Servers lead the news again this week: Sun gained server market revenue year-to-year, IDC reported, surpassing Dell [16907]. A new benchmark shows how the new Sun Fire V490 server beat an IBM server [16901]. Upgrade to a Sun Fire server with the UltraSPARC processor in this promotion [16873]. For details on the Sun Fire V490 and the Sun Fire V890 servers, see article [16864]. This week we also feature technical details of the Sun Fire X2200 M2 server in article [16882] and the Sun Fire E25K and Sun Fire E20K servers [16871].
What will Sun make open source? The Java SE, the Java ME CLDC and CDC [16885]; an audio link of the announcement is included in the article.
The recently announced storage products, the Sun StorageTek 6540 array is covered in article [16875] and the Sun StorageTek 6140 array is detailed in [16859].
The Java Enterprise System team is looking for participants in its beta 5 program [16860]. Participants will receive early access to the JES 5 software and more.
For a detailed look at DTrace and other process tools in Solaris 10 OS, see the sample chapter from the Solaris Performance and Tools book [16870]. Another book featured this week is a guide to native LDAP implementation [16869]. If you are just getting up to speed on DTrace and want to know more about the features in Solaris 10 OS, there's a free web-based course available [16868].
If you are interested in getting a 2X to 5X performance gain from your servers, look in to the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program for the Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ server line. Sun is offering upfront trade-in allowances of up to 20 percent on Sun Fire servers and up to 40 percent on Sun Fire server board swaps.
Sun has generous trade-in allowances on old non-Sun workstations available for its Sun Ultra x64 workstation product line that address the needs of a variety of users, whether the application involves MCAD/MCAE, visual simulation or rendering. Sun's desktop product line has the solutions users need, whatever the task.
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The IDC Q206 Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report indicates that Sun is "the only top-four server vendor to achieve year-to-year server factory revenue growth, posting a 15.5 percent gain." Sun's year-to-year server market revenue share grew by 1.7 points, as the other top-four server vendors lost share, according to the report.
The recently announced Sun Fire V490 server fitted with the 1.8 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processor beat the IBM POWER5+ p5 505Q and p5 550 on SAP Standard Application SD (Sales and Distribution) 2-Tier ECC 5.0 benchmark. This benchmark demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system at full business workloads of complete order processing and invoice processing.
Two pieces of news from Sun's Malaysia offices announce the appointment of a new managing director, Mr. Gan Boon-San, and the expansion of the Malaysian Customer Services Centre as a services hub for the region.
On August 14, 2006, in San Francisco, Sun held a small event to provide an update on plans for open sourcing Java technology. The JDK Community web site reported that Rich Green, Laurie Tolson, and Alan Brenner attended the event and talked about open sourcing the Java SE platform, and also Sun’s implementations of the Java ME CLDC and CDC platforms.
If you need to better understand and manage the physical factors that impact performance within your data center, the new Sun Eco Connection is for you. Using sophisticated sensors integrated into the servers, Sun Eco Connection provides valuable insight into the performance and the health of systems so that you can take necessary, proactive steps to prevent problems and save money.
Audio and video links are now available for a presentation by Marc Tremblay, Sun Fellow, Vice President, and Chief Architect, Sun's Scalable Systems Group, on High Performance Throughput Computing that he gave at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) earlier this year.
The Java Enterprise System (JES) team is pleased to announce the launch of the Java Enterprise System 5 Beta Program. The beta program will start August 23, 2006. The JES team is looking for customers and partners who are willing and positioned to participate not only in this evaluation but in ongoing customer acceptance evaluations. Customer benefits include early feedback of customer requirements, Product Technical Support and more.
A recent review of the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.0 applauds how it eases the creation of workgroup collaboration areas with "novel" wiki support, but the analysts note the portal server is not widely adopted and lacks BI and reporting tools.
Sun Java System Identity Manager Service Provider Edition (SPE) 1.0 (Install Pack 2005Q3M3) media kit is being transitioned and replaced with release 6 (Install Pack 2005Q4M3) media kit. The new release provides new New Resource Adapters for Blackberry, SuSE and Java Enterprise Systems Messaging and Calendar Service, SuSE 9.0 Platform support, support for digitally assigned approvals and a new look and feel.
