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What happens inside the National Archives

BBC News, January 10, 2010
In this video, the UK National Archive's Chief executive Natalie Ceeney gave the BBC's Sanchia Berg a rare tour behind the scenes of the National Archives. Sun technology helps support the National Archive's digital archiving. Read more

TechniScan Chooses Sun's Java CAPS to Develop Integrated Healthcare Services

Close-up Media, January 9, 2010
Sun will design an Sun SOA solution based on Sun's Java CAPs technology and provide implementation services for TechniScan, Inc., a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of an automated breast ultrasound imaging system. Read more

India to Create New Chip: Guess Which OS it's Using?

Computerworld UK, July 20, 2009
The Indian government will reportedly bring together top engineers to design what is tentatively being called the "India microprocessor," which will likely be based on Sun's OpenSparc processor design technology. Read more

Sun in the Ice Age

IDG News Services, July 10, 2009
Blue Sky Studios deployed Sun Blade servers and Sun Ultra workstations for the rendering of its animated feature Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Read more

Sun Constellation Renders Ice Age

InsideHPC, July 7, 2009
Blue Sky Studios utilized 480 Sun Blade X6250’s populated with dual Intel Xeon quad-core processors and 120 Sun Ultra 24 workstations to render the movie Ice Age. Read more

Meeting Research Needs in a Changing HPC Landscape

Scientific Computing, July 2009
Sun customer HPCVL's Ken Edgecomb outlines research needs in a changing HPC landscape. Read more

Sun Blade System at Tokyo's Human Genome Center Debuts on Top500 Supercomputer List

BioInform: June 26, 2009
The University of Tokyo's Human Genome Center's 5,760-core Sun Microsystems blade system debuted on the latest Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. Read more

Germans fire up 200 teraflop Juropa2 super

The Register: June 9, 2009
Sun InfiniBand switches and Xeon blade servers are included in the Juropa2 supercomputer installed at the government-sponsored Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) in Germany. Read more

ICAR hopes to lead way on fuel efficiency challenge

The Greenville News: May 27, 2009
Sun partners with AT&T, BMW, and Michelin to fund the Clemson University research center specializing in automotive engineering. Read more

Sun Renews Commitment To Tape Storage

Byte & Switch: May 19, 2009
Corner Banca VP discusses benefits of Sun's Virtual Storage Manager from reducing workload to handling data growth. Read more

Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun

ZDNet: May 5, 2009
Media Temple discusses how the expandability and analytics capabilities offered by the Sun Storage 7410 has allowed them to make major changes to the architecture of their storage systems. Read more

MySQL: Alive and Kicking

Linux Magazine: April 22, 2009
Linux Magazine discusses the improvements and benefits of MySQL 5.4. Read more

Sun Rolls Out New Nehalem-Based Servers for HPC Market

Softpedia: April 14, 2009
Sun announces its latest blade servers, rack servers, and workstations specifically designed to leverage the next-generation Intel Xeon processor (Nehalem). Read more

Sun Microsystems' VirtualBox lures VMware users with OVF support

SearchServerVirtualization.com: April 8, 2009
Article discusses Sun's xVM VirtualBox as a cheaper and viable alternative to VMware's Workstation. Read more

All the Web is stored on one Sun data center

San Francisco Chronicle: March 25, 2009
The Internet Archive discusses its plans to migrate its digital library to a single Sun data center. Read more

Internet Archive, Sun create 'living history' of Web

San Jose Business Journal: March 25, 2009
Sun announces it's joining with digital library Internet Archive to create a "living history" of the Internet. Read more

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine gets a new data center

Computer World: March 25, 2009
The Internet Archive announced that the Sun Modular Datacenter will support its library of 151 billion archived Web pages. Read more

Sun Releases Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3

Campus Technology: March 25, 2009
Technology director at Northern Arizona University discusses how switching to Sun Ray thin clients has cut electrical costs by 95%. Read more

BOM, Sun to build $30M supercomputer

IDG News Service: March 19, 2009
Sun announced a $30 million deal with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology to build one of the largest high-performance computing environments in the southern hemisphere. Read more

Canadian HPC Lab Maintains Warm Relationship with Sun

HPCwire: February 18, 2009
High Performance Computing Virtual Library (HPCVL) discusses its use of Sun storage and Sun's commitment to its research. Read more

IT Companies take Rural Route to Tackle Slowdown

ChannelTimes.com: February 9, 2009
Sun Infrastructure helps Punjab National Bank achieve impressive core banking implementation. Read more

