In Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz's video blog series reviewing the company's three major strategic imperatives, he tackles the second one identified as Commercial Innovation in his third installment of four. The 11-minute video discusses the datacenter systems market; the convergence of the servers, storage, and networking industries; general purpose vs. proprietary technologies; Sun's Systems business report card; and the money-making aspect of the open source market.
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The furor at Sun's CommunityOne East Developer Conference was all centered around the company's unveiling of its Open Cloud Platform - a set of core technologies, APIs and protocols. During the two day event held in New York City, Sun previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, students, and startups. Sun's strategy is to bring openness and interoperability to the cloud computing market, the company said.
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As Sun has been saying for over a year now, its 16-core Rock server chip is expected to hit the marketplace in the second half of 2009 with delivery coming sometime this fall. John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Sun, said in an interview with IDG's Agam Shah, "The processor is in various stages of debug. We're getting close [to release]."
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Carrier grade Linux (CGL) has now been successfully ported to Sun's chip multi-threaded (CMT) UltraSPARC T2 processor. The Wind River Linux 3.0 and Workbench development suite is now available on Sun's open CMT processor platforms and on Sun Netra T5220 servers, Netra CP3260 ATCA Blade Servers and the UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit.
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