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July/August 2008
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Jonathan Talks Open
Source Cost Savings
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Open Source Stack Debuts
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Employees Shape
IT Transformation

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Cut Training Time in Half
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Save 25% with Server Upgrade
The CIO Perspective
Employees Shape IT Transformation

If you want to elevate IT performance, look to the grassroots. At Sun, we engaged passionate employees to drive IT transformation — boosting morale and reducing turnover at the same time.
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Bob Worrall
CIO, Sun Microsystems
Write me at cio@sun.com
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Jonathan Schwartz Drive Cost Savings
with Open Source


By Jonathan Schwartz
Under growing pressure to cut and consolidate, CIOs are reducing spend by deploying open source database technology in their datacenters. Per-project savings average between $250,000 and $500,000 — with estimated savings of up to $10 million for large enterprise deployments.
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Sun’s New Open Storage Systems
Newly launched Sun Open Storage systems are helping change the economics of storage. Get details on new Sun Storage J4000 arrays and the next-generation Sun Fire X4540 storage server and how you can scale to 480 TB while reducing costs by up to 90 percent.
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Solaris + AMP = Scalability and
Performance for the Web Tier
As open source Web applications move into mission-critical roles, infrastructure performance and security becomes more important than ever. Enter Sun's expanded AMP stack — Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python optimized for Solaris OS technology and chip multithreading, and fully backed by Sun support.
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Jonathan's Blog: ZFS Meets Flash
Server/storage appliances ZFS file system, meet Flash memory. We're converging the two for a hybrid storage tier and server/storage appliances enormously faster than the status quo. With low cost and energy efficiency, it's breakthrough innovation that will have an even bigger impact on datacenter economics than virtualization. » Read Jonathan’s blog
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»  White Paper: Keys to Datacenter Energy Efficiency
  How much is your company spending to power its datacenter? The answer might stun even the most seasoned CIOs. This new CIO2CIO Perspectives white paper outlines keys to energy efficiency.
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  Stunning performance, virtualization flexibility, and energy efficiency translate into a pair of 2008 Excellence Awards for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers.
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