After trouble in their paradise, English singer Mark Owen is back with his wife Emma and the two are having a romantic break on a sun kissed beach in Barbados. It looks like the couple have found love again after their relationship was ripped apart in March, when the Take That star admitted to 10 [...]
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How Former Sun Exec Aims to Elevate Cisco’s Cloud-Building Image
December 29th, 2010 |
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CTO Lew Tucker envisions a massive new cloudlike network on the horizon for Cisco to build that may one day number a trillion connected devices. – Lew Tucker, Cisco Systems’ new vice-president and chief technical officer for cloud computing systems, has a pretty significant mission for his company, which rapidly has been reinventing itself in the last two or three years.
That would to be the quot;straw that stirs the drink quot; (a nod her…
Health care in the Middle East: Sun, shopping and surgery
December 9th, 2010 |
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Can the Gulf attract medical tourists?
COULD the Persian Gulf become the next hot destination for medical tourism? That was one of the questions on the minds of delegates at a health conference this week in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The idea may have legs.
For one thing, medical tourism continues to boom globally despite the downturn. High prices and queues in the over-stretched health systems of the rich world have driven many people to seek hip replacements, plastic surgery and other care in Thailand, India and Costa Rica. Deloitte, a firm of consultants, forecasts that the number of Americans going abroad for care will rise to 1.6m in 2012, up from 750,000 in 2007. …
Sun Ray Software 5.1 Bumps Up Virtual and Remote Desktop Infrastructure Support
December 3rd, 2010 |
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Oracle continues Suns remote desktop effort against VMware and Citrix and increases support for Windows 7 and remote desktops running on Windows Server 2008 R2. – Sun Ray Software 5.1 (SRS) the first upgrade to the desktop virtualization
platform since Oracles acquisition of Sun includes media, Adobe Flash, audio,
USB and multidisplay support.
As such, Oracle is joining the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) battle for
the eyes and ears of enterprise…
Sun Ray 3i Thin Client Hardware Provides Fat VDI for Intense Virtual Workloads
December 1st, 2010 |
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The Oracle Sun Ray 3 and 3i thin client hardware platforms integrate Oracle’s virtual desktop infrastructure to compete with VMware, Microsoft and Citrix in the ongoing push to gain centralized control over the end-user desktop experience. – The newly revamped Sun Ray 3 and 3i thin client systems announced by Oracle
carry on the Sun strategy of making easy-to-deploy hardware that supports a
variety of end-user virtual workloads while maintaining central, secure control
over desktop systems.
The Sun Ray 3 is a typical vertically …
Sun East Group – Corporate moves
November 15th, 2010 |
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Yau Thiam Hwa has been appointed independent director/audit committee member wef Nov 3
Work experience: CFO, Megachem Ltd
Sun East Group – Corporate moves
November 2nd, 2010 |
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Tham Hock Chee has been appointed independent director/audit committee member wef Oct 28
Work experience: Independent director, China Sports Int’ Ltd/Ouhua Energy Holdings Ltd; advisor to chairman, FEC Pte Ltd; advisor to chairman, World Scientific Publishing Co
Sun’s UltraSPARC T1 and T2 Processors – The Dawn of Massively Multithreaded Computers Posted By : John Calley
October 4th, 2010 |
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Sun Microsystems’s new UltraSPARC T1 and T2 series of microprocessors has revived Sun’s position as one of the few 3rd party manufactures capable of contesting with the massive two processor corporations who now dominating the processor market.
Oracle Takes Sun Message Back on the Road
September 30th, 2010 |
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After releasing new SPARC chips, servers and a Solaris road map at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle officials head back on the road to outline the company’s vision for the data center. – BEDFORD, Mass. At
the Oracle OpenWorld event the week of Sept. 20, Oracle officials followed
through on promises to aggressively expand the hardware business the company
acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems earlier in 2010.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and
other officials had been saying for ab…
Sun’s ZFS Creator to Quit Oracle and Join Startup
September 29th, 2010 |
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Jeff Bonwick, known as the father of ZFS, the innovative file system in the Solaris operating system, is leaving Oracle to join a startup. – Another
key former Sun Microsystems engineer is leaving Oracle. This time it is Jeff
Bonwick, the leader of the team that created ZFS, the file system in the
Solaris operating system.
