Gartner published its updated vendor rating for Sun in late June 2008, rating the company as positive and boosting the company to "Strong Positive" in Open Source and Developers. "Vendor Rating, Sun Microsystems," Gartner, 6/27/2008. » Read more
At June's International Supercomputing Conference, Sun's announcements of new HPC offerings and its Top 5 finish on the Top 500 Supercomputing list led to worldwide media attention. eWeek highlighted Sun's ambition in the HPC arena, including plans to offer a scaled-down version of Sun Constellation System. » Read more
São Paulo University (UNESP) chose Sun to power the largest computing cluster in Latin America which will span across seven different sites in São Paulo State. The "UNESP Computer Capacity Integration (GridUNESP)" compute cluster will give university research groups access to the highest levels of processing capacity and data storage capacity. » Read more
Canada's High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory (HPCVL) in Canada selected Sun to power Victoria Falls, its new compute cluster based on Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5140 servers and the Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS). "HPCVL selected the Sun platform for its reliable, secure computing environment as well as its capability to scale dynamically, with little difficulty and with lower total cost of ownership. At full capacity, the Sun-powered Victoria Falls HPC cluster is designed to process nearly 10,000 threads simultaneously. » Read more
"We gain many benefits from Sun technology and our relationship with its staff," says Gerald T. O'Connell, EVP and CIO, Chicago Board Options Exchange. "The move to Java™ and the Solaris OS has been instrumental in not only ensuring strong performance in our IT environment, but also in the sustained growth of our business. In my view, the code is portable, but the relationship is not." » Read more
For Sabre Holdings, identity management and security provisioning tools from Sun and Netegrity have eased the burden on its mainframe processing systems and allowed the company to move to more open systems for supporting the 1 million peak transactions per hour it must process. » Read more
"MySQL™ Cluster 6.3 was designed and is certified for use in carrier grade telecom environments, such as Subscriber Data Management systems including HLRs and HSSs and service delivery platforms (SDPs). This new release enables service providers and other vendors to deploy larger database applications and ensure data availability across geographies in case of site-level failure." » Read more
Sun ranked as the #2 among computer hardware vendors on Ethisphere magazine's list of the "World's Most Ethical Companies." » Read more
