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Sun lights the way for virtual servers
News Sun Microsystems plans to detail a timeline Thursday for N1, a sweeping software strategy that will let administrators create virtual mainframes out of their existing computer resources. In 2003 to 2004, Sun plans to define how computing services...
[September 18, 2002, 8:07]
Sun gets serious about cheap servers
News Sun will also begin to distribute Red Hat's version of Linux while Red Hat will incorporate Sun's Java virtual machine into its version of Linux. Sun Microsystems got more serious on Monday about its effort to sell cheap servers, releasing two new...
[May 20, 2003, 7:43]
New CPUs fuel server competition
News In this extension of clustered servers, computing resources are tied together into virtual supercomputers, with the physical location of the resources themselves becoming nearly irrelevant. The new line at present supports up to 16 processors, and...
[April 17, 2002, 15:11]
Start-up brews hardware boost for Java
News The program runs in a software environment called a Java virtual machine (JVM) -- in effect a software version of a computer that insulates the program from the varying particulars of a computer's hardware.
[September 28, 2004, 9:25]
Sun loosens Java licence, changes logo
News Sun is trying to do just that, encouraging the programmers of the world to focus on how many Java environments -- called "virtual machines" -- exist, not how many Windows computers exist. In terms of total shipments of Java virtual machines, we are...
[June 6, 2003, 14:31]
Java on mobiles: Write once, run... once?
News The Java programming language was built on the premise that a program written in it can run on any platform that has a Java Virtual Machine. But as more and more phones reach the market with Java virtual machines built in, it is becoming apparent...
[September 3, 2002, 10:41]
Connectix aids Microsoft's migration plan
News Sun, IBM and other server makers are also pushing the idea of virtual servers, which can save budget-conscious IT departments money by grouping multiple software applications onto a single server. Microsoft's acquisition this week of software and...
[February 21, 2003, 9:31]
HP expands server appliance push
News Indeed, HP revamped a virtual organization that had been working on the Linux operating system and related software, replacing it after a year and a half with a dedicated staff. These virtual organizations aren't always a good idea, though, Haff said.
[April 19, 2001, 7:55]
IPsec - A Secure Deployment Option
White Papers IPsec can also be used in setting up a virtual private network (VPN). Software architects can use this information to deploy multitier applications, based on the Sun ONE Portal, Identity, Application, and Web servers.
[June 23, 2004, 20:00]
IBM working on 'Sun-killer' appliance
News Like the Cobalt Raq Web-based management interface, HostingDirector allows administrators to set up multiple virtual servers on a single machine. IBM is working on a killer appliance which, if it goes into production, will be targeted at the market...
[February 13, 2002, 10:12]
Sun launches open-source virtualisation platform
News Sun already offers the desktop virtualisation system xVM VirtualBox and the virtual desktop consolidation application, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Sun has launched an open-source virtualisation platform for servers under the banner xVM Server.
[September 12, 2008, 8:24]
Sun speeds Java for mobile phones
News Monty was written in 18 months by the team that wrote the HotSpot virtual machine that runs on current versions of Java for servers and for desktop computers, said Rich Green, Sun vice president of Java and XML, in an interview.
[March 27, 2002, 9:03]
Sun aims HPC at small organisations
News HPC Software Solaris Developer Edition Beta 1 is the first public beta of an integrated Solaris-based parallel computing application development environment, and is packaged as virtual machines compatible with Sun's xVM VirtualBox or VMware.
[November 19, 2008, 12:56]
Solaris and Sparc gain virtualisation focus
News The movement to run multiple operating systems on a single server has been maturing long enough that even comparatively lowly x86 servers have the ability through use of VMware's virtual machine software.
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
Sun joins the extended VMware family
News Virtualisation opens the network and liberates the customer to implement server consolidation, respond faster with virtual infrastructure and dramatically improve and lower the cost of disaster recovery," said Stephen Borcich, vice-president for...
[August 11, 2005, 14:10]
Sun names Xen-based hypervisor 'xVM'
News Sun, a long-time participant in the Xen open-source hypervisor project, has named its Solaris-based offshoot "xVM", short for "x86 Virtual Machine". Xen governs how virtual machines get access to hardware resources, typically relying on Linux for...
[September 14, 2007, 17:59]
Sun expands supercomputer effort
News Several of the new Sun Fire Link-powered systems appear on the latest Top500 list, including the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory in Canada and another host of systems based in Cambridge University in England.
[November 18, 2002, 8:24]
Sun regains server market strength
News He also put it down to the effect of virtualisation, which allows customers to replace multiple servers with a single server, running multiple operating systems in separate partitions called virtual machines.
[February 23, 2007, 8:12]
Ubuntu coming soon to Sun's Niagara
News Canonical has yet to port Ubuntu to Sun's hypervisor, which would allow T1000 and T2000 users to run Ubuntu and Solaris side-by-side in separate virtual environments, but that work is under way, he said.
[May 30, 2006, 8:50]
Start-up sees low-cost future in clusters
News We can take sets of commodity servers and create a virtual data centre. We carve that up into a set of virtual computers," Davis said. Virtual SMP VirtuOS uses its own proprietary software and high-speed InfiniBand networking links from TopSpin...
[December 17, 2004, 13:45]
