Sun buys cloud-computing vendor Q-layer
Sun Microsystems has bought Q-layer, a Belgian vendor of software for automating the management of computing clouds.
The security imperative
Leslie Lambert, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to India with a few souvenirs and a whole new set of IT security priorities. In 2009, projects like server security, metrics, application security and Web security will likely take a back seat to new data-protection measures and deeper enhancement of user-access and identity management systems. "Those are the big hitters now," she says.
Juicy predictions for '09
Bold predictions for the companies, technologies and trends that will have a prosperous 2009 -- and those that won't.
Sun executive reveals more open-source plans for JavaFX
A Sun Microsystems executive has provided a glimpse into the company's future plans for open sourcing JavaFX, its recently released technology for building RIAs (rich Internet applications) for the desktop, mobile devices and other platforms.
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