PNB migrates to 100% core banking system

TelecomTiger: February 6, 2009
Sun enterprise servers assist Punjab National Bank in deploying India's first ever 100% core banking system. Read more

Saving Big Money With Open Source Storage

Enterprisestorageforum.com: February 5, 2009
Digitar CEO discusses benefits of using Sun technology. Read more

The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server from Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu

SeachDataCenter.com: January 20, 2009
The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server from Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu receives Bronze award for 2008 server product of the year. Read more

Aussies buy two Sun Blackboxes

ZDNet Australia: January 19, 2009
Article highlighting significant Sun Modular Datacentre (BlackBox) international customers. Read more

Wikipedia Celebrates 8th Birthday With New Tech for the Future

The New York Times: January 15, 2009
Wikimedia Foundation CTO discusses increasing storage for media using Sun servers. Read more

Wikipedia gears up for explosion in digital media

NetWorkWorld: January 13, 2009
Wikipedia discusses its use of Sun servers and storage as well as MySQL as its primary database software. Read more

Room with a 3D view

The Engineer: January 13, 2009
Sun Microsystems processors recalculate images in real time for HoloVis International visualisation system. Read more

Last.fm Talks With DailyTech About Operations, Future

DailyTech: December 24, 2008
Last.fm discusses their switch to more power- efficient blade architecture from Sun Microsystems. Read more

Saudi Utility giant SWCC chose Sun to upgrade their IT infrastructure

Zawya: December 3, 2008
Sun Microsystems will provide SWCC with the latest in datacenter technology to power it's main datacenter that will run Oracle ERP, Supply Chain and Asset Management applications in 30 plants spread across 17 locations in the Kingdom. Read more

Sun unveils new storage appliances

Reseller News: December 8, 2008
i365, Digitar and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, Idaho are among group of early access customers that have benefited from using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Family. Read more

Shoah Foundation tames 8 PB with tape and automation

Search Storage: December 11, 2008
The Shoah Foundation received a $2 million donation of SL8500 tape libraries, Sun STK 6540 arrays and servers from Sun Microsystems. Read more

You, too, can be an accidental environmentalist

ZD Net: December 14, 2008
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, discusses how it has saved itself about $80,000 per year in power costs by adopting Sun x64 systems to replace a 200-system cluster. Read more

Caja Madrid overhauls financial messaging with Sun Microsystems

Finextra: December 17, 2008
Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid is overhauling its financial messaging strategy with Sun Microsystems' suite for Swift. Read more

Sun Microsystems and Grupo Acotel Help Caja Madrid Launch New Financial Messaging Strategy

Yahoo! Finance: December 17, 2008
Sun Microsystems and Grupo Acotel announced that leading Spanish savings bank Caja Madrid is using the Sun Open Suite for SWIFT solution platform for its financial messaging strategy for the next three years. Read more

"Despereaux" posed steep challenge for clustered storage system

Search Storage: December 19, 2008
The post-production studio that handled animation for the movie The Tale of Despereaux uses Lustre clustered file system from Sun Microsystems and EonStor storage system from Infortrend Technology Inc. to store and manage data. Read more

DigiTar Uses Hybrid SSD-Hard Drive Storage to Boost Performance

Byte and Switch: November 21, 2008
Digitar CTO discusses how Sun storage servers helped to create a cost-effective storage system to expand its business. Read more

Wikipedia gears up for flood of video and photo files

cnet news: November 19, 2008
Article discussing Wikimedia's puchase of Sun servers to support more media files. Read more

NCAR installs major storage upgrade

Government Computer News: November 12, 2008
National Center for Atmospheric Research begins fivefold expansion of scientific data storage with new Sun library system. Read more

Colorado Business

Denver Post: November 12, 2008
The National Center for Atmospheric Research and Sun announced the arrival of Amstar, a new digital storage library that will store scientific data for the next 15 to 20 years. Read more

Data centres cluster to trim costs

Australian IT: October 28, 2008
Digital Sense has completed the first phase of construction of the Data Center City, with a $300,000 purchase of Sun gear consisting of 20 AMD servers, a tape library and back-up storage systems. Read more

Gartner Videocast: Zappos Saves $1M a year with MySQL Enterprise

MySQL.com: October 24, 2008
Advisors from Gartner and Sun Microsystems discuss how Zappos.com saves over $1 million a year annually and stays on top of their explosive growth by subscribing to Sun's MySQL Enterprise Database subscription. Read more

