Cisco Appoints New Leader for Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China Region

MALAYSIA – July 17, 2012 – Cisco announced today that Jaime Vallés has been appointed as the company’s new leader for Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China (APJC). Vallés takes over from Edzard Overbeek who was recently appointed head of Cisco’s Global Services business. Owen Chan will remain chairman and CEO of Cisco’s Greater China theater.

Vallés was previously the senior vice president of Cisco’s Latin America theater and has a strong track record of success in emerging countries, turning Latin America into one of Cisco’s fastest growing regions since he joined the company in 2007. With more than 20 years of leadership experience in the IT industry, Vallés brings to APJC a broad understanding of Cisco’s strategic direction and unique experience in effectively driving growth in both developed and emerging countries.“Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China represent a huge opportunity for future growth and innovation for Cisco. This internal appointment demonstrates the great strength and depth of the Cisco leadership talent across the world. Jaime is a great leader with a wealth of experience, passion and outstanding skills in building and leading teams, creating and executing strategic business plans and forging strong relationships built on trust and integrity,” said Rob Lloyd, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Cisco.

Prior to Cisco, Vallés was president of Sun Microsystems Latin America for seven years, and president of Sun Microsystems Mexico before that. He also previously held senior leadership positions at IBM.

Sun Opens 2009 JavaOne Conference with Debut of Java Store, a Global Marketplace for Cutting-edge Java Applications

Industry Leaders Including eBay, Intel, Oracle, RIM, Sony and Verizon Wireless Join Sun to Celebrate Unparalleled Success and Bold Future of Java Technology

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 4, 2009 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and a host of technology industry leaders kicked off the 2009 JavaOne conference earlier this week with a showcase of Java innovations that continued to create new revenue opportunities, business models and applications that can help change the world. To view the live webcast of this week's 2009 JavaOne conference general session keynotes and for more information on the conference, visit: http://java.sun.com/javaone. For more information about Sun's announcements at the conference, visit: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/javaone2009/.

Among the innovations that was introduced at the 2009 JavaOne conference were the new Java Store that will enable companies and developers to distribute content to the estimated 800 million Java desktop users worldwide, as well as key updates to its JavaFX and GlassFish Portfolio software. In addition, Sun also previewed the upcoming versions of Java Platform Standard Edition 7 (Java SE 7) and Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6).

"Java is one of the most ubiquitous and widespread technology platforms the world has ever seen - and its future has never been brighter," said Schwartz. "The innovations that were unveiled, in particular the Java Store, represents the beginning of a new era for the Java community - one defined by technical brilliance, market innovation and new business opportunities."

Global Impact of Java
Today, Java is among the world's best known brands, most popular communities and most widely deployed technology platforms. The reach of the Java platform is stunning and includes:
· More than 6.5 million Java developers worldwide;
· More than 7 billion Java devices, including more than 2.6 million mobile devices, 40 million TV set- top boxes and 800 million Java desktops.

Sun Unveils the Java Store
Sun chose the 2009 JavaOne conference to debut the Java Store, a consumer-facing storefront enabling the discovery and purchase of Java and JavaFX applications. The Java Store is a network service allowing developers and companies to reach an estimated 1 billion Java users around the world. It offers a nearly unequaled distribution channel for reaching potential customers and driving revenue through the sale of innovative new content. More information on the Java Store can be found at http://store.java.com.

New Features and Updates Added to JavaFX and GlassFish Portfolio Software
Sun also announced numerous updates and enhancements to its suite of Java developer tools and technologies, including:
· JavaFX 1.2, which includes new cross platform User Interface (UI) controls, faster application start-up, streaming media support and other performance enhancements across desktop, browser and mobile. In addition, JavaFX TV and the Java FX Authoring Tool were previewed, extending the JavaFX vision to bring rich and expressive interactive content to the TV and set-top box environments and allow designers and web developers to visually create JavaFX applications. Learn more at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-06/sunflash.20090602.3.xml

· GlassFish Portfolio, which provides a full preview of the Java EE 6 specification in the early access of GlassFish v3. Learn more at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2009-06/sunflash.20090602.4.xml

Keynote Highlights
· A number of industry leaders had shared the main stage during the opening session of the 2009 JavaOne conference demonstrating how Java technology plays an essential role in their businesses' technical roadmaps and product offerings.
· James Barrese, vice president of architecture, platforms and systems at eBay, discussed how eBay has leveraged the Java platform to build the world's largest marketplace.
· Alan Brenner, senior vice president of BlackBerry platforms at RIM, shared how Java helps power its suite of devices, including the BlackBerry Curve, which outsold all other smartphones in the U.S. during the last calendar quarter.
· Don Ekland, executive vice president of advanced technologies at Sony talked about Sony's work with Java on the Blu-ray platform.
· Lowell McAdam, president and CEO of Verizon Wireless, outlined his company's strategic decision to deploy Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) -based services in its network and offer Java-based services and applications to its subscribers.
· Diane Bryant, CIO of Intel discussed Intel's work with Sun in integrating Java technology on its next-generation of processors.
· Sun Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, Scott McNealy, and Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, closed the opening session by discussing Java's role in computing - demonstrating yet again that the Java community and the innovations it delivers are truly changing our world.
· Photos from the 2009 JavaOne conference opening session can be viewed and downloaded at: https://photos.sun.com/page/3371

Sun Adds New Virtualization and Software Technologies to Industry Leading Tape Archive Portfolio

Corner Banca SA and Thought Equity Among Growing List of Enterprise Storage Customers that Look to Sun For High-Performance, Highly Efficient Tape Archive Solutions

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – May 26, 2009 – Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) recently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to enterprise storage customers through capacity and performance enhancements to its industry leading tape virtualization storage archive solution, the Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager (VSM), which save costs and simplify management in the data center. Sun also announced that Fujifilm will be the tape media development partner for the next generation of the Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive family, building upon the relationship that yielded the industry's first one terabyte (TB) drive to bring more tape archive innovation to customers.

Sun has the most innovative enterprise storage portfolio in the industry, delivering better economics and value to the market. Despite the current economic landscape, Sun StorageTek VSM revenues have grown by double digits quarter-over-quarter versus last year to enterprise customers across a wide range of industries.

"As the amount of user-generated data continues to grow exponentially, there is a need for customers to implement storage solutions that can store more in a shrinking footprint," said CP Loo, managing director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia. "The use of Sun's tape virtualization offers customers up to a ten times (10x) cost savings versus traditional storage products, reduced management time, less physical systems needed to store data, and risk mitigation through the industry's best disaster recovery options."

Sun tape archive innovation announced today include:

· Three times (3x) capacity increase for the Sun StorageTek VSM5 to 90 terabytes with new connectivity options, giving customers greater performance and functionality

· New Sun StorageTek VSM5e, a low cost, entry-level version of the Sun StorageTek VSM 5, targeted at customer disaster recovery and test sites

· New Sun StorageTek SL3000 Access Expansion Module (AEM), which enables 24x7 availability with fully redundant and replaceable robotics. The SL3000 equipped with redundant robotics and the new AEM joins the Sun StorageTek SL8500 as the only libraries in the industry to allow replacement of a robot while the library continues to operate. The AEM also supports bulk loads and unloads and works with the Sun StorageTek SL3000 to make a customer's operating environment highly available and efficient

· Sun StorageTek Enterprise Library software (ELS) that combines Sun's mainframe software products to deliver improved performance and functionality into one, easy-to-manage software package.

"Thanks to Sun's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) technology, our systems were not only released of important management and disaster recovery functions but we also witnessed a substantial optimization of our resources, resulting in fewer tape resources and drastically cutting down on our footprint. Now able to handle 30 percent year-over-year data growth without increasing the number of system engineers and storage administrators, Cornèr Banca is committed to virtualization and to Sun," said Charles Inches, first vice president, Cornèr Banca.

Sun and Fujifilm Collaborate on Industry-Leading Tape Innovation

Sun and Fujifilm announce the expansion of their relationship on next generation tape drive and media development. Sun has selected Fujifilm as the media development partner on its next generation Sun StorageTekT10000 tape drive. The Sun StorageTek T10000B was the first tape drive to ship with one terabyte native capacity, and this partnership is designed to build upon this platform and deliver future generations of the Sun StorageTek T10000B family that offer far greater capacity and performance to customers.

