Innovation Insider

Join Alex North, Sun's Group Manager of Data Protection and Archive for a discussion on how customers are addressing the explosion of data they currently have to mange. The conversation is anchored around Forum 2.0, the Nov. 11-13 virtual and in-person event that's at the epicenter of industry conversations related to Data Protection and Archive.

The services industry has passed manufacturing and agriculture to become the fastest growing and most dominant industry across all of the world's key economies. In the US alone, services now accounts for 75% of the total gross domestic product. Yet studies show that Services is actually the least studied part of our economy. Tune in to learn how Sun is collaborating in the field of service science and the solutions that will result from this innovation. Guests: Kevin Ellis, Director of Service Science and Innovation Office, Alok Rish, Chief Technologist, Service Science, Sun Microsystems. More resources:Questions: servicescience@sun.comService Science Video: http://channelsun.sun.com/video/service+science+at+sun/1662475244 (Get the Ogg File Here.)

Sun announces a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, design, and build datacenters optimized for energy, space, and cost efficiency. (Get the Ogg File Here.)

Join us as Danny Coward, Chief Architect, Sun's Client Software (Java SE, Java ME and JavaFX), and Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the Java Community Process, discusses the features & enhancements of the latest version of the Java platform for the desktop. (Get the Ogg File Here.)

Hot shot techno celebs and top Sun bloggers come together for a post-game show on Sun Microsystems' launch of the next generation SPARC Enterprise servers. Join new Innovation Insider host MaryMaryQuiteContraryas she talks with featured bloggers PallabBhattacharya, Allan Packer, and Steve Sistare to get their analysisand insight on the servers that are poised to Scale More With Less.Pallab BhattacharyaAllan PackerDenis SheahanSteve Sistare(Get the Ogg File Here.)

Join us for a lively conversation with Mark Monroe. We discuss how new innovation coming to the market with Sun's next generation SPARC Enterprise Servers helps enterprises get more computing performance while minimizing the environmental impact of their IT systems. Faster, better, cheaper just got greener because the Eco in Eco Innovation isn't just about Ecology. It's also about Economy.  Mark Monroe is the Director of Sustainable Computing for Sun Microsystems.He applies a degree in solar energy and 25 years of IT industry experience to the design and operation of environmentally responsible data centers. The ultimate goal is to enable sustainable, carbon-neutral computing at a large scale. Mark is Sun's representative for The Green Grid board of directors, and works with Colorado governments and the University of Colorado on sustainability. He is also a certified Six Sigma Blackbelt.(Get the Ogg File Here.)

Lisa Fulker, Sr. Brand Programs Mgr., Sun, andScott Mattoon, Chief Architect for Sun, discuss Sun's support of organizations and individuals who are doing extraordinary work to help change the world.

This week's Innovation Insider features Tony Warner, HPC Initiative Marketing Manager and Rich Brueckner, Community Manager for HPC Systems at Sun Microsystems. These experts will discuss the latest developments in high performance computing and the business innovations organizations can experience enabled through HPC.

Darryl Gove, Sr. Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, discusses his book, "Solaris Application Programming 1/e", including information for developers, performance analysis, parallel programming, and the new "Sun Studio Express" product.

Join us as our guest Marten Mickos, SVP Database Group, MySQL, discusses MySQL's integration with Sun and Software Freedom Day.