Scott McNeally and Terry Matthews of Mitel answer questions put to them by Andy Canham of Sun on the subject of their companies' most recent collaboration, the world's first converged voice and data desktop for the thin client.
Sun announced Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0, a high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software, and
Sun xVM VirtualBox Software Enterprise Subscription, a new offering for 24/7 premium support for enterprise users. Enterprises will be able to fully reap the benefits of the xVM VirtualBox platform and deploy it across their organizations with guaranteed technical support from Sun. xVM VirtualBox software is the first major open source hypervisor to support the most popular host operating systems (OS), including Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, Solaris and OpenSolaris.
Sun's xVM VirtualBox software has received awards and positive reviews from top industry experts. Most recently, the software won InfoWorld's 2008 Bossies (Best of Open Source Software) Awards in the "Best of open source platforms and middleware: Desktop virtualization" category. xVM VirtualBox software was chosen for its OS support and seamless Windows support.
In the IDC Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for Q2CY08, Sun showed strong results for disk storage systems sales.
Sun outpaced all major storage vendors to see a 29.2% year-over-year increase in factory revenue for the second quarter of 2008, outperforming the market by nearly three times.
The second quarter's worldwide disk systems results shows continued strength, with the total market increasing to $6.9B in revenues, up from a 10.9% increase from Q2 CY07.
Sun disk storage systems outgrew the market in many major revenue categories for Q2 CY2008.
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