Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to combine its storage and server businesses into a new group called Sun Systems, according to a blog posting last week by CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz. The realignment comes about two years after the vendor paid about $4.1 billion to acquire tape storage vendor Storage Technology Corp. The new business unit will be responsible for aligning the company’s server, storage, virtualization and networking technologies, Schwartz said. Such a combination could ease the process of managing IT systems at Oregon State University, said Chuck Sears, manager of research computing at the school’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences. The university runs both Sun servers and storage systems, Sears said.