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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 […]

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 […]

Sun will be incorporating Symantec’s storage virtualization software into some of its products to advance archiving and e-discovery capabilities, announced Symantec Chairman and CEO John Thompson during the Symantec Vision 08 conference being held in Las Vegas this week.
“Sun will be using our storage virtualization software for energy conservation, archiving and e-discovery purposes,” Thompson said, […]

The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is a best practice blueprint based on proven Oracle high-availability technologies and recommendations. Learn how to optimize an MAA cofiguration in an Oracle White Paper that explains how to transition an Oracle E-Business Suite application to an MAA configuration on the Solaris Operating System
The white paper describes how to […]

OpenSolaris Build 90 allows multiple products, protocols and device types to be supported by any Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)-based server with a common framework - COMSTAR or the COmmon Multiprotocol SCSI TARget.
This OpenSolaris project provides a software framework enabling any OpenSolaris host to be turned into a SCSI target storage device, which can be […]