Sun has outlined a growth plan under new CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz [16517] and has already made some changes to its corporate governance policies [16518] along with consolidating its RFID testing [16543].
A Sun Weblog visually demonstrates the increase in performance achieved with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers [16530]. Ubuntu's next release will support SPARC [16499]. A new Sun Fellow has been named [16540] and Sun Labs recently celebrated 15 years [16542].
Read why the StorageTek acquisition is viewed as vital to Sun's profitability [16528]. Sun VP of SOA Mark Bauhaus talks about integrating SeeBeyond technology with Sun's open source position [16502].
This week's edition introduces a new AMD section that features articles on AMD Commercial Systems Channel Program Portal [16537]; how to win a Sun server or workstation [16538]; and Sun Discovery Cluster architecture [16536].
Interviews with Sun marketing VP of Data Management Group (DMG) James Whitemore [16434] and VP of DMG Eula Adams [16358] headline the Storage section.
FOSS covers OpenSPARC T1 Version 1.1's free download [16454]; OpenSolaris and NetBeans Codie Award wins [16453]; porting Solaris DTrace to FreeBSD [16497] and OpenOffice.org migration [16485].
One of the first orders of business for Sun's new CEO and president Jonathan Schwartz has been to assess the company's global operations. To align expenses with its core business strategy and drive the company's operating income goals of at least 4 percent of revenues for Q4FY07 and of at least 10 percent of revenues long-term are the goals.
Sun made changes to some of its corporate governance policies based on Sun's 2005 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. "The changes are consistent with our fiscal year 2007 goals and priorities and will help us better align our corporate governance practices with the long-term interests of the company's shareholders," said Jonathan Schwartz.
David Dagastine, Senior Performance Engineer at Sun has recently posted some interesting charts on his blog that show how much performance the Sun CoolThreads technology is producing. The benchmark test SPECjbb2005 performance increased by 17 percent on the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000. "If you thought the competitive positioning of these systems was impressive before, take a look at them now," Dagastine asserts.
The next release of Ubuntu, version 6.06 LTS, will include a dedicated server edition and SPARC will become one of Ubuntu's officially supported server architectures. Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support (LTS) is a GNU/Linux distribution. It will support the UltraSPARC T1 processor on Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers.
The RFID testing Sun had been doing in Texas and Colorado will be combined into the Sun Advanced Product Testing (APT) environmental test laboratory in Longmont, Colorado, with additional operations in Sun's nearby Louisville campus in suburban Denver.
This year's Open House at the Sun Labs celebrated 15 years of research and development. The research and development creates innovation that is crucial to keeping Sun at the leading edge of technological advances.
With the data storage market projected to grow to as much as $US65 billion by 2010, Sun is counting on its acquisition of StorageTek as a critical element in its strategy to exploit that market. eWeek's Chris Preimesberger reported on Sun's marketing plans for NAS in a recent article.
Mark Bauhaus, senior VP of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) software at Sun shared his views on the integration of SeeBeyond middleware with the Sun Java Enterprise System with Rich Seeley, who published the interview on SearchWebServices.com.
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and Sun have collaborated on the development of a new remote visualization solution called Maverick, Faith Singer-Villalobos of the center reports. Remote visualization, she writes, "enables researchers to interactively analyze very large datasets by using powerful, high-end visualization systems located at advanced computing centers."
Sun has extended its emergency operational plans to include recovery from a possible avian flu pandemic. Maggie Fox, health and science writer for Reuters, reports on some aspects of the Sun plan. According to Fox, Sun is relying on both technology and on widespread use of telecommuting to enable its 38,000 employees working productively in the event of a pandemic.
The recap of this year's JavaOne Conference, the 11th so far, includes mention of the appearances by such Sun notables as Jonathan Schwartz, Scott McNealy, James Gosling, John Gage and Sun alumnus Ed Zander.
Chris Mellor of Techworld talked with James Whitemore, Sun's marketing VP for the Data Management Group (DMG). Mellor clarifies his impression of what Sun is doing with storage. Sun is not just focusing on storage resources but managing data, not data stored in vaults but data that is actively needed.
Eula Adams, vice president of Sun's Data Management Group (DMG), sees opportunities for growth ahead. Sun formed the Data Management Group in late 2005, after acquiring StorageTek in June of that year. DMG aims to support the entire data management stack with superior products and superior software, operating on a network.
Sun is introducing a new low profile form factor HBA for the enterprise-level SAN storage market -- Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4Gb FC PCI-X HBA. This HBA is powered by Emulex technology and is RoHS 6 compliant. With the combination of
PCI-X and 4 Gb Fibre Channel, these HBAs exhibit exceptional performance, making them the perfect fit for SAN environments that need to perform to today's most rigorous standards.
A new touch screen is available for the Sun StorEdge L500 tape library. The touch screen is a user-friendly GUI for day-to-day operations that allows for local operating access to the library, with minimum configuration access. Also, the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program has a new trade-in allowance: Trade in disks for disks or Sun and non-Sun tape libraries for additional disk drives.
Sun has made the Sun StorageTek C4 tape library and the native fibre attach C4 RoHS compliant. The Sun StorageTek C4 now offers native fibre attach with LTO3 and SDLT600 drives, in addition to the existing SCSI offering.
Looking for a reliable and dependable Disaster Recovery solution that involves both synchronous and asynchronous remote replication? Evaluate Sun StorEdge 9900 TrueCopy Remote Replication Suite. In the event of an outage, the replication suite duplicates data from one Sun StorEdge 9900 storage system to another, across any distance.
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last four issues. The top articles for the four most recent issues were:
OpenSPARC T1 Version 1.1 is now available for free download. This release is the 64-bit, 32 -threaded processor, chip multithreading design developers have been waiting for.
This year's Codie Award winners are OpenSolaris from Sun and CollabNet Subversion from CollabNet for Best Open Source Solution, and NetBeans 4.1, also from Sun, for Best Software Development Solution. The awards are presented annually by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), and are designed to "showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services."
Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) tool is making its way, following its open source debut, in the direction of FreeBSD. This tool for advanced performance analysis and debugging of server software is the focus of an ongoing effort to port it to FreeBSD, an effort that was taken over from FreeBSD developer Devon O'Dell and is now being led byFree BSD developer Joh Birrell.
Is migrating software really as difficult as it looks to users? Solveig Haugland addresses this intriguing question in his SearchOpenSource.com blog, where he suggests that a large part of the resistance to this sort of change comes from anxiety over the issue of change itself, no matter what is being changed.
Author Bill Burke (also chief architect of JBoss) has taken over the book series on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) from author Richard Monson-Haefel (but who also contributed to the latest version of the book). The new book is the fifth edition of "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0" from O'Reilly. It covers what's new to the EJB specification, especially entity beans.
The second edition of "Java I/O" by Elliotte Rusty Harold "tells you all you need to know about the four main categories of streams and uncovers less-known features to help make your I/O operations more efficient." This edition has been updated for Java 5.0 APIs.
Authors Marina Fisher, Ray Lai, Sonu Sharma and Laurence Moroney address issues encountered during the integration process, such as a diverse technology set, incompatible APIs and disparate environment maintenance. Topics covered include Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), messaging, Web services and integration-related frameworks and patterns.
News and Solutions for Users of Solaris, Java and Oracle's Sun hardware products
Just the news you need, none of what you don't –
42,000+ Members – 24,000+ Articles Published since 1998
