The products involved are the already familiar engineered appliances Exadata Database Machine, Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and the SPARC SuperCluster, an appliance running Solaris 11 on up to 16 SPARC processors with eight cores each.

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In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.

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With the right app, an iPhone could track the sun, sync shopping lists, be a drum machine, take restaurant reservations, be a cash register.

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