Sun has created a new Emerging Markets region to drive accelerated expansion and sales coverage across growing markets in South and Eastern Europe, Latin America, India and Greater China. To accommodate the new sales region, Sun is reorganizing its leadership chain and sales organization with some appointments effective immediately, while others will start with fiscal year 2009, which begins in July.
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Sun is adding an end-to-end Flash-based disk product line to its portfolio and expects to deliver products to the market during the second half of 2008. The Flash solid state disks (SSD) will be integrated in storage systems and servers, giving customers three times better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of traditional spinning disk offerings, Sun says.
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Sun released the next update of the Sun xVM Ops Center at the end of May. Version 1.1 adds disconnected management, support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, enhanced update and job management functionality, ILOM2 compliance, quality improvements and bug fixes. In conjunction with this release, a new information site has been created. The Sun xVM Information Exchange provides links to the information sites for Sun xVM products.
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You can now add "movie producer" to the list of Sun credits as the company is helping produce the new 3D animated film "Big Buck Bunny" by providing Network.com's Sun Grid compute utility service that offers compute infrastructure on a pay-per-use basis at $1/CPU-hr. Network.com is one of the web hosting locations for the online comedy created using open source 3D software suite Blender and developed by a community of animators under an open license.
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The "Good News" from Sun for June 2008 includes Sun's storage systems being recognized in several categories for this year's Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards; three new Sun Fire servers featuring AMD's quad-core Opteron processor were introduced; Sun partnered with VMware to bring its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to the Sun Ray system; and much more.
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