Enterprise IT Articles on 12 Feb 09: Sun Closing In on Cloud Service Launch

More cloud news here. Sun is reported to have their own Cloud Computing game anytime soon.

As written: SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems, in the midst of a reorganization to reverse its recent losses, is inching toward the launch its own cloud computing service.

Lew Tucker, chief technology officer of Sun's (NASDAQ: JAVA) cloud computing business unit, made the announcement with Sun's CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz at the SugarCRM conference here.

"We think there will be lots of public and private clouds throughout the Internet," Tucker told the audience. "We'll see generalized clouds like Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and specialized clouds, for different vertical needs like high-performance computing, and we see Sun as being a major player in the cloud."

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