CLOUD

SANTA CLARA, CA -- Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced enhancements to Sun(TM) Cluster 3.0 software, enabling customers to maintain higher service levels and reduce system downtime. Sun Cluster 3.0 is the key to building SunPlex(TM) systems, which simplify management of application services for tightly-coupled environments, making it possible to increase service levels while reducing cost and risk. Features of Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 include: -- Adds dynamic reconfiguration support for Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000, enabling the addition, removal or changing of hardware resources such as processors, memory and I/O devices without any downtime. -- Protects Web and mail services with security hardening for iPlanet(TM) Web Server, iPlanet(TM) Messaging Server, iPlanet(TM) Calendar Server and Apache Web Server, aimed at preventing hacker intrusions and denial of service attacks. -- Offers an improved SunPlex(TM) Agent Builder development tool, which allows for faster deployment of application services by generating pre-compiled agent binaries that can be installed immediately without requiring additional code from developers. For more information visit http://sun.com/clusters