In his most recent blog Jonathan Schwartz reviews developments in the storage segment of Sun's product family. He cites several developments, including the acquisition of MySQL, discussions on flash memory, archiving, the Lustre parallel file system, each of which is contributing to Sun's efforts at increasing its prominence as a provider of storage solutions.
In response to a question for an analyst who asked when will Sun see revenue from its Open Source strategy, JS said, "Last year. You're seeing it accelerate."
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Sun and Xilinx have made available a new microprocessor that is the industry's first 64-bit, open-source, multi-core, multi-threaded and built with industry leading 65nm Virtex-5 high performance FPGA. This platform will provide academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace and defense, and storage and networking.
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There are some new faces in the leadership roster of Sun's Network.com cloud computing initiative, as reported in Sun's "On the record." In July, David Douglas became Senior VP and head of Sun's cloud computing initiative. Douglas handed Ingrid Van Den Hoogen the marketing, adoption and business strategy responsibilities for Network.com to her other responsibilities and, most recently, appointed Lew Tucker as VP and CTO of Sun's Cloud Computing initiative.
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The UK's Betfair is the world's leading online betting exchange, logging more than 6,600 page views and processing 1,000 transactions per second. By adopting Sun technology, Betfair was able to accommodate growing from two billion page impressions a week to four billion page impressions a week in the same physical datacenter space, while also achieving a 60% reduction in power and storage-cooling costs and cutting the power required to run 60 databases from 16 kilowatts of power to 3 kilowatts.
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