"Sun's decision to work with Fujifilm underscores the commitment both companies have to tape research and development," said Norio Shibata, General Manager, Recording Media Products Division, FUJIFILM Corporation. "Sun and Fujifilm are committed to high-performance computing and archival storage and continue to invest in tape technology to deliver the best solutions for today's data centers." For more information please see http://www.fujifilmusa.com/tapestorage

"The Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive enables us to utilize our library as an online storage resource, delivering thousands of very large files to our customers per month. It gives us the throughput and scalable capacity we need to support our expanding content archive and meet the growing demand for our services," said Mark Lemmons, Chief Technology Officer, Thought Equity Motion, Inc.

For pricing or to learn more about Sun's tape archive storage solutions in this release, please see www.sun.com/vsm, www.sun.com/els, www.sun.com/sl3000 and www.sun.com/t10000b

Sun Eases Migration to Tape Virtualization Storage Archive Solutions

Sun Services include:

· Sun Storage Assessment: A deep analysis of the customer's storage and archive capabilities, processes, and management of their storage infrastructure that pinpoints and quantifies the causes of the customer's potential storage and archive challenges. It provides a list of actionable steps available to improve the reliability, utilization and performance of their storage subsystems with a focus on tiered storage and archive solution.

· Sun Encryption Services: Sun encryption experts can help you replace guesswork with solid facts to provide you the tools, road maps, and recommendations necessary to address security risk, establish management policy, and create an ongoing approach to securing one of your corporation’s most valuable assets - your data.
Sun Data Readiness Services go beyond basic installation to configure and integrate Sun storage hardware and software into a customer's multi-vendor, heterogeneous storage and IT environment. Sun Data Readiness Services offer added value by helping you achieve the full benefits of your new storage technology.

Sun Reports Surge of Customer Adoption for Sun Unified Storage Family, Saving Users Over $50 Million in Storage Costs To Date

With Up to 75% Cost Savings and Three Times Less Power and Space Requirements, Sun Storage 7000 System Delivers Speed, Simplicity and Savings Across Broad Markets

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – May 13, 2009 – Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) recently announced that hundreds of customers across a range of industries have purchased high-performance, eco-efficient Flash-enabled Sun Storage 7000 Systems to store more than 17 petabytes of total data, making it the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever. Continuing to add innovation to its Open Storage portfolio and Open Network Systems strategy, Sun also announced hardware capacity enhancements to the Sun Unified Storage family and an upgrade to its Analytics software, which ships with the Sun Storage 7000 line and gives storage administrators unparalleled insight into their storage systems. For a demo of the enhanced Sun Unified Storage family or to download software, please go to www.sun.com/unifiedstorage.

"As the Open Storage revolution continues to gain traction with customers, partners and the channel, it's radically simplifying how customers approach storage management. The unparalleled observability these unified storage systems gives customers is fast making traditional storage solutions a thing of the past," says CP Loo, managing director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia.

As part of Sun's Open Network Systems approach, Sun's Unified Storage Systems bring speed, simplicity and savings to customers. New technology enhancements announced today include:

· Sun Storage 7000 Software upgrade 2009.Q2 - Over 15 new features added to breakthrough analytics capabilities and Windows integration. Built upon industry standard components and open source software, new functionality can be deployed quickly to support ever growing customer environments.
· Double the capacity of Sun Storage 7110 system, from two to four terabytes, making it one of the most dense in its class.
· More than tripled the capacity of Sun Storage 7210 system to 142 terabytes; these new, high-efficient systems leverage solid state disk (SSD) Flash technology.

Faced with a challenging economic climate and rapid data growth, storage operators and administrators need a way to better manage costs and save time. Based on cost efficient industry standard components and a robust software stack that leverages the tested OpenSolaris operating system (OS), Solaris ZFS, award-winning Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) and a community of independent software vendors (ISVs), the Sun Storage 7000 family can be installed and configured in under five minutes, uses three times less power and space and costs up to 75% less than traditional disk storage offerings. These systems also include the industry's most simple and comprehensive analytics environment and includes innovative new tools to help isolate and resolve issues to minimize the impact on daily operations.

Customers, Partners and the Channel Drive Sales Surge of Unified Storage Family

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System family delivers breakthrough performance while radically simplifying the way customers manage storage with unprecedented speed, scale and cost savings. More than 800 customers have adopted the Sun Unified Storage family in under five months, across a wide range of deployments, including VMware virtualization, Web MySQL database/rich media and media/entertainment, as well as high-performance computing, education, government, healthcare and telecommunications. Photo, video, music and social networking Web sites have also switched to the Sun Storage 7000 platform to reduce the costs associated with storing increasing amounts of rich media content. Sun's storage line has also proven to be an ideal platform for Solaris, Windows, and Linux consolidation projects - delivering lower cost per service with the utmost storage simplicity.

"An increasing number of customers are realizing that the benefits of their server virtualization projects can also be applied to their storage environments," said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. "The new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can offer our customers a simplified approach to virtualized storage, with NFS and data management services that help customers do more with less while enabling greater efficiency, control and choice in their datacenters."

EasySpeedy, Media Temple, Motionbox, Monash University, Canada's TV5, University of South Florida, and other customers are among the 800 strong that have switched to a Sun Unified Storage System for dramatic time and money savings. Highlighted customer testimonials below - learn about their experiences and savings at www.sun.com/customers

· "Motionbox offers something unique - a safe, friendly, private online resource for individuals and families to store and share video in vivid HD quality. This naturally demands that we engineer a well tuned, highly responsive storage environment, and we have built just that around the Sun Storage 7410. My team was immediately abuzz when the 7000 series hit the market last fall. This solution was the best deal on high-capacity storage that we’d ever seen. Most important, however, the 7000 series is equally adept at serving both high-traffic videos and the 'long tail' of user-generated content - all on a single unit. Because our 7410 cluster comes configured with sizeable amounts of read & write cache, it can effortlessly serve content and support lots of transcoding operations across a wide spectrum of video usage patterns and the full path of a video’s lifecycle. Sun unified storage gives us the flexibility to tune and configure multiple instances of the same device for throughput or capacity or whatever our needs may be. Thanks, too, to the Sun Startup Essentials program, where I got the opportunity to discuss in-depth with Sun engineers to validate the best storage architecture to meet our intense demands." - Chris Brown, VP Engineering, Motionbox. Inc.
· "During our evaluation of the OpenStorage 7410, we found that the combination of read and write biased flash storage and disk outperformed systems with four to five times the number of spinning disks (and without any read write flash). We are still evaluating these units for use in a customer facing capacity, but we are definitely going to use these units in a data retention and data processing capacity. The expandability and the analytics capabilities offered by the Sun Storage 7410 units are very enticing to us, and may allow us to make some major changes to the architecture of our storage systems," said Joshua Barratt, CTO, Media Temple.
· "After testing and optimizing the Sun unified storage solution, we were surprised and impressed to discover that Sun's open solution was interoperable with our existing broadcast infrastructure. By prioritizing video applications, we were also able to use the solution with virtualization in our IT operation. We had considered a competitive NAS solution, but the cost was 25% greater and didn't give us the necessary throughput. Ultimately, the combination of exceptional value, capacity, tuning of applications and Sun's analytics led us to consolidate all data for both our IT and broadcast infrastructures on a Sun unified storage system," said Regis Harrison, director of production and technologies, TV5 Canada.

In addition, over 30 new independent software vendors and partners have certified applications for the Sun Unified Storage Systems, including VMware and Symantec. With new tools like the Hands on Lab, the channel has had a major impact in the dramatic sales growth for the Sun Unified Storage Systems.

New Mid-Market Solution for Sun Storage 7000

Sun also recently expanded its portfolio of mid-market solutions with the introduction of an Open Archive solution that pairs the Sun Storage 7110 and 7210 Unified Storage Systems and ultra-scalable Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 servers with industry-leading Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 software. The resulting Open Archive solution for mid-sized companies delivers tested and optimized storage and server configurations that make it easy for customers to very simply archive many different types of data, such as files/records, email, instant messaging and sharepoint content while ensuring data integrity. By using four times less power and half the footprint, the Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution can significantly reduce storage costs, minimizing management complexity and increasing storage ROI. For more information on Sun's Open Archive solution visit http://www.sun.com/smb/archive.

