Stories about: Sun Professional Services

December is a relatively slow time of year at MLB Advanced Media, the company that brings you the official Major League Baseball Web sites. From pitch-by-pitch accounts of games to streaming audio and video -- plus news, schedules, statistics and more -- it has baseball covered. Doing so requires serious horsepower, so much so that the company's Manhattan data center is pretty much tapped out in terms of space and power, according to Ryan Nelson, director of operations for the firm. Strategic use of virtualization technology enabled him nevertheless to forge ahead with implementing new products during the 2007 season, and promises to smooth a shift to a new data center in Chicago in time for the 2008 season.

Sun Microsystems Inc. next month will release an instant messaging server that will become the foundation component of the company’s real-time collaborative business platform.

Implementation of a new hardware and software data centre environment is under way at Macquarie University, as part of a five-year multimillion dollar deal which will deliver Web services to students, staff and partners.

Sun Professional Services has expanded its reseller agreement with BMC Software to include Incontrol, Control-M and Patrol applications to target Sun's e-business customers.

ASX-listed Thin Technologies, a retail industry-based B2B ASP, is nearing the release of a range of point of sale (POS) software developed in conjunction with Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Sun Professional Services has expanded its reseller agreement with BMC Software to include Incontrol, Control-M and Patrol applications to target Sun's e-business customers.

When you're hot you're hot, and a bunch of vibrant Australian companies that have recently been on a roll are approaching white heat with especially strong performances on the export trail.