Sun Expands Virtualization Portfolio

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the availability of Sun(TM) xVM Server software and Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0, key components in its comprehensive virtualization strategy. Designed to operate at Internet scale, the Sun xVM virtualization portfolio is open, flexible and delivers the industry's most robust offerings for virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter. Sun also announced the addition of comprehensive services and support for Sun xVM Server software and xVM Ops Center 2.0 to its world-class virtualization suite of services to help customers and partners virtualize and manage datacenters around the globe. Additionally, Sun launched xVMserver.org, a new open source community, where developers can download the first source code bundle for Sun xVM Server software and contribute to the direction and development of the product at www.xvmserver.org. Additional pieces of the Sun xVM virtualization portfolio, including Sun xVM VirtualBox(TM) software and Sun xVM Ops Center, are open source and freely available for immediate download at www.openxvm.org. For more information about Sun's virtualization announcements today, visit: www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/2008-0910/.

With today's announcement, Sun xVM Server software and xVM Ops Center 2.0 join Sun's xVM product portfolio, which includes Sun xVM VirtualBox software for desktop virtualization and Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software for virtual desktop consolidation and management. The Sun xVM platform targets the mainstream commodity x86/SPARC operating systems - Windows, Linux and Solaris(TM) and leverages a variety of enterprise-class technologies already powering Fortune 500 companies, to enable customers to virtualize everything and manage anywhere. As a result, Sun estimates that customers running Sun xVM Server software can expect up to 50 percent decrease in their virtualization infrastructure costs when compared to offerings from leading competitors.

“In today's virtualization market, consolidation is just the first step in moving toward a dynamic datacenter built on open, standards-based solutions. The open Sun xVM portfolio was built to manage Internet-scale infrastructure and complexity with unmatched performance and ease-of-use,” said Rich Green, executive vice president of Software, Sun Microsystems. “From servers to desktops, the Sun xVM portfolio offers a broad and comprehensive set of solutions brought to market by a world-class set of partners, including: AMD, CSC, Intel and Microsoft Corp.”

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced strong partner support for its Sun(TM) xVM virtualization portfolio, the industry’s most comprehensive offerings for virtualizing desktop to datacenter. Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Value Added Resellers (VARs) and technology leaders are leveraging Sun xVM to meet growing customer demand for comprehensive virtualization solutions and to increase their growth and profitability. To learn more about the many benefits of being a Sun xVM partner, visit www.sun.com/xvm.Sun(TM) xVM Server and Sun(TM) xVM Ops Center have been designed for third-party integration by exposing a public API that uses the industry standard Web Services Management protocol. ISV partners are extending the value of the Sun xVM portfolio with complementary solutions for key areas such as virtual lab management, capacity planning, virtualization management, security and performance monitoring. Channel partners have built competency, implementation and deployment solution practices around the Sun xVM portfolio. Starting with the planning and design to implementation and deployment, Sun channel partners benefit from having a single trusted vendor with a broad portfolio of virtualization offerings spanning software, systems and storage to help their customers transform their datacenters from physical to virtualized infrastructure.

“We are building a truly dynamic partner community around Sun xVM that delivers real value to customers,” said Steve Wilson, vice president, xVM for Sun Microsystems. “The number of partners who have started to work with us around Sun xVM demonstrates that customers and the industry are looking for more choice in the virtualization market.”

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