Sun kicks off its 9th worldwide "Sun Tech Days" series of technical
seminars. The Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will host Ryan Matteson
talking about the "DTrace Toolkit" on September 12th.
Fostering communities: that's what the new OpenSPARC and Italian OpenSolaris online portals are doing. Each gives developers and others the opportunity to participate and contribute to these open source projects. See articles [16900] and [16942] for details.
More awards for Sun this week, this time for the Sun Java Composite Application Suite (Java CAPS), a flexible and scalable integration solution that enables financial institutions to make the most of new solutions; see [16920].
We cover more of Sun's new Sun Fire mid-range servers: the E4900 and E6900 servers [16919], the Sun Fire E2900 server [16914], and the Sun Fire X4100 server [16905], an x64 server. Also in News, read how Sun's x64 servers beat out HP when a genome research center re-evaluated its server needs [16931].
To keep everything up and running better, Sun has enhanced its SunSpectrum Service Plan coverage without adding to the cost [16894]. The Sun i-Runbook Service is designed to help customers manage their data center operations more effectively; see article [16913] for details.
Upgrade to Sun Fire X4500 server and get up to 15 percent savings. The Sun Fire X4500 server is the world's first hybrid data server. This 4-way server combines high data throughput with high storage density run by AMD Opteron processors.
The exam re-take offer has been extended to September 30, 2006. Purchase a voucher for most Java technology or Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris OS) certification exams before September 30, 2006, and you have the option of re-taking the exam if you need to for free. The retake exam must be taken by August 15, 2007 the following year.
Get discounted prices on Sun hardware through the Sun Partner Advantage Program. The Sun Fire V40z server and Sun Fire T1000 server have been added to the program's Development Hardware Offering.
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A new benchmark for the Sun Ultra 20 M2 workstation recorded a world record on the SciMark 2.0 benchmark test. SciMark is a composite Java benchmark measuring the performance of numerical codes occurring in scientific and engineering applications. The benchmark test used the new 1.6.0-rc version of the JDK and Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
Sun will start its 9th series of worldwide events for developers, "Sun Tech Days, 2006-2007", in Seattle, Washington. There is no charge for these events which will be loaded with technical content, practical "how to" information, demonstrations, examples of
real-world solutions, hands-on training and more. Please note that space is limited.
On Wednesday, September 6th, Sun Tech Day attendees can choose to attend one of two bonus, no-cost, developer days: NetBeans Day or OpenSolaris Day. On Thursday, Sun will offer full-day Java University classes.
The Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) has been awarded the SWIFTReady Financial EAI Gold label by SWIFT. This is the eighth year Sun CAPS has won the award. The certification award indicates adherence to established guidelines for Straight Through Processing (STP), including transformation and routing, for reliable, secure and assured messaging.
Sun x64 servers continue to earn customers. The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) selected three Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers to replace its 15 HP Alpha servers and consolidate IT operations to power its complex genomic assembler for molecular research. The benefits of the new system start with performance and reliability and keep going right through to cost savings from lower energy consumption.
The next meeting of the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will feature Ryan Matteson in a talk titled, "DTrace Toolkit". The grup was established to connect members of the community interested in OpenSolaris and Solaris, and to grow the OpenSolaris community in the Atlanta area. All are welcome - developers, open-source contributors, system administrator, architects, and any other interested parties.
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To manage and monitor the IT infrastructure and IT process of Sun customers in India, Sun has set up a ControlCenter in Chennai. Sun has two other ControlCenters, one in the U.S. and the other in Scotland. The center will focus on addressing issues before they become problems, in contrast to only providing post-incident services.
Open source continues to accelerate innovation all over the world, this time as evidenced by a new Sun Center of Excellence (CoE) that recently opened in Italy to encourage the spread of OpenSolaris. This is the first CoE for OpenSolaris.
Several firmware solutions for the Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 1.2 servers are available from Sun. The products include the ILOM service processor firmware 1.0.5, BIOS 34 (0ABGA034), LSI MPT SAS firmware 1.10.00 and MPT BIOS 6.06.06A and new tools for the Windows package.