MECIT selects Sun Ray for zero management Windows based environment

Al Bawaba: October 19, 2008
Sun Microsystems has equipped the Oman based Middle East College of Information Technology (MECIT) with a complete Windows based desktop computing environment through its Sun Ray ultra-thin client based solution. Read more

Bull lands 200 teraflop German super deal

Channel Register: October 6, 2008
French server maker and reseller Bull has just become prime contractor for a 200-teraflops cluster called Juropa, which will be a mix of Bull NovaScale rack-mounted servers, and Sun X64 blade servers. Read more

Meralco bulks up IT infrastructure

Manila Bulletin Online: October 3, 2008
Utility firm Meralco purchases high end hardware from Sun Microsystems to build up its image as an efficient and customer-friendly company. Read more

NBC's Web Olympics Coverage a Record Breaker

Internetnews.com: September 5, 2008
NBC's online video coverage of the 2008 Olympics, powered by Sun Microsystems Sunfire Servers, broke several records for online viewing with more than 6 million people accessing NBCOlympics.com. Read more

Can A Better Database Boost MySpace Revenues?

Data Center Knowledge: September 24, 2008
Fox Interactive Media is using industrial-strength database technology from Sun Microsystems and Greenplum to better target ads on user-generated content for its network of social media sites, which includes MySpace, Photobucket, and Rotten Tomatoes. Read more

How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century

eWeek: August 24, 2008
The Federal Aviation Administration has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Sun Microsystems. Read more

Sun Adds Intel-Based HPC Server to Portfolio

HPCWire.com: August 20, 2008
This week Sun announced two more Xeon processor-based servers, the Sun Fire X2250 and Sun Fire X4250; the X2250 is Sun's first Intel-equipped server built exclusively for HPC customers. A few Sun customers are currently testing the X2250 for their own research applications including, Oregon State University and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Read more

Sun Says Open Source Storage Is Catching On

EnterpriseStorageForum: August 20, 2008
Sun's open source storage initiative is catching on, with registered members growing and more than 40 projects under way. Sun customer, Ourstage provided some comments on how their use of Sun's OpenSolaris and ZFS solved their performance problems. Read more

The Digital Olympics: Beyond the TV

BusinessWeek: August 8, 2008
NBC discusses its use of Sun's 160 x64 quad-core Intel Xeon-based servers supporting the NBCOlympics.com site. Read more

MySQL gaining in online ad analytics?

Computerworld: August 13, 2008
Following the release of a Sun customer press release on Gorilla Nation, Computerworld wrote a blog discussing how Sun's Open-source database, MySQL is winning customers in the online advertising space with firms including Google Inc., Gorilla Nation, Media LLC, ValueClick, Yahoo's BlueLithium and Right Media. Read more

Sun gambles on Facebook games

The Inquirer: August 7, 2008
Sun announced the release of Mypics Beijing 2008 for Facebook, MyPicks was developed using Sun's new browser-based social application development environment. Read more

Recent customer wins for open source

CNET: July 28, 2008
Sun customer LinkedIn is mentioned in an article from CNET regarding its selection of Sun's MySQL database to power the back-end of its 25-million people strong social network. Read more

Sun Bangs 'Thumper' Drum

Byte and Switch: July 9, 2008
Byte and Switch features comments from Sun customer Oregon State Univerity on its use of the Sun J4000 in its College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. Read more

Sun, Intel to provide server technology for NBC Olympics

CNET: July 21, 2008
Sun will provide the technology platform for NBC's Beijing Olympic coverage and will enable live online streaming to NBCOlympics.com during the event. Read more

Sun Microsystems expands Open Storage portfolio with new products

eChannelLIne: July 10, 2008
Sun customers IT.com and Oregon State University discuss their experiences using the Sun Storage J4000 series. Read more

Sun, Stanford Working To Archive History

Campus Technology: July 2, 2008
Sun and Standford University are spearheading a digital preservation effort - the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) - to address the ongoing challenges of preserving and storing human knowledge. Read more

Sun transforms Saudi Airlines' IT infrastructure

AME info: July 2, 2008
Saudi Airlines - the national carrier for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has turned to Sun Microsystems for a complete systems upgrade to meet its growth requirements. Read more

Sun has deepened PostgreSQL/Solaris integration, says university

SearchDataCenter : June 20, 2008
Following on from an interview, SearchDataCenter reported on the University of Waterloo's use of PostreSQL and Sun's increased integration with the database. Read more

Sun's Hosts Customer "Coffee Chat"

Quarterly Analyst Coffee Talk: June 18, 2008
NetINS met with analysts from top firms to discuss the business benefits of integrating Sun Fire T2000 servers, xVM Ops Center and Solaris 10 Containers. Read more

