Not so, Cisco says today. "Cisco has no investment in Kealia nor any business arrangement with the company," says spokesman John Noh.
Bechtolsheim says Kealia's servers sport improvements in "CPUs, I/O, memory, and packaging." He hinted that the company, as part of Sun, will focus on building these technologies around all Sun chips, including UltraSPARC and the Opteron chips from Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), with which Sun has a special agreement. New designs will run under Solaris, Linux, and even Windows, Bechtolsheim said. McNealy jokingly countered that Sun would certify its gear to run under Windows, but wouldn't otherwise support it.
Bechtolsheim will become senior VP and chief architect of Sun's Volume Systems Products group, which makes a range of small, workhorse servers designed for large data centers, Web hosting facilities, database applications, grid computing, and the like. Examples include the Sun Fire B200x Blade Server, the Sun Fire V20z Server, the Netra 240 Server, and the SX200 board.
Volume Systems is the same group that's working to absorb Sun's purchase in January of Nauticus, which makes a content switch with a range of security, load-balancing, and virtualization functions. In his own presentation just before McNealy's announceemnt, Neil Knox, executive VP of Volume Systems and Bechtolsheim's new boss, said his division is working to put networking functions from Nauticus directly into the high-performance servers it's designing.
"We're putting the network functionality within the volume server," Knox said.
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