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Sun and Blackboard

Sun and Blackboard apply technology, enterprise software, and services to enable dramatic improvements in both the educational and life services for students, faculty, staff, and administrators. Working together, we help Institutions create a richer set of offerings to improve student engagement and address the evolving needs of the education datacenter.


Alliance Overview

Sun and Blackboard offer a secure, stable, and scalable enterprise solution for campuses wanting leading-edge technology - without imposing unnecessary risks to their educational environment. Blackboard and Sun combine their expertise to offer some of the most performance-driven, effective platforms for teaching and learning over the Internet.   » More

Blackboard solutions running on the Sun Reference Architecture, deliver outstanding performance. Sun's innovative technology delivers the highest levels of eco-efficiency coupled with the industry's most stable, free, and open source operating system -- Solaris 10.

Blackboard's line of software applications are designed to help institutions educate and innovate everywhere. Blackboard's industry-recognized approach to improving learning outcomes and institutional efficiencies takes advantage of the advanced features of the Sun platform, including the award winning Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology.

DTrace has been singled out for its breakthrough, real time approach to trouble shooting production systems. With DTrace technology, problem identification time can be shortened from days or weeks to hours or even minutes.


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Events

Solution Webcasts

Tune in to learn from Kevin Roebuck, market development manager, Sun Microsystems, Steve Feldman, director, software performance engineering and architecture, Blackboard Inc., and James Simon, chief technologist, Sun Global Education and Research, how these two companies are improving throughput and compute performance in the datacenter. Learn how Solaris 10, eco responsible Sun Fire servers, and CoolThreads technology are helping universities of all sizes improve datacenter efficiencies and realize cost savings while helping save the environment.


Joint Initiatives

Sun technology enhances the performance and throughput of Blackboard's next generation institution platforms for:


Collateral

With solutions from Sun and Blackboard, you're not only investing in safe, flexible, extensible, and open solutions for your technology environment, you're investing in a more secure educational environment for students, staff, and faculty.

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