Wednesday April 23, 2008
Wednesday April 23, 2008 | Sun is
named one
of InfoWorld's top "Green 15" companies in the publication's first
annual competition. The article praises Sun for its dedication to
innovation with respect to power capacity and energy efficiency. According to the article, "Thanks to a massive datacenter consolidation, hardware refresh, and creative, energy-efficient facility design, Sun has reduced power capacity demand by 75 percent at its Santa Clara, Calif., datacenter alone, saving $1.1 million per year in energy costs, while increasing its datacenter processing power more than four times. Overall, Sun estimates that its consolidation efforts will save 4,100 tons of CO2 per year and cut 1 percent from its total carbon footprint." |
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Thursday April 03, 2008 | Last week,
the Sun Modular Datacenter S20, aka Project Blackbox,
made a stop in
Washington DC (it was housed in the South Parking Lot of the Pentagon!). This week, the results are in from this year's Government Computer News (GCN) Best of FOSE awards -- the annual competition designating the best new products showcased at the annual FOSE Conference and Exposition, being held this week in Washington. And our Project Blackbox is a WINNER. YEAY!!!  |
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Tuesday March 18, 2008 | Two weeks
after publishing
the list of "America's Most Admired" companies, Fortune has published
the "World's Most Admired"
companies for 2008. As with the America's listing, our scores improved in EVERY category. Sun's ranking within the Computers category jumped from #8 to #6 this year and our overall score improved .47 of a point. The improvement over last 2 years is equally impressive, including a 7 place rise in Innovation, a 6 position jump in Financial Soundness and Long-term investment and a 5 position jump in our rank among computer companies, people management and global competitiveness. Our 2008, 2007 and 2006 scores/rankings are below. Again, improvements galore...
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Friday March 07, 2008 | Fortune
Magazine has recently published the list of "America's Most Admired
Companies." Our ranking
within the Computers category jumped from #7 in the Contenders list in
2007 to #5 in the Most Admired list. Our rankings improved in nearly every category. The most dramatic improvements include a 3 position jump in both Quality of Management and Use of Corporate Assets as well as a 2 position increase in Innovation and People Management categories. Our 2008 and 2007 scores/rankings are below. Improvements galore, and nice to know that everybody is noticing our turnaround.
In other news, Employer's Group honored Sun as a Top 20 Best Place to Work in California. |
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Friday February 22, 2008 | We have won
several honors this week... Sun is ranked #19 in CRO Magazine's 2008 100 Best Corporate Citizens. We are recognized for our transparency and the philosophy of "Innovate, Act, Share," as well as our continued practice of openness through innovation while driving economic and social progress worldwide. In other news, Sun was named to Fast Company magazine's list of the "Top 50 Innovative Companies." (Note that this was a listing of Top 50 and not a ranking among them.) |
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Friday February 08, 2008 | This week
is the Chinese Lunar New Year... and what a way to
start off the new year! CNET TV posted a video clip reporting on the Top 5 Best Downloads of 2007 showcasing "the downloads you should start saving to your hard drive right now!" Topping their list is OpenOffice.org! |
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Tom Merritt, executive editor at CNET, comments, "I use it everyday instead of Microsoft Office and I don't have any issues with it... Of coarse I don't have any issues with it, I wrote the script for this show and you can't beat it!" He adds that what makes it great is that it's compatible with the Microsoft format and it's entirely free.
So, what are you waiting for...
Wednesday January 16, 2008 Yesterday Developer.com announced the winners of its Product of the Year 2008 awards. Sun is a HUGH winner -- our products won in six out of the eleven categories !!!
We have won
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First InfoWorld awards, then SearchDataCenter.com awards, and now this! What a great year!!!
Congratulations to all the winning teams.
You guys ROCK!!!
Tuesday January 15, 2008 | Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5120
and T5220
servers were named
SearchDataCenter.com's "the
best data center products of 2007" in the category of servers with
four processors or less. These UltraSPARC T2 processor-based servers double the number of processing threads and increase floating point capabilities eight times over the previous generation, and are the first servers to integrate 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology and I/O directly on the chip. Judged on criteria including ease of integration into existing environments, innovation and value, SearchDataCenter.com notes the energy efficiency and performance per watt of the systems as well as the "free virtualization capabilities with Solaris Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms) that help keep IT costs low." Additionally, SearchDataCenter.com highlights the systems for using "the same chassis, power supplies, disks and fans are used on the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Intel Corp. processor-based variants of the servers, and the remote management capabilities are compatible with Sun's x64 family of servers, with standardized interfaces that are backwards compatible with the previous generation of SPARC remote management facilities." This new year is turning out exceptionally good for Sun products...
