Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a worldwide provider of products, services and support solutions for building and maintaining network-computing environments. The Company sells scalable computer systems, high-speed microprocessors and high performance software for operating network computing equipment and storage products. The Company also provides support, education and professional services. The Company's products are used for many demanding commercial and technical applications in various industries including telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services, education, retail, government, energy and healthcare. Sun Microsystems' lines of business include Computer Systems and Storage, Enterprise Services, Software
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They offer significant scalability, reliability, availability, serviceability and performance. In addition, enterprise servers share common components and offer binary compatibility for all application environments because they all run the Solaris Operating Environment on the UltraSPARC architecture.
Software Systems designs, develops and brings to market Sun Microsystems' Solaris Operating Environment, the Java platform and the Company's core technologies for consumer and embedded markets including implementations that utilize the Java technology, Jini connection technology, XML technology, software development tools and the StarOffice application software. The Sun Ray 1, Sun Ray 100 and Sun Ray 150 enterprise appliances, with their Sun Hot Desk technology, are easy-to-use, low-cost networked devices. Unlike personal computers, which require an operating system and applications running locally on the desktop, the Sun Ray appliances allow for instant access to existing applications and resources on the network, regardless of the underlying platform.
Network Service Provider designs, develops and brings to market carrier-grade software, systems and storage for traditional telecommunications customers as well as service providers. The Network Service Provider business focuses on the needs of network-based telecommunications companies, cable operators, and the network equipment suppliers
That means that with the network operating system we can have lots of users all concurrently using resources on our serve.One of the most important aspects about server operating systems is the security. Workstation OS provides great security for end-users, but it's still not as tight as the security offered by the network operating systems. The reason for that is that with the network operating system were providing services to hundred or thousands of concurrent users. Therefore security is critical Workstation operating systems also provide some type of authentication by using user names and passwords which reside on local database on the local
Describe the characteristics of the industry in which Intel operates. How is Intel positioned in the industry?
Intel realized the advantage of partnering with IBM and initiated projects like “Crush” and “Checkmate” to counter Motorola to ensure microprocessor supremacy. With the success of securing IBM contract along with more wins, Intel was on set on track to ensure industry dominance.
at a time,they are commonly connected to a LAN and run multiuser operating system.The resources which has to be managed
Powerful Hardware and Scaling Feature; PHSF Reduced Power Consumption; RPC Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1; HV Expand Desktop Deployment Options with VDI; EDDO with VDI Easier and More Efficient Server Management; EMESM Managing Data Not just Managing Storage; MDNMS Ubiquitous Remote Access; URA Improved Branch Office Performance and Management; IBOPM Simplified Management for SMBs; SMSMBs The Strongest web and Application Server to Date; SWA
The temporal scope was not clearly outlined and assumptions were made that all development was 100 percent, and then reclaimed to closure for 100 percent. Only analysis on maximum disturbance was made, even though development will be closed and reclaimed sequentially, therefore disturbance at any given time will be less than assessed making the temporal scope highly inaccurate.
As we all know virtualization is the requirement of future. We have evolved from the age of traditional environment to virtual environment.We have grown accustomed to almost all things virtual from virtual memory to virtual networks to virtual storage.The most widely leveraged benefit of virtualization technology is server consolidation, enabling one server to take on the workloads of multiple servers. For example, by consolidating a branch office’s print server, fax server, exchange server, and web server on a single windows server, businesses reduce the costs of hardware, maintenance, and staffing.
Introduction: With the introduction of new Chinese competitors in the DRAM market it is necessary for Samung to access their strategy for the future. Looking at past trends in the DRAM market, current market situation, and projections for the Flash market, the best option for Samsung is to focus their efforts on growing the Flash technology, while maintaining their DRAM output. This is the best course of action because Samsung’s customer loyalty will carry their market share in the DRAM market, while they are focusing on establishing this type of dominance in the Flash market.
The technology solution that is recommended for the organization is to be provided by VMware. The physical topology of the datacenter consists of x86 virtualization servers, storage networks
Sunpower Corporation is an American solar energy company which manufactures, designs and deliver high efficiency solar solutions for homes, businesses and utilities by being a global solar energy solutions company and technology leader. Sunpower was founded in 1985 by Dr. Richard Swanson, a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and its headquarters situated in San Jose, California, and the Company also operates in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America and North America. The main goal of the company was to commercialize solar concentrator technology. (Sunpower Corporation, 2016; SRI World Group Inc, 2016; Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2015)
Apple, Inc. (APPL) operates under a fiscal year accounting period. This period consists of the 52 (or 53) week period that ends on the last Saturday of September. September 25 was the specific date observed as the end of the annual reporting period for 2009 and 2010. Every six years Apple adds an additional week in its first fiscal quarter in an effort to realign its fiscal quarters with calendar quarter.
Because of the extremely intricate and sophisticated nature of manufacturing semiconductors, a competitor should expect high initial capital requirements to build facilities needed for production. Cost to build a new semiconductor fab has gone up from $200 million in 1985 to $3 Billion in 2004. Incumbent companies have capabilities to design newer generations of semiconductors with greater amounts of memory and processing abilities that make older generations obsolete. Older generations tend to drop half their amount in price one year after a new model is reduced (exhibit 6). The United States
In 2005, the tenth year of Java, the object-oriented language has gone from it’s original web-animation purpose to doing much more. At the time, Java has driven more than $100 billion dollars of revenue a year for companies, has more than 4.5 million developers, over 2.5 billion Java-enabled devices, and an estimated 708 million Java handsets worldwide (oracle.com). In 2007, JavaFX is released. This makes it easier to build web applications and devices. Things change dramatically in 2008 when Blu-Ray begins to use Java in their devices. Because Java
Compaq Computer Corporation was a company founded in 1982 that developed, sold, and supported computers and related products and services. Compaq produced some of the first IBM PC compatible computers, and were the first company to legally reverse engineer the IBM Personal Computer. They possessed a large marketplace and were a severe competitor for the technical giant Hewlett Packard. Both of these organization were at a crossroads with regards to their financial futures and they were competing against the other for market penetration of the personal computer.
And all of this runs "on top of" an os, such as Windows or Linux system.