"Sun is offering server virtualization capabilities across all its hardware platforms," writes Deni Connor, principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW in an article in CIO that reviews the evolution of virtualization concerns in the company. Sun's principal virtualization solution, she continues, is based on Solaris Containers, a virtualization or partitioning technology that has been part of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and available on x86-based and SPARC server platforms since January 2005.
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Sun has signed a collaborative agreement with the University of Tokyo for two projects involving the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology. One project will seek to develop a library based on skeletal parallel programming in Fortress, which is expected to significantly enhance the convenience of parallel programming. The second project has the aim of implementing an MVM environment, which is expected to make Ruby programs run more efficiently, on both Ruby and JRuby.
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The move at Cincinnati Bell to desktop virtualization using VMware Infrastructure 2 and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is the subject of an InformationWeek article by Charles Babcock, who writes that the company is in the first stages of a move to shift certain call center, help desk, sales and service desk employees from Windows 2000 PCs to Sun Ray thin clients.
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