The top 5 social networking Web sites rely on Sun.
Social networking Web sites are experiencing massive growth, and the world’s fastest growing sites — such as, LinkedIn, eHarmony, Fotolog, Last.fm, OurStage, and 6.cn — all rely on Sun technology. LinkedIn — the most successful business networking site — helps connect nearly 34 million people, and its site has used Sun technology and Sun infrastructure right from the beginning. In addition to Sun CoolThreads™ technology-based servers, LinkedIn also uses SunSM Professional Services to help ensure near-instant response times for its users.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. — a leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies
— has signed an engineering agreement with Sun to embed the Sun Java™ Wireless Client into Samsung’s Java technology-based wireless devices for North America’s code division multiple access (CDMA) market.
When Movistar — Argentina’s leading mobile telephone services provider
— needed to streamline its IT operations and reduce costs in its datacenter, the company chose a solution based on Sun servers, Sun storage and the Solaris™ 10 Operating System. The new solution is expected to cut operating costs, reduce Movistar’s datacenter footprint, and lower energy consumption.
Government Computer News reports that the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
has begun to install high-capacity digital storage libraries. Based on the Sun StorageTek™ SL8500 modular library system and Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drives. The new storage solution will increase the center’s storage capacity — from six petabytes to 30 petabytes — and speed without increasing energy consumption.
Enterprise Storage Forum reports on Sun’s involvement in Open Storage.
The article quotes Jason Schaffer, senior director for storage products at Sun, as saying, “Sun’s Open Storage approach means we can offer products
like the Unified Storage 7410 system, which delivers enterprise class storage at up to 80 percent less than traditional storage solutions.”
Sun Microsystems won first place in 9 out of 12 categories for Developer.com's 2009 Products of the Year
and won two more top finalist positions. "In the case of Java Tools the winner [NetBeans TM] had almost three times the votes of the others finalists in the category combined."
A post on GigaOM considers the importance of Sun’s acquisition of Q-Layer,
an infrastructure management company with technology that automates the deployment and management of public and private clouds. The article states, “With Q-layer, Sun will be able to virtualize, manage, and deploy hardware inside corporate firewalls — and hence offer private clouds.”
A blogger on The Barking Seal blog suggests 10 New Year resolutions
that IT organizations should make for 2009. In one resolution, “Consider additional use of open source,” the blogger notes that “a vast majority of well-written applications can utilize any reasonable RDBMS” and goes on to comment on the satisfaction gained from “helping companies migrate from Oracle to MySQL for pennies on the dollar.”
PC Pro’s review of the Sun Storage 7110 unified storage system
describes the new product as “something special.” The review looks in detail at Sun’s new entry-level Open Storage offering and concludes: “The 7110 delivers a complete network storage solution with no hidden catches. Both NAS and IP SAN are supported, performance is very good, and Sun won’t be beaten on value.”
In its review of Sun xVM VirtualBox™ 2.1 software, eWEEK writes,
“Sun Microsystems’ xVM VirtualBox desktop virtualization software is an increasingly powerful, no-cost alternative to VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop products and should be added to the consideration shortlist of software developers and IT managers.”
In its review of open source successes of 2008, Ars Technica names Sun’s release of the OpenSolaris™ OS
as one of the most significant open source events of the year. According to Ars Technica, “The project shows a lot of promise.” They go on to comment that the second release of OpenSolaris software “included some impressive functionality, such as a new ZFS snapshot visualization feature.”
Sun won two prizes in InfoWorld’s 2009 Technology of the Year Awards.
The Sun Fire™ X4150 server won the award for Best 1U Server and the Sun StorageTek 5800 system, which InfoWorld described as “highly resilient,” won the award for Best Fixed Content Archiving Solution.
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