Analyze This: Sun Analyst Relations

• The Sun Constellation System continues to rock the market with many new wins such as Aardman Animations (the people who do Wallace & Grommit), UCSD Triton, TU-Wein in Austria, and more. Sun now powers the fastest HPC systems in 7 countries.
• The Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 648 provides up to 3x more ports per rack, 4.5x more system bandwidth, and up to a 3:1 cable reduction than competitive DDR switch solutions.
• The updated HPC Software suite enables and powers the Sun Constellation System providing quick & powerful cluster deployment & management.
• New SSD performance testing show gains of 3-5x for I/O intensive MCAE applications
• The Sun Lustre Storage System combines Lustre and Open Storage products (J4400, X4540) to deliver high performance, cluster storage at up to a 50% price/performance advantage over the competition.
• The preview of new processor options in the Sun Blade X6440 delivers up to twice the I/O capacity of competing blade servers, and up to 12TFLOPS of peak performance in a fully configured Sun blade 6048 chassis

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• Open Networking -- Using technologies developed in the Crossbow Project, the Open Networking capabilities allow enterprises to handle many common networking procedures in software and enjoy the cost benefits of network virtualization rather than paying a pound of flesh for proprietary silicon from today's networking vendors.
• COMSTAR -- The COMSTAR storage framework turns any OpenSolaris system into a block-level storage device, allowing datacenter operators the ability to use commodity hardware and an open source operating system to save orders of magnitude on costs when deploying a storage architecture.
• Server virtualization -- OpenSolaris now includes support for Solaris Containers (the lightweight and powerful OS virtualization solution), Logical Domains (the SPARC hypervisor that provides additional isolation and security) and the xVM hypervisor (the x86 hypervisor based on Sun's version of the Xen community virtualization effort). Plus, OpenSolaris allow customers to mix and match virtualization solutions to achieve the best architecture for a given workload.
• Performance -- OpenSolaris now commands more than 25 world records for performance, including multiple world records for database and open source application stack workloads.

• SourceJuicer -- The infomercial-sounding feature offers developers an automated mechanism for publishing OpenSolaris packages.
• Project Speedway -- The soon to be released Project Speedway allows developers to use a "cloud-like" infrastructure to interact with Sun's high end systems (without paying for them) in order to ensure that applications work across the best platforms.
• TimeSlider -- The ZFS on the desktop feature is like Time Capsule on Macs only way more powerful. It now includes a number of new features that exploit the enormous power of ZFS to ensure that you never lose a file, a chunk of code or a presentation slide again.
• IPS -- The Image Packaging System just got easier to use-- making it faster than ever to find and download enhancements to the core operating system.