Dave Douglas, vice president of advanced technology at Sun Microsystems, speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at the live unveiling of Project Blackbox, Sun’s high capacity, highly transportable “data center in a box,” or at least a standard 20 foot shipping container.

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At their headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Sun Microsystems presented the prototype for the “data center in a box,” or Project Blackbox, a portable data system that needs only power, a chilled water source and an internet connection. Listen to the live announcement of Project Blackbox, including the ...

In today’s news, CEA analysts’ very rosy predictions for the holiday shopping season, Microsoft opens Vista’s core to software competitors, online video continues to swoon after the recent Google/YouTube deal — including a new deal between CBS and Yahoo — and Reuters opens a news bureau in Second Life, joining ...

Sun Microsystems’ Bryan Cantrill, senior staff engineer with the Solaris Kernel Development Group, talks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson to discuss DTrace, a debugging feature in Solaris 10. For more information visit www.sun.com.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, sat down with me recently to talk about a wide range of topics from trends in the datacenter to why he thinks more CEOs should blog.

Every week on the ScobleShow I’ll try to get to a different CEO and learn more about ...

Sun Microsystems Senior Director of Data Protection and Archive Product Management David Kenyon and Vice President of Storage Marketing and Business Operations Nigel Dessau talk about the New York City event where the company announced new developments in encryption and security, as well as virtual tape.

Sun Microsystems David Profozich, vice president for software, took some time at Sun’s recent announcement event in New York to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. According to Profozich, Solaris 10 is much healthier than it was just 18 months ago. He sees the changes at Sun as transformational, with new innovations driving a revival of Solaris, new tools for identity management and new momentum from Web 2.0 changes, in general.

John Fowler is executive vice president for the Sun Microsystems systems group. He took some time during a recent event in New York CIty to talk with PodTech Founder John Furrier. They discussed some of the ways that Sun is changing — including the x64 Systems,

Sun Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz touted the new open-source version of Sun’s Solaris 10 OS at a Sun product launch event in New York City September 13th. Schwartz gave a keynote address that outlined the reasons behind Sun’s past two quarters of growth, (which are also Schwartz’s ...

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Speakers include: Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems), Michael Copps (FCC), Werner ...

PALO ALTO, June 20, 2006 (Podtech News) — Dave Douglas has recently been appointed as the VP of Eco-Responsibility at Sun Microsystems. He says that the educational research in green technologies not only benefits large companies like Sun, but can have a greater benefit society wide. He spoke with PodTech’s ...

PodTech’s Jason Lopez sat down with Gartner analyst Martin Reynolds to talk about Sun Microsystems, Apple and the mark of successful companies.

At JavaOne 2006, one challenge to attendees was to write real-time code using Java RTS to control the cars movement around 200 feet of slot car race track embedded with 200 sensors. By detecting whether or not the car was over a sensor, monitoring the ...

In Part 4 of this podcast from the Sun Microsystems Session on the best Java innovations, Sun VP James Gosling held a race-track demo and awards ceremony for the winners of a slot car racing challenge. Contestants had to write code to power their cars. The grand finale was a ...

“This is going to be the toy show; it’s all demos, all the time,” said James Gosling during his part of the Sun Microsystems session at the JavaOne developer’s conference. In part three of this podcast, Gosling hosted a series of demos, showing innovations using Netbeans, JSR 209, and other ...

In part two of this Sun Microsystems general session podcast from JavaOne, Sun Chairman and former CEO Scott McNealy asked for Java developers’ help on technical solutions to privacy issues. “In my new role, I’m going to be spending an enormous amount of time on this,” McNealy said. This segment ...

Sun Microsystems’ former CEO, now Chairman, Scott McNealy kicked off a Sun session presenting Java innovations on the final day of the JavaOne developer’s conference. Before making the more serious points of his talk on how the Java community can help bridge the digital divide, McNealy made light of his ...

Sun Microsystems, which dominated the server market during the dot-com boom, has been searching for major revenue drivers over the past 5 years. The company has been criticized, especially by the financial community, for its stumbles. But Schwartz says the market is growing so robustly that the promise for Sun ...

Jonathan Schwartz (the new CEO of Sun Microsystems–he’s barely been the chief of the company for three weeks) began the Wednesday sessions at the 2006 Gartner Symposium ITxpo in San Francisco. This is the second part of three podcasts covering the keynote, in which Schwartz was interviewed by Gartner analysts ...

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 3 of the podcast, you’ll hear how mobile platforms are driving media convergence, ...

Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems along with Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Connonical, Inc, Mark Fleury CEO of JBoss, and Rich Green, EVP of Software at Sun, make special announcements about new software tools for the Netbeans Community.

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 2 of the podcast, you’ll hear about JSR 248, Java ME, and what’s ...

Alan Brenner, VP, Client Systems Group at Sun Microsystems, hosted a general session on mobility. The 90-minute presentation, called Simplicity in Innovation, unveiled new and coming uses of Java to power experiences via portable devices. In part 1 of the podcast, developers get a sneak peek at new applications using ...

John Gage, Chief Researcher and VP, Science Offfice at Sun Microsystems, Inc launches JavaOne before an audience of over 10,000 developers, and introduces Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun. Ed Zander CEO of Motorola joined in and discusses the future of mobile computing.

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The Gartner Symposium ITxpo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco features keynote speakers like Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, Symantec CEO John Thompson, and Motorola CEO Ed Zander. On PodTech we’ll have the keynotes as well as podcasts of interviews with notable Gartner analysts like Martin Reynolds, Steve Kleynhans ...