Sun Eases Migration to Open Storage With Tools and Expertise

New Sun Services for the Sun Storage 7000 Family include:

· Implementation and Assessment Services -- Goes beyond standard setup and basic diagnostics of standard installation to provide select configuration and validation information. Provides the expertise to help ensure that systems are running at an optimal level right from the first installation.
· Sun Unified Storage Data Migration Services -- Minimizes disruption and allows full feature functionality of new technology investments. Securely migrate data using MD5 hashing for file and security validation and speed time to ROI with Sun's deep technical expertise and tools.

To learn more about Sun's Open Storage solutions, please see www.sun.com/openstorage.

Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.4 - Up To 90% Faster Response Times and Scalability; Up to 16-way x86 Servers and 64-way CMT Servers

Organizations can Achieve Breakthrough Performance and Scalability Gains while Saving Millions of Dollars with the World's Most Popular Open Source Database

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – May 4, 2009 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) recently announced MySQL 5.4, a new version of the world's most popular open source database, designed to deliver significant performance and scalability improvements to MySQL applications. A preview version of MySQL 5.4 is available now for download at http://www.mysql.com/5.4.

The announcement was made at the seventh annual MySQL Conference & Expo being held last week at the Santa Clara Convention Center. With more than 2,000 attendees, it is the world's largest event for open source database developers, DBAs, vendors and corporate IT managers.

MySQL 5.4 includes performance and scalability improvements enabling the InnoDB storage engine to scale up to 16-way x86 servers and 64-way CMT servers. MySQL 5.4 also includes new subquery optimizations and JOIN improvements, resulting in 90% better response times for certain queries*. These performance and scalability gains are transparent and don't require any additional application or SQL coding to take advantage of them.

In the conference's opening keynote, Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of Sun's MySQL and Software Infrastructure Group, addressed the MySQL community, "Without any modifications to your applications, MySQL 5.4 will transparently increase the performance and scalability of your applications, to enable them to scale under more demanding user and data processing loads. MySQL 5.4 is also better suited for scale-up deployments on SMP systems. Please download today's preview version and send us your feedback - we want this to be the fastest, highest-quality release of MySQL ever."

"Our initial tests of MySQL 5.4 show our application performance is up to 40% faster right out-of-the-box," said Phil Hildebrand, manager of Database & Deployments at thePlatform. "We'll continue to follow this release closely for additional improvements."

MySQL 5.4 Features & Benefits

A number of new enterprise features and compelling fixes are planned for MySQL 5.4, including:

* Scalability improvements -- these fixes allow the InnoDB storage engine to scale up to 16-way x86 servers and 64-way CMT servers, more than doubling its previous capability;
* Subquery optimizations -- improves the performance of analytic query operations, with some subqueries now executing in a fraction of the time compared to previous MySQL versions;
* New query algorithms -- utilizes main memory to speed up the execution time of multi-way joins, especially for MySQL Cluster because the number of round-trips between the server and cluster nodes is minimized;
* Improved stored procedures -- enables more robust error management through the implementation of the SIGNAL/RESIGNAL functions, so applications can more easily rely on stored procedures for business logic;
* Improved prepared statements -- Output parameters will now be supported in prepared statements, which increases their functionality;
* Improved Information Schema -- provides more metadata access to parameters and data return types that stored procedures use, which allows much more information to be made available for developers using connectors such as ODBC and JDBC;
* Improved DTrace support -- improves diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities for MySQL on the Solaris Operating System.

Supported Platforms & Availability
MySQL 5.4 will be generally available for a wide variety of hardware and software platforms, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SuSE Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris 10 Operating System, Mac OS X, Free BSD, HP-UX, IBM AIX, IBM i5/OS and other popular Linux distributions.

The preview version of MySQL 5.4 is currently available for download at http://www.mysql.com/5.4 for 64-bit versions of the Linux and Solaris 10 Operating Systems. Based on community feedback, an estimated release date for the GA version will be announced later this year.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS ANNOUNCES OPEN JIVE REGIONAL CHALLENGE FOR STUDENTS IN SINGAPORE, MALAYSIA, THAILAND, INDONESIA AND PHILIPPINES

Open Jive Regional Challenge cultivates student-drive innovation to tackle business needs using the latest open source technologies

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – April 29, 2009 – Sun Microsystems today announced the launch of its annual Open Jive Regional Challenge 2009 in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines. Open Jive will reach out to more than 100 schools and top universities across the region, giving students the opportunity to learn and innovate on open source technologies. In Open Jive, students have to use open source technologies to build web 2.0 solutions that respond to businesses’ needs to lower costs and increase business efficiencies. Organized by Sun Microsystems and supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), the challenge is part of IDA’s 2009 series of the National Infocomm Competition (NIC). Students can register at www.sg.sun.com/openjive

Centers of academia are a hotbed for developing and encouraging interest in the use of open source technologies. As the largest commercial contributor to open source, Sun is working closely with schools and engaging with students encouraging them to participate in open source communities.

“Open source technology and communities offer student developers the best opportunities to further their IT education and become extremely competitive in today’s market. With open source, students can study how some of the world's leading software is crafted,” said Mr Gan Boon San, president, Sun Microsystems, Asia South. “Open source communities also offer access to some of the world's leading software engineers. By participating directly in the open source communities, students will have access to work with some of the world’s leading software engineers and learn firsthand how next generation software is crafted.”

The open source model is in the spotlight more than ever in these globally economic tough times. As companies look for new ways to continue to move their businesses forward at a lower cost, open source is helping them reap immense savings by escaping proprietary costs. Open source is also enabling innovation on a higher level, enabling companies to experiment, innovate and incubate new projects before having to build a business case.

Participants will pit their skills against their peers on a national level. The Open Jive Challenge is open to all tertiary students from the universities, polytechnics and ITE colleges. Teams which have their business cases selected will develop their Web 2.0 solutions using Sun’s leading-edge portfolio of open source technologies such as Java™ technology, Open Solaris™, NetBeans™ IDE, and MySQL™ database and have a chance to pitch it to a panel of judges comprised of Sun developers and industry experts.

The winning Open Jive teams from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia will compete on a regional level.

Students from Philippines and Indonesia are joining the challenge this year for the first time, bolstering the challenge’s growing footprint amongst schools in the region. Since Sun launched Java Jive three years ago, Java Jive has seen active and innovative participation from more than 100 teams representing the universities, polytechnics and private colleges in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

“Open Jive demonstrates Sun's commitment to Freely available and Open Source Software (FOSS) and nurturing even greater student engagement, participation and sharing on open source innovation, by having students build next generation applications using a gamut of technologies to address opportunities they see in the World around,” said Mr Naveen Asrani, senior manager, Global Developer and Outreach Programs, Sun Microsystems.

Mr CP Loo, managing director, Sun Malaysia echoed this sentiment, “Students are at the forefront of pioneering new trends and making them mainstream, teaching us a whole new level of innovation.”

Teams will be judged on innovation and creativity, effective use of technology and its commercial relevance and value. The winning team from the Malaysia Finals will receive RM13,300 in cash as well as other prizes. The team will also stand a chance to compete in the regional challenge and win an additional prize bounty of US$3,000 (RM10,500) in cash and attend Sun’s worldwide developer conference – Sun Tech Days in 2009/2010. All challenge winners can receive Sun Learning Services exam vouchers. Also to be won in the Malaysian challenges are technology awards sponsored by industry partner, Parasoft.

New Sun VirtualBox Release Supports Open Virtualization Format And Virtual Appliances

Huge Community Adoption Continues For Sun VirtualBox – Surpasses 11 Million Downloads Worldwide and 3.5 Million Registrations

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – April 15th, 2009 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) recently announced the availability of Sun VirtualBox(TM) 2.2, the latest release of its high performance, free and open source virtualization software. VirtualBox 2.2 introduces support for the new Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard, as well as significant performance enhancements and updates. To download the freely available Sun VirtualBox software, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp.

