Numbers for the IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker show Sun's revenue growth during the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07) for total disk storage systems rose 16.1 percent when compared to the same quarter in 2006. This is the largest increase in revenue growth within the top five vendors in this category. Sun and Hitachi statistically tied for the number five ranking.
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Sun announced a Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategy that will not only include the recently released Sun Role Manager, but an expanded portfolio of new technologies and features across the entire identity management suite over the next 12 months. The comprehensive portfolio is expected to address access management, federation, web services security and auditing.
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Sun believes Python technology is a worthy investment, the company stated this week, and demonstrated this by applying for membership in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and hiring Ted Leung, long-time Python developer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), and Frank Wierzbicki, lead implementor of the Jython project (Python on the Java VM).
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Sun and the University of Tokyo are collaborating on two new projects that focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and web-based programming languages. These two projects are an outgrowth of the agreement signed in June 2005 to foster a university-corporate collaboration model and are the first international ventures stemming from the Proprius21 scheme championed by the University of Tokyo for producing results from research collaborations with the private sector.
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The "Good News" from Sun for March 2008 includes Sun's intent to acquire virtualization software provider innotek and its VirtualBox, the extension of the company's Open Archive portfolio with several new solutions and the donation of Sun StorageTek 5800 System's source code. Plus, read business results from Sun customers and how recent product updates provide a competitive advantage.
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