Sun news from Network World

A look at Sun's VirtualBox

2008-07-19T00:00:00Z

Virtualization continues to be a big topic among Mac users with Intel-powered Macs. Products from Parallels and VMware allow you to easily run many different operating systems on your Mac, each within its own protected virtual environment. Recently, a third player entered the market--Sun, with its VirtualBox product.

Sun Microsystems to focus on Africa

2008-07-18T00:00:00Z

Sun Microsystems will focus special attention on Africa under a new emerging markets sales geography, which the company expects to drive accelerated expansion and sales coverage across growing markets.

IBM and Sun each claim to develop 'first' 1TB tape drive

Jon Brodkin — 2008-07-15T00:00:00Z

Both IBM and Sun this week claim to have developed the "first one terabyte storage tape drive," but Sun will get its drive on the market a little bit sooner than IBM.

Sun lays off approximately 1,000 employees

2008-07-14T00:00:00Z

Following through on a restructuring plan announced in May, Sun on Thursday laid off approximately 1,000 employees in the United States and Canada.

Sun and Fujitsu give Sparc servers a speed bump

James Niccolai — 2008-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Computer Systems have updated their jointly developed family of Sparc Enterprise Servers with a new quad-core processor.

Sprint's Instinct: It's iPhone-ish!

Keith Shaw — 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z

Sprint's Instinct smartphone has some features that make it stand out against the iPhone, but not enough to surpass it.

Sun expands storage lineup

Stephen Lawson — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

With many organizations scrambling to meet exploding demand for storage capacity without constantly expanding their IT staffs, Sun Microsystems continues to push open-source software as a solution, along with a new series of storage arrays and a hybrid server-storage platform.

Samsung puts 128GB SSDs into mass production

Sumner Lemon — 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z

Samsung Electronics is mass producing solid-state drives with a 128G-byte capacity, and will begin production of a 256G-byte product later this year, the company said Wednesday.

Sun claims million-messages-per-second trading system

Ellen Messmer — 2008-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sun Microsystems Tuesday announced it has broken the million-message-per-second barrier for Thomson Reuters Market Data System used by Wall Street traders.

Flash storage gets enterprise attention as prices decline

Jon Brodkin — 2008-06-25T00:00:00Z

It seems everyone is talking about flash memory, a type of solid-state storage that offers faster and more energy-efficient performance than rotating disk drives. The downside is that it's about 20 times more expensive than high-performance Fibre Channel drives, but that's where the popularity of USB sticks and the iPod comes in.

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2004-04-12T00:00:00Z

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