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 should better show investors growth and profit instead of empty superlatives. I hear all the time adoption first but when Sun cannot make money on 100 million users of Open Office, how can they pretend that adopting other products will grow the company. This is an empty rethoric.
Posted by Opteron on September 04, 2008 at 05:40 PM PDT #
Welcome back Lew.
Posted by terri molini on September 10, 2008 at 10:27 AM PDT #