Tuesday May 05, 2009
Learn more about the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage at
http://www.sun.com/unifiedstorage
Or
Download and experience the virtual versions of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and test drive for yourself at
http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/unified_storage/resources.jsp
Tuesday May 05, 2009
- Doubled the capacity of the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (4TBs)
- More than tripled the capacity of the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System (142TBs)
- Added over 15 feature enhancements in this quarter's Sun Storage 7000 update (Software 2009.Q2)
Monday Mar 23, 2009
Announcing the JavaFX Coding Challenge! Create - Develop - WIN
Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning entries in both developer and student categories:
Professional Developers:
First Prize: $25,000
Second Prize: $10,000
Third Prize: $5000
Student Category:
Three prizes of $1,500 will be awarded to each of the top three applications submitted by students!
Find out more about the challenge at: http://javafx.com/challenge
Tuesday Mar 17, 2009
The
Sun Cloud will enable customers to consume as many or as few
resources as they need, on-demand!
Sun
envisions a world of many clouds – both public and private – that
are open and compatible.
Through
its open cloud initiative, the company intends to leverage its
extensive portfolio of products and services, and its expertise
building open
communities and
partner ecosystems, to make this vision a reality – starting with
the delivery of a public compute and storage cloud, the Sun Cloud.
Come Check
out what all the talk is about at: sun.com/communityone
Thursday Feb 12, 2009
JavaFX is the best way to bring expressive, feature-rich content to mobile devices.
JavaFX
Mobile brings expressiveness to Java ME, to combine the richest mobile
experience with the most access to the underlying system and across the
broadest number of devices.
JavaFX 1.1 is here! Download today at http://www.javafx.com
Wednesday Feb 11, 2009
Ignite Your Career!
Sun has teamed up with the University
of Phoenix to offer all of Sun's online courses within their degree
programs, certifications and individual courses. To learn more go to:
http://www.sun.com/training/credit/
Tuesday Feb 10, 2009
"GlassFish Grows Up"
The new Sun GlassFish Suite is a feature-rich web application
development platform offering developers easy access -- just download,
install, and run. Includes an intuitive GUI, Eclipse and Netbeans tool
kits, support for emerging defacto and industry standards, and
simplified, rapid code development.
Learn More http://www.sun.com/glassfish
Monday Nov 10, 2008
Today, Sun announces a radically simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems- the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems (Amber Road) are the world's first open storage appliances, forever changes the way businesses and enterprises experience storage. Learn more and join the official announcement at sun.com/launch!
Monday Oct 13, 2008
On
October 13, 2008, check out the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server,
a 4-socket, 256-thread server based on Sun's open-source chip
multi-threading (CMT) architecture, with all the scalability and
reliability features of traditional mid-range systems as well as
simpler, more powerful and no cost development tools like Sun Studio 12
and CoolTools to enable faster time to market for new applications and
services. See how Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server, which runs up to
4X faster, costs 1/5th as much and only uses a fraction of the energy
of servers with conventional designs, is changing mid-range computing
economics for the 21st century.
More Info on CoolThreads Servers:
Thursday Sep 18, 2008
Student Central: Sun now has a place for every student to begin when they come to sun.com! Looking for technology? No problem. Searching for a job? We gotcha covered. Trying to find some classes? We've got that, too. Not sure where you want to go or what Sun has to offer you as a student? Come find out!
This is the perfect starting point to find out just what Sun, as a company, has to offer students today. Covering everything from technology to Eco-responsibility, jobs to social media, this is the first student page that tells the Sun story from a student perspective. Come by and check it out, but be sure to come back as this page will evolve along with Sun's student offerings!"
Wednesday Sep 10, 2008
The
industry's only open solution spanning virtualization and management
from desktop to datacenter,
It's
a new approach to virtualization of the datacenter. Join us on
September 10 for the live webcast and live chat with Rich
Green, EVP Software, Steve Wilson, VP xVM, and two very special
guests as they showcase the industry's most compelling and cost
effective virtualization offerings. Visit www.sun.com/launch on
September 10 at 9:00am PT, or view the on-demand replay after the
event.
Tuesday Jul 01, 2008
Winners announced here. Congrats!!!
Friday Jun 27, 2008
Today marks the launch of Shift Radio, "Your Digital Life in Overdrive."
Hosted by Chris Melissinos, this weekly show will cover the latest
gadgets, technology, do-dads, and of course, video games. :) This
week's taping includes an interview with Hal Halpin, President of the
Entertainment Consumers Association. Go check it out. I am!
-Heidi
Wednesday May 28, 2008
I love an adventure. And I'm willing to bet most of y'all do too. So I'm really pleased to announce the launch of the SunQuest Chronicles! Read
and play along with our adventurer as he quests for the Ruby of Destiny
in our choose-your-own-adventure style minibook- SunQuest Chronicles.
Register as an SDN member (current SDN members just log-in) before you start
the story and you will be entered to win one of seven SunSPOTs.
Cool story, cool giveaways. Great way to start the summer. Check it out, and let me know how your story goes!
-Heidi
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Check it out! Sun is now offering an Introduction to Sun SPOTS course. This course is intended to be used by students wanting to learn how to develop application fo Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOTS) and will be taught by Simon Ritter, Angela Caicedo, Arshan Poursohi and Roger Meike.
While you are checking out the Sun SPOT course you'll also want to look at:
Introduction to Solaris
and OpenSolaris.org and Real World Technologies: NetBeans GUI Builder, JRuby,
JavaFX and
JavaME.
Cheers!
Heidi