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With Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3.1 customers can deploy a number of virtual desktop operating systems and access these operating systems from a variety of client devices.
Sun has announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions.
Sun technology plays a key role in several of Network World's top IT projects of 2009.
Nexenta Systems recently upgraded its NexentaStor unified storage software based on ZFS and OpenSolaris.
The secure, cost-effective computing solution for educational institutions can be delivered anytime, anywhere via the Internet .
Sun today announced the availability of a new cloud-based Desktop as a Service for educational institutions.
Health Sciences South Carolina selected Sun and Recombinant Data Corp. to collaborate on the Health Sciences South Carolina Integrated Platform for Research.
The Bay Area Council Economic Institute reports that more than half of India’s developer community works on Sun platforms.
Sun has upgraded its Sun Storage 7000 family of disk arrays, doubling both the performance and capacity from a maximum of 288TB to 576TB in a 4U space.
The new Red Sky supercomputer as Sandia National Laboratories, built with Sun technology, just debuted as the 10th fastest supercomputer on the Top500 list, with a sustained performance of 429.9 teraflops.
This week at the SC09 conference, Sun announced new products and technologies that extend its HPC leadership, maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems.
Sun will take care of networking software with Java and storage hardware with its StorageTek systems.
Sun has 11 machines on the current Top500 list, totaling 171,442 cores and 1.52 petaflops of aggregate performance.
Tim Boudreau, Sun senior staff engineer, recently spent some time with engineers at NASA, showing them how to use the NetBeans platfom.
Sun has announced new products and technologies that extend its leadership in high-performance computing (HPC), maximize application performance and throughput, and provide superior building blocks for HPC systems.
A Sun blade system at the Sandia National Laboratories is one of only two new systems among the top 10 supercomputers.
AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Service leverages the hardware and software infrastructure of Sun.
Using technology from Sun, AT&T’s Synaptic Compute as a Service provides companies with self-service, on-demand access to computing resources, along with management of the network, server, hardware and storage.
On the latest Top500 list, three of the top five supercomputers based on Intel Nehalem CPUs are Sun Constellation systems.
The recently unveiled supercomputer is the most powerful in Australia and contains 3,000 quad-core Intel Nehalem processors with 36TB of memory and a petabyte file system.
Using technology from Sun, AT&T’s Synaptic Compute as a Service provides companies simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity.
This article from FutureGov highlights Sun's cloud efforts and interviews Sun cloud CTO Vasanthan Dasan.
Sun has released Sun Ray Software 5, which enhances the virtual desktop experience and increases datacenter efficiency.
Subsequent to last week's announcment, content developers can now price their applications in the Java Store and leverage payment processing by PayPal, resulting in a convenient in-store billing mechanism for customers and developers.
Columbia University will use an open source Sun solution to store assets in its digital preservation project, and the University of Zurich is deploying Project Wonderland projects as part of a global eLearning initiative.
Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikibooks and other sites are gearing up. They're about to get a lot more visual.
CNET news reports on MySQL charting its way to paying customers with Query Analyzer
Announcing the release of StarOffice 9. It's got new versions of wordprocessor, presentation, spreadsheet, database and drawing software and comes with native support for Mac OS X.
The Associated Press reports on a marketing agreement between Sun and Microsoft where US-based Internet Explorer users who download the Java platform will now have the option of also downloading the Microsoft Live Search toolbar.
ZD Net reviews OUSM, the social networking and learning site devoted to open source software that was launched last week. Tens of thousands of students have already flocked to the site.
Sun Microsystems is continuing to add to its blade server portfolio by offering new systems that use the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor and quad-core Opteron chip from AMD.
Middle and High School students are learning object oriented programming using the open source tool Greenfoot created by the universities Deakin and Kent.
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