
From the March 05, 2007 issue of VARBusiness
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1 PROJECT BLACKBOX
Due out later this year, Project Blackbox is housed in a 20-foot shipping container that consists of systems, storage, network infrastructure, cooling and power distribution, with a systems-management overlay.
2 ROCK PROCESSOR
Rock is the next generation of Sun's Niagara SPARC-based processor, due for release in late 2008. It will be a 16-core server that promises to up the ante in CMT (chip multi-threading) capability. This, in turn, should vastly increase processing capability and energy efficiency.
3 INTEL XEON-BASED SYSTEMS
Don't look for a product blitz initially, but the midyear debut of a Xeon-based server will be closely watched. This could help break Sun into accounts still resistant to AMD's Opteron. Expect new systems on that platform to appear too.
4 SOLARIS
Updates will remain continual, but with Intel providing its own engineering resources, anticipate tighter integration with the x86 platform. Also, native multiplatform virtualization is in the works.
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