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What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today’s video for a trip down memory lane. And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today! John Fowler, executive vice president at Sun Microsystems, invited us over for a press conference where they announced their new blade server 6200 […]
SANTA CLARA, Calif. September 25, 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. introduced its first quad-core x64 (x86, 64-bit) systems, including the world’s smallest four-socket x64 server — which delivers up to twice the expandability and compute power as other servers, yet is half the size. The Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers, powered by Quad-Core […]
This special edition of Innovating@Sun focuses on innovation in the work place. Workplaces and workspaces around the world are changing rapidly to accommodate more globalism, take advantage of new networking technologies, and to cater to the needs and expectations of a workforce eager to be efficient, productive, and eco-conscious. Hal Stern, vice president of Global […]
Sun Microsystems, KGO radio, and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. were a formidable foe to eco-apathy at an environmental education event, Eco-Live, at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center Saturday. Kennedy drew a rapt crowd for his keynote address, which played out the theme that good environmental policy is good economic policy. Sun Microsystems, […]
Sun Microsystems has unveiled the world’s only application utility that enables on-demand delivery of HPC (high-performance computing) applications over the network. Called Sun Grid Application Catalog, and available through network.com, the utility offers immediate pay-per-use access to 20 unique open source applications with more expected from the 50-100 communities participating. Host Hal Stern invites VP […]
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems announced its plans to enter the online gaming realm. In this podcast, PodTech’s Rio Pesino speaks with Sun’s Chris Melissinos, Seth Proctor and Jonathan Kaplan about its open source, online game server platform, Project Darkstar, which is written entirely in Java. The trio also discuss […]
Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini took the stage in San Francisco Monday to announce a new alliance. Listen here for the audio of the entire presentation and the Q&A session. Transcript: Guest: Jonathan Schwartz – Sun Guest: Paul Otellini – Intel Jonathan Schwartz – Sun Well, good morning everybody. I think […]
Jean Bozman is research vice president of the enterprise computing group at IDC. In this podcast, recorded at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco, she shares her thoughts on the just-announced Sun/Intel strategic alliance. Transcript: Host: Paul Lancour – PodTech Guest: Jean Bozman – IDC Paul Lancour – PodTech Sun Microsystems and Intel Corporation […]
Sun Microsystems and Intel announced an alliance in which Intel endorses Sun’s Solaris operating system and Sun will produce servers and workstations based on Intel’s Xeon processor. Paul Lancour spoke with Sun’s John Fowler and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger about this landmark agreement. Related Stories: IntelMooresLaw Transcript: Host: Paul Lancour – PodTech Guest: John Fowler – […]
Yesterday I sat down with Sun Microsystems‘ CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, and Tim Marsland, Sun’s CTO in charge of Solaris, and had a wide-ranging discussion from his pitch to Steve Jobs as to why Apple should include the Java runtimes on the new iPhone to Schwartz’ surviving a train wreck back in the 1980s and how […]
SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Sun Microsystems announced this morning it’s released Netbeans 5.5, the latest version of its Integrated Development Environment. Netbeans 5.5 is a platform for developing applications using Sun’s Java programming language. The Santa Clara company also said today it’s created a Strategic Partner program for companies that are […]
Dave Douglas, vice president of advanced technology at Sun Microsystems, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the live unveiling of Project Blackbox, Sun’s high capacity, highly transportable “data center in a box,” or at least a standard 20 foot shipping container. More from the press conference More images on Flickr
At their headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Sun Microsystems presented the prototype for the “data center in a box,” or Project Blackbox, a portable data system that needs only power, a chilled water source and an internet connection. Listen to the live announcement of Project Blackbox, including the press conference and unveiling ceremony. More coverage […]
A discussion on the next evolution of Sun‘s CoolThreads processor (code-named Niagara 2) with Rick Hetherington, chief architect for the Niagara program, and Gary Peterson, director for the Niagara program.
Sun Microsystems’ Bryan Cantrill, senior staff engineer with the Solaris Kernel Development Group, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to discuss DTrace, a debugging feature in Solaris 10. For more information visit www.sun.com.
Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and security, as well as virtual tape. Speaking with PodTech Founder John Furrier, they also discussed […]
Sun Microsystems David Profozich, vice president for software, took some time at Sun’s recent announcement event in New York to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. According to Profozich, Solaris 10 is much healthier than it was just 18 months ago. He sees the changes at Sun as transformational, with new innovations driving a revival […]
John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is changing — including the x64 Systems, UltraSPARC Servers and Solaris 10 OS — as re-investment […]
Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s past two quarters of growth, (which are also Schwartz’s first two quarters at Sun’s helm), […]
Sun continues to achieve innovation excellence as demonstrated by its SunFire X4500 Server that combines a powerful four-way x64 server with up 24 TB of storage. PodTech’s Michael Johnson sits down with Sun’s Hanxi Chen and discovers there are countless ways to utilize this latest server technology. Listen to how this is an ideal system […]