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Monday March 24, 2008 Today Sun announced a deal with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by silicon photonics and proximity communication. Translation: It's like a supercomputer on a chip.
This technology will allow applications like energy exploration, biotechnology and weather modeling to be accomplished with less power use and less expensive investment in silicon.
The contract with DARPA extends for five and a half years, with more than $44M of funding coming to Sun.
John Markoff of the New York Times covered it in today's edition. Check out his article here.
Wednesday March 05, 2008 Today Fortune Magazine published its "America's Most Admired Companies" list
online. Sun’s ranking within the computers industry jumped to #5 on the admired list
and our scores improved by nearly every measure. Among the
most dramatic improvements included a jump of three places in the quality
of management and use of corporate assets categories as well as a two position
increase people management. We scored #2 in innovation, a great nod to our focus on innovation across our products and operations.
Way to go, Sun!
See what one of our colleagues is saying about the win here.
Thursday May 03, 2007 The pay-per-use Sun Grid Compute Utility service from Network.com is now available in 24 countries. The users, developers, and ISVs from selected countries in Europe, Asia and Australia can now join Network.com. The full list of countries are available in the announcement.
We have also added new features that expand the power of Sun Grid Compute Utility. The Network.com Internet Access feature enables applications running in Network.com to securely access external data and services over the Internet. This feature allows applications running on Sun Grid Compute Utility to access data irrespective of its location on the Internet, and opens the possibility for ISVs and developers to offer new services that are mashups of data and services from multiple sources.
Finally, we are announcing limited Beta program for developers to try out the new Network.com Job Management APIs. The APIs provide programmatic access for the most commonly used tasks such as transferring data, applications and results to and from the Sun Grid Compute Utility. The APIs enable integration of Network.com into the enterprise data center.
Users signing up for a Network.com account will get 200 CPU-hrs free for a limited time.
Wednesday June 07, 2006 We are now featureing customer reviews and ratings directly from product pages at sun.com. Presently, any user can post a review of our T1000, T2000, X4100 and X4200 servers as well as StarOffice 8. We are going to expand this capability to all of our offerings.
Check out more thoughts on this from the Reviews Interactive blog.
Chhandomay
Wednesday May 24, 2006
StarOffice 8 is the
Productivity
Applications category winner in the Sixth Annual
eWEEK Excellence
Awards program. It is one of most
prestigeous
awards in the IT industry as the winners are chosen by a panel of
experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate
Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader
representatives.
I had the honor to accept the award on behalf of Sun. The
award ceremony was at the Copley Place in Boston yesterday. Check this
out from Reviews Interactive
for the event details and pictures.
Monday May 15, 2006
Hello and welcome to the "On The Record" blog from the PR team at Sun
Microsystems.
This site is designed to provide media and other interested parties a place to not only find the latest information from Sun, but provide Sun's responses to items of interest and make our public relations staff more available.
Since the members of this site are all official Sun spokespersons, all of the content on this site that comes from a Sun person is public information and can be used by member of the media without restriction.
You can also contact us directly about items you're interested in or give us feedback on our postings.
We look forward to hearing from you. If you've got questions, click on my e-mail address below.
Russ Castronovo
Director
Sun Products and Services PR
russ.castronovo@sun.com
This site is designed to provide media and other interested parties a place to not only find the latest information from Sun, but provide Sun's responses to items of interest and make our public relations staff more available.
Since the members of this site are all official Sun spokespersons, all of the content on this site that comes from a Sun person is public information and can be used by member of the media without restriction.
You can also contact us directly about items you're interested in or give us feedback on our postings.
We look forward to hearing from you. If you've got questions, click on my e-mail address below.
Russ Castronovo
Director
Sun Products and Services PR
russ.castronovo@sun.com