Sun is offering upgrades to its midrange Sun Fire E2900 Server line that include the 1.8GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processor, PCI-X I/O assembly, 146GB 15K RPM disk and support for 2GB memory DIMMs. With this upgrade, the Sun Fire E2900 Server can deliver more than five times the throughput of earlier servers equipped with the UltraSPARC III processor and more than twice the throughput of servers equipped with the UltraSPARC IV processor.
There are new upgrade options available for the Sun Fire E20K, Sun Fire E25K, Sun Fire 12K and Sun Fire 15K systems that include the hsPCI-X I/O assembly and a power supply upgrade kit. The hsPCI-X I/O assembly is a hot swappable, high bandwidth I/O assembly that provides improved performance and increased throughput over the existing hsPCI+ I/O assembly.
Sun is producing new configurations of its Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire E6900 servers, which now come with the 1.8GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processor, PCI-X I/O assembly and support for 2GB memory DIMMs. This configuration makes these two midrange Sun Fire servers capable of more than five times the throughput of the UltraSPARC III processor and over twice the throughput of the UltraSPARC IV processor-equipped servers.
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 4 - were:
Sun has enhanced its SunSpectrum Service Plan coverage, without adding to the cost. What's new? A complementary library of Solaris OS web courses available now; on-demand software update capabilities for the Solaris OS; Sun Net Connect 3.2 and more.
Sun introduces a new global service edition of the the Sun i-Runbook Service: the Service Pack Edition. The new edition is a customizable, web-based central repository of streamlined and accurate technical how-to information based on Sun preferred practice. It is designed to help customers manage their data center operations more effectively.
The OpenSPARC community's new web site is up and running. It offers a chance for developers and OpenSPARC community members to participate in processor architecture development and application design. Available on the site are links to projects such as the open book wiki and documentation on the OpenSPARC T1 version 1.2.
In his article "RESTful Web Services," Sameer Tyagi explains that REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is a key design idiom embracing a stateless client-server architecture that permits viewing web services as resources that can be identified by their URLs. As such REST is an example of the "software architectural style," which typically refers to "a set of design rules that identify the kinds of components and connectors that may be used to compose a system or subsystem."
Two free web services courses are available online for system engineers, professional services consultants and application developers. Aspects of web services include such concerns as web services infrastructure, web services models and organizations such as W3C, WS-I, OASIS and JCP.
Solaris Internals, Second Edition: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture, whose publications was reported in this newsletter [16373], now has a chapter that can be read online, Chapter 14, File System Framework. Authors Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro and Brendan Gregg discuss the implementation of files in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the framework for file systems.
Sun designed its 128-bit general-purpose Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS) to span the range between the desktop and the data center. ZFS is the subject of a BigAdmin System Administration Portal feature by Amy Rich entitled "ZFS, Sun's Cutting-Edge File System (Part 1: Storage Integrity, Security, and Scalability)."
When JavaScript became the backbone of Ajax and began to figure prominently in web development, it was clear to David Flanagan that his book "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" was due for a revision. Hence, the 5th edition of this guide for JavaScript programmers, which O'Reilly has released.
There are three aspects to the short course called "Monitoring and Managing Java SE 6 Platform Applications" developed by Mandy Chung. Inasmuch as the Java SE 6 platform provides several monitoring and management tools that allow users to diagnose common problems in Java SE applications in production and development environments, Chung has created this course to familiarize users with these features.
The "Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog for Java EE 5" covers key issues and solutions for common problems when designing and building an AJAX application on the Java EE platform (formerly called the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)).
Many security enhancements have been introduced in the J2SE 5 release of the Java 2 SDK over the 1.4 version, including an SSLEngine, support for Kerberos ciphersuites, support for Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP) and more. An online site provides a list of resources all related to security issues.
A free web-based course " "Overview of Java Application Security (WJO-1113)" offers users a description of basic security concepts, services and technologies. The course explains the security challenges in the application, transport and message layers of applications. It also instructs students in the use of the security features provided by Java technologies, as well as how these features can be used in the web-tier, in tiers based on Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology and in web services.
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