OVF is a Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that enables virtual machines or appliances to be imported and exported. Virtual appliances are one or more virtual machines that are pre-installed and configured so they can be shared, published and distributed. VirtualBox 2.2 software enables users to build virtual machines or appliances and effortlessly export them from a development environment and import them into a production environment. Support for OVF also helps to ensure VirtualBox 2.2 software is interoperable with other technologies that follow the standard.

“We continue to see great momentum for VirtualBox, through huge adoption numbers, as well as the speed and frequency of technology releases. VirtualBox has always been a fantastic tool for developers to create multiple virtual machines, network them together and deploy them using nearly any operating system. Now, with the new import and export features of the VirtualBox 2.2 release, users can quickly and easily put their development environments into production – on the desktop, the server or even in the cloud, “said CP Loo, managing director of Sun Microsystems Malaysia.

“The addition of support for virtual appliances in the latest VirtualBox software release is great for us and our customers who want to rapidly move from development to production, and upgrade production environments easily and quickly,” said Lars-Thorsten Sudmann, managing director ITProtect GmbH & Co. KG, an information, communication and security consulting firm based in Europe.

A key component of Sun's industry-leading desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio, VirtualBox software has been rapidly growing in popularity, surpassing 11 million downloads worldwide, 3.5 million registrations since October 2007, with in excess of 25,000 downloads a day. A mere 50 megabyte download, VirtualBox software is incredibly compact and efficient and installs in less than five minutes.

Additional features of VirtualBox 2.2 software include:
· Hypervisor optimizations to make this the fastest VirtualBox release available to date
· 3D graphics acceleration for Linux and Solaris(TM) applications using OpenGL(R), allowing a whole new class of applications to run in a virtual machine
· Support for Snow Leopard, Apple's forthcoming 64 bit platform
· Increased maximum memory size of guests to 16Gb RAM
· New host-interface networking mode, which makes it easier than ever before to run server applications in virtual machines

Pricing and Availability
VirtualBox software is free of charge for personal use. For wider deployments within an organization Enterprise subscriptions are also available, starting at RM 103 per user per year, which includes 24/7 premium support from Sun's technical team. Discounts are available based on volume. To sign up for an enterprise support subscription, visit: http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp. For partners wishing to redistribute the VirtualBox technology as part of their own solution Sun offers a comprehensive OEM licensing program.

Sun's Comprehensive Virtualization Products and Services
Sun offers a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization product and services portfolio, which includes solutions and services for both the management and virtualization of operating systems, servers, storage, networking, desktops and applications. With proven virtualization service expertise, Sun helps customers deploy new services faster, maximize the utilization of system resources, and more easily monitor and manage virtualized environments. Sun's end-to-end virtualization services help enterprises scale their business while improving efficiency and transforming their IT environment into a dynamic datacenter. For more information: http://www.sun.com/virtualization

Sun Microsystems Unveils Open Cloud Platform

Sun Open Cloud Platform to Power Public and Private Clouds with Leading Open Technologies Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage; Sets Course for World with Many Open and Compatible Clouds; Sun Also Announces Plans to Launch First Public Cloud for Developers, Students and Startups

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – March 19, 2009 – At its CommunityOne developer event held in New York recently, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) showcased the Sun Open Cloud Platform, the company's open cloud computing infrastructure, powered by industry-leading software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage. Signaling a massive opportunity to open the world's nascent cloud market, Sun also outlined that a core element of its strategy is to offer public clouds and previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, student and startups. Both are key elements in Sun's strategy to bring openness and interoperability to the cloud computing market. To register for the Sun Cloud Early Access program, go to sun.com/cloud.

As part of the company's commitment to building communities, Sun also announced the release of a core set of Open APIs, unveiled broad partner support for its cloud platform and demonstrated innovative features of the Sun Cloud. Sun is opening its cloud APIs for public review and comment, so that others building public and private clouds can easily design them for compatibility with the Sun Cloud. Sun's Cloud API specifications are published under the Creative Commons license, which essentially allows anyone to use them in any way. Developers will be able to deploy applications to the Sun Cloud immediately, by leveraging pre-packaged VMIs (virtual machine images) of Sun's open source software, eliminating the need to download, install and configure infrastructure software. To participate in the discussion and development of Sun's Cloud APIs, go to sun.com/cloud.

Sun envisions a world of many clouds – public and private – that are open and interoperable. With the Sun Open Cloud Platform, Sun is driving a paradigm shift away from proprietary clouds that limit choice and lock in customers toward a world of open and interoperable clouds. Leveraging the best in world-class open source technologies, the Sun Open Cloud Platform brings together Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage to deliver breakthrough efficiencies in cost and scale, and easier and faster software development. Based on innovative designs from a company with a rich history in network computing and Internet infrastructure, the Sun Open Cloud Platform is ideal for developers who value openness, flexibility and ease of use.

“Sun's approach to cloud computing blends our expertise in developing open source software and communities with unique design innovation. Sun's Open Cloud platform is the first step in delivering on our vision of a world that has many clouds that are both open and interoperable,” said Dave Douglas, Senior Vice President, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. “Our cloud architecture empowers developers with the expanded interoperability and freedom of choice they need to easily take advantage of the agility, efficiency and cost benefits of cloud computing.”

Sun Cloud – Datacenter in the Cloud
At the core of the Sun Cloud will be the first two services - Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service - which will be available this summer. Customers will be able to take advantage of the combined benefits of open source and cloud computing via the Sun Cloud to accelerate the delivery of new applications, reducing overall risk and quickly scaling compute and storage capacity up and down to meet demand. Sun is leveraging its extensive portfolio of products, unparalleled world-class professional services and extensive expertise in building open communities and partner ecosystems to deliver the Sun Cloud. Sun will also take the technologies and architectural blueprints developed for the Sun Cloud and make them available to customers building their own clouds, ensuring interoperability among clouds.

Sun is leveraging several technologies to make its Sun Cloud incredibly easy to use – from deploying applications to provisioning resources. At the core of the Sun Cloud Compute Service are the Virtual Data Center (VDC) capabilities acquired in Sun's purchase of Q-layer in January 2009, which provide everything an individual or team of developers needs to build and operate a datacenter in the cloud. The VDC provides a unified, integrated interface to stage an application running on any operating system within a cloud, including OpenSolaris, Linux or Windows. It features a drag-and-drop method, in addition to APIs and a command line interface for provisioning compute, storage and networking resources via any Web browser. The Sun Cloud Storage Service supports WebDAV protocols for easy file access and object store APIs that are compatible with Amazon's S3 APIs.

Cloud Partner Ecosystem
Sun announced that they are working with leading partners and key advocates for cloud standards such as Cloud Foundry, RightScale and Zmanda who are supporting its goal to deliver an open cloud platform.

To view the CommunityOne event webcast live at 9 am ET, go to sun.com/communityone. It will also be available on-demand.

Sun and UPSI Launch Green IT Learning Centre

Thin Client Centre to support UPSI’s bid for K-community and sustainable computing for a greener environment

TANJONG MALIM, PERAK, Malaysia – February 26, 2009 – Sun Microsystems Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Sun) and University Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) yesterday launched the Thin Client Centre at UPSI’s main library, ‘Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun’ – to meet the needs of a new digital generation.

The Thin Client Centre will provide UPSI’s students community with three education essentials; access, communication, and collaboration, in order to address the growing demand for better eco-solution awareness, as UPSI works towards achieving a greener environment.

“The UPSI and Sun partnership goes a long way back – we have been working with Sun to educate the university community on the ecological impact of today’s technologies and how we can be part of the eco-responsibility initiative to reduce energy costs and IT environmental impact.

“Our partnership with Sun is in line with our efforts to work towards a k-Perak, an IT initiative by the Perak state government to develop ICT as a sector and as an enabler towards achieving Perak as an entry level Knowledge State by 2010 and a fully developed Knowledge State by 2020,” said Prof. Dr. Mustamam Abd Karim, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), UPSI.

