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Sun Microsystems Acquires Q-layer To Expand Cloud Computing OfferingsOpen in New Window
Sun Microsystems is elevating its presence in the cloud with the acquisition of Belgium-based Q-layer, which is in the business of automation of cloud computing deployments. Q-layer will become part read more »
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The security imperativeOpen in New Window
"Leslie Lambert, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to India with a few souvenirs and a whole new set of IT secu read more »
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Did Sun just make mySQL closed source?Open in New Window
Dana Blankenhorn responds to mySQL competitor's accusations that Sun Microsystems has taken mySQL in a closed source direction. read more »
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Sun Plans for its Data Centers to Cease by 2015.Open in New Window
Sun Microsystems has announced its intent to phase out its data centers by 2015, instead focusing on delivering on-demand utility computing, creating comparisons between computing power and electrici read more »
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Sun Launches Virtual Assault on Virtual Machine Market.Open in New Window
Sun Microsystems is launching itself into the virtualization market with the announcement of a new product line called xVM which will include $2 billion in research and development. This is somewhat read more »
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ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML.Open in New Window
The coalition behind the ODF format, currently mainly utilized by Sun Microsystem's open source OpenOffice.Org has seen splintering and Mary Jo Foley writes about the possibility that open source co read more »
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Sun's ZFS is close to perfect, but widely misunderstoodOpen in New Window
Sun Microsystem's has developed a revolutionary and widely hailed file system called ZFS, however according to Tom Yager this FS is widely misunderstood. read more »
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Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes on.Open in New Window
Apple is utilizing an open source file system designed by Sun Microsystems called ZFS in upcoming Mac OS releases according to Robin Harris over at ZDNet. This new file system offers significant adva read more »
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