Sun's Quest to Help Telcos

CNET: June 18, 2008
Sun customer Verizon is mentioned in an article from CNET, resulting from the Scott McNealy keynote at NXTcomm Read more

$14 Billion in Deals Precede Trade Talks

The New York Times: June 17, 2008
The NY Times covered the news of $14 billion in new business deals between the U.S. and China, in which companies including Sun Microsystems will benefit from. Read more

Server Snapshots: Sun in the Real World

ServerWatch: May 29, 2008
StockCharts.com discussed its move to Sun's Blade Modular System, citing its power and need for fewer computers as reasons for its change. Read more

Why Not Data Warehouse Appliances?

Intelligent Enterprise: May 28, 2008
Reliance Communications discusses the implementation of its Greenplum appliance. Read more

Identity management for the masses

NetworkWorld: May 27, 2008
Sun customer Sabre Holdings discusses its use of Sun's Identity Manager products, which provide extensive identity management capabilities for its open systems environment. Read more

Virtualization's Promise And Problems

InformationWeek: May 16,2008
Sun customer Cincinnati Bell discusses its use of Sun's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Read more

Glasses Direct eyes Sun web deal to match market growth

ComputerWeekly: April 24, 2008
ComputerWeekly featured Glasses Direct in a piece on Sun's Startup Essentials Program. Read more

Knocking on the Door of the Petaflops Era

HPC Wire: April 11, 2008
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was featured in a story in HPC Wire discussing the potential emergence of the first ever petaflop scale computer at the upcoming International Super Computing Conference. Read more

Open-Source Databases Make Headway

Wall Street Journal: April 8, 2008
Following the MySQL acquisition several customers were interviewed (LifeTouch, LiveOps, Real Time Matrix, and Sitework) for a Wall Street Journal article on OpenSource databases. Read more

CSU's push for financing

The Denver Post: April 8, 2008
The Denver post reported on the Colorado State University's push for financing and its use of Sun's conferences, among others, to keynote about the use of technology in research in malaria and dengue fever. Read more

Sun gets $141M contract for EU servers

Business Journal: January 31, 2008
The European Commission Awards Sun Microsystems a $141 Million IT Product Provisioning and Services Contract. Read more

Sun Gets 'Blackbox' Ready to Roll

eWeek: January 28, 2008
Sun Modular Datacenter Fuels Momentum With New Customer Wins In Manufacturing, Healthcare and Telco. Read more

Vancouver Olympics scores real-time info distribution

ITWorld Canada: January 14, 2008
Sun Microsystems of Canada powers up the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Read more

Sun Microsystems Is Back in the Game

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: December 28, 2007
Real Time Matrix discovers the power of the the Sun Fire T1000 through the Sun's "Try and Buy" Program. Read more

Linux defector says RHEL zero, Sun Solaris hero

SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: December 18, 2007
Sapotek switches to Solaris 10 after a 2-year struggle with Red Hat Enterprose Linux (RHEL). Read more

"Cave Drawings" Show the Way for Jaguar and Land Rover

Manufacturing Computer Solutions: December 13, 2007
Jaguar and Land Rover are investing 2m in a virtual reality "cave" at their Gaydon engineering centre. Read more

Sun shop stays loyal with Solaris Containers

Server Virtualization: September 24, 2007
Longtime Sun Microsystems Inc. shop Kichler Lighting was able to keep its production Web and enterprise resource planning environment on Solaris, thanks to the Containers virtualization feature of the Solaris 10 operating system. Read more

On the Origin of Utility Computing

GRIDtoday: September 24, 2007
Although it has been criticized by many analysts and experts who question its overall business model -- often wondering whether mainstream users would ever be comfortable running mission-critical jobs or services externally -- utility computing has not gone away. Read more

Sun: Coders key to Solaris' rise

InfoWorld: August 31, 2007
Special report: Sun will court developers to make Solaris as ubiquitous as its Java programming language. Read more

Server Snapshots: Sun in the Real World

ServerWatch: August 24, 2007
Technology start up Real Time Matrix (RTM) needed power and reliability when it was ready to launch. Its existing x86 boxes were adequate during beta testing, but the company feared the servers might not prove up to handling the potential traffic volumes. Read more

Joyent A-Twitter Preaching Its Shared Infrastructure

InformationWeek: August 1, 2007
The 18-employee company is making a quiet change in the collaboration tools space especially for Ruby on Rails developers. Read more

  
 
 
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