Saturday | 5 July, 2008
Stories about: Sun Microsystems
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Energy Star for servers may be ready by year-end, EPA says 03/07/2008 10:38:33
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more comprehensive system that measures actual workloads will take longer to develop. - +
Making desktop Linux work for business 02/07/2008 09:11:54
Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP. Upgrade costs associated with Vista, coupled with the ever-escalating cost of application licenses, make switching to desktop Linux an increasingly attractive option. - +
Sun's 'Open Work' program sheds light on telecommute savings 01/07/2008 09:43:16
Sun Microsystems is an old hand when it comes to telework. The technology company has been growing its telecommuting ranks through its Open Work program for a decade, and today nearly 19,000 employees (56 per cent of Sun's population) work from home or in a flexible office. - +
Microsoft Hyper-V gets a seat at the big table 30/06/2008 11:05:01
Microsoft announced on Thursday that Hyper-V was released to manufacturing, and then about two seconds later the media frenzy began. - +
Data centers explore novel ways to cut energy use 30/06/2008 09:10:37
Putting data centers on decommissioned ships and reusing hot water from cooling systems to fill the town swimming pool were among the wackier ideas floated at the Data Center Energy Summit last week. - +
Sun sponsors social apps platform 30/06/2008 08:34:43
Sun Microsystems is sponsoring a collaborative environment for building and hosting social applications that would run on environments like Facebook and OpenSocial. - +
Sun announces 'unlimited' GlassFish-MySQL bundle 30/06/2008 07:06:19
Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle. - +
Sun counsel: Settlement talks with NetApp fail 27/06/2008 11:17:13
Sun Microsystems' legal counsel disclosed in the blogosphere Thursday that efforts to settle a patent infringement lawsuit filed against the firm by NetApp have so far been unsuccessful. - +
Microsoft sees little datacentres everywhere 27/06/2008 09:07:55
Portable data centers will be key to supporting the surging demand for online services, but equipment vendors need to start designing products especially for them, a Microsoft engineer said Wednesday. - +
Coming soon: A laptop in your pocket 26/06/2008 10:38:41
Your laptop is likely to soon go the way of 5.25-in. floppy disks, made obsolete by smaller, more useful technology: the smart phone. - +
Flash storage gets enterprise attention as prices decline 26/06/2008 09:59:16
The little USB stick on your keychain and the memory in your iPod is fueling a revolution in the enterprise storage world.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
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This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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