According to Prof. Dr. Mustamam, UPSI went with Sun thin client technology because of its environmental benefits and efficiencies. Sun Ray thin client devices deliver a 75 percent energy saving over the average PC, not least because of better resource utilisation.Sun, together with its distributor BT Frontline, have been working closely with UPSI in the last few years to raise IT awareness and the importance of education via technology among the university community. Sun will deploy a new batch of Sun Ray 270 Virtual Display Clients and Sun Fire x4100 servers in UPSI’s main library as part of UPSI’s Library Open Public Access and training labs. This is on top of the existing Sun Ray thin clients and Sun Fire v250 servers that are currently in use at the library, the Treasury department and at the ICT centre.

“The Thin Client Centre will provide a one-stop support and integration centre for UPSI and their students. Besides a centralized data and applications system, there is greater security with Sun Ray thin client as virus attacks are virtually eliminated. Furthermore, its lower consumption of power and waste reduction makes this a ‘green’ solution. We are confident that UPSI will be able to reap the benefits of the Sun Ray implementation and enjoy greater savings in terms of costs, plus a greater boost to security,” commented CP Loo, managing director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia.

The Thin Client Centre has a collaboration center where it provides UPSI students a collaborative platform that enhances participation and sharing of ideas through various form of communication platforms such as forums, blogs and wikis.

There is a Services Kiosk at the Centre for students to get access to more efficient printing resources for class and projects submission and documentation. In addition, students can have immediate access to all their education technologies to facilitate and enhance their learning experiences. These include easy access to various software applications tool packages and more secured access to their working files and data.

The launch of the Thin Client Centre was held yesterday at UPSI, Tanjong Malim, Perak. The event was attended by Prof. Dr. Mustamam Abd Karim, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), UPSI, Joe Hartley, Vice President, Global Government, Education and Healthcare, Sun Microsystems Inc., CP Loo, managing director of Sun Microsystems Malaysia, Tuan Haji Abd Rahman, CEO BT Frontline and other distinguished guests.

SUN MICROSYSTEMS COMMENTARY: **IT TRENDS FOR 2009**

CP Loo, Managing Director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia

Overview
In 2008, Sun continued to achieve growth in emerging markets, steadily seeding countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China with tools, training and open source technology to support their success and innovation.

In 2009, Sun sees businesses and governments in emerging markets increasingly using the latest open source technologies to develop innovations with minimal costs and investments. Sun’s open source strategy and industry standard offerings complement the needs of customers in the emerging markets, who look to Sun’s solutions to heighten their business performance amid rising pressures to control IT costs in the current global financial environment. By enabling developers in these markets to create new solutions, Sun is cultivating its long term growth in these markets while making a strong contribution to the local IT industry’s development and competitiveness.

IT Trends for 2009

**GREEN IT**

Eco
Energy efficiency to reduce watts/compute workload will continue to be a priority in 2009, given high ROI and overall energy limitations. Datacenter blueprints will continue to evolve with aggressive virtualization saving potentially 2X-10X the savings of facility efficiency measures. Power management will be used to throttle down servers (and other IT equipment) when not in use, something not done effectively today.

High temperature data centers, some without any mechanical cooling systems, will be discussed more in 2009 (but very few will be implemented). And collaboration will continue to drive progress forward through new standards (The Green Grid), best practices and open tools (OpenEco.org), as we scramble to meet energy and climate goals. Sun will continue to innovate on eco in hardware (servers and network), software (inc. efficient coding), services (datacenter design) and partnerships.

**THE CLOUD**

Cloud Computing
For 25 years, Sun has been guided by the vision that "the network is the computer." With the explosion of cloud computing in 2008, that vision is truer than ever. We are just at the beginning of this next evolution of the Internet. Sun expects to see cloud computing continue to impact the way IT infrastructure is designed and delivered to meet the varied needs of Web, business and HPC users. As enterprises and developers weed through the hype and figure out how to take advantage of the efficiencies of the cloud model, security, open standards and data portability will become increasingly important.

**HARDWARE**

Mid-range Computing
IDC estimates midrange server spend at US$15B in 2009, accounting for nearly 1/4 of the overall server spend. Customers have traditionally relied on midrange servers to deliver the scalability and reliability to handle business critical applications like OLTP and CRM, without much regard for energy efficiency.

The industry is beginning to see a shift in midrange capabilities -- instead of just being miniaturized versions of big iron -- the new midrange like Sun's SPARC Enterprise T5440 server will pack a lot more performance in a midrange package.

There are also the added benefits of reduced operating costs and space and energy savings -- a huge value in today's economy. These new platforms are redefining the midrange. In 2009 businesses will continue to demand a right-sized solution for consolidation and virtualization with the ability to scale. Expect to see Sun challenge the competition as the redefinition of the midrange extends into the storage market, offering customers peak performance and energy efficiency.

High Performance Computing (HPC)
In recent years, HPC has become a hot topic within IT, and businesses worldwide have begun to look towards tangible HPC solutions for their customers’ needs. Data-intensive industries like oil & gas and manufacturing are seeing the solid benefits to not only HPC processing, but also storage.

Open Storage
Open Storage will continue to grow as one of the most innovative and relevant topics affecting the storage community in 2009. Storage, currently a US$40BN dollar industry, is today going through a shift similar to that of the server market that occurred in the mid-90's. Customer demand for state-of-the-art storage systems with open architectures and easy deployment will dramatically increase.

Given the nature of the financial markets, cost economics have never been so important and will continue to be an important part of the buying decision in the coming year. Sun is spearheading the open storage revolution by combining open-source software with industry-standard system components to reduce storage costs by up to 75% over traditional market solutions.

**SOFTWARE**

Open Source
Open Source is definitely the top technology trend that has and will continue to have an impact on Sun and our customers. In companies across India, China, Eastern Europe, South and Central America, companies are dominantly using open source to create enormous wealth.

In China and India alone, there are more than a million software developers, many of whom cannot afford punitive technology license fees, so they default to open source software, like MySQL, Ubuntu Linux, OpenSolaris, Java or OpenOffice.org. Armed with these and the zeal to succeed and overcome adversity, the global market is open to them. Likewise, it is also open to businesses that want to leverage these same technologies that power some of the world’s most innovative companies such as Amazon, Google, Nokia and Sun Microsystems.

Many governments worldwide, including Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and South Africa now embrace the open document formats to help bring costs down and ensure all citizens have equal access to important material years from now. Research firm Gartner projects that by 2012, 90% of the world's companies will be using open source software – globally. Companies are realizing now that progress rests with their willingness to take a position on open source technology.

Virtualization Management
In 2008, virtualization became widely accepted as the premier consolidation tool to increase hardware utilization and decrease power and cooling costs. Gartner recently identified virtualization as the top strategic technology for organizations in 2009, and – in the current tough economic climate - businesses will continue to rely on virtualization coupled with effective management as the simplest and most cost-effective strategy for dealing with consolidation. Sun’s xVM virtualization management portfolio, introduced in September, provides open source virtualization software to help customers virtualize from the desktop to the datacenter at half the cost of the competition.

Sun Microsystems: Post-Budget Commentary – Malaysian National Budget 2009

CP Loo, Managing Director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur 29 August 2008

The National Budget 2009 truly reinforces the Malaysian Government’s commitment to alleviate the increasing hardship faced by the rakyat and, at the same time reflects its continual investment for growth to ensure the long-term productivity and resilience of the nation.

Sun especially lauds the Government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of inflation on the cost of living. Specifically, Sun is appreciative of the Government’s decision to grant corporate and personal tax relief of 1% down to 27% and 12% respectively, effective the year of assessment 2009. Tax reliefs provide an incentive for Malaysian professionals to stay in, or return to the country and contribute towards revitalizing the economy.

In addition, Sun is confident that the ICT-related incentives in this year’s Budget will promote an even more vibrant ICT environment and boost the country’s next phase of growth. In particular, we welcome the Government’s decision to shorten the claimable period from two years to one year under the Accelerated Capital Allowance on expenses incurred on upgrading or replacing ICT equipment. This move enables businesses to remain competitive and helps increase productivity.

