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 | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "sun"
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 | ContinuedVirus at JavaOne conference
Sun was found battling a new kind of virus at their JavaOne conference in San Francisco. The JavaOne conference took place May 6th to May 9th with 137 exhibitors. Started in 1996, JavaOne is one of the top tech events of the year at Moscone Center, San Francisco along with Apple’s Macworld Expo and Oracle’s [...]
May 11th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Wall street [...]
