This quarter Sun achieved double digit revenue growth year over year in each of its four geographies; see the earnings report and customer wins in article [17205].
The Oracle OpenWorld event gave Sun the chance to showcase some of its technologies (article [17195]). We have more on Project Blackbox, including a video peek inside the box ([17168]). Scaling down a datacenter isn't the only thing Sun is working on shrinking: the Niagara 3 chip will be built on 45 nanometer technology [17188].
The story of DTrace unfolds from the founders themselves [17167]. For more bedtime reading, Java technology developers working in generics may want to take a look at the new O'Reilly book [17164] on the topic. If you prefer reading about Solaris Trusted Extensions, there's a user guide online also [17193].
Don't leave security to chance: get an assessment online in article [17197]. Also in the Security section is a brief on three Solaris 10 OS vulnerabilities [17166].
There's plenty on storage this week, and we'll have more next week: For an appetizer, sample the description of the Sun StorageTek virtual array disk system [17187] or the Sun StorageTek T9940 and T9840 enterprise tape drives [17186].
Sun's fiscal first quarter earning report stated that revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 were $3.189 billion, an increase of 17 percent as compared with $2.726 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2006.
At the recent Oracle OpenWorld 2006 last week, Sun CEO And President Jonathan Schwartz made a keynote address titled "Powering the Global Buildout," focusing on the importance of being innovative to remain competitive in today's global economy. Schwartz also discussed Sun's new virtualized datacenter, Project Blackbox. Some of the Sun products on display were the Sun Fire T1000 and Sun Fire T2000 servers (which are part of the ILM along with the Oracle 10gR2 database), Oracle Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Solutions on Sun, and Sun's Optimal Architecture for Oracle.
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has selected the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and AMD Opteron processors running Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers as an F-root server, one of the 13 root DNS servers that are the foundation of the Internet.
Sun continues to innovate with its Niagara processors. Its newest one, version 3, is in development now. The first generation of the Niagara became the UltraSPARC T1 processor which is available now. Version 2 is slated for release in 2007.
To improve customer service in their retail stores, Swisscom Mobile installed the Sun Java Identity Management Suite and Sun Fire T2000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to connect the stores with the corporate CRM system built by Oracle and Siebel. The server is saving space and money.
For the third year in a row, Sun is among the top 10 of Fortune 500 companies that provide outstanding commuter benefits to its U.S. workforce, as designated by the Best Workplaces for Commuters program run by the EPA and DoT.
Those of you who recall Sun's "Write Once, Run Anywhere" will be reminded of it by the language used to describe Project Blackbox, which is "build once, deploy anywhere." Project Blackbox is a completely virtualized, modular datacenter in a 20 foot-long shipping container that is wired, plumbed for cooling and ready to be pressed into service wherever a customer's business needs dictate.
Adam Leventhal, Mike Shapiro and Bryan Cantrill have something like the status of rock stars at Sun, reports Alex Handy writing for SDTimes. The trio is responsible for the development of DTrace, and they share some of the development history of their baby in "DTrace: Anatomy of a 'Rock Star' Application."
David Piesse, Head of Insurance for Asia Pacific at Sun Microsystems explained the changing role of insurance in a recent Sun Solutions piece where he considered the connection between IT functions and Service Oriented Architecture.
With assets of over $200 billion and more than 1.4 million members who are California public employees, retirees and their families, CalPERS is the nation's largest public pension fund and the world's third largest. It is no small feather in Sun's cap that CalPERS has chosen the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) as its electronic data interchange (EDI) solution.
Sun is offering two new training resources on Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS). The first is Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) Solutions (SB-CAP-0500) and the second is Foundations of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) I (SB-CAP-0501).
A source contribution has been made available to the community that provides a functional Solaris PowerPC development environment on selected target platforms. According to the announcement on the OpenSolaris web site, the release "is a modest, but important step toward reaching the goal of developing the Solaris PowerPC port project to the point where it includes the latest source tree, provides a shell or single user prompt on the target platform, and has enhanced debugging, i.e., KMDB."
The Solaris Trusted Extensions User's Guide is a guide to operating in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) with Solaris Trusted Extensions installed. Trusted Extensions provides special security features for your system. Trusted Extensions software adds features to the Solaris OS that protect against intruders.
The Sun StorageTek T9940 Enterprise Tape Drive and the Sun StorageTek T9840 Enterprise Tape Drive were developed to meet requirements of mainframe, large network computing and active tape environments. The T9940 line is for those customers who need to store large amounts of data, and the T9840 line is ideal for customers who need quick read and write functionality for smaller file sizes.
Do you need to drive down storage and management costs? Protect and recover data in seconds without consuming physical disk space? Get applications to market faster? Then the Sun StorageTek Shared Virtual Array (SVA) has features worth looking at.
Storage Technology News on SearchStorage.com reported that Stanford University is using Sun's Honeycomb storage system to archive its library and make it searchable as part of the Google library project.
The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Suite of Professional Services minimize the effects of an IT outage. They help plan and implement the complex task of business continuity and disaster recovery by clearly defining processes and procedures to minimize disruption and data loss.
Version 4.1 of Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Storage Services Manager software is available for the following Sun StorageTek systems: 9910, 9960, 9970, 9980, 9985 and 9990. Also available are related modules that are for business, application and infrastructure management capabilities.
Sun sponsored the Sun Participation Fellows program at the education conference, Pop!Tech 2006. Five innovators in the field of education were selected from different areas of education to work on "eliminating the digital divide" in education.
The new web site for the Global Education and Learning Community (GELC) has its new name: Curriki. The new name fuses the terms "curriculum" and "wiki," symbolizing the aim to use technology to provide universal access to free curricula and instructional materials, according to Rob Stephenson, Community Manager of the GELC on java.net. With their new name and web site in process, the organization is looking for curriculum.
The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers is a collection of technical white papers that has been updated and consolidated into a single book. The book is available as a PDF and is 226 pages written by multiple authors. It provides an overview of the resource management concepts and technologies that comprise Solaris Containers, and it explains how to create, use and integrate Solaris Containers within a system and infrastructure.
Daylight Savings Time (DST) patches are available for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) versions 2.5.1, 2.6, and 7 ("vintage") that will allow for changes to be made to conform to new Daylight Savings Time rules (recently passed by U.S. Congress).
Charles Ditzel, a partner area architect at Sun, spoke with Janice J. Heiss on the subject of helping partners migrate to Java technology platform software and on the recent developments in Java tools. The interview is called, "Tools Talk: A Conversation With Java Technology Evangelist Charles Ditzel."
"Comprehensive" and "definitive" are terms infrequently applied to a book, but "Java Generics and Collections" from O'Reilly appears to be a work deserving of those descriptions. In a mere 294 pages, authors Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler are said to consider everything from the most basic uses of generics to esoteric corner cases while including an abundance of material on collections libraries and their uses.
Sun's Readiness Assessment provides a data encryption approach for robust, system-wide security with key management that's safe, simple and affordable to deploy. The assessment is the first step in filling security gaps via a systems approach by Sun.
This article lists three security alerts from the SANS Institute and SunSolve regarding the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). They deal with permissions, a vulnerability in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) API, and TCP/IP function panic.
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