Jonathan Schwartz shared the stage with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at an Environmental Defense Fund event to launch its first "Innovations Review" report. USA Today reports that Sun aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2012 through a range of practices, including using cooler, energy-saving technology and allowing thousands of its employees to work at home. » Read more
DigiTar increased the performance and operational efficiency of its MySQL™ messaging services by consolidating 8 HP servers to 2 Sun T2000 CoolThreads™ servers. The company estimates a 4.5x performance improvement per server, a doubling of its database processing capacity, and a 75% reduction in operating costs for its MySQL applications. » Read more
Glasses Direct migrated its IT architecture from the LAMP community-software stack to the SAMP open-software stack running on Sun servers using the Solaris™ OS, accelerating performance by more than 300% and increasing system availability from 98% to 99.99%. » Read more
"The number of job seekers accessing our site has increased more than we expected, and their usage styles have been varied," says Mr. Takayoshi Hashizume, development group manager for Media Development, en-japan. "On our previous system, the site might have been overloaded, but our new system, based on [the] Solaris 10 OS has significantly contributed to our business." » Read more
Sun was ranked one of 2008's Top 60 Best Places to Work in Greater Boston. "Best Places to Work," Boston Business Journal, 5/2008. » Read more
"The Sun Fire™ X4150, with four Intel® cores, fast drives, and oodles of I/O, brings surprising heft and sizzling performance to a 1U frame... The most suitable roles for the Sun Fire X4150 will be in database, Web serving, and virtualization tasks. In these spaces, [it] provides significant bang for the buck in nearly all respects." » Read more