Sun is also heartened by the Government’s support in the growth of SMEs thus far. Apart from the RM1.2 bil financing facilities allotted for SMEs to upgrade their processes or IT equipment, SMBs would find the one year Accelerated Capital Allowance reduction and the ability to claim full Capital Allowance on all small value assets within a year, extremely positive news. These benefits will not only facilitate cash flow issues faced by SMBs but stimulate the domestic economy and encourage cross-border economic activities.

Furthermore, Sun applauds the Government’s continued focus on enhancing human capital development to make Malaysia more competitive and attractive to foreign investors. Sun believes the RM2.4 billion allocation to enhance facilities as well as undertake training and skills programmes will not only spur entrepreneurial activities amongst unemployed graduates, but also increase the demand for skilled and knowledge workers in the country as we transform towards a knowledge-based economy.

Moving forward, Sun would like to see subsidies allocated for software developers as an encouragement to commercialise their ideas in the global market. We also hope to see additional rebates for companies which seek ways to reduce power and consumption costs and adopt green technology within their organizations. This is particularly relevant to counter escalating energy costs.

Avnet Technology Solutions Officially Opens New Office and State-Of-The-Art Solution Center in Malaysia

MALAYSIA, 8 August 2008 – Avnet Technology Solutions (ATS), one of the world’s leading software and hardware providers, announced today the opening of their new office and solution center in Petaling Jaya. Avnet’s new premise, with a build-up area of approximately 10,000 square feet is a testament to the commitment pledged by them to develop the technology market in Malaysia and also provide first class technology knowledge transfer to all current and future employees of the company.

The new ATS office located in Mutiara Damansara comes fully equipped with cutting-edge facilities such as the sophisticated solution center, a planning room, a training center and staging amenities for solution testing. Furthermore, ATS’ new premise also reflects its intention to provide even more local employment opportunities as it plans to expand its current headcount by 10 per cent by the end of this year.

“Avnet is proud to be part of Malaysia’s burgeoning IT industry and the mere fact that we have invested heavily in our presence here shows that Avnet is confident of Malaysia’s growth in this industry,” said KP Tang, President of Avnet Technology Solutions Asia. Tang also added that Avnet’s new office is an important step forward for the US-based company as it will provide the local team with ample resources to offer cutting edge services and expertise into Malaysia.

From L to R: Mr. Chiew Yue LamGeneral Manager of Avnet Technology Solutions Malaysia. Mr. KP TangPresident of Avnet Technology Solutions Asia. Mr. William ChuVice President of Avnet Technology Solutions Asia. Mr. Ou Shian WaeiGeneral Manager of IBM Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

New Solution Center In Malaysia
Dubbed as the Avnet Solutions Center, this state-of-the-art solution center provides an ideal environment and necessary facilities where ATS and its partners can focus on developing and delivering reliable IT solutions to local businesses.

With an initial investment of RM 5 million and the latest upgrade of RM 250,000, the center will offer business partners and clients integrated business solutions leveraging on industry-leading and cutting-edge technologies. The functions of the solution center include:

1) Showcase of technology
Through the Avnet Solution Centre, customers can now observe the latest technology from industry giants such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, NetApp, Doubletake, Vision, Commvault and VMWare function under simulated business environments. The range of technologies covers a wide spectrum from high availability to virtualization as well as advance storage solutions. With this facility at their disposal, choosing the right business solution becomes less of a challenge as customers can now gauge the level of returns from their investments more accurately.

2) Partner-centric applications
The Avnet Solution Centre is essentially built on a multi-platform infrastructure. This means that Avnet can now pick and test best-of-breed solutions from its various partners such as Oracle, SAP, SAS and Microsoft to find the most suitable combination of applications to specifically suit a particular business or industry and ultimately push the boundaries of “customization” even further.

3) Other services
The opening of the Avnet Solution Center will also enable them to offer additional services such as data migration and training modules to the technical engineers. The center currently allows for on-site testing and demonstrations and will soon be able to provide virtual demonstrations via broadband and live camera. Chiew Yue Lam, General Manager of Avnet Technology Solutions Malaysia mentioned that Avnet’s goal is geared towards showcasing it will help business partners and clients minimize operating costs by reducing traditional sales barriers by offering business-ready solutions through the one-stop center.

Avnet Technology Solutions is the largest global IT distributor of IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems and NetApp solutions.

For more information, log onto: http://www.avnet.com/

Sun Microsystems To Provide Technology Platform For NBC's Online Coverage Of The Beijing Olympic Games

High-Performance Platform to Enable Live Events Streamed Online to NBCOlympics.com During Coverage of the Beijing Olympics, August 8-24, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR - July 23, 2008 – Sun Microsystems has been selected to provide the technology platform to NBC Universal for its Olympic web site, NBCOlympics.com, during the network's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics from Beijing, China, August 8-24. The announcement was made earlier this week by Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, Digital Media, NBC Sports and Olympics and Peter Ryan executive vice-president, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems.

Powered by Sun's high-performance, eco-efficient systems, NBC's online coverage of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing will set a new standard in delivering digital content to viewers with live streaming of events, video archives of completed events, blogs, live chat, athlete profiles and many other unique features. Olympic fans will have access to approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage of 25 different sports on the site.

"Sun has architected a powerful, energy efficient platform for NBCOlympics.com that will rapidly scale for hundreds of millions of sports fans who look to the Internet for the latest events and results," said Peter Ryan, executive vice-president, Global Sales and Services, Sun Microsystems.

Miller said, "In 2008, NBCOlympics.com is redefining the Olympic experience and Sun Microsystems has been an important partner in that effort. We have recognized the growing online viewership for the Olympics and have worked with Sun to create a powerful and feature-rich Web experience for NBCOlympics.com."

The NBCOlympics.com site is supported by 160 Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 servers. These Intel Xeon processor-based x64 servers combine world-class performance, high compute density and storage with compact footprints and leading energy efficiency. In the lead-up to and during the games, Sun Services will provide installation, engineering expertise and support to NBCOlympics.com.

World’s Fastest Supercomputers Employ AMD Opteron™ Processors to Reach Unprecedented Performance

— 3 of the Top 5 systems and 7 of the Top 20 systems depend on AMD innovation —

—Top 20 showing for AMD Opteron processors outpaces any other x86 processor architecture by almost 2:1 —


KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA. — June 19, 2008 — At the International Supercomputing Conference, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that its AMD Opteron™ processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. For the first time ever,
AMD technology plays a role in the number one supercomputer in the world and this same processor technology that helps drive the number one supercomputer is also readily available for business and personal computing.

“This current TOP500 list, with its first ever petascale performance, not only represents a milestone in scientific computing but also demonstrates the relevance of scalability and balanced system design in high performance computing (HPC). It also points to heterogeneous computing as an emerging and necessary step for the industry,” said Randy Allen, senior vice president,
Computation Solutions Group, AMD.

“AMD and its many supercomputing partners, including top tier OEMs, recognize that for heterogeneous computing to be successful, collaboration among industry leaders is critical. The performance demonstrated on this list by AMD and our partners exceeds what any single solution has ever been able to achieve and we believe this tightly coupled innovation will become more prevalent to the benefit of HPC, as well as business and personal computing customers.”

Beyond helping drive the number one system to its record-breaking petascale performance, six additional multi-core AMD Opteron processorbased supercomputers ranked in the balance of the top 20, including the much-anticipated “Ranger” system from Sun Microsystems at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and several of Cray’s well-known HPC installations. In total, 11 of AMD’s OEM customers have achieved a TOP500 ranking based on AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture in 11 countries worldwide.

The AMD Opteron processor-based “Ranger” supercomputer at TACC made its first appearance on the TOP500 list, ranking fourth with a score of 326 teraflops. “Ranger” is based on Sun Microsystems’ Constellation blade system and is the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, helping solve massive computational problems from weather prediction and climate modeling to genetics and medical research.

“The Sun Constellation System at TACC delivers an open, petascalecapable architecture through cost-effective, off-the-shelf components and state-of-the-art technologies,” said Bjorn Andersson, director, HPC Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Through the combination of Sun’s innovative design principles for server, switch and interconnect technology and the performance and energy-efficiency of multi-core AMD Opteron processors, Ranger is helping to achieve breakthrough discoveries across domains and disciplines and is poised to grow with the demands of open science research.”

