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Sun Unveils New Systems Powered By Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors
Sun announced the availability of its first Sun Fire and Sun Blade systems powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors, bringing new capabilities, increased performance and expanded scalability to customers that purchase or upgrade to these quad-core systems. The Sun Fire X4140, Sun Fire X4240 and Sun Fire X4440 servers, the newest systems to join Sun's extensive x64 (x86, 64-bit) server line, give customers industry-leading energy efficiency, density and scalability powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and a choice of operating systems, including the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), OpenSolaris operating system, Linux, Windows and VMware.
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Escape proprietary lock-in, join the Sun Open Storage revolution
Sun Signals New Stage in Open Storage Revolution with New Developer Tools and Expanded Open Storage Services; Moves Further Strengthen One of World's Fastest Growing Open Source Communities.
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Find out how you can reduce storage costs by 90%, free yourself from vendor lock-in, and much more »
Sun Introduces OpenSolaris - Free, Open, Easy-to-Integrate With World-Class Support and Unique Features to Fuel Innovation
Open Source Operating System Provides an Innovative, Easy-to-Use, Development and Deployment Platform for Web 2.0; Amazon and Reliant Security First to Market with OpenSolaris Solutions.
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Anything But a Flash in the Pan Tuesday Jun 10, 2008
There are only two kinds of storage devices - those that have failed, and those that are about to fail. That's the view most datacenters have about the traditionally mechanical devices pejoratively referred to as "spinning rust." All disk drives fail, cheap drives fail faster.
If the average time to fail is five years, you and your laptop can make do with the occasional backup. But when an average enterprise has 100, or 1,000, or increasingly 10,000 or 100,000 individual disk drives, failure is a daily, if not hourly occurrence. Mechanical devices fail.
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Sun xVM VirtualBox Breaks Five Million Download Mark; First Free, Open Source Hypervisor to Offer Support for All Major Operating Systems
Sun Continues to Improve Comprehensive Family of xVM Virtualization Offerings; VirtualBox 1.6 Includes 2,000 Enhancements, Improved Scalability and Web Services. With xVM VirtualBox software, end users can access their favorite software using any operating system and developers can easily build, test and run cross-platform, multi-tier applications on a single laptop or desktop computer. xVM VirtualBox 1.6 software is the first free hypervisor to support all major host operating systems (OS), including Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris and OpenSolaris.
The software can be downloaded free of charge, learn how »
Sun Introduces New Open Archive Solutions to Better Solve Explosive Data Growth Challenges for Customers
Announcing innovative, scalable, open archive solutions and technologies.
Get MySQL: Be one of the 60,000 downloads a day
Many of the world's largest and fastest-growing organizations use MySQL to save time and money powering their high-volume Web sites and business-critical systems. MySQL supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs.
Sun's 2007 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
This report highlights Sun's practices that drive environmental, economic and social progress worldwide.
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