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Startup FireEye made its debut, announcing plans to ship a switch-based network-access control appliance next month that will let customers identify network-borne malware and attacks in order to quickly contain them.

Sun Microsystems warned us: You can interview CEO Scott McNealy, but don't ask about the financials, which Sun said will include up to an US$810 million (AUD$1,072m) loss for the latest quarter. We more or less stuck to technology and strategy questions, though interviewers Deni Connor and Jennifer Mears still managed to get a rise out of McNealy.

Sun Microsystems made its name selling big, powerful boxes. But as the economy forced corporations to clamp down on spending, Sun watched its revenue slide with computer systems revenue down nearly 16 percent in fiscal 2003 compared with the year before. Buyers turned toward lower-priced, Intel-based servers, and in response Sun, which once shunned the boxes, rolled out low-end x86 servers of its own. Today, Sun is focused on offering more than hardware. At next week's SunNetwork 2003 Conference, expect to hear about packaged offerings from Sun that combine hardware, software and services to meet specific business needs. Jennifer Mears recently sat down with Neil Knox, executive vice president volume systems, and Clark Masters, executive vice president and general manager, enterprise systems, to hear about how the future of Sun's server business fits into its overall strategy.

Sun Microsystems's acquisition of Redwood City, California, software company CenterRun Inc. will fill a critical hole in Sun's N1 software strategy, customers said on Thursday.

IBM will add new "orchestrated provisioning" tools to some of its software, hardware and service offerings through the acquisition of Toronto-based software vendor Think Dynamics.

Sun recently took the wraps off its newest storage management platform, which promises a "fundamental change" in the way customers deploy and manage storage. From where I sit, this is worth checking into for any Sun shop of significant size or computing infrastructure.

Sun Microsystems is attempting to expand the definition of its self-styled "network is the computer" moniker.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will unfurl a laundry list of new products at a press conference in San Francisco on Tuesday morning (Pacific Time) including the N1 Data Platform, a system for managing storage resources that forms the second part of its N1 data center management initiative.

Sun Microsystems recently made some announcements about its N1 data-center management plan.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will give users the first look at its N1 hardware and software management technology on new blade servers that should arrive by the first quarter of next year, executives said during a briefing on Monday.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday provided analysts with a glimpse into its finances for the current quarter, predicting that it would meet revenue estimates despite a challenging market for sales of its server hardware.