AMD Opteron processor-based Cray supercomputers continue their long tradition of achieving high TOP500 rankings. Currently, 15 supercomputers based on the collaboration between Cray and AMD are delivering supercomputing customers with world-class computational power.

This represents the 7th straight time that AMD Opteron processor-based Cray systems have been ranked in the top 10 on the TOP500 list and underscores the level of system design, innovation, and scalability that Cray and AMD together deliver.

“IDC forecasts that the market for high performance computing systems will continue growing rapidly and will reach $18 billion in 2012. Large-scale HPC systems enable major scientific and engineering breakthroughs and are at the forefront of issues that later affect enterprise and even desktop computing environments, such as parallel processing and power consumption,” said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president, HPC.

“The AMD Opteron processor and AMD's Direct Connect Architecture continue to play an important part in moving HPC capabilities forward across the globe.”

The Top 500 list and related documentation is scheduled to be released publicly on June 18, 2008 and will be accessible online at www.top500.org.

Sun Microsystems Unveils New Version of Java CAPS and Master Data Management Suite

Major Enhancements Help Customers Increase Flexibility and Avoid Vendor Lock-in Risks for Their SOA Projects

Kuala Lumpur, June 10, 2008 Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) has announced the immediate availability of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6, the latest version of its flagship service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software. Sun also released a new master data management (MDM) suite, a high performance and unified solution that gives users a single view of their customer data and helps them more effectively manage customer relationships. Java CAPS 6 is the first SOA platform by a major technology provider built on open source through the Open ESB community at http://open-esb.dev.java.net.

With Java CAPS 6, users are able to leverage existing and new IT investments to create an infrastructure that is more agile and better aligned with the needs of their organizations today. A lightweight and extensible platform, Java CAPS 6 lets users rapidly add and integrate components in a modular fashion. New enhancements to Java CAPS include: a modular Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for rapidly coupling applications; advanced event processing and business process management capabilities and alignment with latest versions of the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server and NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software.

Organizations that are struggling to acquire and retain customers will benefit from Sun's MDM suite because they will have a single view of their customer data across disparate systems. This can allow them to leverage information across their organizations, identify their most valuable customers, implement opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products and help reduce operational costs. Sun's MDM suite works across multiple industries, expanding the visibility of information and providing single "customer" views, whether the customer is a consumer, patient, citizen, subscriber or even another business.

"We are changing the way products are developed by collaborating with open source communities," said Mark Herring, vice president of marketing, Software Infrastructure, Sun Microsystems. "Java CAPS 6 is a result of this effort and incorporates feedback received from community members, such as a modular and open platform and no vendor lock-in. We also addressed the needs of existing customers by offering easy ways to upgrade and backwards compatibility to previous versions."

"Lock-in with any vendor is a top concern for us," said Vince Blanchard, director of architecture and new technology, Medavie Blue Cross. "Sun's implementation of the pluggable Java Business Integration (JBI) standard combined with its open source strategy within Open ESB and Java CAPS have addressed this concern for us."

"By leveraging the large adoption of the open source community, Java CAPS and the underlying GlassFish runtime environment give us high performance, stability, high availability, and strong operational management facilities," said Frank Lacroix, senior manager, Carrefour Group.

Additional information on key components of Java CAPS 6 includes:
Sun Java ESB Suite: Based on Open ESB and JBI, the Sun Java ESB Suite is a completely open and modular platform that enables the rapid creation of composite applications and connects with various components and protocols for a flexible SOA.

Intelligent Event Processor (IEP): Offers the ability to identify trends and patterns in real-time, enabling organizations to address critical business issues and take corrective actions proactively.
Business Process Management: Supports BPEL 2, includes new high availability and failover features, and provides monitoring processes through integration with IEP.

GlassFish and NetBeans (IDE) Software Support: Incorporates the GlassFish Enterprise Server, using industry-leading interoperability with .NET and WSIT/Project Metro as well as the unified and pluggable NetBeans IDE software to provide greater control.

Customers and Partners Ecosystem
Introduced in 2006, Java CAPS has been deployed by hundreds of global customers and more than 350 partners. Customers like Carrefour Group, Medavie Blue Cross, Travelers Indemnity Company, and State of South Dakota and organizations like Accenture, Wipro, TCS and Cognizant participated in Sun's early access program, which tested the product in real-world environments. In addition, Sun works with third parties that offer solutions that augment the benefits of Java CAPS including: Layer 7 Technologies (service-level security and governance); Savvion (process modeling and human workflow); ILOG and Fair Isaac Corporation (business rules management); eviware (SOA testing); and Pentaho and JasperSoft (business intelligence).

Open ESB and Mural Communities
Sun is an active contributor to the Open ESB community, where it is enabling development and collaboration of next generation business integration technology. Recently launched, the Mural community attracts architects and developers interested in creating the next generation of data management technology, which leverages the NetBeans IDE software and the Open ESB communities.

Pricing Information
The Java CAPS 6 platform, ESB and MDM suites can be purchased on a subscription or perpetual licensing basis. Pricing depends on the type of license and the nature of support desired. For more information on Sun's SOA and master data management offerings, visit www.sun.com/soa and www.sun.com/mdm.

Sun Microsystems發佈新伺服器

New Sun Servers Capitalize on Design Innovation, Pack the Power of 64 Servers in a Single System

KUALA LUMPUR – October 19, 2007 – Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) today unveiled new UltraSPARC® T2-based servers that deliver advanced virtualization capabilities, increased system utilization and industry-leading energy efficiency. The Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers and Sun Blade™ T6320 modules deliver the compute power of 64 individual systems on a single server or blade and beat competing RISC servers on web-tier tasks by over 4x while maintaining 6x better performance per watt. With the Solaris™ Operating System (OS) and free virtualization technologies built-in, these new Sun servers are the most flexible, cost-effective systems for maximizing system utilization.

“Good design is about creating an experience and solving technological challenges in efficient and cost effective ways not just in a single line of servers, but across platforms,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. “What you're seeing today is the result of Sun taking a leadership approach across both our x64 and CMT volume server architectures and packing superior performance and density in a footprint at a fraction of the competition's.”

Created using a unified design approach developed by Chief Systems Architect Andy Bechtolsheim, Sun's x64 and CMT servers use unified system architecture designs and chassis with reliability designed-in to help ensure maximum uptime. Consistently located, swappable components also provide easy access and shorten service times. The new systems join the recently announced Sun Fire X4450 and X4150 servers, powered by quad-core Intel® Xeon® processors in expanding Sun's portfolio enabling customers to solve critical problems in the data center with greater performance and density with better power efficiency than competitive systems in the market.

Products and services announced today include: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 servers

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers –The first servers using the UltraSPARC T2 processor, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 systems offer record-breaking performance with the highest levels of space and energy efficiency. The SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers deliver better ERP and B2B application performance in 1/4 the space at nearly 1/4 the cost of a dual socket IBM p570 with the Power 6 processor. Running the Solaris OS, these new systems are ideal platforms for customers needing to achieve increased scale, density and performance with reduced energy consumption, particularly in the web and application tiers and for technical workloads. Built-in open source, no-cost virtualization capabilities – Solaris™ Containers and Logical Domains (LDoms) -- enable IT staff to easily maximize system utilization, helping to lower the costs of delivering new IT services. The SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 systems are the first servers to be instantly discoverable on the network via SunSM Connection.

Sun Blade T6320 server module -- Delivers enhanced virtualization and consolidation capabilities for the data center with features and functionality comparable to the SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 systems in a blade form factor. Supported in the Sun Blade 6000 modular system, the Sun Blade T6320 server module is the fastest performing single-socket blade, consumes nearly 30 percent less power and is optimized for large multi-node installations. The new module is 10 times faster to deploy and service and can also mix and match with other CPU architectures and operating systems within the same chassis to address multi-tier application requirements.

