Marc Hamilton's WeblogMarc Hamilton's WeblogSun Blade of the Month Club- January 22, 2008 Most of Sun's HPC customers know the SunBlade 6048 as the compute engine at the core of the Sun Constellation System, the world's first open, petascale compute system. But lots of our other customers are also catching on that the SunBlade 6048 is not just a great HPC compute server but a great general purpose blade platform. One customer recently purchased several SunBlade 6048s for a SunRay server. Well, actually, to serve about 1500 SunRays. I've already had several customers ask me..http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/will_the_real_blade_server Dell vs HP and SunBlade 6000- January 21, 2008 Apparently Dell figured they could sneak up on companies like Sun who are closed today in the US to celebrate Martin Luther King day and decided this was the day they should release their new blade platform. The Register's Ashlee Vance had a field day comparing Dell's new blade chassis to the nearly two year old HP c-class blade. I guess if you are two years behind the competition, you pick a quite day to introduce your new product. Maybe it is Dell's new found love for Solaris, but their web...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/dell_vs_hp_and_sunblade New Sales and Technical Positions Opening- January 17, 2008 As you saw yesterday, Sun continues to grow. This growth is creating a number of new opportunities for top notch sales people and technical architects within the Americas Systems Practice. I'm managing a pretty big team now and can't list all the openings I have, but here are a few of my higher priority ones: I have both HPC business development and architect positions opened. Previous HPC experience mandatory, with specific knowledge of one or more vertical markets including government and...http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/new_sales_and_technical_positions |