Sun Customer Podcasts

Customer Podcasts
  • James Lawn, Co-founder, Polecat discusses how Suns Startup Essentials program helps build it's IT solution based on Sun Fire servers, Java and an Oracle database. Listen

  • Malcolm Fraser, Service Delivery Manager at Computer Concepts Ltd, speaks with Jeff Jameson, Product Line Manager, Desktop Virtualization Marketing at Sun Microsystems, about the benefits and their experience with the new Sun Desktop Access Client, Sun Ray Software 5 technology, and Sun Secure Global Desktop Software. Listen

  • Simon Trowbridge, Technical Projects Manager, Screwfix explains how Screwfix replaced call agent PCs with 350 Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Client terminals driven by 10 Sun Blade X6250 Server Modules residing in two Sun Blade 6000 Chassis. Six of the blades run Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services, while the other four run Sun Ray Software 4 on top of the Solaris 10 Operating System. Listen

  • TweetMeme founder, Nick Halstead, discusses how the Sun solution of Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 servers, MySQL, and the Sun Startup Essentials Programs helps this start up get on it's feet with a cost-effective and scalable infrastructure. Listen

  • Mark Niedzielsk, Infrastructure Manager at music discovery website OurStage.com, discussed his experiences with the open storage solution he built upon Open Solaris and the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System. Listen

  • Listen in as Arun Gupta, Sun's "Glassfish Guy" and Glassfish Evangelist, discusses the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server with TravelMuse's VP of Engineering, Cyril Bouteille. TravleMuse chose Glassfish Enteprise Server to power the hot start-up's website because of its robustness and availability and reliability. Listen

  • On this episode of "Inside SOA" we speak with the architecture and new technology experts from Medavie Blue Cross. The IT leaders share their expertise and experience in having done the migration from a Legacy implementation into a more modern SOA/ESB based implementation. Listen

  • Greg Mead, Head of Research and Development, at MusicMetric discusses the use of Sun technologies and the benefits of the Sun Startup Essentials program. Listen

  • Luke Stackle, director of IT at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, Idaho, discusses his organizations' use of a Sun Open Storage and OpenSolaris virtualization solution to increase system availability and reduce costs. Listen

  • Ruud de Greef, CIO at Pretium Telecom, and Joost Hoffman, Senior System Engineer at Yenlo, talk with Sun's Bruce Tierney about the telco's open-source SOA solution, Sun Glassfish ESB. Hear how--and why--they're migrating to Glassfish ESB on this podcast. Listen

  • Dan Peterson, Vice President of Technical Operations, hi5 Networks, describes how hi5 Networks employed the Sun Fire X4540 server, a hybrid storage server, to keep its storage costs under control while managing hundreds of TB of data. Listen

  • Dr. Robert W. Leland, Director, Computing and Network Services Center, Sandia National Laboratories discusses how the newest Sun Blade X6275, the Sun Blade 6048 InfiniBand QDR Switched Network Express Module, and Lustre parallel file system help them meet their stringent IO bandwidth and performance requirements. Dr. Leland anticipates that the new high performance capacity computing systems will provide them with a tremendous increase in their space, power and cost efficiency. Listen

  • Jochen Frey, CTO at Scout Labs speaks with Mark Thacker, Desktop Virtualization Marketing at Sun Microsystems, about its use of Sun Technologies including the benefits of the Sun Startup Essentials program, the Solaris Operating Systems, ZFS, DTrace and MySQL. Listen

  • Peter Giskes, IT Manager at Gelre Hospital speaks with Chris Kawalek, Desktop Virtualization Marketing at Sun Microsystems, about its Sun Virtual Desktop solution including Sun Ray thin clients and Secure Global Desktop software. Listen

  • Duane Koble, Technical Analyst Team Lead at Geisinger Health System, speaks with Sun's David Codelli about how the healthcare provider uses Java CAPS to accelerate access to patient information. Geisinger deployed a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that provides for communication between more than 100 applications and created a single patient index for all of its hospitals and clinics. Listen

  • Paul Cohen, Executive Director of Information Services at Barwon Health speaks with Chris Kawalek, Product Line Manager, Desktop Virtualization Marketing at Sun Microsystems, about the benefits its Sun Virtual Desktop solution. Listen

  • Richard Toeniskoetter, Technology Director at The W. A. Franke College of Business, Northern Arizona University speaks with Chris Kawalek, Desktop Virtualization Marketing at Sun Microsystems, about it's Sun Virtual Desktop solution. Listen

  • Lynda Fleury, AVP & CISO at Unum, speaks with Sun's Craig McDonald about Unum's identity management solution which has reduced provisioning time by 95%. Listen

  • Greg Luck, Chief Architect at Wotif.com, provides a full project deployment overview-- including details on Glassfish Enterprise Server, Open Message Queue and MySQL--at Glassfish Day in Sydney. Listen

  • Arne Jokela, President and CTO for Fotolog, and Dermot Duggan, Senior Director at Sun Microsystems, explore why and how technology executives should design more energy efficient data centers, and the benefits of doing so. Listen

  • Dr. Wittges, Executive Director at SAP UCC discusses how Sun Fire X64 servers and blades helped them consolidate and virtualize it's IT infrastructure. Listen

  • Dan Hogan, VP of Technology for NBC Sports and Olympics explains how 160 Sun's Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 servers and Sun Services help NBCOlympics be such a success. The Sun Fire servers were split between two datacenters in California and New Jersey and supported NBCOlympics' Web infrastructure. Listen

  • Mark Niedzielski, Infrastructure manager at OurStage, Inc. speaks with Alex Plant, Global Communications Manager at Sun Microsystems, about the benefits seen by moving the OurStage.com production storage systems to OpenSolaris. Listen

