Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: The Sun Flash Analyzer and Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat), are open systems host-based, storage-centric Java applications that thoroughly capture, summarize, and analyze storage workloads for Solaris, Windows and Linux environments.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array's innovative architectures and technologies, as well as storage deployment considerations, that bring tremendous business benefit to performance-hungry database applications.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

EGUIDE: Solid-state storage will eventually nudge spinning disks out of our data centers, but right now it's still mostly for wellheeled shops with power-hungry applications. But with new technology developments addressing some of solid state's shortcomings and larger-scale manufacturing, solid-state storage could come down to earth soon.

Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009

WEBCAST: Composed of Sun hardware systems and commercial open-source solutions Pentaho for BI and data integration, and Infobright, built on MySQL, for data warehousing, this solution comes in two customizable recommended configurations to fit your data requirements and budget -- and ease deployment.

Posted: 26 Oct 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: Based on open source software and powerful Sun hardware technology, the Sun Business Intelligence Solution for Web Infrastructure provides an easy to manage, enterprise-class, and highly scalable Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing solution that features a low total cost of ownership.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: The combination of Sun Open Storage and the commercial open-source Infobright data warehousing and Pentaho business intelligence and ETL software packages dramatically lowers the cost of entry and simplifies deployment of a powerful, sophisticated BI infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This project demonstrates the feasibility of using the Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as a repository for the MySQL™ database with the Pentaho Business Intelligence (BI) application. This proof-of-concept study provides steps to configure this setup, using Pentaho BI tools and MySQL database servers.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Together, Sun and Pentaho provide integrated hardware, software, and services solutions for data warehousing and BI that provide full functionality, robust enterprise-class performance and scalability, and significantly reduced acquisition and ownership costs compared to proprietary hardware and software solutions.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper the main inefficiencies that can be found in a typical datacenter are examined and the different strategies that are commonly used to resolve them are discussed. Sun™ Ops Center is presented as a cost-effective solution to these inefficiencies.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

EGUIDE: Logical Domains, or LDoms, is Sun's built-in, no-cost hardware virtualization technology for servers and blade systems powered by UltraSPARC® T1, T2, and T2 Plus processors. The purpose of this Sun BluePrints™ article is to provide a simple set of steps for setting up and running a server with Logical Domains 1.2 software.

Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Jul 2009

VIRTUAL TRADESHOW: Performance Computing (HPC) is business ready. HPC can give your organization a competitive advantage through shorter development cycles, better decision making and lower costs. Download this webcast to discuss new technologies, accomplishments, and collaborations in HPC, networking, storage, software, and data management.

Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 23 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the architecture of the Sun Fire X4170, X4270 and X4275 servers, including the processor technology, I/O subsystem, built-in system management features, and range of supported operating systems.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

INFORMATION CENTER: Learn how innovative companies are turning CRM challenges into an opportunity for business advantage and cost reduction.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Sun and Oracle Optimized Data Warehousing Solutions combine the Oracle Database with industry-leading Sun servers, Sun StorageTek arrays, and the Solaris OS. These solutions include both the Oracle Optimized Reference Configurations for Sun and Oracle Optimized Warehouses for Sun. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Sep 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This Presentation Transcript breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.

Posted: 11 Sep 2009 | Published: 13 Aug 2009

VIDEO: Leveraging vast engineering and field experience architecting and implementing data warehouses with the Oracle Database, Sun created a set of data warehouse solutions to help IT managers quickly select a configuration, thus reducing the risk and deployment times for data warehouse solutions.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 09 Sep 2009

WEBCAST: This videocast discusses tiered storage strategies and also tips and tools on how to lower IT investments while optimizing storage efficiency. Download this informative videocast to learn more!

Posted: 08 Sep 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

PODCAST: This Podcast breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.

Posted: 14 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 13 Aug 2009

ANALYST REPORT: IDC expects that the significant adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies in the enterprise will have a dramatic impact on how organizations capture, discuss, distribute, and protect their information. If companies are not already planning for this change, they will find themselves increasingly exposed and vulnerable.

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today, many sites are using open source solutions and platforms as a way to ensure applications can scale as needed. Understanding the challenges faced by Web 2.0 customers, Sun created Olio. This Sun BluePrints™ article describes a reasonably sized, scalable Web 2.0 deployment.

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Published: 04 Apr 2009

WEBCAST: This Webcast breaks down the truth about clustered storage and answers some of the most important questions surrounding the subject. Find out more today.

Posted: 13 Aug 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: In planning storage solutions for Oracle database applications, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems offer a range of performance and scalability options, and can be configured to meet specific application requirements for capacity, performance, and reliability.

Posted: 04 Aug 2009 | Published: 23 Jan 2009

EGUIDE: This Tech Report will dive deep into the capabilities as well as challenges with open-source storage, as storage pros continue to seek information regarding this increasingly popular storage trend.

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Server virtualization delivers many business benefits to datacenters today. Choosing the right server virtualization product is an important business decision, and Sun has the virtualization and server technology portfolio - along with the experience - to help you make the right one.

Posted: 21 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This transcript presents the idea and strategies of Open Storage and the key benefits it delivers to storage architectures. Learn more about Open Storage and how it can help your organization build a highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage system.

Posted: 16 Jun 2009 | Published: 16 Jun 2009