In
a Sept. 27
blog post, Bonwick said he will leave
Oracle as of Sept. 30 to begin anew at a startup that i…
Oracle, Sun Labs Form Health Sciences Institute
September 29th, 2010 |
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Oracle and its Sun Labs unit will launch the Oracle Health Sciences Institute (OHSI) to participate in research on IT systems and advanced health care. – Oracle and its Sun Microsystems Labs (Sun Labs) unit have announced plans to form the Oracle Health Sciences Institute (OHSI) to perform research on IT systems that aid health care and advance personalized medicine.
quot;IT innovation is essential to accelerating the discovery, development a…
Oracle Surprises Wall Street with Record Q1 Revenue
September 16th, 2010 |
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Oracle reports record first-quarter profits of $1.4 billion, or 27 cents per share, on total revenue of $7.5 billion, up a whopping 48 percent from the first quarter of 2009. – Oracle may have had some digestive troubles swallowing huge Sun Microsystems
earlier in 2010, but Sun’s financial woes certainly aren’t showing in its new
owner’s quarterly reports.
Sun
was losing more than $100 million per month in 2009 before the January
acquisition.
No matter. To the surp…
Sun’s Former Software Chief Helps Nokia Get Its Swagger Back
September 15th, 2010 |
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Rich Green, former executive vice president of software at Sun Microsystems, is now the CTO at Nokia and is helping the cell phone giant get its swagger back. Green’s is a classic tale of moving from the enterprise to the mobile space. – LONDON — In a move signaling the momentum in the
industry at large, Rich Green, formerly an executive at Sun
Microsystems focusing on the enterprise, has a new gig as CTO at Nokia,
the king of the handset makers in the mobile world.
Green has left the enterprise world behind and he
says he is …
Our Sun Will Eventually Turn Into a Multi-Trillion Ton Diamond
September 13th, 2010 |
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When stars use up their nuclear fuel, they turn into “white dwarf” stars. When white dwarf stars cool down, they crystallize.In 2004, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered a cooled white dwarf 50 light years away from Earth.At th…
The Sun Affects the Earth More Than You Might Realize
August 19th, 2010 |
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What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.But what happens on the sun doesn’t stay on the sun.As I pointed out last year:It is known that intense solar activity can destroy ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere, thus affecting climactic temperatures. See this, th…
China Aviation names Sun Li as chairman, Wang as vice chairman
August 12th, 2010 |
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China Aviation Oil Singapore Corp. appointed Sun Li as its chairman and Wang Kai Yuen as vice chairman, the company said in Singapore today.
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Sun DTrace Creator Cantrill Decides to Move On
July 26th, 2010 |
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Bryan Cantrill, who started at Sun Microsystems in 1996, was the key developer of Sun’s Solaris DTrace data center analytics software tool and a prime mover behind the Fishworks team that created the S7000 storage appliance, code-named Amber Road. Cantrill is now leaving Oracle. – Bryan Cantrill, one of Oracle’s brightest young
senior engineers, announced
July 25 in his blog that he is leaving the company.
Cantrill is one of a number of high-profile Sun Microsystems employees that
have left Oracle since its January acquisition of Sun. Others include CEO
Jonathan Schwar…
Oracle Upgrades Its Sun Storage Systems
June 29th, 2010 |
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The powerful new cluster-type systems feature gateway deduplication, DTrace analytics, inline data compression, 4Gbit/sec and 8Gbit/sec Fibre Channel protocol support, multiple storage pools, and new 1TB and 2TB SAS disk drives. – A day after introducing a major rebuild of its data center networking equipment and its Intel-based servers, Oracle — seemingly as an afterthought — on June 29 announced upgrades to its Sun Storage 7000 product line.
Oracle became the first all-purpose data center systems maker to
include buil…
Cisco Hires Former Sun VP as Its First Cloud CTO
June 25th, 2010 |
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The appointment of Lew Tucker, an accomplished IT architect, technician and administrator, is a clear sign to competitors such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM that Cisco Systems is serious about getting deep into the cloud-building and provisioning wars. – SAN FRANCISCO Cisco Systems, which is
swiftly moving into the cloud computing infrastructure business and which will
announce new cloud computing services at next week’s Cisco Live conference in Las Vegas, has
named former Sun
Microsystems cloud guru Lew Tucker as its first cloud computing CTO.
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