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Scott McNealy. in top form, delivered a 45-talk this month to a group of entrepreneurs in the UK.
He shared some his personal experiences in staring Sun Microsystems and some insights into his management philosophy.

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Sun has approved Active Power, Inc.’s PowerHouse system as a complimentary solution to the Sun Modular Datacenter S20. Active Power provides efficient, reliable and green critical power solutions and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems to enable business continuity in the event of power disturbances.
Its Powerhouse system is based upon the company’s flywheel-based UPS system and […]

Network.com, Sun’s collection of grid-enabled online applications available on a pay-per-use basis, along with the free open source 3D content creation suite Blender were selected by BBC World News as one of the best cloud applications available:
“Sun’s data centres are available for hire by the hour to power on-demand cloud services. Used mainly for processing […]

Blogtalkradio.com will be hosting another edition of Sun’s Innovation Insider, this time featuring Michael Cornwell, Sun manager of flash memory technology business development, who will discuss flash memory and storage technologies, and answer questions from listeners.
The show will air Thursday, June 26, from 12 noon - 1 p.m. PST
Visit http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/innovationinsider. The […]

If you’re interested in learning more about COMSTAR, the OpenSolaris Project COmmon Multiprotocol SCSI TARget, then take 10 minutes of your time to watch a screencast demonstration conducted by Sun expert Sumit Gupta who walks viewers through the basic steps of setting up a Solaris host as a fibre channel storage array using COMSTAR and […]

In a Sun BigAdmin community-submitted tech tip by Victor Feng, readers are treated to some helpful hints they may need when setting up resource control for Zones in the Solaris 10 08/07, which was the first version that offered this control directly to users.
Tips passed along by Feng:
- Use cpu-shares to control zone computing resources.
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The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2008 is currently underway in Dresden, Germany. Numerous announcements from Sun have been made including:

the new Sun Blade X6450 Server Module powered by four high-performance dual-or-quad core Intel Xeon processor 7300 series. When integrated into the Sun Constellation System, this new Sun Blade x64 system delivers more than seven TFlops […]

Sun now holds the number four spot on the Top 500 Supercomputers list with its Sun Constellation System-powered supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which boasts a compute capacity of 326 TFlops and a peak performance of 504 TFlops.
The Ranger supercomputer at TACC is based on the Sun Constellation System which combines the […]

Solaris Containers or Zones are lightweight virtual Solaris instances similar to a full Solaris OS instance but which share a single Solaris kernel. They are easy to provision, require only a small amount of incremental disk space, and can be rebooted as needed in seconds. Containers can also be cloned, detached, moved and reattached. In […]