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Don't Lose Your ROI with Antiquated Network Technology
View the on demand webinar and learn about new technology from Sun and Intel.

Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers
This white paper focuses on the business benefits that can be achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise® M-Series servers.

Take a Deep Dive Into the Java Warehouse
Learn all about Sun's new application repository and storefront for Java and JavaFX applications.

Get an iPod Touch with Sun Training
For a limited time, when you order qualifying classroom courses or packages. Order by December 31, 2009.

It's Here! Sun Ray Software 5
New release extends virtual desktop to existing client hardware and improves Sun Ray multimedia performance.

Webinar: Identity Management for Healthcare
Join this live webinar on November 18 and learn how Sun identity management solutions make it easier for healthcare organizations to manage and share digital information.

Free Solaris Training
Learn about ZFS pool, snapshot, rollback and more at the Sun Open Learning Center for Solaris System Admin.

Sun Benchmarks: Raise the Bar Higher
Over 400 world-record benchmarks on Sun platforms to date and counting.

MySQL Provides Scalability, Reliability, and Enterprise Support at a Lower Cost
Learn how open source leads to more streamlined database solutions that are easier and less costly to deploy and support. Open source has made MySQL in particular a higher-performing, more reliable, and more affordable alternative to proprietary database solutions.

Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition
This Sun BluePrints article describes an enterprise deployment architecture for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition using Sun servers running the Solaris Operating System and Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems.

Free Webinar: Sun Systems for Oracle Business Intelligence EE
Join the live webinar on November 19 and gain insight into best practices for architecting a fault tolerant, secure, and resilient solution, and for reducing deployment time by up to 40% with Sun's tested, documented implementation blueprint.

Take the Test: Java Developer's Quiz III
Test your knowledge and get an update on the latest advances in Java technology.

How to Use the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array to Accelerate Databases
Find out about the F5100 Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.

Upgrade to Solaris 10
Fine out what's involved and how Sun can help. Get Solaris 10 upgrade resources for Systems Administrators.

Hollow Out The MOOSE: Reducing Cost With Strategic Rightsourcing
This whitepaper discusses how "rightsourcing" is a better than traditional outsourcing to save costs and use your IT resources on more strategic projects. It offers insights on what services have the greatest business impact, who can best deliver the underlying infrastructure services in support of these needs, and how to manage the MOOSE (cost to Maintain and Operate the IT Organization, Systems and Equipment).

SPARC + Solaris: Fastest in the Industry
Sun is the #1 in key industry standard enterprise commercial benchmarks.

Java EE Tools Bundle Update 7 Refreshed
Java EE 5 Tools Bundle Update 7 is for developers who want to get started writing, testing, and debugging service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications using the latest visual design tools for XML schema and web services orchestration.

Revolutionizing the Storage Quo
Open storage can be viewed as an architecture built out of general purpose, industry standard servers and open source operating systems and storage management software and commodity disk drives. The white paper discusses the various components and the integration of those components into a system.

Free Startup Webinar: ZFS Storage Subsystems
Learn how ZFS' innovations make data management easier and more efficient.

Make eCommerce 2.5x Faster
Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence deliver scalable OLTP enterprise web performance for reduced risk and long-term savings.

Extreme Innovation at Oracle OpenWorld
If you missed Scott McNealy's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, you can view highlights on demand.

Extreme Innovation at Oracle OpenWorld
Learn more about the challenge (US only) based on the competitive announcement made at Oracle OpenWorld.

Why Green is Green
The business benefits of eco products can rival the environmental advantages. Here's why - and what it means to product design teams.

Get Started with OpenSolaris
Solaris expert Brian Leonard explains how you can get started with the OpenSolaris Operating System.

Announcing New Quad-Core Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers
Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers Get Major Performance Boost with New Quad-Core SPARC64 VII Processors.

Open Virtualization: More Innovation without Vendor Lock In
Open source has led to more innovative virtualization solutions that span from the data center to the OS to the desktop -- and has become a more affordable alternative to proprietary virtualization solutions.

Turbo Charge Your Apps
World's fastest Flash database accelerator joins growing line of Flash-enabled servers and storage.

Sun and Oracle Set Record TPC-C Benchmark
Sun and Oracle World Record TPC-C performance beats IBM's best results on DB2 with Power 595 Server.

Webinar: Tips and Strategies for Moving to OpenOffice.org
This webinar covers in-depth Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org migration strategies, file conversion tips, and other effective techniques for make a migration to OpenOffice.org easier and faster.

Open Storage under the Hood
Take a closer look at the technical and business advantages of Open Storage — and how CIOs can best utilize.

How to Install the Solaris 10 OS on x86 Systems
This How to Guide instructs users unfamiliar with Solaris 10 installation on how to install the Solaris 10 OS on a Sun supported x86 system. This step-by-step guide, complete with screen shots, takes users through the installation process, in 22 simple steps.

Simulation on the Rise
Learn how IT managers are reducing costs, risks, and missed deadlines with a new breed of simulation tools and technologies.

Safety First: Protecting Your Services in the Cloud
This on-demand webinar explores one of the leading impediments to the widespread adoption of Cloud Computing - security concerns.

