Fortune posted its listing of "Worlds Most Admired" companies and Sun moved up a notch to #5 from #6 in the Computers category. Sun made significant progress in every category compared to 2006 including jumps in quality of products/services, global competitiveness and social responsibility. Read more

Customers Choose Sun

Wikimedia and eBay are highlighted in Sun's new Customer Facts campaign, “The World’s Top Internet Sites Rely on Sun.” Wikipedia is one of the world’s five most visited Web sites and handles 25,000 to 60,000 page requests per second. The site is built on Sun’s MySQL database and includes a Sun Open Storage solution with Sun Fire servers running the Solaris 10 OS and the Solaris ZFS file system. eBay selected Sun servers, software, storage, and services for its search and database infrastructures. Each day, the site lists over 100 million items for auction. Read more Verizon Wireless deployed Sun’s OpenSSO Enterprise for cross-domain single sign-on. In an interview recorded at the Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit, Damodaram Bashyam, Director of IT at Verizon Wireless, explains how Sun has helped the company to improve its security and online customer experience. Read more

UTStarcom delivers innovative IP-based solutions to telecommunications service providers around the world. The company has deployed MySQL database and MySQL Cluster software, running on Windows and Linux operating systems, to provide e-commerce, online transaction processing, and data warehousing. "As one of the leading databases, MySQL Cluster provides high availability, reliable services, and proven ability to scale," comments Tommy L, senior product manager at UTStarcom. Read more Unum, one of the largest disability insurance providers in the United States and the United Kingdom, engaged Sun to help design and deploy an identity management solution that automatically provisions and terminates user access to applications running on mainframes and the IBM AIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. In this podcast, Sun’s Craig McDonald interviews Lynda Fleury, AVP and CISO at Unum, about how the solution has reduced provisioning time by 95%. Read more

Leading Market Conversations

Sun and HP announced a Solaris OEM Partnership Agreement, in which the Solaris OS will be distributed across HP’s entire range of ProLiant systems. With this announcement, the top five systems vendors now all ship Solaris with their systems. Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz describes the announcement as “exceptionally important” and believes it will bring “unparalleled choice and innovation” for HP customers and new market opportunities for suppliers that have focused on the Solaris platform. Read more

InfoWorld reports on Sun’s plans to enter the cloud computing market. Sun believes there will be many different types of clouds — such as private clouds, general-purpose clouds, and clouds for special functions, including high-performance computing and video streaming. Lew Tucker, Sun’s VP and CTO for Cloud Computing, comments, “There will be lots of clouds and we see Sun as being a major player in that area.” Read more

Telephony Online features a podcast with Param Singh, Sun’s senior director of Java Marketing about the RIA market. Singh discusses the recently unveiled JavaFX Mobile software and how Java technology can compete with the iPhone as a platform for mobile applications. The podcast also gives an insight into Sun’s vision of the future for mobile services. Read more In an article published by Mint — the Wall Street Journal’s partner publication in India — Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun Microsystems, comments, “India is one of the world’s fastest growing tech economies and one of the leading participants in the global shift towards free and open-source technologies.” McNealy adds, “Indian companies such as Life Insurance Corp. of India, Axis Bank, Canara Bank, and Tata Communications use open-source technologies as a core part of their business.” Read more

Product Reviews Underscore Innovation

InfoWorld’s Paul Venezia reviews the Sun Storage 7210 unified storage system, rating it a stellar 9.2 out of 10, and comments, “The Web-based GUI is fantastic, and performance is stellar. It's just about everything you could want in a storage server.” Venezia adds that the FishWorks GUI “may be the most complete filer interface I've ever seen.” Read more

InfoWorld’s Peter Wayner reviews JavaFX, awards it 8.7 out of 10 and rates the product as “Excellent”. Wayner comments, “Sun JavaFX is a new language that blends elements of HTML, CSS, and a scripting language into a file that's compiled into Java byte code.” He describes the product as a “simple way to leverage existing Java code, Java 2D, and Java Web Start technology.” Read more In Macworld, John Brandon’s review of OpenOffice.org 3 software states: “OpenOffice.org is a powerful productivity suite with one major additional feature: it’s free.” Brandon also comments, “[OpenOffice.org 3] is a major upgrade with plenty of new features, native OS support, and all the tools most people would need to get their work done.” He adds, “It’s speedy, feature-rich, and does what it says it will do very well.” Read more In ZDNet, Paul Murphy considers the differences between Sun’s latest storage offerings and those from traditional RAID vendors. “The 74xx series makes use of Sun’s DTrace technology to offer storage analytics software no one else can match,” notes Murphy. He also comments that the product is “faster, cheaper, and more reliable.” Read more [...read more...]

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