Learn about Sun's plans for MySQL from the developer's point of view. See what the future holds for the leading open source database. more>

Sun’s acquisition of the MySQL open source database offers enormous opportunities for Sun and our customers and partners to meet the demands of the fast-growing network economy. more>

Learn how Sun is solving the problems associated with accumulating massive amounts of fixed content storage such as medical records. more>

Crafting a seamless IT strategy for the 64-bit computing paradigm - It may have taken 64-bit computing more than ten years to find its wings, but today it's flying high. Over the past decade, IT architects have deployed 64-bit servers for workloads requiring large amounts of memory, extreme number-crunching performance, and unquestioned reliability and scalability. Today, high-end 64-bit servers are showing up in the database layer and in high-performance technical computing applications such as 3D solid modeling, geo-thermal and seismic studies, genetic research, and petroleum exploration. more>

Simulate your data center to see how new CoolThreads and x64 servers can save power, cooling, and space more>

This paper demonstrates that the Sun Fire T1000 server using Solaris Containers technology can be used as an effective Web-tier consolidation platform. The Solaris Containers technology enables multiple web server applications to each run in their own isolated application execution environment on a single server. Resource management tools included with the Solaris Operating System enable resources such as CPUs and memory to be easily allocated to each zone, monitored, and dynamically adjusted to meet changing performance requirements. Using a single operating system can help reduce complexity and grant easier system administration. more>

Incubated in Sun Labs, the Honeycomb storage solution introduces new dimensions of intelligence and programmability and improves application performance by taking on low-level data services such as query and metadata management. Honeycomb Senior Product Manager Mike Davis explains more>

Consolidate and Conquer: Solaris Containers Online Demo. View a series of demonstration videos to learn how to safely consolidate applications by creating Containers in the Solaris 10 OS and allocating resources accordingly. more>