Customers Choose Sun: Solaris, MySQL, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, Open Storage, SPARC
Sun's Solaris 10 OS has the largest installed base
of any other commercial UNIX or Linux distribution, has more
applications available than any other operating system, is supported on
more than 1,000 SPARC and x64/x86 systems, and has been downloaded
more than 11.5 million times. Read More
Sun Microsystems [announced] that customer adoption
rates for various technologies with OpenSolaris communities are rising significantly, with hundreds of new Sun enterprise, Web 2.0 and other
customers joining the 150,000+ strong community...OpenSolaris [is accepted by] all major verticals ranging from telco, financial services
,and healthcare to high-performance computing and the Web tier. Read More
eBay relies on the Solaris 10 OS and a spectrum of Sun servers, storage, and software solutions to power its massively
scaled resource tiers, including both commercial and custom database. Read More
Sun Microsystems announced a deal with ERP software company Stesud to deploy the MySQL Enterprise subscription and
GlassFish application server. "This deal also means that Microsoft does not have the small/medium enterprise [SME] market locked up the
way it should have, at least outside the U.S." Read More
"The FAA has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure
supplied by Sun Microsystems...This new deployment is opening the eyes of key people at the FAA's IT hierarchy and has so impressed them with
its performance and scalability." Read More
IT.com and Sun Microsystems have partnered to
radically redefine and accelerate email search and discovery. Read More
Nacun.com, a Chinese social networking genealogy Web site that helps record family history, migrated its architecture to the
Solaris 10 OS and Sun Fire X2100 M2 servers. As a result, the company increased server efficiency by 15%, accelerated throughput 10 times,
cut costs, and overcame issues with system availability and development. Read More
Leading Market Conversations: Open Source, Emerging Markets, Virtualization, Open Storage
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president of Sun Microsystems, wrote an op-ed on the growth of open-source usage that
appeared in the Financial Times. "Gartner . . . projects that by 2012, 90% of the world's companies will be using open-source software. If you
look to the developing world today, [Sun's] view is that the use of such software is already ubiquitous." Read More
Peter Ryan, EVP of Sun's Global Sales and Services, discusses Sun's emerging markets strategy in a video interview with
MarketWatch. Ryan notes that Sun has strong growth in regions such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China because Sun's core business is
attractive to those economies. Read More
"Sun is definitely a company to watch here. It has an end-to-end solution offering something that not even VMware, Microsoft,
and Citrix can: physical servers. If you're a shop tethered to Sun servers, you now have no need to try out ESX, Hyper-V, XenServer,
Virtual Iron, Red Hat, and so on." Read More
The Wall Street Journal reported that Sun is "stepping up" its virtualization game with the unveiling of a new
virtualization product. Sun xVM Server software "will be available in a free version that is open-sourced — allowing customers to view and
modify the program's code — as well as a paid version that comes with technical support and training." Read More
"Amid a frenzy of new products and announcements around virtualization from other industry players, Sun Microsystems
pressed forward on its own plans to carve out a place in the market, unveiling its xVM Server hypervisor and striking new deals to broaden
its existing partnerships." Read More
eWeek highlights Sun's Open Storage momentum. "Sun moves ahead of such international competitors as Hitachi Data Systems
and Fujitsu and into fifth place on the world chart with $494 million
in sales, or 7% of the market." Read More
"Sun showed everyone a clean pair of heels as it grew its external disk storage market share faster than any other vendor in
the second quarter of the year according to Gartner. IDC's quarterly
disk market tracker also shows Sun way out in front." Read More
"Sun plans to release new storage hardware and software that takes aim at a part of the storage market dominated by
NetApp and EMC. Playing off the same trends that shook its server business — less expensive hardware and software — Sun is looking to
undercut the competition and sink their margins." Read More
The Solaris 10 OS has set more than 200 world records in price and price performance (149 on the UltraSPARC platform and 58
on x64/x86 platforms). Read More
In this look at OpenSolaris software, reviewer Tory Skyers examined the storage features of Sun's offering to determine its
value to the storage community; specifically, the small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) market. Tory notes, "As far as the storage-related
aspect of this operating system goes, it's a home run. It offers iSNS, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS (Sun did help develop NFS you know!) and, most of all,
ZFS." Read More
"[Sun xVM] VirtualBox is now everywhere, but it's particularly strong in the Linux community where it provides a
relatively full-featured alternative to the free VMware Server or commercial VMware Workstation offerings. And with features like real
snapshot support, broad host and guest OS compatibility, and the aforementioned support for 64-bit guests, it's easy to see
why...VirtualBox is quickly cementing its position as the lowest common denominator for the budget-minded VM enthusiast." Read More
ZDNet reviewed the Sun Fire X4450 server and reported, "For raw power [Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire X4450] is the
gutsiest server we've seen." It noted that although the server is priced higher, it is in the same price range as equivalent products
from competitors. "Sun compares this machine against an IBM x3850 and a Dell R900 in its features description. These are both 4 RU machines
(the Sun Fire is just 2 RU in size), yet Sun manages to pack just as
much inside the case." Read More
In a Computerworld blog, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reviewed OpenOffice.org 3 software and reported, "This is more than a
little cool. Those of us who don't like paying the Microsoft Office suite tax have been waiting for the next version of OpenOffice for some
time now and it's almost ready to go...When taken as a whole, I see OpenOffice 3 as being perhaps the most significant open-source
application release of 2008." Read More
The 2009 Guinness Book edition will list Sun Microsystems' Menlo Park, California, data warehouse in the category
for the world's largest data warehouse. The warehouse is powered by the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server and can manage an astounding one
petabyte of raw data. Read More
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