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Archived Sun Features Articles
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28 Apr 2008
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Sun Operates with Sharp Market Focus [19827]
Enterprise and Web Scale Computing Is the Name of the Game
"Enterprise and Web scale computing" -- that's the heart of Sun's business, at least according to Bill Vass, president and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal. Contrary to the assertions of some that Sun tries to be all things IT to its customers, Vass asserts that the company's focus is really quite sharp, enabling Sun to deliver solutions that provide "security, high availability, high performance, dynamic scaling, open architectures, at the best value."
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28 Apr 2008
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Sun Recognized by InfoWorld's Green 15 Awards [19851]
Datacenter Redesign, Consolidation Deemed Praiseworthy
Sun Microsystems is one of 15 organizations recognized by InfoWorld as practitioners of sustainable technologies that cut waste and reduce carbon footprint even as they achieve significant business goals. Leon Erlanger reported the for InfoWorld.
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28 Apr 2008
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency CTO Shares His Sun Ray Experience [19667]
Sees Exponential Potential for this Innovative System
Few people have the experience with information security that Bob Gourley, former CTO for the Defense Intelligence Agency, brings to the subject, which makes his blog on the Sun Ray 270 a topic of interest to a wide range of readers. Gourley sees adoption of the Sun Ray 270 as having an exponential potential with its range of features, which includes a high-level of security.
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07 Apr 2008
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Is Innovation Necessarily an In-house Phenomenon? [19719]
Not When It Pays to Buy It in the Marketplace
To buy or not to buy. That is the subject G. Pascal Zachary muses over in his New York Times piece "Thinking Outside the Company's Box," which concerns the virtues of innovation within the company walls versus innovation as something available in the marketplace.
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07 Apr 2008
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France's #1 Radio Station RTL Relies on GlassFish [19527]
Open Source App Server Has Proven to be "Rock Solid"
France's number one radio station RTL relies on the open source application server for Java EE 5, better known as GlassFish, for internal and external applications. Fabrice Aneche of RTL answered a brief questionnaire regarding the station's real-world deployment.
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31 Mar 2008
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Sun Secures US Army Records [19593]
Speeds Up Annual Personnel File Updates
It used to be the case that the soldiers in the U.S. Army, the Army National Guard and Army Reserve, all of whom are responsible for annually reviewing his or her Official Military Personnel File (OMPF), did so by relying on the mail to perform the updating and correcting of their personal information, an expensive and time consuming operation. Now, the Army has moved to an interactive Personnel Electronic Record Management System (iPERMS) that uses clustered Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) as web tier servers.
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31 Mar 2008
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Sun SPOTs Feel Their Way Through the World [19651]
Sun's Roger Meike Sees Them Turning Up Just About Everywhere
In its effort to stay ahead of the market, Sun inaugurated the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) project, a hardware and software platform designed to overcome the challenges that currently inhibit the development of the emerging network of things. Project Director Roger Meike sees the field as promising, saying, "These little devices may be something where you have hundreds of them in your car and thousands of them in your home and office and they're just surrounding you every day. Al Riske writes about the Suns SPOT project.
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31 Mar 2008
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SOA Is Ready to Knock Down Some Information Silos [19449]
The Technology Is at Hand; Only the Mind Set Needs to Change
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) writes Michael Hardy, Washington Technology associate editor, is entrenching itself as the model for future IT networks, and open standards are playing an important role in the move away from proprietary solutions. With the current and developing technology, there is no longer a reason to stash data in information silos rather than allowing it to flow down to personnel at the operational level.
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24 Mar 2008
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Sun Federal's Bill Vass Talks Status Quo, Trends and Future [19630]
President and COO Working to Reintroduce an Evolutionized Sun to the Marketplace
As one of the fastest growing business units at Sun, Sun Federal has about 800 employees and has a president and COO with 28 years of experience in the federal government and commercial industry. Bill Vass recently spoke to Lisa Singh with ExecutiveBiz and touched on some of the latest goings-on in this division.
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24 Mar 2008
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Sun and Blu-ray Technology [19644]
Chief Digital Media Officer Briefly Touches on Sun's Role
The Blu-ray vs. HD DVD format battle officially ended February 19 when Toshiba declared it would no longer make or market HD DVD players and recorders. Sun's Chief Digital Media Officer for the Client Software Group Bill Sheppard says the win was not only about vendor support, where the majority of the consumer electronics and movie industries were backing Blu-ray, but also technical capabilities.
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