"Any Cartridge Any Slot" -- That's the kind of storage we have in this week's issue: Article [17200] talks about the Sun StorageTek's L700e tape library's ability to fetch up to 450 cartridges per hour per frame. The Sun StorageTek L1400 is more than just 2 L700's put together; in [17199] read about how the expandable feature of the tape library extends its life and saves money.
Sun StorageTek Operations Manager v 5.1 software is available for Solaris OS and Windows [17183]. The Sun + Sun promotions pairs Sun storage with servers at a discount [17219].
Leading the news is the new NetBeans release, version 5.5 (see article [17228]). It features more for SOA developers. Also new is version 4 of the Sun Ray software [17170] with more Linux support.
Government contracts made news this week, with Sun Federal winning a supply contract and a DoD contract [17230].
See what people are saying about Firefox 2.0 in comparison to IE7 [17225].
Got any ideas about how you might use the "Thumper," Sun's new Sun Fire X4500 Server? Why not submit those bright ideas to see whether they might win one of these servers for you in the Sun "Thump This" contest. Jonathan Schwartz explains the competition online.
Register for and attend any 3-day Sun instructor-led course during the week of November 20 (U.S. only) or any 3-, 4- or 5-day Sun instructor-led course during the weeks of December 18, December 25 and January 1 (Canada and US) and receive a free 1 GB USB flash drive.
VMware subscribers are eligible for a special 10 percent discount on Selected Sun Fire x64 servers, including the Sun Fire X4100, Sun Fire X4200 and Sun Fire V40z servers, all designed to provide the capabilities users need for virtualization. This offer runs through February 1, 2007.
Purchase a qualifying Sun server and get 10 percent off a Sun StorageTek 3320, Sun StorageTek 3510, or the new Sun StorageTek 6140 array in this "Sun + Sun" promotion. Combine the performance and modularity of Sun servers and Sun StorageTek products to increase the speed of workflow and simplify data management.
Innovating@Sun is a video resource that offers a two-part video in which Hal Stern, Jonathan Schwartz and Greg Papadopoulos talking about why operating systems matter. There is also a Project Blackbox video available.
Superman lives there in his Fortress of Solitude. Santa Barbara's Rhythm & Hues Studios that is, which, for over 20 years has been a center for the creation of computer generated imagery (CGI). Now, Sun has lent its technology in the form of a digital archive storage system to the studios in an effort to improve the management of its archives while reducing the hardware footprint and enabling a five-fold performance gain.
The first ever United Nations Global Youth Leadership summit was held during the last week of October in New York. The summit brought together young leaders from each of the UN member states, one man and one woman between the ages of 18 and 30, to participate in a forum where they can exchange ideas on making the world a better place. Sun offered all the delegates the opportunity to be part of Sun's UN Youth Mentorship Program.
Sun released NetBeans 5.5 IDE this week with new features and support for Java EE 5 (J2EE). Sun also expanded its partner program, providing marketing and branding opportunities at NetBeans events and on the Java technology website and free email technical support to strategic partners.
Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc., (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Microsystems), renewed its Multiple Award Schedule Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract with the General Services Administration (GSA) to continue to supply its full array of products and services to the U.S. Government through August 2009.
When the large telecommunications company Telefonica de Espana needed to upgrade and consolidate its multiple Oracle databases, they turned to Sun and Oracle who implemented a solution for them. Telefonica has bought two Sun Fire E20K systems and will use the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Sun Cluster software and Oracle Real Application Clusters.
Kim Jones, Sun's VP for Vice President for Global Government, Education and Healthcare, was just accepted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. This award, one of the most prestigious for women who have made contributions in science and technology, was bestowed on Jones for her leadership in expanding the role of technology in global education and scientific research.
The eWEEK Labs review of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 6/06 was written up by Jason Brooks, whose complete article ("Sun Gilds Solaris Lily") praises the new file system, among other things, in the latest version of Sun's premier operating system.
