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Sun kicked off the new fiscal year in July 2008 with moves designed to elevate and propel its Network.com business into the clouds. Sun's powerful and efficient breadth of systems, storage and software offerings are ideal for building out datacenters and clouds. Sun's current Network.com offering based on the Sun Grid project will evolve in the coming months and year.

Starting in July, the Network.com organization has seen a number of changes. First, David Douglas was named Senior Vice President of Network.com, and is now the head of Sun's cloud computing initiative. The group now reports directly to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, and Douglas sits on Schwartz's staff. Finally, Douglas recently announced the addition of two more executives to the Network.com team. The first is Ingrid Van Den Hoogen, Sun's Senior Vice President of Brand, Global Communications & Integrated Marketing, who will be adding the Network.com marketing, adoption and business strategy to her responsibilities. The second is Lew Tucker, who was hired in August as the Vice President and CTO of Sun's Cloud Computing initiative.

In announcing Tucker in his new role, Douglas noted, "Lew's career has been focused on scalable computing and web development. He spent much of the '90s at Sun and contributed to the explosive growth of Java and growing Sun's presence on the Internet. In 2002, Lew joined Salesforce.com and led the design and implementation of App Exchange, which remains one of the largest cloud computing success stories to date. After Salesforce.com, Lew was CTO at Radar Networks, where he focused on the scalable design and build out of its semantic web service. With this background, Lew brings a unique combination of technical experience and past success in Sun, which will be a great asset to the Network.com team."

Commenting on the overall organizational changes, Douglas said, "We continue to see huge potential in the cloud space, and I'm very pleased about the team we've put together to further extend our reach in it."

Vice President and CTO of Sun's Cloud Computing Initiative Lew Tucker 

Sun Java System Content Delivery Server (CDS) is a market leading product that allows mobile operators, service providers and enterprises to deliver a variety of content to mobile users. CDS provides a single content catalog that can support multiple storefronts on phones and PCs, as well as content pricing, promotion, preview, payment and delivery services.

The new CDS version 5.1 offers enhanced support for rich media, makes it easier for subscribers to locate content and provides a more compelling and personalized subscriber experience.

Some of the new CDS features are:  

• Support for streaming content
• Advanced searching & sorting
  
• Customizable fields
  
• Popularity ranking for content and ability to create "featured" content
  
• Device Client Interface
• Online help for the Catalog Manager administration console and the Vending Manager administration console

OpenCDS, the open source version of Sun CDS, can be found at the OpenCDS community project on Java.net.

Expanding the scope of its HPC software solutions, Sun announced the release and immediate availability of Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0.

Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 is a high-performance production quality MPI (Message Passing Interface) implementation based on the Open MPI 1.3 open source project, and with the release of HPC ClusterTools 8.0, Sun now supports Linux distributions as well as Solaris and OpenSolaris OSs. With growth of HPC systems outpacing traditional IT due to the rapid expansion of modeling and simulation in research projects and product innovation, Sun continues to successfully build out some of the largest installations in the world, like the Texas Advanced Computing Cluster (TACC), and also deliver complete HPC hardware, software, and services solutions for customers. In addition to Intel x86, AMD x86, and Sun UltraSPARC-based servers, Sun now offers complete software stack offerings on both Linux and Solaris OSs, with all the innovations of OpenSolaris now available to the HPC community.
For developers, Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 works with both Sun Studio and GNU/gcc-based toolchains on Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux OSs. With Sun Studio software that includes optimizing C, C++, and Fortran compilers, support for OpenMP, optimized math and performance libraries, and performance analysis tools, developers have an advanced integrated solution optimized for the performance and productivity requirements of HPC applications. From the Lustre cluster filesystem, to Sun Grid Engine resource management software, to Sun HPC ClusterTools -- Sun is a leader in HPC software.

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