Sun is set to formalise its Cloud Computing strategy at its CommunityOne developer conference in New York next month.
Previewing the announcement at SugarCRM's SugarCon 2009 conference in San Francisco last week, SunCEO Jonathan Schwartz and Lew Tucker, Sun CTO for Cloud Computing, said the firm will be pitching for a piece of the market in the form of private and public Clouds. "We are building a Sun cloud," Tucker said. "There will be lots of clouds and we see Sun as being a major player in that area."
Data centres are moving into the cloud, said Tucker. "The data centre is your next computer," he added, predicting that within a public Cloud arena, there could be a set of services with 50 to 100 virtual machines running.”That becomes your own virtual data centre for application deployment.”
Schwartz said that The Cloud is opening up data centres to new forces.. "Initially, what started was this idea that you would bring foreign source code into your data centre was anathema,” he said. “Now it's actually OK because people have understood it's safe, it's reliable, it's secure, there's innovation there. It seems like the same thing is starting to happen with Clouds."
He added: "At Sun, we're planning on maintaining Java's ubiquity as the number one runtime environment, backed by the world's most price performant data centre infrastructure, all powered by Sun's cloud."
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