Get the Sun Sales and Service perspective on social networking and marketplace evolution. See how Sun can work with you. more>

Learn how Sun CFO and board of directors member, Mike Lehman oversees operational excellence at Sun. more>

How does customer service affect the bottom line? Purdue University's Dr. Jon Anton, an expert on call centers and customer service, talks about self-service, offshoring, and more in this informative Q&A. more>

Powering the First Productivity Suite in the Sky with Sun StarOffice 8. From a single plane to an internationally respected brand, almost 60 years of innovation and service has propelled the growth of Singapore Airlines to become one of the world's leading carriers with an advanced fleet. Founded in 1947, Singapore Airlines started with just three flights per week, but now its route network spans 99 destinations in 41 countries. more>

Why Is Sun a Windows Server OEM? Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced that Sun has signed on as a Windows Server OEM. Additionally, Sun and Microsoft will collaborate to further enable deployment of Windows Server on Sun x64 systems. more>

Practical Steps to IT Efficiency. How much is your organization wasting in IT resources, space, and energy inefficiency? Your answer could indicate an organizational alignment quandary. more>

Does a strong sense of business ethics pay off with competitive advantage and greater profitability? To find out, we sat down with ethics expert Dr. Adam Galinsky of Northwestern University. more>

World's First True System on a Chip. Explore how breakthrough technologies in Sun's new UltraSPARC T2 processor give your datacenter room to grow. more>

Customer Snapshot: Education. Tackling an ambitious project to archive millions of digital assets, New York University turned to Sun Fire X4500 servers to supply more than 400 TB of raw storage in a simple, elegant, and scalable infrastructure. more>

The CEO Perspective. In a recent speech I asserted it was faster to send a petabyte of data from San Francisco to Hong Kong by sailboat than by the Internet. I got quite a few "how can that possibly be true?" kinds of questions, so here's the math. more>

The Web is changing the way we do business today. But ensuring your company's stability and gaining customer confidence in this new paradigm requires an aligned business model and technology strategy. Jim McHugh continues last month's discussion. more>

Get the latest thinking of the key architects of "The Network is the Computer" at the new Executive Perspectives site. Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, Greg Papadopoulos, and Michael Lehman provide their insights on what's in store for the future of computing.. more>

Retirement Planning Baby Boomer Years Executive Leadership During Change: How will organizations manage the leadership change as Baby Boomer executives retire? more>

To manage its corporate data, apoBank relies upon a Sun StorageTek information lifecycle management (ILM) infrastructure. The result — improved data security and traceability of stored data. more>

Entering the Participation Age. The last twenty five years have been called the “Information Age” because information technology has had a big impact on our everyday lives and has fueled the growth of entire new industries through the commerce of information. Millions of people produce information, store it, and distribute it. And billions of people consume it in the same way we consume air, food, and water. more>

Datacenter Cost Carbon Credits: See how datacenter infrastructure costs break down with rising electricity costs and increased server requirements. more>

Call it a philosophy, a movement, or a methodology. Call it what you like, but open source has revolutionized the software economy, changing the way software is being built, sold, and used around the globe. more>

By Jonathan Schwartz.At an interview recently with John Markoff of The New York Times, I made a statement that seems to have generated some concern over my sanity. I said, "I don't believe in thin clients." Let me start by saying I started my technology career with a company that built client (i.e., desktop) software. I care a lot about user experience. And for that reason, I've always thought the words thin client were oxymoronic. more>

Fundamental business models are changing. The democratizing power of the Web is opening new market opportunities with near-zero barriers to entry, and driving growth in free software, free education, and even free hardware. Take a look ahead to the shifting business landscape of 2007 and beyond — and start thinking about what your business could and should be doing differently. more>

How can you ensure that a merger or acquisition is successful? Strategic assessment of long-term objectives, resource integration, and clear communications are key best practices. Brian Sutphin, Sun EVP of Corporate Development and Alliances, explains. more>

Q&A with Jasbir Singh, founder and CEO of Pronto Networks. Wireless broadband networks operated by municipal governments are helping to broaden Internet access in cities around the U.S. Take a look at the goals, challenges, and future of wireless municipalities in this informative article. more>

Newest Medical Information Technology Cost Containment: Sun Delivers Caregiver Mobility with Security. See how to save lives, money, and time with caregiver access to medical information at the point of care. more>