  • Marteleron's COO Mario Aluf-Medina describes how the company is launching its new service for telecom carriers on Sun Blade X6250 servers with quad-core processors and Solaris 10 Operating System. Listen

  • Sun/Oracle Open World Interview with Customer Core Services: Core Services CEO Jim Bistiss talks about being a joint Sun and Oracle customer. Listen

  • Mike Brodbelt, director of technical operations and infrastructure at Last.fm discusses how Sun Blade X6250, X6450 and T6320 server modules help this small company increase throughput and reduce power consumption. Mike also gives his insight on the upcoming Dunnington processors. Listen

  • Ricky Doyle, Director and Cofounder of Practice-IT discusses how purchasing the Sun Fire X4150 servers and using the Sun Startup Essentials program helps this online training company boost virtualized application performance by 25 percent. Listen

  • Ben Summers, Technical Director of ONEIS, discusses why they chose the Sun Fire X4150 and Sun Fire X2100 M2 Servers and Solaris 10 OS to help his Web 2.0 Startup company. The end result? An energy-efficient, high-performing infrastructure at an affordable price. Listen

  • Listen as Nick Halstead, Founder and CEO of Favorit Limited, discusses the success of his new web service using Sun's CMT technology and the Start-Up Essentials program. Listen

  • Paul Skowronski of Career Education discusses his company's use of Sun StorageTek virtualization technology to improve data backup/restore times and decrease operating costs while meeting compliance requirements. Listen

  • For Sabre Holdings, identity management and security provisioning tools from Sun and Netegrity, have eased the burden on its mainframe processing systems. This podcast was created by Network World from their IT Roadmap Conference (10/2007). Listen

  • Learn why Sun customer Capital One considers itself on the front end of access management deployments in this podcast hosted by Sun Product Managers Brandon Whichard and Don Bowen. Listen

  • Mark Thacker, Solaris Product Marketing, Sun, and Dennis Clarke, Creator and Founder, Blastwave discuss the benefits Blastwave has seen by using Solaris 10 on both Sun and non-Sun hardware. Dennis also describes the ease in which Blastwave has deployed Solaris 8 Containers. Listen

  • In this episode, Mark Thacker, Solaris Product Marketing, Sun and Derek Colvin, Head of IT, Glasses Direct discuss how the Sun Startup Essentials program coupled with the migration from Linux to Solaris has provided the company with a stable, secure and powerful solution. Listen

  • Don Grantham, EVP of Global Sales and Services, Sun, speaks with Jean-Luc Vaillant, LinkedIn CTO about doing business in today's Network Economy. Listen

  • Matthew Leeds, VP Operations of Gracenote, talks about his Sun solution, including Sun Blades, Sun Fire X4500, Solaris 10 OS and Services. Also Matthew shares his viewpoints on the upcoming quad core processors that Gracenote is considering too. Listen

  • Brian Camp, Senior VP of Architecture, shares KnowledgeBase Marketing's cost reductions and efficiency gains from consolidating multiple storage platforms onto Sun and implementing a ILM/Tier 2 storage virtualization strategy for the company's open systems and mainframe environments. Listen

  • Sun helps Siteworx improve energy and space efficiency in their datacenter. Listen

  • Jeremy Bauer of SuccessFactors discusses how Sun's SPARC Enterprise M Series servers and Solaris Operating System offer optimal scalability and performance in a reduced datacenter footprint with Eco benefits. Listen

  • Mark Thacker, Solaris Product Marketing, Sun, and Theo Schlossnagle, Principal, OmniTI, discuss the benefits OmniTI has seen by adopting Solaris and OpenSolaris as its solution set and by using Solaris features including DTrace, ZFS, and Solaris Containers. Listen

  • Stuart Sim, CTO and Chief Architect, Moodlerooms, and Mark Thacker, Solaris Product Marketing, Sun discuss Moodle's open source learning management system. Stuart describes how Moodlerooms utilizes Solaris and the virtualization capabilities in the Solaris operating system to scale, optimize and effectively manage its datacenter operations. Listen

  • Mark Thacker, Solaris Product Marketing, Sun and Tim McLaughlin, Founder & President, Siteworx, Inc. discuss why Siteworx chose Solaris as their Operating System over competitive offerings. Listen

  • Phil Neff of Wright State University discusses how the Sun StorageTek encryption/tape backup solution is helping protect and archive University data. Listen

  • Rico Magsipoc of UCLA Laboratory of Neuro Imaging discusses how Solaris 10, Sun's server platform and its service responsiveness have been key to shortening research cycles. Listen

  • Neal Tisdale of Ventyx (formerly New Energy Associates) discusses the extensive use of Solaris 10 in their development environment. Listen

  • David Young and Jason Hoffman of Joyent discuss the successes they've seen using Solaris. Listen

  • Hal Stern speaks with DigiTar CEO, Dale Williams, on "Innovating@Sun". Listen

  • Hal Stern speaks with MLB.com's Justin Shaffer, on another "Innovating@Sun". Listen

  • Hal Stern interviews Stuart Sim, CTO, Chief Architect and Founder of Moodlerooms for another "Innovating@ Sun" podcast. Listen

  • Hal Stern interviews Michael Keller of Stanford University for a special 25th anniversary "Innovating@Sun" podcast. Listen

  • Neal Tisdale of Ventyx (formerly New Energy Associates) describes how they achieved lower total cost of ownership and additional cooling and power savings with Sun. Listen

  • Miriam Soza of Thomson Financial describes why the Sun Fire X4600 Server will double Thomson's data processing power in the future. Listen

  • Andrew Caird of the University of Michigan College of Engineering describes how Sun hardware provides services to students and faculty members who demand more computing power. Listen
  
 
 
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