Oracle outlines Spac roadmap

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun Microsystem's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales, reports PC World.

John Fowler, the former Sun executive who runs Oracle's systems business, confirmed that Oracle will scale its Sparc servers from 32 cores and 4TB of memory today, to 128 cores and 64TB of memory by 2015.

Fowler also says Solaris 11, the next big update to Sun's Solaris OS, will ship next year and will include elements of Sun's Project Crossbow network virtualisation technology. Solaris 11 will scale to "tens of terabytes of memory and thousands of processor threads," he adds.

Seagate and Samsung have entered into a joint development and licensing agreement to develop controller technologies for solid state drives (SSDs), states Cnet.

According to Seagate, the two companies aim to develop new SSDs for the enterprise storage market, of which Seagate has been a strong player with traditional platter-based hard drives.

Steve Luczo, Seagate's chairman, president, and CEO says: "Today's agreement with Samsung will help us bring a compelling set of SSD innovations to the enterprise storage market, with benefits that range from enhanced performance, endurance, and reliability to cost and capacity improvements."

Australian premier Anna Bligh has revealed the roll-out of a $44 million high-density data storage centre at the Brisbane Airport, with officials boasting of a new era in sustainable and secure data storage, says Brisbane Times.

The iSeek data centre's communications managing director Jason Gomersall says several high-profile companies had already signed up to use the facility, which was capable of transferring the entire contents of the world's biggest library four times an hour.

The centre has seven times the capacity of the data centre iSeek created in 2004, but he says what made the latest version unique was its 30% cut in energy use compared to similar data centres.