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Government Computer News reports that Sun MD (”Project BlackBox”) received a Best Of FOSE Award.

See Sun’s website for details of the Sun Modular Datacenter S20

IDC has made a “multi-media whitepaper”, sponsored by Sun, on HPC available at:

http://idc.cycloneinteractive.net/sun_iview/sun_iview_v03.html

Earl Joseph, from IDC, delivers an interesting overview of the HPC marketplace.
IDC is estimating that the HPC market will grow about $B/year - from $11B in 2007 to about $15.5B in 2011
“In IDC’s view, Sun Microsystems is one […]

United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) will be working with Sun and the OpenSolaris community to develop security enhancements to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature. The plan is to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security […]

virtualization.info has posted an interview with Steve Wilson, “Sun xVM Server and Ops Center Q&A with Steve Wilson“.
Some of the key points that Steve makes in the interview are:

Sun is a player in the virtualization space
Sun xVM Server includes a number of datacenter-grade features borrowed from Solaris that give xVM Server a set of highly […]

Solaris 10 has now been shipping for three years. In addition to the initial release, which began shipping January 2005, there have been four more releases. The current release, “Solaris 10 8/07″ or “Update 4″, has been in production for 5 months.
To say that Solaris 10 has been successful would be an understatement. The […]

Sun will be offering three models of Crossroads Systems, Inc.’s SurePath ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) in France.
The simple plug-and-play appliance fully integrates with Sun’s platform for pro-active protection of business-critical information through monitoring, alerting, and reporting on the performance, utilization, and health of tape libraries, drives, and media.
Models of RVA being offered by Sun France include:

RV50f, […]

There are five security controls in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) that Sun Distinguished Engineer Glenn Brunette identifies as the most direct and of immediate value to users:
1. Network Secure by Default (SBD): “SBD can be selected at install time (for initial installs) or post-installation time (for upgrades and when you just want […]

Learn more about the role of identity and policy management in the creation of an enterprise-wide SOA governance strategy in a January 10th webinar featuring speakers from the Burton Group, Layer 7 Technologies, and Sun.
Anne Thomas Manes, VP and research director with Burton Group, Dr. Toufic Boubez, CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, and Ross Altman, […]

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Sun is one of six companies that has passed Liberty Alliance’s full matrix SAML 2.0 interoperability testing and the US GSA SAML 2.0 profile, meeting the prerequisite interoperability requirements for participating in the US E-Authentication Identity Federation.
Sun Java System Federated Access Manager 8.0 was noted as providing comprehensive access management, federation, and web services security […]