http://sun.systemnews.com Retail http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/95/3/Retail/15766 The Sun JavaTM Integration Suite will help support and enhance the world famous London department store Harrods in its growing multi-channel retail operations. Announced during the National Retail Federation Conference held January 15-18 in New York City, Harrods selected the Sun suite to help preserve existing IT investments while enhancing business agility and improving customer experience. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/95/3/Retail/15767 Strengthening their more than 10-year business relationship, B&H Photo has chosen Sun to power its rapidly growing Internet business. The high-end professional photo, video and audio company expects the Sun StorEdgeTM 9985 systems to be a cornerstone to their data-centric enterprise compute environment and "always on" Internet presence. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/95/3/Retail/15772 Sun has committed its Sun FireTM X2100 servers to power a new distance learning web site for National Retail Federation (NRF) Foundation members as well as non-members. The new NRF Universitywired/e-learning solution has been created by the NRF Foundation, the research and education arm of the National Retail Federation (NRF), and Sun. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/95/3/Retail/15765 Sun introduced two new solutions designed specifically for retailers during the National Retail Federation Conference held January 15-18, in New York City -- the Sun Retail Store Processor, designed to rapidly rollout new capabilities to many stores across a retail chain, and the Sun Retail Integration Architecture software, an implementation for the development and deployment of retail applications. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/2/Retail/13094 The SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) is attracting retailers who are looking to upgrade their infrastructures to a more cost-effective, highly reliable and scalable operating system, according to Sun Industry Director Bob DeLaney. Benjamin Moore Paints, Ultimate Electronics and Sportsman's Warehouse have recently converted to Solaris OS. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/2/Retail/13145 The benefits of RFID technology for retailers range from quick and accurate inventory counts to a significant decrease in shrinkage to immediate product location and movement. With retailers and suppliers searching for reliable RFID technology, Sun responded by releasing the Sun JavaTM RFID software this month and opening an RFID testing center this spring. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/76/2/Retail/13224 RFID is retail-ready, it's just a matter of determining what specific RFID technology is suited for a particular deployment and how to incorporate RFID within a corporation's infrastructure, explained Jim Clarke, chief RFID architect at Sun. Clarke states that revenue gains from the deployment of RFID are inevitable. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/74/1/Retail/12389 The introductory course Discovering RFID provides an overview of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) to executives in the retail and manufacturing industries. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/74/1/Retail/12663 The Fresh Market Manager solution from Park City Group contains enhancements that are aimed at helping supermarkets be competitive against Wal-Mart. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/74/1/Retail/12688 Sun aims to capitalize on an estimated market of $1 trillion by 2012 in deployment of RFID tags with a new RFID Network project that will include the RFID tags, middleware and applications and with its new RFID testing center in Dallas, Texas, to address complexities.