innotek's open source VirtualBox product is on its way to becoming apart of Sun's product line as the company announced a stock purchase agreement to buy the Germany-based software company. VirtualBox is a developer desktop virtualization platform enabling desktop or laptop PCs to run multiple and different operating systems side-by-side such as Windows, Linux, Mac, or the Solaris Operating System.
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The industry's first carrier-grade, 64-thread rackmount server has been introduced by Sun as the Sun Netra T5220 server. Based on UltraSPARC T2 processors, the Sun Netra T5220 server offers 64 virtual systems in a 2U, 20-inch-deep form factor and is the industry's only Network Equipment Building Standard (NEBS) Level 3 Certified Rack Server.
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The prolific BM Seer has written a blog about Web Processing Performance on Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) S20. His findings are that the Sun MD S20, configured with Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers, demonstrated performance per watt and performance by space superior to Dell servers using Xeon quad-core processors. The benchmarking exercise Seer reports on demonstrated that a Sun MD S20 fully configured with the 102 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, each with a single UltraSPARC T2, and requiring only 160 square feet of space, can deliver nearly 455,000 web processing operations per second.
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Sun has been developing a high-end SPARC processor with the codename Rock. One of Sun’s top engineers Marc Tremblay, delivered a paper at the ISSCC 2008 conference where he confirmed that Rock-based systems would ship in the "second half of 2009."
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Some of the latest partner activity at Sun over the last few weeks includes Network.com Adds Applications, New Partner Program, More International Availability; VirtualBox Basics; The Ins and Outs of Desktop Virtualization, Sun Vietnam to Open Offices This Year, Solaris 10 on SPARC Now Supported by Layer 7 Technologies, Innovating@Sun Podcast: Building with Fortress, World Class Storage from Sun Microsystems, Sun's Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g, Federal Trade Commission Oks Sun's Acquisition of MySQL, Understanding Variations in Solaris OS Versions, and SugarCRM Stack Installers for Solaris, OpenSolaris.
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