People in the healthcare industry got a close-up look at Sun technologies such as storage this past week at the RSNA show; the special Healthcare section this week features customer wins from hospitals and more.
Exemplifying Sun's belief in the Participation Age is the concept of a "mashup", covered in News article [17333]. Find out what they are and what Sun is doing. Also as part of powering more communication capabilities, Sun, Ericsson and Nokia have formed the new Telecommunications Platform Initiative (details in [17334]).
The Try & Buy program has been garnering much praise and success to the point that Sun is extending a promotion that was scheduled to end this month; now you have until June 2007 to try a Sun server, post your results online and possibly win the server for free; see [17325].
Confused about how Sun's new M2 servers differ from other types of servers? See the article on the Sun BluePrints guide that explains them [17321].
What is a "mashup"? It's a web site (or application) with content from different sources. It can include video, text, images, music or audio. An example is the project from Sun Labs called Snapp Radio. Learn more from Sun's Chris Melissinos and others in a new video on this trend.
Is an external grid utility that lets you run compute jobs at just $1/CPU-hr right for your business systems and applications? Bring your questions to this Expert Exchange chat December 7, 2006, to find out. Join Sun engineers online and learn why Sun Grid Compute Utility can be a compelling solution for organizations that need massive compute power on demand.
The goals of the newly formed Telecommunications Platform Initiative include simplifying platform management and integration of telecommunications technology. Ericsson and Nokia have joined Sun in the Initiative to build standards that can help Network Equipment Provider (NEP) get their services to market faster.
For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which includes the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well as Sun Studio 11 software.
Sun Management Center software is part of the Sun N1 software portfolio. Sun Management Center software is an open, extensible system monitoring and management solution. It monitors and manages operating system parameters that include load, resource usage, disk space and network statistics. A User Guide covers features in detail.
Sun has released a Type 7 Country Kit that includes a Spanish keyboard, an optical mouse and two North American power cords. The RoHS-6 compliant keyboard features OpenLook short-cut keys, two USB hubs and is fully tested for compatibility with Sun workstations and the Sun Ray Thin Client line. The three-button mouse features optical tracking and a scroll wheel is also RoHS-6 compliant and fully tested for compatibility with relevant Sun products.
Sun has made several recent announcements concerning its hardware offerings. These include power supplies, Sun Secure Application Switches, Type 7 keyboards and optical mice and the withdrawal of a 30 AMP power cord for the Sun Blade Modular System.
Given the difficulty of distinguishing the Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers from the M2 (Model 2) versions of those products, Pierre Reynes of Sun's Systems Technical Marketing department has written a Sun BluePrints Online guide to differentiating the M2s from their counterparts.
The two-post Rackmount Kit (EMEA only) for the Sun Fire V440 server is being retired from the list of Sun products for consideration of RoHS compliance in EMEA. (The announcement for the transition of the two-post rackmount kit for other geographies will occur on January 9, 2007.)
Sun has released the Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Replication
Monitor 5.5 for the Sun StorEdge 9990, 9985, 9980, 9970, 9960 and 9910 systems. The Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Replication Monitor 5.5 is a monitoring/reporting application that interfaces to replication management functions provided by an Element Manager (Storage Navigator, CCI or HiCommand Device Manager) for Sun StorageTek 9900 systems and replication software.
The Sun StorageTek 9900 Series HiCommand Global Link Availability Manager 5.0 and Dynamic Link Manager (SDLM) 5.8 are now available for HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Windows and Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
Sun has released the Sun StorageTek SL500 Tape Library bundled with two HP 4Gb FC LTO3 drives. The new architecture on which this tape library is based promotes serviceability and allows the library to adapt easily to customers' changing tape automation needs.
F3 is a declarative Java scripting language with static typing. Created by Sun employee Chris Oliver, the F3 language is designed to make GUI programming easier. Check out the demos online.
Winston Prakash, a Sun senior software engineer, outlines the origins of the Sun Java Studio Creator and asks why there is a separate IDE called the Sun Java Studio Creator, and should there be another release of it?
Learn how to deploy a PHP technology-based Wiki site such as MediaWiki on the latest technology preview release of Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. The tech tip from Sriram Natarajan and Marina Sum is the second part in a series on setting up and deploying JSPWiki (part 1 was covered in article [17114]).
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