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Sun Announces Open Cloud Platform

The challenge to Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 storage services is due out this summer
March 20, 2009

By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek,
March 19, 2009, 11:00 AM

Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) on Wednesday announced plans to offer its own Open Cloud Platform, starting with server and storage services aimed at developers who need an extended platform to produce a new application.

Sun expects to have cloud servers and storage available to customers by "this summer," where customers will run applications under Windows, Solaris or Linux in Sun VirtualBox virtual machines. Open Cloud Platform will compete with
Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN)'s Elastic Compute Cloud and S3 storage services.

The company revealed its plans at an event in New York, amid reports that IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) may be offering as much as $6.5 billion to acquire the rival's assets.

"We want to provide developers with a data center in the cloud. We want to give them a sense of control they've never had," said David Douglas, senior VP of cloud computing, in an interview.

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