The Service Pack 6 International Edition for the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 is a full product install of the Sun Java System Web Server, including new support for SuSe Enterprise Linux 9, bug fixes and security enhancements.
The RoHS-compliant Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems and applications with a single architecture. The bundled suite of Sun Development Tools and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) gives buyers of the Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation an advantage from the start in the development of software. With high-performance I/O and visualization-class graphics, the Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation eliminates manufacturing errors and cycles during design.
The developer-ready Sun Ultra 20 workstation family includes the Sun Ultra 20 workstation and the Sun Ultra M2 workstation, which are the only current x64 workstations that come with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) installed and capable of delivering the best single-socket system performance as they write and deploy Solaris OS-based and Java technology-based applications
There are now several configurations of the 1.8 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ Uniboards available. This 64-bit Chip Multithreading (CMT) processor has the capability to deliver more than five times the throughput of the UltraSPARC III processor and bests the UltraSPARC IV processor by a factor to two. These processors also support 2GB memory DIMMS as installed in the Sun Fire midrange and high end servers.
Given the accelerating demands for data center services and the shrinking funds available to fund them, Sun has met this need by enhancing two of its workhorse solutions, the Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890 servers, with the UltraSPARC IV+ processor, which increases computational throughput so significantly that users can expect improved performance and system utilization with a resulting reduction in operational costs.
In their white paper entitled "Sun Fire 12K/15K/E20K/E25K Open System Controller (OpenSC)" Jacob Lowman and Dan Anderson of the Sun Microsystems Scalable Systems Group describe how to set up and verify third-party software on system controller (SC) boards, creating an open system controller (OpenSC).
The Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server, a new addition to the Sun line of x64 rack-optimized servers, can be configured with up to two Next-Generation AMD Opteron 2000 Series dual-core processors and offers a competition-leading 8 registered ECC DDR2/667 DIMM slots per processor (16 total). The Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server also includes two PCI-Express I/O expansion slots.
Sun Fire V440 remanufactured servers have been repriced. Remanufactured Sun products are rebuilt to deliver the same industry-leading performance, quality, and investment protection as new Sun systems, at reduced prices.
If you have a growing business that needs reliable and highly available storage at an economical price, the features and price of the Sun StorageTek 6540 array can help you meet those needs and support business continuity requirements. The Sun StorageTek 6540 array was introduced August 10, 2006. Its modular design supports midsize and enterprise business needs.
The high availability components of the new Sun StorageTek 6140 array ensure data availability. All components (from the disk drives to the midplane) are hot-swappable, redundant and each array controller has its own battery backup system, creating high availability. Upgrades are non-disruptive as a result of Sun's compatible storage modules. This array provides enterprise class data protection at an affordable cost.
Attach SCSI Sun StorageTek devices to Sun server platforms at the high throughput rate of up to 320MB/s per channel and two channels with the new Sun StorageTek PCI Express dual channel Ultra320 differential SCSI host bus adapter (HBA). This HBA complements Sun SCSI products and provides maximum reliability and performance for demanding I/O requirements.
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 from the last issue - Vol 102, Issue 3 - were:
New World Record-Breaking Servers and Workstation Introduced [16861]
New Generation of Modular Storage from Sun's StorageTek Acquisition: Two Arrays [16855]
PG&E Offers First Rebate for Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Servers [16867]
Training for Sys Admins Using the Sun Fire T2000 Server [16835]
A chapter from the book, "Solaris Performance and Tools", by Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro and Brendan Gregg is now available online. The chapter focuses on tools that monitor process activity. In the book, tools are grouped into categories of overall status tools, control tools, introspection tools, lock activity examination tools and tracing tools. The authors cover detailed information about DTrace.
If you or someone you know needs to learn about the significant features of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), a free course provides the highlights and introduces technical information to illustrate the advantages of using Solaris 10 OS.
For a step-by-step guide on how to install and configure both Directory and Proxy Server for a native Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) implementation, see the new book, "The Sun Geeks Guide To Native LDAP: A Native LDAP Blueprint" by Jim Covington.
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