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Sun Microsystem Converts CLUMEQ Silo Into Data Center
December 10, 2009 -- Sun Microsystems is helping to convert a silo at the CLUMEQ center in Quebec into a data center, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
Justice Dept. Approves Oracle's Purchase of Sun
August 21, 2009 -- The US Department of Justice has approved Oracle's plan to acquire Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, bringing the database provider one step closer to becoming a major contendor in the data center and cloud computing sectors.
Oracle Buys Virtual Iron Software
May 13, 2009 -- Oracle announced on Wednesday it has purchased server virtualization software provider Virtual Iron for an undisclosed amount, positioning the database giant as a serious contendor in the data center and cloud computing sectors.
Internet Archive to Open Data Center
March 20, 2009 -- Nonprofit The Internet Archive organization will announce next week plans to open a new data center to store two petabytes of data for its digital time capsule, the Wayback Machine, according to a report on Computer World.
IBM in Talks to Purchase Sun
March 18, 2009 -- Technology giant IBM is currently in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems, offering to pay Sun at least $6.5 billion, or double Sun's Tuesday closing price of $4.97, according to a report on Reuters.
34 Vendors Port Apps to Solaris 10
March 14, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced on Monday that a total of 34 software vendors, including Lenovo, Ulticom, Veraz Networks and VoiceGenie, have agreed to port a variety of telecom applications to the Solaris 10 operating system.
Nexcom Servers Target Oracle Users
March 10, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NEXCOM International (nexcom.com.tw) announced on Thursday that it has introduced a series of blade servers supporting Linux platform with Oracle 9i/10g Real Application Cluster. The servers, intended for Oracle users who decide not to use propriety Unix platforms, enhances the manageability, expansibility and efficiency of Oracle in Linux.
Zeus Releases New Load Balancer
March 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, UK-based Zeus (zeus.com) released a new low-end version of its load balancing and SSL offload software last week as part of its efforts to break into the US application front-end market.
Sun, EDS Renew Strategic Partnership
February 3, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) and EDS (eds.com) announced on Wednesday that they are in the midst of negotiating a new eight-year managed services contract that will see EDS migrate Sun's data centers to the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform, its global delivery system. The two companies also announced that they have entered an agreement to jointly deliver IT and utility computing services based on Sun's Solaris 10 operating system to large enterprise customers.
Sun Broadens and Upgrades Java Software
January 31, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports released Monday, Sun Microsystems (sun.com) will broaden its Java Enterprise System network services software package on Tuesday with the roll-out of a subset of offerings called Sun Java System Suites.
Sun Opens Access to OpenSolaris Patents
January 27, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced earlier this week that it will release more than 1,600 patents related to the Sun OpenSolaris operating system, to the open source community.
Sun Offers EMC Storage Virtualization
January 24, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced on Monday that the Sun StorEdge 9990 System is now capable of virtualizing EMC storage, a move the company says is part of its strategy to make it easier for customers to migrate from proprietary technology, protect existing storage investments and simplify data management.
Warcraft Servers Suffer Downtime
January 20, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Players of the online game World of Warcraft were unable to connect over the long weekend as roughly 20 of the 88 servers involved in hosting the popular game reportedly crashed, leading to a flood of message board and blog posts by irate gamers.
Opsware Wins High Utility Ratings
January 19, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to data center software maker Opsware Inc. (opsware.com), the recent Data Center Automation report from Forrester Research rated the company first for lifecycle management of servers, software, network devices and storage.
Sun Builds Slim SSL Server
January 17, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports released Monday, Sun Microsystems (sun.com) has developed an SSL quarter the size and shape of a quarter, designed as a proof-of-concept project for embedded applicatons.
Voxtreme UK Reduces Reseller Pricing
January 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Voxtreme UK (voxtreme.co.uk) announced earlier this week that it has reduced the pricing of its UK-based reseller hosting plans and is offering prizes to new customers signing up for the service.
SunGard Completes Inflow Acqusition
January 6, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- SunGard Availability Service (availability.sungard.com), a provider of information availability services and subsidiary of software and business continuity solution developer SunGard (sungard.com) announced early this week that it has completed its acquisition of Web hosting provider Inflow, announced in November.