Sun Ops Center: Changing the Economics of Datacenter Operations
This article explores some of the newest developments in managing total cost of ownership: innovations that lower the cost over the life of the asset, be it software or hardware, and allow consumers to spend more money during the initial investment while still receiving higher returns on that same investment (ROI).

The VeriScale Architecture: Elasticity and Efficiency for Private Clouds
This Sun BluePrints article includes details of VeriScale's defining principals, underlying components, interactions, and advantages. Applicable real-world scenarios are also described.

Enable Web Service Security
Combine JAX-WS with OpenSSO WSS Agent for secure deployment on Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, GlassFish, and WebSphere.

Free eBook: HPC for Dummies
This special edition eBook from Sun and AMD shares details on real-world uses of HPC, explains the different types of HPC, guides you on how to choose between different suppliers, and provides benchmarks and guidelines you can use to get your system up and running.

Now Available: Sun Ops Center 2.5
Sun's enterprise-class system management tool controls server sprawl, reduces downtime and improves productivity.

A Gift for Learning
Get a free Amazon.com gift card for enrolling in a Sun eLearning course. Check out the training and certification options.

Migrate to Sun GlassFish Portfolio and Reduce Costs
View the webinar replay and learn about the benefits your organization can gain by migrating from Proprietary Vendors to a high-performance, extensible open Web Application Platform with Sun GlassFish Portfolio

Evaluating Open Source Operating Systems: Features, Flexibility, and Performance
When evaluating open-soure and proprietary OS solutions, more and more enterprises are recognizing the advantages of the easy access, continuous innovation, and flexibility that open source provides. This white paper explores the advantages of open-source OS's and examines Sun's open-source Solaris and OpenSolaris OS's.

See Sun Innovations at Oracle OpenWorld
Sun is the Innovation Sponsor at Oracle OpenWorld, October 11-15, 2009. Hear Scott McNealy and James Gosling, get a deep dive into Sun technologies at the main Sun booth, and meet systems, Solaris, Java, and cloud experts at Sun technical sessions.

Speed Up and Simplify Your Storage
The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system gets a 30% performance boost and new software enhancements.

Social Media: Maximize the Opportunity
For businesses, social media can be a blessing or a curse. Learn how to make the most of the opportunity while minimizing the risks.

Getting Started with Cloud Consulting Services
This 8-page Services solution brief highlights both the opportunities and challenges in transitioning to a cloud computing model for enterprises. Different cloud computing models are reviewed and their prevailing benefits. Sun's cloud strategic planning approach is introduced and high level recommendations are provided to help kickstart the review and planning phases of alternate computing models.

Open Cloud: On-Demand, Innovative IT on a Massive Scale
While more and more start-ups are taking advantage of the cost-savings and agility that cloud computing provides, enterprises are now exploring how they could leverage an external cloud, build an internal cloud or even become a cloud provider.

Complete Guide to Interoperability
Learn how to make system administration easier, reducing IT complexity. Get tips on using Solaris and OpenSolaris with non-Sun hardware/software solutions. Get facts about virtualization and Web 2.0 technologies that enable interoperability.

The Sun Oracle Database Machine - Exadata V2
The World’s First OLTP Database Machine With FlashFire Technology.

Embracing Social Communities: A CIO's Crib Sheet
Social networks are everywhere - but what do they really mean to the CIO? Our experts discuss the implications, the opportunities, and the trends.

Open Source in the Enterprise: Fulfilling the Promise
This white paper explores the advantages and possible disadvantages of open-source software in the enterprise, the types of companies that deliver open-source products and services, guidelines for how to get started with open source, and the clear advantages offered by Sun.

A Smarter Way to Manage Desktops
Use Sun VirtualBox and Sun VDI to deliver a new level of productivity and security - just like Sun did for 21,000 virtual desktops at JavaOne this year.

How to Work with ZFS Snapshots
This guide is intended to show a new user the capabilities of the ZFS snapshots feature, a read-only copy of a Solaris ZFS file system or volume. It describes the steps necessary to set up a ZFS filesystem and the use of snapshots including how to create them, use them for backup and restore purposes, and how to migrate them between systems.

"We're in it to win it."
Find out what Oracle's Larry Ellison says to Sun customers.

The Key to Solaris Memory Management
Learn how to use Solaris Libumem to optimize memory allocation and resolve memory usage problems.

Back by Popular Demand - Red Hot x64 Deals
Save up to 27% on Select Intel & AMD Sytems

Try Sun Free for 60 Days
Browse the catalog of 125+ configurations of products and solutions to try for free.

Open Network Systems
Turbocharge your databases, business applications and virtualized environments with ease by deploying Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems in your datacenter.

Save Big on Unified Storage
Get fully loaded, full-featured storage systems at great prices. Configure yours now.

Best Practices to Prevent and Manage Virtual Machine Sprawl
While server consolidation using virtualization can significantly decrease costs and improve efficiency, organizations often find that they need to deal with an associated issue: the rapid proliferation of VMs with inadequate management.

Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Sun Fire x64 Servers
This guide shows the steps necessary to install and configure Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on a Sun Fire x64 server with a Sun Storage J4000 series array for external storage.

Webinar: Bigger Capacity, Same Footprint
You can trade in your old tape drive and get the T10000B with more storage in the same space.

US Department of Justice Approves Oracle Acquisition of Sun
US Department of Justice Approves Oracle Acquisition of Sun