October 2008 »  IT Challenges in Emerging Markets »  Tech Tips to Make Your Job Easier »  Of Wine, Virtualization and xVM »  Selling IT's Benefits to Business »  Is SaaS for You? Mitigating IT Challenges in Emerging Markets To provide robust, secure services in emerging countries, IT organizations must overcome a variety of technological and cultural challenges. Doing so is critical to being competitive in the global market place. » Full story Bob Worrall CIO, Sun Microsystems Write me at cio@sun.com »  Product sales, training, and support »  OpenSolaris »  xVM Virtual Box »  New! Open Office 3.0 »  MySQL » See all downloads »  Sun Tech Days Coming to a city near you »  IDC White Papers and Webcast Get research about the impact of certification on team and organizational performance  » See all events » View archive Introducing Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio Listen to Sun EVP Rich Green discuss the only open solution that spans virtualization and management for desktops and datacenters. » Full story » Visit the Sun News Center Win the War Against Spam Viruses, worms, Trojan Horses, and phishers can wreak havoc on your business, wasting time and money. Fight back with Symantec Brightmail Software, powered by the industry's fastest and most cost-efficient servers from Sun. » Full story Five Tech Tips to Make Your Job Easier Get practical, how-to guidance from Sun and community experts on such hot topics as Solaris OS administration, virtualization, and MySQL — and explore how you can share your own expertise in rapidly growing user communities. » Full story Setting Up MySQL Cluster Software Using Solaris Zones Learn how to set up MySQL Cluster software in a Solaris Zones environment as if it were running on independent physical servers. » Full story Is SaaS for You? With software as a service, the focus shifts away from managing enterprise software towards using technology to transform your business. Gain insights from SaaS pioneer Dr. Timothy Chou. » Full story Begin the Java Platform Learning Adventure Learning the Java platform can be fun and exciting for young developers. Get the tools you need to start based on what you currently know. And work your way to the next tool, adding resources as you feel ready. » Full story Of Wine, Virtualization and xVM Candid conversations at a Napa Valley customer meeting a few years back revealed their vision of an ideal cloud environment and served as important input leading to Sun's unveiling a full line of desktop to datacenter virtualization offerings. Get background into their thinking — and Sun's desire to solve problems for developers and datacenter operators in multi-vendor environments. » Read Jonathan’s blog Selling IT's Strategic Benefits to Business Hear Sun's CIO Bob Worrall, along with David Galas, vice president of technology and architecture at Equifax, discuss how IT managers can best articulate the strategic importance of IT investments to meet business goals.   » Read more »  Bringing Agility to the Datacenter   By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, you can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs — without sacrificing performance. »  Configure Quickly and Easily   Get up and running with the ZFS file system and Sun Storage J4000 Arrays in just 10 minutes. »  Intelligent Power Monitoring   Find out how to reduce datacenter power consumption through industry best practices and Sun's unique power monitoring and management technologies. »  New Training Courses from Sun »  Why Customers in Emerging Markets Choose Sun   We're helping customers in high growth and emerging markets build out flexible IT infrastructures that are energy-efficient, cost-effective, and highly scalable. Learn what's working for different companies. »  DigiTar Grows With Sun’s Help   Learn how DigiTar, a Web 2.0 company providing advanced messaging security services, received a Sun Fire T2000 and a Sun Fire X4500 server as part of the Try and Buy Program and is using OpenSolaris to improve the performance and efficiency of its IT environment.  »  Critical IT Operations Run Smoothly at Big City School System   The Chicago Public School System — the third-largest system in the United States — selected Sun to develop and implement a strategy to improve network operations and to provide managed services. The result: the school system can focus on its educational goals. © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. For information on Sun’s trademarks see: /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