September 2008 »  The End Evolution of IT »  How to Serve Fast-Growing Markets »  HPC Enters the Mainstream »  LinkedIn’s Performance Boost The End Evolution of IT Your strong reaction to my June “The End of IT” column continues. Here's what you're saying — and some thoughts from me to continue the dialogue. » Full story Bob Worrall CIO, Sun Microsystems Write me at cio@sun.com »  Product sales, training, and support »  HPC Software »  New! Java Real-Time System 2.1 »  JavaFX Preview »  Solaris Crash Analysis Tool » See All Downloads »  SC08 HPC Conference The latest in high performance computing, November 15-21, Austin, Texas. »  xVM Virtualization Launch Explore Sun's new xVM virtualization portfolio with our live September 10 Webcast, or view on demand after the event. »  Build Eco Responsible Datacenters Learn how energy and space efficient datacenters save money and resources. » Tour Sun's Model Data Center »  Choose Your Virtual Weapon Take a look at how Sun virtualization can span desktop-to-datacenter. »  JVM Language Summit Collaborate with your peers, September 24-26, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, California. »  Join-fu: The Art of MySQL Tuning Tune in to this Webcast for a fun, irreverent look at how developers abuse their databases, October 1 or later on demand. » View archive More Compute Power, Less Consume Power See how Sun systems offer more compute power where you need it, but consume less power where you need to save it — in your datacenter. » Full story » Visit the Sun News Center Harnessing the Emerging Market Opportunity Rapidly developing economies around the world are quickly changing the global business landscape. Sun's Peter Ryan, EVP of Global Sales and Services, shares his views on strategies for best serving these fast-growing markets. » Full story Supercharging the Enterprise: HPC Enters the Mainstream Low-cost commodity servers and blades and greater manageability combine to make high performance computing (HPC) a practical and powerful option to drive business performance. Sun's focus is to make HPC affordable and usable by the mainstream, while delivering the always-higher performance that traditional HPC users demand, according to Bjorn Andersson, Sun's director of HPC. » Full story How Open Source Is Changing IT Thanks to thriving open source communities within organizations, problems deemed too expensive or difficult to tackle with proprietary technologies are being solved. This phenomenon is playing out around the world. And it's changing how IT delivers business value. » Read Jonathan’s blog »  Sun and Microsoft: Partners in Exchange   Explore how Sun's Infrastructure Solution for Microsoft Exchange 2007 helps you make the most of Microsoft's messaging and collaboration server. »  Buy a Sun Bundle, Save 15 Percent   Purchase a Sun Fire X4100 M2 or X4200 M2 server bundled with a Sun StorageTek 2530 SAS array and take 15 percent off. »  Switch Into High Gear   Get up to 16 additional ports (value $24,000) at no cost when you purchase a Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System and a Brocade 8 Gb/sec Fibre Channel switch. »  Eco Scale for MySQL: Greener and Faster   Go greener and faster with Sun's new Eco Scale for MySQL solution, combining our open source database and CoolThreads servers. »  Speed Up, Fill Up with Uniboard Discounts   For a limited time, take advantage of a 25 percent trade-in allowance on Sun UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz Uniboard upgrades. »  LinkedIn Performance Increases 54 percent   Hear LinkedIn CTO Jean-Luc Vaillant talk about how Sun has helped the social networking site scale horizontally and vertically. »  Speed and Power Is the Game   Sun helps Tokyo Institute of Technology build one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. For information on Sun’s trademarks see: http://www.sun.com/suntrademarks To manage your Sun subscriptions, visit the Subscription Center. Sun Microsystems, 4150 Network Circle, USCA22-106, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A. If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to innercircle@sun.com