Open platform

Sun Microsystems has showcased its Open Cloud Platform, a computing infrastructure, powered by software technologies from Sun, including Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and Open Storage.

The company also outlined that a core element of its strategy is to offer public clouds and previewed plans to launch the Sun Cloud, its first public cloud service targeted at developers, students and start-ups.

Both are key elements in Sun’s strategy to bring openness and interoperability to the cloud computing market.

The company has also released a core set of Open APIs, unveiled broad partner support for its cloud platform and demonstrated features of the Sun Cloud.

The company is opening its cloud APIs for public review and comment, so that others building public and private clouds can easily design them for compatibility.

At the core of the Sun Cloud will be the first two services — Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service. Users will be able to take advantage of the combined benefits of open source and cloud computing via the Sun Cloud to accelerate the delivery of new applications, reducing overall risk and scaling compute and storage capacity up and down to meet demand.