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19 Jan 2009
#21173
Cloud Computing Architecture Model Described
Know the Players

The cloud relationship model Wayne Horkan developed (replete with graphical representations) is the subject of his guest article on the Sun Startup Essentials site. There are three main players: Cloud Providers; Cloud Adopters/Developers; and Cloud End Users.
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19 Jan 2009
#21133
Sun's Unwired Motherboard Plans
By Andy Patrizio

"Sun Microsystems is researching ways to make massive supercomputers even faster, including wireless connections between CPU and memory," writes Patrizio with internetnews.com.

One of Sun's solutions includes the Proximity Communications project, which is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project, "the same Defense Department group that gave us the Internet."
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19 Jan 2009
#21162
Project Live* [live-star] - Simplifying Software Distribution and Configuration
Bringing the Consumer Electronics Firmware Model to the Datacenter

Inspired by the example of consumer electronic devices such as cell phones, wireless routers and plasma TVs, Sun's Project Live* [live-star] team, has been working on simplifying the distribution and configuration of software in the datacenter, attempting to bring to that process the simplicity of the built-in firmware that makes consumer electronic devices so easy to use. Live* technology distributes major software components as immutable disk images containing pre-installed, ready-to-run software that users can pick and click to create fully functional software appliances.
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19 Jan 2009
#21168
Safeway and Sun Identity Management Solutions
What Are the Business Benefits?

Safeway's Paul Rarey sat down with John Barco of Sun Identity Management Buzz TV recently to discuss the business benefits Safeway, a Fortune 100 retailer, has seen from implementing Sun Identity Management solutions. With annual sales of $42.3 billion in 2007 and over 200,000 employees in an extensive network of facilities, the needs for both efficient personnel management and for regulatory compliance were behind Safeway's implementation of Sun Identity Management, Rarey said.
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