By Jonathan Schwartz. Throughout history, we've seen several examples of technology literally transforming society. The railroads, telegraph, electrical grid and interstate highway system are good examples. So is the Internet. About 15 years ago, the mass availability of Java and a simple web browser launched the euphoria that led to the now infamous dot-com bubble. Lately, I find myself reminding people that bubbles precede build outs. It happened with each of the technologies I mentioned above, and it's happening with the Internet today. more>

E-C-O stands for economy as well as ecology. In August, Sun and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) announced an energy incentive program that signifies an expanded awareness of how critical energy efficiency is in the data center. Sun's Dave Douglas and PG&E's Mark Bramfitt give their perspectives on what is likely to be the first of many initiatives. more>

Energy Star Rebates Datacenter Installations: Energy Star Rebates Datacenter Installations. An interview explaining the PG&E perspective on the customer benefits of energy rebates for data center solutions and ways to save energy in datacenter installations. more>

Is performance excellence a goal for your company? In celebration of National Quality Month, Executive Boardroom presents a dialogue with Sun's Kay Kendall and Junaid Mohiuddin, who serve on the Board of Examiners for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the premier award given to U.S. companies that demonstrate performance excellence in their operations. more>

Identity Management Network Security Software: Management Computer Network Security Software. Learn how global networking is changing security models and making identity and identity management the hot topics of security conferences. more>

Railroad Speeds IT User Identity Processes. The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) operates one of the largest railroad networks in North America, with 33,500 route miles of track covering 28 states and two Canadian provinces. The company manages an extensive technology infrastructure to support transporting a wide range of products and commodities across the continent. Based in Forth Worth, Texas, BNSF operates corporate offices in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Topeka, Kansas, as well as 300 remote locations throughout North America. more>

Sun Identity Management (IDM) Tutorial Data Center Security Policy: Solutions that work in your environment. Today’s enterprise is operating an increasing number of secure systems and applications and, at the same time, moving beyond its traditional boundaries to work with more and more outside partners who have their own secure IT infrastructures. By making it possible to securely share identity information across internal and external resources, effective identity management enables secure, efficient interoperability in even the most diverse environments. Without it, secure administration and management of all these systems and applications would be a nightmare, if not an impossibility. more>

Open Standard Middleware Java Client Server Application: See how essential technologies transform into social utilities with free and open standards. more>

Corporate Compliance Software and Security Information and Identity Management: In the last several years, dozens of new laws have been passed worldwide that are aimed at ensuring the security, integrity, and privacy of financial, consumer, and other sensitive data. The obligation to comply with these regulations and conform to their requirements has become foremost among business priorities, and identity management and other compliance software systems have been instrumental in meeting this obligation. In fact, identity management has played a key part in helping companies make compliance an integral and ongoing part of everyday business operations and systems management activities. Learn more about corporate compliance software, identity management systems and security information management system software. more>

Sample Business Continuity Plan Disaster Recovery Documentation: Disasters happen, even more so today than ever before. Before the turn of the century, organizations focused on preventing and avoiding environmental disasters such as fires or floods. And, much like businesses and people acquire insurance policies against the chance of fire and other disasters on capital assets such as buildings and automobiles, IT departments typically implement some kind of insurance in the form of redundancy to help applications recover from disasters. However, in the 21st century, disasters have expanded to include terrorist attacks, strings of hurricanes, extensive power grid failures, network threats such as worms and hackers, and business events such as mergers and acquisitions — forcing IT managers to change their focus from avoiding a possible disaster to recovering from an inevitable one. And these days, every minute it takes to recover can cost the business or organization in terms of lost sales and customers. Sun Java™ Availability Suite can help by enabling application and data access continuity across unlimited distance. Learn about disaster recovery and business continuity. more>

Server Electricity Power Consumption Data Center Model Planning: The heat is on to reduce energy consumption in the data center. Your corporate wallet demands it as energy costs soar. Your data center reliability demands it as you increase server installations. And your planet clamors for it as power utility emissions contribute to air pollution and global warming. Learn about data center server electrical power consumption and data center reliability. more>

Return On Investment ROI Formula Calculation TCO Example: Process Improvement Return On Investment Case Studies. In today's business environment, the strongest competitors do more than respond to market changes — they anticipate them. But to forecast trends, the IT and business sides of an organization must work in concert toward the same goals, dovetailing their efforts for maximum speed and effectiveness. In the "do more with less" era of shrinking IT budgets and rising expectations, companies cannot afford anything less than top performance from the systems they choose, which is why consulting firms like Mainstay Partners have developed particular expertise in analyzing total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) for technology projects. more>

