Sun Merges Storage and Server Groups

October 8th, 2007

Sun Microsystems CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz let the merger cat out of the bag this week. The outspoken chief used his blog as a vehicle to share the news about Sun’s plans to combine its server and storage product units into a new division dubbed the “Systems” team. The Systems team will focus on the evolution and convergence of computing, storage, and networking systems.Schwartz said Sun will be strongly focused on being a multiplatform storage provider, but the company is also going to start talking at a higher level to customers that see more standardization and integration in their future data centers. He said he knows that’s not everyone, but it’s definitely a trend Sun plans to accelerate.

Why is Schwartz merging the groups? Because it’s worked before, in short.

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