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- Sun's new mantra: Brutal efficiency at deep scale
- At a recent meeting with analysts, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos reiterated what has become the Jonathan Schwartz era strategy--to become the early 21st century version of the IBM mainframe see Nick Carrs post on the topic. Sun CEO Schwartz has been harping on the idea that demand for compute power...
- Tags: General, IT Management, Software Infrastructure, Hardware Infrastructure, Utility computing, virtualization, Sun, Broadband, Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Does the planet need only five computers?
- Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos says that the world only needs five computers. In an interview conducted by news.coms Stephen Shankland, Papadopoulos listed more than five--Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce.com, and the Great Computer of China--to make his point that the earths compute resources will resolve into about "five hyperscale,...
- Tags: computer, Sun Microsystems Inc., eBay Inc., Datacenter, Web Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- AlwaysOn: Securing the Internet
- George Gilder revisited his trope about all optical networks, with software hardening at the center and trusted platform hardware softening at the edges, during his panel on securing the Intenet at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. "Moving security all the way to the edge seems to me to be a better...
- Tags: Greg Papadopoulos, security
- Blog posts 2006-07-27
- Schwartz increases sunlight on sun.com
- Schwartz increases sunlight on sun.comFinding interesting customers is not easy.Particularly when you're told them they're "old IT" and are not worth R&D.Quoting:Sun Microsystems has redistributed its roughly $2 billion research and development budget to direct its most talented engineers and funding of new projects toward Internet-based computing and away from...
- Tags: Research & Development, R&D, Greg Papadopoulos, Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc., information technology
- Discussion threads 2006-06-04
- A message to Steve Jobs - From Greg Papadopoulos
- Sun's Greg Papadopoulos put a fascinating essay on the continued operation of Moore's law as microsystems replace microprocessors in his Sun blog last week. Here are some key paragraphs: Just as the '80's discrete processors were killed by microprocessors, today's discrete systems ---...
- Tags: chip, microprocessor
- Blog posts 2005-11-18
- Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos on Google's soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP and other topics
- Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos shed some light on a number of topics, including Google’s soft underbelly, Microsoft, HP, Dell and IBM in an interview at the Vortex 2005 conference. Papadopoulos "speculated" on the where the Google/Sun relationship might end up: "If you look at what is possible now in the...
- Tags: Google Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2005-10-26
- Sun CTO to HP engineers adrift: We're hiring
- Here's something you don't see every day. An executive of one public company -- in this case Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos -- blogging an open letter to the engineers of another public company HP inviting them to change employers. It's been a while since we've seen either...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2005-07-22
- Oh Jonathan and Greg, where art thou?
- I was just noticing that it has been nearly a month since Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz penned his last blog and more than a month since Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos penned his. Have the two Sun execs lost their zeal for blogging? Or, has all the kissing...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., blog, Greg Papadopoulos, Jonathan
- Blog posts 2005-07-08
- SPARC: The black-eye of open standards
- Right now, I'm cursing both ZDNet's search facility and Google because neither are turning up a story that I wrote several eons ago about SPARC, Intel x86 and the definition of a real standard [Update 6/10/2005: ZDNet reader Brian Green found it]. I have Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos to...
- Tags: Intel Corp., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2005-06-08
- Damage control dominates Sun CTO's maiden voyage into blogosphere
- With so many things going on at once for Sun Microsystems, it was only a matter of time before another Sun big gun was enlisted to help load balance the blarketing (blogs+marketing) that the company's COO and president Jonathan Schwartz has so far been handling single-handedly. Enter, Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2005-02-08
- Sun-Microsoft collaboration progress report
- You might recall that in April of this year Sun and Microsoft reached détente on their formerly adversarial relationship. Under the terms of the 10-year pact, Microsoft will pay Sun nearly $2 billion to resolve antitrust and patent issues. The companies are also paying royalties to use each other's technology....
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Greg Papadopoulos
- Blog posts 2004-09-22
Additional Resources
- Sun vs. MySQL: the Widenius theses
- Sun vs. MySQL: the Widenius thesesNow they turn on each other?Boy, the Sun and MySql folks are taking out their AK47 and drawing up a circle. The order is given: "Fire! Let's get these sons of *****!!!" They are blasting each other off in front of the public eyes. FOSS...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., MySQL
- Discussion threads 2008-12-08
- The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center
- Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Going green with DC power
- Which has a larger carbon footprint: your neighbor's gas guzzling SUV or the server in your machine room? The answer might surprise you. In a recent report from the Global Action Plan, the average server has a larger annual carbon footprint than an SUV getting 15 MPG. Information technology...
- Tags: Data Center, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Windley
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Red shift meets event horizon
- I was amazed to read reports of a dinner last week at which top Sun executives sitting around the same table seem to have made statements that totally contradict one another. On the one hand, Greg Papadopoulos, Sun CTO and executive vice president of R&D, was telling...
- Tags: Danger, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Solar Energy, Power Generation, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Google: Rewriting the book on data centers
- Om Malik had an interesting post about Google's super-sized datacenters. He posited that Google’s massive infrastructure, customized for its processes, represents a the big barrier to entry for its rivals, and it will continue to give the company an edge as long as it keeps spending the billions on its...
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Sun hungrily awaits the Red Shift
- Sun has changed its ticker symbol to Java [JAVAD] and performed reverse stock split surgery, but the focus on the company remains consistent--be the infrastructure provider for the wired planet. The mission was reaffirmed last night by Sun executives during a dinner with a few journalists at the...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Data Centers, Leadership, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-04
- Could, should Adobe follow in salesforce.com's platform as a service (PaaS) shoes?
- IDG News Service's Juan Carlos Perez has published what is probably one of his best works ever, this one an interview of Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen (also, see Reuters' coverage of Chizen's webifications plans). The questions Perez asks are absolutely spot on. For example, he asks: It...
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., IDG News Service, China Mobile, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Programming Languages, Java, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Software Development, Software/Web Development, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- When there's only five giant computers left, will one or more of them be Sun's?
- The folks at Sun -- the company's CTO Greg Papadopoulos in particular -- have a theory spelled out here about how the world's compute power is consolidating into the network. And judging by Sun vice president Peder Ulander's pictured below complete title VP of Redshift and Web, the company...
- Tags: Web technology, Video, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, IT Management, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Audio from TestBed Videos
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- Sun's Blackbox shakes and bakes
- Sun has been earthquake testing its datacenter housed in a shipping container--Project Blackbox at the University of San Diego UCSD, which has a “shake table,†more formally known as a Seismic Response Modification Device.The video shows Project Blackbox shocked by a 6.7 magnitude earthquake. It survived with some detached...
- Tags: Sun, Hardware Infrastructure, Datacenter
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
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