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Oracle event signals Sun hardware aspirations

News Database giant isn't standing still, even as EU investigates its Sun Microsystems acquisition and HP and IBM promote programs to woo Sun customers.

Tuesday, September 15 2009 09:36 AM

Tags: Components, Processors, Larry Ellison, European Union, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hardware, Oracle Corp., Components, Processors

Sun Fire X4270/4275

Reviews Better known for its RISC-based servers, Sun's Xeon 5500-based Sun Fire X4270 and X4275 look set to give the competition a good run for its money.

Friday, August 21 2009 11:30 AM

Tags: Intel Xeon, Motherboard, VMware Inc., Hypervisor, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, processor, Sun Fire

Sun eyes cloudware position

News The open source vendor hopes OpenSolaris will be its entry point into becoming a platform provider for cloud computing by courting the developer community, say execs.

Tuesday, January 20 2009 06:10 PM

Tags: Open source, Web services, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Developer, Cloud Computing, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., PaaS, Microsoft Windows

HP to sell ProLiant servers with Sun's Solaris

News The manufacturer will bundle Solaris 10, a rival to its own HP-UX operating system, with its ProLiant servers and blade systems.

Friday, February 27 2009 11:31 AM

Tags: Components, Consumer Technology, Desktops, Hewlett-Packard Co., Jonathan Schwartz, operating system, Sun Solaris, HP Compaq ProLiant, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server

Sun introduces 2TB flash storage array

News F5100 Flash Array will deliver a low-power performance boost to transaction-heavy database operations, while cutting power usage, says Sun Microsystems.

Wednesday, October 14 2009 09:30 AM

Tags: Components, Memory, Intel Corp., F5100, Archiving, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, I/O

Sun Microsystems debuts new x64 servers

News Company lifts curtain on new line of x64 servers and workstations, aiming to integrate networking technologies, advanced thermal management and open software.

Wednesday, April 15 2009 09:04 AM

Tags: Servers, Storage, Intel Xeon, Sun Blade, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Sun Fire, workstation, data center

DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD

News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.

Tuesday, January 06 2009 09:03 AM

Tags: Operating systems, Open source, CPU, Database, Unix, operating system, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., DTrace, Environment

Sun posts a loss on sinking revenue

News The troubled hardware maker comes below analysts' expectations as the economy weighs on high-end customers, but says it will weather the storm.

Friday, October 31 2008 09:10 AM

Tags: Sales/revenue, Earning reports/forecasts, Chip, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., multi-threading, Hardware, chip multi-threading, revenue

Sun adds enterprise features to OpenSolaris

News A new support contract, processor support, and networking and storage technology are designed to put the open source OS on an even footing alongside Solaris.

Tuesday, June 02 2009 09:39 AM

Tags: Acquisitions, Open source, Operating systems, Server platforms, Networking, Data Management, Database management, Virtualization, File System, Storage

Sun updates OpenSolaris

News The second release of OpenSolaris incorporates improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Ubuntu.

Sunday, December 07 2008 11:33 PM

Tags: UNIX, Open source, Network infrastructure, Virtualization, GNOME, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Hardware, software

Mac OS X gets first open source virtualization tool

News Sun has released a major update to its open source desktop virtualization tool xVM VirtualBox, adding support for Mac OS X and Solaris host operating systems.

Friday, May 09 2008 09:07 AM

Tags: Mac OS, Virtualization, Open source, Tool, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, operating system, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Could NetApp suit throw a wrench in Sun-IBM talks?

News NetApp's patent suit against Sun Microsystems could pose a challenging hurdle for Sun in its reported merger talks with IBM, reports American Lawyer's AM Law.com site.

Wednesday, March 25 2009 12:34 PM

Tags: Acquisitions, Servers, Open source, Business applications, IBM Corp., File System, Storage, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetApp

'Ferociously loyal' users to stand by Sun

News Loyalty, cost and little reason to defect will help keep customers by Sun Microsystems' side, while the hardware vendor awaits approval of Oracle acquisition.

Thursday, August 06 2009 06:25 PM

Tags: Servers, Server platforms, Acquisitions, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., International Data Corp., Unix, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server