Sun Microsystems發佈世上最快商用處理器

SUN MICROSYSTEMS ENTERS COMMERCIAL SILICON MARKET WITH WORLD’S FASTEST COMMODITY MICROPROCESSOR

KUALA LUMPUR – August 8, 2007 – Sun Microsystems, Inc., (NASDAQ: SUNW) today announced the world's fastest commodity microprocessor, the UltraSPARC® T2, as the cornerstone of its merchant portfolio of microelectronics. Available for sale separate from Sun's own systems, this new processor is the industry's first volume processor with eight cores and eight threads per core. Formerly known as the “Niagara 2” project, the UltraSPARC T2's world-record performance raises the bar on commodity processors while boasting the industry's highest energy efficiency per thread. With each thread capable of running its own operating system, the chip delivers a whopping 64-way system on a single chip. Sun will provide the UltraSPARC T2 processor design to the free and open source community via the GPL license.

“The market for commodity silicon and the devices they power is well into the tens of billions of dollars,” said David Yen, executive vice president of Microelectronics for Sun. “The UltraSPARC T2 processor also makes possible a new breed of compact, power-efficient, highly integrated devices—going beyond servers to routers, switches, network devices, medical imaging, industrial printing and more. With UltraSPARC T2 technology, we can bring the speed and scalability of chip multithreading into much wider use—and provide welcome alternatives to companies that want commodity economics without commodity performance.”

"We're at a historic point in computing, moving away from sequential processing to multicore designs," said Professor Dave Patterson, Pardee Chair of Computer Science for the University of California at Berkeley. "Hence, we need to invent new ways to evaluate these new parallel systems. Our initial experiments suggest that Niagara 2 has the highest performance, is the most power efficient and is the most 'software friendly' of the processors we've tested."

The UltraSPARC T2 is the industry's first processor to bring together the key functions of multiple systems—virtualisation, processing, networking, security, floating point units and accelerated memory access. Integrating these elements on a single piece of silicon reduces cost and increases performance, reliability and energy efficiency—making it the superior choice for a diversity of workloads, from networking equipment to high-performance computing or storage devices. As a general-purpose processor, the UltraSPARC T2 also provides support for the massively threaded, open source Solaris™ operating system, and other real-time operating systems, as well as future versions of Ubuntu Linux, bringing a massive community of developers and productivity to the growing market.

“We are excited about exploring the capabilities of the UltraSPARC T2 processor,” said Mark Murphy, global alliances manager at Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu. “We certify Ubuntu on the SPARC architecture as we believe it is at the forefront of what's possible in processing and for many Ubuntu users this is of critical importance. UltraSPARC T2 shows Sun continues to push the boundaries and we are proud to be alongside pushing with them.”

This next generation of the UltraSPARC family of processors also extends its lead in eco performance, bringing Sun's revolutionary CoolThreads™ chip multithreading (CMT) technology to the UltraSPARC T2 processor, powered by fewer than two watts per thread. At one-tenth to one-thirtieth the power consumption of competitive offerings, the UltraSPARC T2 processor sets the gold standard for green computing and efficiency, combining the industry’s lowest power consumption with double the cores, 16 times the threads, 4 times the throughput, with on-chip network and security functionality. Bottom line: The UltraSPARC T2 processor has the potential to save systems builders and their end users millions of dollars on skyrocketing power, cooling and space expense.

A breakthrough in architectural design, the UltraSPARC T2 processor delivers an unprecedented level of integrated system functions on a single chip:

High-throughput processing – Eight cores and eight threads per core accelerate throughput as shown by two world-record, single-chip SPEC CPU scores, based on tests that delivered 78.3 est. SPECint_rate2006 and a 62.3 est. SPECfp_rate2006. The UltraSPARC T2 processor has twice the thread count of Sun's UltraSPARC T1 processor, which recently set a world record on ten Sun Blade(TM) T6300 Server Modules delivering 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard*
Networking – Dual, virtualisable, multithreaded 10 Gigabit-per-second Ethernet ports with built-in packet classification ensure fast access to networks and server-to-server communications
Security - Eight cryptographic acceleration units and a total of 10 independent functions address ever-heightening security needs, including NSA-approved algorithms, without a performance penalty
Computation - Eight floating point units extend the benefits of CMT to high-performance computing workloads for scientific applications; world record single-chip SPECfp_rate2006 and world-record single-chip SPECompM2001 scores
Input/Output – Eight lanes of industry-standard PCI Express I/O speed applications like streaming media, database read/write and data back-up
Memory access – Quad memory controllers deliver more than 50 Gigabytes-per-second of memory access

Software support – The massively threaded Solaris OS takes excellent advantage of the highly threaded processors and enables open and cost-effective virtualisation

In production now, Sun's new UltraSPARC T2 processor offers more consolidation and virtualisation flexibility than any processor in its class. With up to 64 logical domains per processor, customers can achieve unprecedented levels of efficiency by consolidating many physically separate systems onto a single UltraSPARC T2 processor-based platform.

Sun, the Open Source Leader
Having surpassed 5,500 downloads of the OpenSPARC™ T1 source code, Sun is working to release source code for the UltraSPARC T2 processor to the OpenSPARC community at www.opensparc.net. Today Sun is announcing the following to give a head start to the development community around OpenSPARC T2:
A programmer's reference manual – Jumpstarts software ports, operating system ports and tools development for OpenSPARC T2 projects
Microarchitecture specifications – Detailed description of the features and functionalities of the OpenSPARC T2 hardware blocks help hardware and system designers innovate and potentially create new applications

OpenSPARC T2 beta review – This program provides early access to a limited number of hardware designers and tool developers to begin working with the state-of-the-art CMT processor with system-on-a-chip functionality. The program catalyzes the development of a community for OpenSPARC T2, speeds the debugging process and leads to a better first release of the technology

UltraSPARC T2 Availability
For more information about the UltraSPARC T2 processor, visit www.sun.com/T2. For information about licensing Sun's Microelectronics technology, go to www.sun.com/products/microelectronics.

Sun軟件支援多核心多線程處理器

SUN EXTENDS SOFTWARE COMPILER AND TOOL TECHNOLOGIES TO MULTI-CORE PROCESSORS AND MULTI-THREADED APPLICATIONS

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – June 6, 2007 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) recently announced compiler and tools technologies for both Solaris(TM) and GNU/Linux platforms, allowing developers to take full advantage of the recent advances in multi-core and multithreading applications.

“Sun Studio 12 software combined with the Solaris OS allows developers to maximize their application performance, with the guarantee of source and binary compatibility provided by the Solaris Application Guarantee Program,” said Jeet Kaul, vice president, Developer Products and Programs, Sun. “For the first time Sun Studio 12 software offers a complete development environment and record-setting compilers for the Linux platform.”Sun(TM) Studio 12, which includes a NetBeans(TM)-based integrated development environment (IDE), simplifies the development of applications on the newest multi-core SPARC(R) and x86/64-based systems. In addition, Sun Studio 12 provides C, C++ and Fortran compilers and an advanced suite of static and dynamic tools for memory debugging, application profiling and multi-core optimizations, as well as, libraries targeting the high performance market. Sun is collaborating closely with both Intel and AMD to ensure that Sun Studio compilers and libraries take full advantage of the Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor, code-named “Barcelona” and the Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor 5300 series.

"During our evaluation of Sun Studio 12 software, the ease of transporting our code from Linux to Solaris and back provided an unprecedented ease-of-porting experience," said open source FreeSWITCH software developer, Michal Bielicki. "Not only was it easy to maintain the code repository and coordinate teams, the resulting binaries on both platforms where also of the highest quality and optimized for maximum performance."

Sun offers a tiered set of support services for Sun Studio 12 software, ranging from single incident to comprehensive developer plans. In addition, with a broad portfolio of training and certification offerings, developers can enhance their skillsets to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies. To learn more, please visit http://developers.sun.com/services.

Download a free, unrestricted, copy of Sun Studio 12 on the Net: http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio. Information on Sun Studio world record benchmarks can be found at: http://www.sun.com/software/products/studio/benchmarks.xml. In addition, Sun Studio 12 software will be included in the next release of Solaris Express Developer Edition, an OpenSolaris(TM)-based distribution for Solaris, Java(TM) technology and Web 2.0 application developers.