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Sun Senior Director of Open Storage and Networking Graham Lovell discusses the company’s intent to offer solid state, flash technology storage devices for enterprises in an interview on Sun News. Recorded June 4th, the piece runs 15 minutes.
Listen now.

Chris Wood, CTO Storage Solutions Group, Sun, talks with Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Covertson, who invented SAM & QFS, about the future of intelligent storage, namely object-based storage.
Object-based storage addresses the market’s need to store increasingly massive numbers of storage objects with scaling and performance capabilities, while also preserving customers’ investments.
In an eight-minute YouTube video, […]

Music legend and pioneer Neil Young will be joining Sun executives during the JavaOne opening keynote session on May 6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Young and Sun are expected to make an announcement during the event, and provide a special demonstration of a new multi-media music project.
The keynote session with Neil […]

Learn more about Sun virtualization technologies in a webcast with accompanying slide presentation by Hugo Rivero, senior staff engineer in the Partner group at Sun, who discusses problem issues in the data center and how virtualization can resolve many of today’s challenges.
The general problem facing what is termed the traditional data center is that they […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference is set for May 5-8 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Sun Federal will be demonstrating some of the company’s advanced technologies for desktop virtualization, security, identity management, etc. at booth 331. Partners expected to join Sun at the booth are Mitel,
BlueSpace and Dynamic […]

Russ Castronovo, (Director, Social and New Media, Sun Microsystems), has started a series of on-demand “radio” interviews on blogtalkradio.com.
Here are the shows that Russ has produced in April:

Interview with Juan Carlos Soto about Sun’s Solaris On Demand Program - Apr 26,2008
An interview with Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of global market development and engineering to […]

Find out more about the recently announced Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers in a video replay of a Second Life special event that features Sun CTO Rick Heatherington and members of the Sun engineering team who describe the technologies inside the systems.

The Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) is underway in San Francisco, and with it has come news from Sun and the Global Community:

Sun and the Ministry of Education in China signed a three-year collaboration agreement to meet China’s demand for cultivating integrated circuit talent and industry development.

Open Sourcing Digital Archive Storage Technology - […]

In the latest Innovating@Sun podcast, Dr. Eric Allen, principal investigator in the Programming Language Research Group at Sun Labs, discusses the features and benefits of Fortress 1.0 - Sun’s new programming language for high-performance computing.
The podcast covers the following:

Fortress’ high programmer productivity design

Features including syntax and parallelism and why these will be useful for targeting […]

In the webcast “Sorting Out Solaris Releases” Dan Roberts, director of Solaris & OpenSolaris Marketing, and Larry Wake, Solaris Group marketing manager, discuss the different versions of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) with particular emphasis on variations between the Solaris 10 OS and the Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE).The 10-minute Sun Net Talk also […]