Red Cross Slowed by Tsunami Support
January 5, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The Red Cross Familylinks Web site has been overwhelmed with high traffic as relatives search for family members following the massive Tsunamis in the Bay of Bengal. The International Committee of the Red Cross familylinks Web site (familylinks.icrc.org/home.nsf/home/webfamilylinks) is a resource that strives to help those separated by conflict or disaster to find information about their loved ones.
Update on Omnis MySQL Crash
December 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The MySQL server crash that took place over the weekend at Omnis Networks did not bring down the California-based Web host's entire network as originally reported by the Web Host Industry Review.
Sun, Oracle Cooperate on Grid Computing
December 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) and Oracle (oracle.com) said on Tuesday that they plan to continue collaborating on the development of integrated grid computing solutions designed to help enterprises ease data center gridlock and maximize the use of existing IT assets. The companies said they are committed to developing next-generation data center solutions on both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, backed by the Sun Solaris operating system.
MySQL Server Crash Brings Down Omnis
December 7, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In a post on the Omnis Networks (omnis.com) user support forum Saturday night, a system administrator for the California-based Web hosting provider confirmed that a multiple hard drive failure caused its MySQL server to crash, reportedly causing a failure that brought down the Web sites of a significant number of Omnis customers.
Web Server Market Stable, Netcraft Says
December 1, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- There was modest change in the Web server market over the last month, according to research and analysis firm Netcraft's (netcraft.com) December Web server survey.
University Data Center Crashes
November 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a report by the Michigan Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan, half of the school's email system crashed at 6:45 pm on Sunday evening due to a power outage at the Arbor Lakes Data Center.
Sun Hosting Offers Email Hosting
November 24, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Canadian Web hosting provider Sun Hosting (sunhosting.ca) announced on Wednesday it now offers email-only hosting to companies that need to have their email addresses customized with their domain names, but that still do not have a Web site.
Microsoft Tops Port 80 Survey
November 23, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to Port 80 Software's (port80software.com) November Web server survey, Microsoft IIS runs on over half of the top 100 corporate Web sites.
VitalStream President Resigns
November 22, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- VitalStream Holdings, Inc. (vitalstream.com), the parent company of VitalStream, Inc., announced on Sunday that Paul S. Summers resigned as CEO and president of VitalStream Holdings, Inc. and its main operating subsidiary, VitalStream, Inc.
SunGard Arm Acquires Inflow
November 18, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- SunGard Availability Services (availability.sungard.com), a provider of information availability services and subsidiary of SunGard (sungard.com), a developer of software and business continuity solutions for the financial services industry, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Colorado-based Inflow (inflow.com), a provider of Web hosting, colocation and IT outsourcing services.
Sun Launches Data Center Program
November 17, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Sun Microsystems (sun.com) announced this week that it has launched the Sun Service Optimized Data Center program, a roadmap of services and technologies that helps customers deploy and manage IT services in their data centers.
Sun Releases Solaris 10 for Free
November 15, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- In an effort to win back some lost market share, Sun Microsystems (sun.com) released Solaris 10, the latest version of the company's Unix-based operating system software, for free on Monday.
Web Server Market Steady, Netcraft Says
November 1, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to Netcraft's (netcraft.com) November Web server survey, Apache lost and Microsoft gained shares of the Web server market. Apache dropped from 67.92 to 67.77 percent market share, while Microsoft went from 21.09 to 21.25 percent market share. Both platforms managed to add to its total number of users, the report said.
RegistryPro Extends .pro Domain
October 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- RegistryPro (registrypro.com), a subsidiary of Web hosting provider Hostway (hostway.com) and operator of the .pro top-level domain, announced earlier this week that engineers, architects and dentists will be able to register a .pro top-level domain starting on November 8, 2004, joining the doctors, lawyers and accountants already on that list.
New Data Center Spec Uses Web Services
October 12, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to SearchWebServices.com, Microsoft (microsoft.com), Sun (sun.com) and three other hardware vendors published on Monday the Web Services Management specification, which explains how data centers can use Web services as a remote management access protocol to manage networked and handheld devices, PCs and small footprint servers like blades.
