Think outside the box: Project Blackbox is coming to datacenter near you. A bit bigger than a coffee to go, the cargo shipping container Sun has made into a mobile datacenter houses everything necessary to get up and running; see article number [17165] for details.
Two limited-time offers are featured in the Promotions section this week: One gets you free services with a Sun Blade 8000 system [17152] and the other saves you money on training with a Sun Fire x64 server [17158].
The Next-Generation AMD Opteron chips are making their way into more Sun servers: Read the details in [17162]. In other server news, Sun Cluster 3.1 support has been added to the Netra T2000 server [17138].
Developers will find AJAX tips this week in [17143] and [17151], as well as an article on Sun at the AJAX World Conference [17142].
Sun unveiled its nearly completed prototype of a mobile, virtualized data center: Project Blackbox. The potential uses of the Blackbox range from emergency response situations to military deployments or offshore oil rig deployments.
Virtualization can help with the challenges posed by rapid growth and increasing costs of energy. Sun's virtualization solutions have been expanded to offer new products and services, including LDoms (logical domains) and the planned support of Xen on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
The results of the Sun 16th annual Supplier Awards are in, with Seagate Technology named Sun Supplier of the Year for its delivery of hard disk drives at a low cost. Suppliers are judged on their performance in the areas of cost, quality, lead-time and delivery, and strategic and technical development. The other categories are Best-in-Class and Meritorious Performance.
Sun will host its Q1 Fiscal 2007 Earnings Conference Call/webcast on Thursday, October 26, 2006, beginning at 1:30 p.m. PT. The general public is welcome to listen via Sun\'s Investor Relations website.
UNIX consultant Paul Murphy tackled the question of what sense it makes for Sun to give away product as it does with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). His ZDNet.com blog is entitled "Who owns Solaris?."
When Scott McNealy came on at Sun in 1984, because the board voted to give themselves veto power over his retention for five years, it turns out his status amounted to being a temporary employee. That "temporary"
status continued for 22 years because, as he told Marketplace reporter Kai Ryssdal, it took that long to find an appropriate successor in Jonathan Schwartz.
Sun's Customer Engineering Conference (CEC) 2006 was held in San Francisco in early October. It is a technical gathering of customer-facing engineers. There were demonstrations on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) adoption, Sun Cluster 3.2 and ZFS. Links are available online for video and photos.
The Solaris 9 9/05 HW Operating Environment has added hardware support for the following Sun platforms: Sun Ultra 25 and 45 workstations; Sun Fire V215, V245 and V445 servers; and Netra CP3010 board. This release is provided as a convenience for customers who are not yet ready to move to Solaris 10 OS and have an existing installed based that is running the Solaris 9 Operating Environment.
QLogic 5602 64 Port Enterprise-class 4Gb Fibre Channel Switch stack comes with all the switches, cables, rail kits, SFPs and software to support 64 active ports and now can be ordered through one part number: SG-XSWQL5602-PRO-Z.
Now get the manageability and availability attributes of Sun Cluster 3.1 software on the Netra T2000 server. Sun Cluster is a "Service Level Management" platform which facilitates delivery of higher service levels, at lower service level costs and reduced risk.
Support is now available for up to 32GB DDR1/400 (PC3200) registered ECC memory via 8 GB DIMM kit (2x4GB) for the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 x64 servers. These servers now have double the previous memory capacity, making them ideal for compute intensive, high-end workloads.
Sun's "Galaxy" line of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers powered by Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), feature on-chip virtualization support, setting new standards for reliability and energy efficiency. This article lists some points of comparison between the servers and highlights the benefits of the AMD Next-Generation Opteron processors.
Sun is offering the option to upgrade to a higher frequency UltraSPARC processor for the Netra 440 server. An upgrade kit is available for those who have the 1.28Ghz UltraSPARC IIIi processor-based Netra 440 server installed. Upgrades are from the 1.28Ghz to 1.6Ghz UltraSPARC IIIi processor at an affordable price.
The Sun StorageTek Ready Program enables select storage Technology Partners, including IHVs, ISVs and OEMs, to certify their products and solutions as fully interoperable with Sun StorageTek platforms. Qualified partners with the vision to build complete storage solutions can partner with Sun to attain a strategic advantage.
King's Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky, a 385-bed, not-for-profit regional referral center, implemented an upgrade of its IT infrastructure incorporating solutions from Phillips Medical Systems and Sun Microsystems.
Sun is making additional options available for its Sun StorageTek T10000 "Crypto Ready" tape drive. Customers wishing to upgrade from a 2Gb drive to a 4Gb drive must either order T10A-2TO4GB-UPGD or T10A-2TO4GB-UPGDZ, as well as choose the type of ports they want (short wave, long wave or mixed wave).
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 104, Issue 2 - were:
White Paper: The Architecture of Sun Fire V125, V215, V245, and V445 servers [17113]
Rich Teer explains why developers should make Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) their primary development and deployment platform and how to develop software on the Solaris OS. Teer addresses non-developers who "just want to build their favorite (perhaps open-source) software on the Solaris platform" and developers "(commercial and otherwise) who are porting their code to the Solaris OS (or are considering doing so)".
One of Sun's long-term involvements with higher education has been the creation and support the company has provided to the Campus Ambassador Program, which now has representatives on the campuses of 170 universities located in 30 countries whose purpose is to provide academic developers with the educational tools and resources they need to cultivate important IT skills.
An increasing number of institutions of higher education have adopted open-standards/open-source Sun IT infrastructure as the tool to manage such issues as the creation of efficient and scalable data centers, protecting network identities and keeping energy and real estate costs in check.
Project Orbit is the name given to a new collaboration between Sun and Laszlo Systems whose aim is to enable applications based on the OpenLaszlo rich Internet development platform to run on systems that run Java Platform, Micro Edition. Paul Krill of InfoWorld reports this development in his article "Sun, Laszlo Take Java into Orbit for Devices."
Blogger Chet Haase assures his readers that, contrary to unfounded rumor, Java does work on Vista. There is simply no truth to the assertion made in the Javalobby newsletter claiming "Java and Vista not playing well together," Haase contends.
The Ajax World Conference & Expo has come and gone. Now there are reports concerning the proceedings. One is by Jeremy Geelan of Sys-Con Media and another by Paul Krill of InfoWorld.
Java technology writer Ed Ort has teamed up with software engineer Mark Basler to provide the Java developer community with another excellent article on one of the more talked about technologies today, using AJAX and XML to make Web 2.0 site highly responsive.
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