Business CRM Solutions and Computer Future Technology Trends: The network has forever changed the landscape in which services are delivered to consumers. Vice President, CTO, and Distinguished Engineer for Sun Services Dan Berg shares with Executive Boardroom readers the trends and forces that are allowing companies to more quickly and efficiently respond to consumer needs in the new service economy. more>

Open Source Group Collaboration and Joint Application Development: Mother was right. Sharing is good. At least that seems to be the consensus of thought leaders who gathered in February to discuss the "Economics of Sharing," and how the rise of the global network has rendered protectionist practices obsolete. more>

Partnership Non-disclosure Agreement Group Collaboration Software: When you hear the word "sharing," what comes to mind? Altruism? Charity? Philanthropy? In the years to come, I predict when business leaders think about "sharing," they will have a significantly different take than what they do today. For the enlightened and entrepreneurial, the definition of "sharing" is already broadening in new and surprising ways. Value. Opportunity. Growth. Learn about group collaboration in strategic partnership agreements. more>

Marc Andreessen Industry Leaders in Information Technology Innovation Presentation: Marc Andreessen on Computer Network Information Services: Marc Andreessen is widely known for his role in launching the Internet revolution in 1993. While at the University of Illinois in 1993, he co-created the Mosaic Web browser. After graduation, Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications Corporation, which later became Netscape. He now chairs the board for software company Opsware and guides technology development for his new company, Ning. more>

Future Computer Technology Trends and Innovations: You may have heard that the original author of Executive Boardroom has taken a new job at Sun. After 22 years as the CEO, our founder Scott McNealy is stepping up as Chairman of the Board. For this, my inaugural edition of the Executive Boardroom newsletter, I'd like to recognize that while the tone of these letters may be subtly different, Sun's viewpoint remains the same. In this innovation presentation see how industry leaders in information technology view future technology trends and computer technology innovation. more>

: Q & A with Sara Gates. Your data stockpile represents critical collective intelligence for driving business value if harnessed correctly and made widely available. Sun Vice President of Identity Management Sara Gates shares with Boardroom Minutes readers Sun's unique approach to tying the information lifecycle to the identity lifecycle with the goal of enabling business leaders to usher their companies into the next wave of Internet computing. Learn about corporate identity management, confidential data security, and more. more>

Internet Copyright Laws Content Protected Using Digital Rights Management: The debate over digital content rights. Striking the right balance of control over the use of copyrighted content is at the heart of a major debate in the industry today. How do we exert enough control to incent creators to go on innovating, without exerting so much control that others can't leverage that innovation to expand upon it? Learn more about digital content promotion, Internet copyright laws, and copyright issues and Internet use. more>

Stress Relief at Work, Ways to Relieve Stress at Work Taking Charge of What Matters. As I am writing this, I am working on a Sunday afternoon instead of hanging out with my husband and daughter. Rather than being a poster child for work-life balance issues, my choice of work and work hours allows my husband and me to create a life that makes sense to us. We are living our values - creating a quality life by devoting quantity time to those who mean most to us. Read more about finding stress relief at work and about work-life balance strategies. more>

Work Life Balance, Stress Relief At Work: Making the Tough Choices to Balance your Life. Part one of this article discussed the unfortunate reality that over one-half of working professionals surveyed aren't living a balanced life and that corporate leaders are in denial or believe that policies that address work-life balance issues impede competitiveness. Since answers are not going to come from above, it's up to those in the unbalanced majority to help resolve work-life balance issues - for themselves and for those whom they lead. Learn more about how to deal with stress in the work place and finding a work-life balance that goes beyond just stress management at work. more>

Green Computing Articles, Computer Power Usage: Do eco-friendly computing and business growth go hand in hand? Now they do. According to Gartner Group, 80 percent of the world's data centers are constrained by heat, space, and power requirements. David Yen, Sun's executive vice president of Sun's Scalable Systems Group, shares with Boardroom Minutes readers how sustainable computing can boost your bottom line while simultaneously doing a favor for the planet. Read this green computing article to learn more about green computing and computer power usage. more>

Reducing Costs, Increasing Service Levels, Improving Manageability. An optimized data center helps you to deliver higher levels of service at lower costs. Sun offers an Enterprise Consolidation Solutions for companies who want to reduce IT costs, improve service levels, and improve IT manageability. Sun has the extensive knowledge, technologies, proven methodology, and a successful track record in helping customers consolidate to a Sun platform with a common architecture. more>