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Monday January 07, 2008 In a very impressive achievement, Sun received three 2008 Technology of the Year awards from InfoWorld today. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the Technology of the Year awards recognize the most groundbreaking, most valuable products in IT, as evaluated by InfoWorld in 2007.
| First, in the platforms category, Sun Solaris 10 took home "Most Innovative Server OS." InfoWorld claims, "No server operating system satisfies more varied requirements or boasts a wider range of brilliant features," praising the ZFS file system, DTrace and Solaris Containers features. They also note, "it's simply the most innovative version of a server operating system this decade." |  |
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Next, in the hardware category, the Sun Fire X4500 was awarded "Best Storage Server." Paul Venezia reviewed the product in July 2007, highlighting many of the key features -- including 48 SATA drives in a single 4U chassis accompanying a dual-Opteron server with two PCI-X slots -- and noting the product "will certainly make waves." |
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Finally, ZFS itself won an
award
for "Best File System" in the storage category. InfoWorld says the Sun
solution's fluidity, malleability and scalability "far surpass any file
system available now on any platform." The award links to Paul
Venezia's very postive review in June 2007 and closes by saying ZFS is
an "amazingly well-thought-out and nicely implemented solution."
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Wednesday November 14, 2007 HPCwire, the leading source for global news and information covering the high performance computing, announced the winners of HPCwire's annual Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards at the 2007 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC07) in Reno, Nevada yesterday.
Sun has won two awards here:
Editors' Choice Award for Best Price/Performance HPC Storage Technology or Product: Sun Fire X4500 Server
Editors' Choice Award: Top 5 Companies to Watch in 2008: Sun Microsystems
Congratulations to ALL!!!
Wednesday September 12, 2007 InfoWorld recognized NetBeans as the best open source IDE, as part of its first annual Best of Open Source or "Bossie" award. The award recognizes NetBeans, as opposed to Eclipse, because it has out-innovated Eclipse and "has hewn closely to the vision of a lightweight, responsive, and easily configurable IDE." The article further states, "For its commitment to quality over quantity and for the courage to rip and replace modules to improve developer productivity, we salute the NetBeans team and its stellar IDE. NetBeans wins the Bossie."
This is the second Bossie won by Sun. ZFS won another for "Best of Open Source for Storage."
Tuesday September 11, 2007 | Today
InfoWorld awarded ZFS
its
Best of Open Source, or "Bossie" award
for storage. The award, selected by the InfoWorld's test center staff
based on past reviews, recognizes the innovative capabilities of ZFS,
including scalability and easy administration, and the reflection of
these features in OpenSolaris.
Like the first review,
Paul praises ZFS
again, stating: "ZFS is the
best file system we've ever seen, and it
belongs to the open source community." In other news, Solaris 10 8/07 has just become available. This update has lots of new features, check it out. |
Get Solaris on the Inside(Even if it says HP, IBM or
Dell
on the outside...)
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Tuesday September 04, 2007 Computerworld recognizes Sun's Laboratories' Project MPK20 in its annual Horizon Awards. MPK20 is a virtual 3-D environment in which remote employees can accomplish work, share documents and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Based on a Java-based game engine for creating a virtual world, MPK is an abbreviation for Menlo Park (Sun's physical campus). The MPK20 software is built on top of Sun Labs' Project Darkstar infrastructure - a server platform designed for multiplayer games.
Monday August 20, 2007 | SYS-CON Media announced the winners and finalists of its 2007 Java Developer’s Journal Readers’ Choice Awards, which recognize the best products and tools for Java technologies in 29 categories. Sun earned wins in three categories (Best Java Technical Article, Best Java Virtual Machine and Best Java Web Service Toolkit) and had over 20 citations as finalists for the remaining categories. | 
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Wednesday July 18, 2007 We have won several awards recently...
On July 3rd, SYS-CON Media announced 2007 SOA World Reader's Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best tools, solutions, and education offerings in a total of 20 categories. Winners were selected through reader-submitted nominations, followed by online voting at SOAWorld. Sun software was among the winners in 11 categories:
-- Best App Server: Java System Application Server, Sun Microsystems
-- Best Framework: Java Web Services Developer Pack, Sun Microsystems
-- Best IDE: NetBeans 5.0
-- Best Portal Platform: Java System Portal Server, Sun Microsystems
-- Best Security Solution: XML and Web Services Security (XWS-Security) 2.0, Sun Microsystems
-- Best SOA/Web Services Platform: Java EE, Sun Microsystems
-- Best Tool/Platform: NetBeans 5.0
-- Best Web Services or XML Site: Sun Developer Network, Sun Microsystems
-- Best Web Services or XML Training: XML and Web Services Security (XWS-Security) 2.0, Sun Microsystems
-- Best Web Services Utility: Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3 Sun Microsystems
-- Best XML Parser: Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3, Sun Microsystem
In other news, Sun Microsystems was named one of the winners in Manufacturing Automation's 2007 Progressive Manufacturing Awards.
Finally, Sun reclaims the second-place position behind Hitachi Data Systems in the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for enterprise arrays. According to the piece, “Sun rebounded nicely in the 2007 survey, rising from 2006's last-place finish to second this year. Sun's systems had scored well in 2005 (second), but Sun was the apparent victim of organizational upheaval following the StorageTek acquisition in 2006 … Sun's 1.18 was the biggest one-year jump [in scores].”