Sun Microsystems

Multi-City Tour Offers Training on Developing Web-Scale Social Apps on the Cloud

SANTA CLARA, CA July 23, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Joyent Inc. today announced a collaboration that will accelerate the development and deployment of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. Providing up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost.    » read more »

Releases Open Source Java System Web Server into the OpenSolaris Community

PORTLAND, OR OSCON 2008, July 23, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA), today announced the availability of the Sun Web Stack, a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack for Solaris and Linux operating systems. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services.    » read more »

Industry's First Enterprise Support For Open Source Identity Management and Web Single Sign-on Software

PORTLAND, OR OSCON 2008, July 23, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is the world's largest open source, identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services capabilities.    » read more »

Sun, Media Grid and Leading Education Institutions Hold First Virtual Demonstration of Project Wonderland for Immersive Education

SANTA CLARA, CA June 25, 2008 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced the first demonstration of Project Wonderland, its open source virtual world platform for the education community. At the virtual event last week, members of the academic and IT communities explored secure and flexible virtual learning environments created by Boston College, the University of Essex, the University of Oregon and Saint Paul College, pioneer users of the platform for educational purposes.    » read more »

Pre-built, field-tested solutions reduce security complexity, risk and cost

LONDON April 2, 2008 -- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA), Inc. today unveiled new technology solutions, which make it easier and less costly for businesses and governments to protect their information systems from growing security threats.

Global organizations need to exchange information among employees, customers and partners in real time, while at the same time protecting and managing access to their mission-critical assets. This rise in globalization, coupled with increased threats and compliance requirements, has placed significant demands on identity management systems.    » read more »

LAS VEGAS, Nev. October 9, 2007 Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today unveiled new UltraSPARC T2-based servers that deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, increased system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers and Sun Blade T6320 modules deliver the compute power of 64 individual systems on a single server or blade and beat competing RISC servers on web-tier tasks by over 4x while maintaining 6x better performance per watt.    » read more »

- Innovative Design Delivers High Performance, Eco-Efficient Servers With Virtualization Built-in
- New Systems on Solaris Deliver Higher Performance in 1/4 the Space at Nearly 1/4 the Cost of Competitive RISC Systems, Enable Customers to Meet Peak Web Scale Demand