Sun has delivered over 6 million licenses of Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) since its release in January 2005. The Solaris OS is open source and free to download, two of its many qualities that have led to its increasing popularity.
Sun Cluster Advanced Edition for Oracle RAC provides enterprises with increased manageability for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) deployments on the Sun Java Availability Suite for both SPARC and x64 platforms.
The newest version of Sun Ray Software, 4 10/06, is now available for download. Version 4 10/06 brings support for new Linux distributions and updated support for Session Directory when using Windows Terminal Services with the Sun Ray Connector for Windows. The new features give customers greater flexibility in installation and configuration.
The new Reuters’ development center in China has selected Sun’s virtual desktop solution, providing them a new workplace of the future where desktops are tied to an identity and not a device. The company made the decision to move away from the traditional PC model and instead host virtual desktops in the data center using Sun Ray software and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Employees are equipped with Sun Ray thin clients for on-site work and remotely access their virtual desktops through Sun Secure Global Desktop software which allows employees to securely reach their virtual desktops from a wide range of client devices connected to the Internet.
Recently EqualLogic made a series of announcements that strengthens its enterprise-class storage area networking (SAN) technology for high-performance environments, making it an ideal solution for the Sun Fire family of servers. First, on September 12, 2006, EqualLogic extended Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) disk drive technology. The new PS3000 Series storage arrays, the PS3600X and PS3800XV, deliver the industry’s best performance ratings in mission-critical applications. In head-to-head comparisons by an independent third party, EqualLogic’s PS3800XV significantly outperformed its rivals EMC and Network Appliance.
The new version of Sun StorageTek Operations Manager V5.1, due this month, provides Sun device support for Sun StorEdge 6940, 6140, 6540, NAS, and application support for Sun SAM/QFS. This version will release on two platforms, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Windows, in order to be able to better compete against HP and HDS.
The Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library is a high-performance automated tape library that is based on the L-Series architecture and technology. Among its new features are continuous capacity and partitioning, which provides improved growth options and delivers an excellent solution for midrange consolidation.
Users of large, distributed open systems implemented in UNIX and Windows NT environments will welcome the Sun StorageTek L700e Tape Library whose Pass through Port (PTP) allows for functional connections between two L700e libraries. This highly scalable tape library can allow applications to read and write simultaneously, and the media pooling feature enables multiple applications to share the large data pool that performs up to 450 cartridge fetches per hour per frame.
The Sun StorageTek Business Value Assessment Suite of Professional Services comprises four professional services, one of which is fixed price-fixed scope and the other three of which are customized to a user's needs. The Sun StorageTek Business Value Assessment Suite of Professional Services are not new services but rather are services being transitioned from the legacy StorageTek professional services
organization to the Sun Client Solutions Organization.
New features in the new OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 include enhanced PDF management, direct export to LaTex, new functionality in Calc and Impress, Mac OS X (X11) use of system fonts, and more. Sun is offering premium and standard support service plans for OpenOffice.
Firefox 2.0 offers improved tabbed browsing, spell checking in blogs and web forms, session restore, live titles and more. This article lists new features and provides a download link and points to reviews and comparisons to IE7.
The fourth edition of the "Java Tutorial" has been updated to cover Java SE 6 (formerly called J2SE), with new chapters on Generics, Collections, Java Web Start, the platform environment and Regular Expressions.
Developers and support or sys admin personnel working with Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 now have access to a new troubleshooting guide for the platform. It is designed to address problems that may arise with applications that are deployed using J2SE 5.0.
Dana Nourie takes you through creating a desktop application with Java SE, including what to consider when planning an application. Catch up with Jean Elliott, director of product marketing for the Java SE platform at Sun, for details on support of previous versions before J2SE 5, a discussion of how important developer input has been to the Java SE 6 version, the Java Community Process (JCP) and more.
The SDK team has posted an article on Java Application Platform SDK to talk about its key features and provide a link to this free release. Topics online are Java Persistence API, Web Services, SOA and more.
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