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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Cool Stack Version 1.3 is now available for download and offers multiple component upgrades as well as the following new additions:
- Python 2.5.2
- nginx 0.6.31
- libxslt 1.1.22
- fontconfig 2.4.2
- mod_security apache 2.5.3
- mod_python 3.3.1
- mod_ruby 1.2.6
- mod_dtrace 0.3a
- memcache php extension 2.2.3
- xdebug php extension 2.0.3
- tcpwrap php extension 1.0
- perl Compress::Zlib
- mysql ruby gems […]

A new Internet radio program from Sun called “Innovation Insider” will be featuring discussions with industry innovators on a variety of topics. This coming Friday, June 13th, Sun Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos will be talking about current trends in PC gaming and answer questions from listeners during the show hosted on blogtalkradio.com.
Tune in between […]

The latest version of Sun’s service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software, Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6 has been released with these enhancements:
- Sun Java ESB Suite: Based on Open ESB and JBI, the Sun Java ESB Suite is a completely open and modular platform that enables the rapid creation of […]

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.