Sun Microsystems Press Releases

Sun Microsystems and Ashbourne Technology Group Unveil Industry's First Full-Function, Cloud-Based Desktop as a Service

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions. Sun and Ashbourne Technology Group are now offering a secure, cost-effective computing solution delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet that provides a rich, virtual desktop experience for all leading Operating Systems, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris to nearly any client device, including Sun Ray thin clients and other platforms with Java-based browsers.

Sun Extends HPC Leadership With New Customers And Breakthrough Performance Results, Delivers Fastest Storage System On The Planet

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems. In addition, Sun is announcing new HPC customers, world-record performance and Top 500 List results that demonstrate its relentless system innovation. Sun doubled its number of entries since the June 2009 list with a total of 11 deployments providing nearly 2 PetaFLOPS (PFLOPS). For more information on Sun's HPC solutions, please visit: http://www.sun.com/hpc.

Sun Microsystems Unveils New Desktop Virtualization Capabilities in Sun Ray Software 5

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun Ray Software 5, which brings remarkable enhancements to the virtual desktop experience and helps to increase data center efficiency. Sun Ray Software 5 is a secure, cost effective solution that delivers a rich, virtual Windows, Linux or Solaris Operating System desktop to nearly any client device including Windows PCs and Sun Ray thin clients. As part of the Sun desktop virtualization portfolio, many of the features of Sun Ray Software 5 will also appear in the upcoming release of Sun VDI Software 3.1. Sun Ray Software 5 is available for purchase immediately and a free trial of the software can be downloaded at: http://www.sun.com/software/sunray/getit.jsp.

Sun Microsystems Showcases Open Source Technologies at Educause 2009

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

Showcasing its Open Computing portfolio and partner solutions at the Educause Conference 2009, Sun Microsystems is reinforcing its position as a leader in open source technologies for the education community. It today announced that Columbia University will use an open source Sun solution to run its digital preservation project, and also that the University of Zurich is deploying Project Wonderland projects to advance an ambitious global eLearning initiative.

Sun Enhances Java Application Store with PayPal Payment Capability

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST

At PayPal X Innovate 2009, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced an alliance with PayPal to support application payment in the Java Store Beta and enhancements to the beta user experience. The announcement was made by Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun and Osama Bedier, vice president of Platform and Emerging Technology at PayPal, during the opening keynote of PayPal X Innovate 2009. A consumer-facing storefront enabling the discovery and purchase of Java and JavaFX applications, the Java Store, now in its beta release, offers nearly unequaled distribution for reaching more than 800 million desktop Java users worldwide and driving potential revenue opportunities through the sale of innovative content. Developers are encouraged to see the Java Store Beta in action at PayPal X Innovate 2009 or get more information at: http://store.java.com.

Sun Microsystems Announces Internet Availability of Annual Stockholders' Meeting Proxy Materials for Fiscal Year 2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Notice and Access rule. Sun's proxy materials can now be found on the Company's investor relations website at http://www.sun.com/investors.

Sun Microsystems Scores Top Spot in Tape Storage Revenue, According to Top Analyst Firm

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has secured the top spot for tape storage automation revenue for the first half of calendar year 2009, as reported by top analyst firm IDC(1). Powered by Sun's tape storage innovation and the most comprehensive hardware portfolio in the world, Sun saw growth within its installed base as well as with new customers who benefit from these efficient, high-performance storage solutions.

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Boost SPARC Enterprise Servers with New SPARC64 Processors

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Fujitsu (TSE:6702) today announced new quad-core SPARC64 VII processors and an enhanced memory controller for the SPARC Enterprise server line. The faster SPARC64 VII processors deliver up to 25 percent better performance than the previous generation and with new memory access enhancements, the updated SPARC Enterprise systems have delivered outstanding performance on key enterprise benchmarks. These results further prove the updated SPARC Enterprise servers with the Solaris Operating System (OS) are ideal platforms for consolidation and mission-critical enterprise applications including large-scale databases, BIDW, ERP and human capital management (HCM). The new processors are the second in-box upgrade delivered for this product family and are available as an option for seamless upgrades in existing SPARC Enterprise servers.

Sun Microsystems Adds High-Performance Storage Array to Industry-Leading Disk Portfolio

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the expansion of its industry-leading disk storage portfolio to include the new Sun Storage 6180 Array built upon multiple generations of Sun modular storage technology. This latest addition to Sun's storage portfolio has demonstrated best-in-class price/performance: the Sun Storage 6180 delivers 50% more performance than Sun's previous generation, and over 70% better price/performance than the IBM DS5020(1).

Sun Announces New GlassFish Communications Server and Key Customer Wins Cedar Point Communications and Malden Labs Choose Sun for Next-Generation Network Platforms

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the general availability of the Sun GlassFish Communications Server 2.0, its open source and high performance telco-grade application server that offers the foundation for a service delivery platform for the telecommunications industry. For more information, visit http://sun.com/sip and http://sun.com/glassfish.

Sun Microsystems Unveils Fully Integrated, High Performance Flash Storage Arrays Designed to Accelerate Databases and Enterprise Applications

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced a significant leap forward in the industry with the introduction of new Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array that extends Sun's flash portfolio with the latest innovation that offers customers the best way to scale storage performance. The first enterprise server and storage company to bring fully-integrated Flash-based storage with Flash-optimized software to the enterprise, Sun's new flash array is designed to accelerate Oracle and MySQL database workloads and optimize storage architectures for higher performance at lower cost.

Sun Microsystems Releases New Versions of Role Manager and Directory Server Enterprise Edition

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced new versions of Sun Role Manager software and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition, offering organizations updated tools to intelligently manage their identity portfolio. Customers will benefit from increased business transparency and compliance, simplified access controls, as well as better performance and scalability. For more information about Sun Role Manager 5.0 and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0, visit: http://www.sun.com/rolemanager and http://www.sun.com/dsee.

Sun Microsystems Showcases Extreme Innovation for the Enterprise at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 October 11-15

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

At this year's Oracle OpenWorld Conference (Oct. 11-15 at Moscone Center, San Francisco), Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: Java) will showcase its 27-year history in delivering breakthrough industry innovations, new benchmarks and unveil new technologies and demonstrate the value of its decades-long partnership with Oracle for customers worldwide.

Sun Releases New Update for Solaris 10 Operating System

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the availability of the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System (OS). The Solaris 10 OS has been extended with new performance and power efficiency enhancements, more streamlined management of system installations, updates and fixes, new updates for Solaris ZFS and advancements to further leverage the functionality of the latest SPARC and x86 based systems. For more information and to download this update visit: http://sun.com/solaris/get.