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Jeff Cheeney, Storage facilitator, recently posted a ” Storage Community Annual Report“  in which he included these quick facts:

Projects

  36 approved & live
  5 approved, not live - waiting for web pages to be created
  […]

A new  “McNealy Minute” audio podcast features Scott McNealy talking with Mike Zafirovski, President & CEO of Nortel, on
“… the future of education, and how Sun, Nortel and others are working together to eliminate the digital divide by providing better access to knowledge through network technology, open systems and sharing.”
Sun has a long history in […]

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 […]

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 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.

New server and storage platforms along with Sun Streaming Software Release 2 are now part of the Sun Streaming System product portfolio, and Sun now claims with these new platforms it is offering the industry’s broadest scalability and flexibility to service providers building out new video delivery networks.
“The Sun Streaming System is the only streaming […]

A free download of Rod Snevely’s 220-page book, “Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology” is now available.
Contents:

Data Center Design Philosophy
Data Center Design Criteria
Designing a Data Center
Determining Data Center Capacities
Site Selection
Implementing a Raised Floor
7. Power Distribution
HVAC and Other Environmental Controls
Network Cabling Infrastructure
Shipping, Receiving, and Staging
Avoiding Hazards
Environmental Contaminants
Codes and Construction

A. Managing System Configurations
B. Bibliography and References

Sun has been developing a high-end SPARC processor with the codename Rock. One of Sun’s top engineers Marc Tremblay, delivered a paper at the ISSCC 2008 conference where he confirmed that Rock based systems would ship in the “second half of 2009“.
A brief technical summary of Marc Tremblay’s ISSCC presentation is available on ars technica […]

Every year Sun puts on a major event for financial analysts. By carefully explaining Sun’s strategy, technology, products and it’s view of the market, Sun hopes that the analysts will understand why Sun is relevant and they should recommend that their clients invest in Sun.
Sun puts a huge effort into this event and to their […]

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Servers (Future): Rock

Sun Completes Tape Out of […]