All Posts Tagged With: "Sun Microsystems"

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Sun enters virtualization market with xVM portfolio

Sun Microsystems today released it’s xVM portfolio offering just in time for VMworld 2008 to be held in Las Vegas from September 15th - 18th.
The xVM portfolio includes xVM Ops center, xVM server, xVM Virtual Box and xVM VDI, a comprehensive software offering for server, desktop virtualization and remote management of virtualized infrastructure.

xVM Ops Center [...]

September 10th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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HP POD - HP’s answer to Sun’s Blackbox

HP has announced a container-based data center offering similar to Sun’s Project Blackbox/Modular Data Center S20. Called the POD - Performance Optimized Data Center, the mobile data center enables customers to expand their data center capacity in support of their IT and business growth without the need to create a separate physical facilities to accommodate [...]

July 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Sun announces Solid State Disks on their servers, support in Solaris and ZFS

Sun Microsystems today announced it is preparing to introduce new Sun solid state disks (SSD) to the market that will give customers greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris Operating System (OS), Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies. Sun is already shipping Solaris ZFS software optimized for SSD [...]

June 4th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Sun confirms mysql is fully open source

Kaj, VP community for MySQL AB today reaffirmed in his blog that mysql is and always will be fully open source including backup functionality, MyISAM driver, encryption, compression backup features and all the storage engines.
Sun’s acquisition of mysql has forced the company to integrate itself with Sun’s latest mantra of open source software. Sun recently [...]

May 6th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Sun announces availability of OpenSolaris OS 2008.05

Sun and the global OpenSolaris community today jointly announced the immediate availability of the OpenSolaris Operating Systems at the Sun CommunityOne developer conference.
Code named project Indiana, Sun has been working to build a LiveCD installation and the new network-based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS) to simplify and speed installation and integration with third-party applications. Debian [...]

May 5th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
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Sun shares tank on Q3 loss, flat Q4 guidance

Sun Microsystems reported earnings loss of $34 million or 4 cents a share. The 3rd quarter loss includes the cost of purchasing MySQL AB, a leading data base software company, giving sun a strong foothold in the web-based companies. Schwartz, Sun CEO, added that slower-than-expected sales to government agencies also dragged down the results.
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May 2nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued