Sun participated in the ITU Telecom World 2006 event in Hong Kong, demonstrating new products for telecommunications companies such as the new Netra Data-Place software suite [17355] (details of the architecture are covered in [17357]). Telefonica Moviles Espana will roll out new services to its customers on a new Sun infrastructure [17351].
See the Telco section this week for an interview with Scott McNealy about how Sun's products meets telco's needs today and for tomorrow [17356]. A Sun Net Talk explains 4G and more [17360].
We've got a couple of guides featured for Sys Admins: Achieving performance improvements in the J2SE 5.0 platform [17345], and upgrading and patching with Solaris Live Upgrade [17353].
Tune in for this webcast on December 12th or 13th to learn about the advantages of partnering with Sun Microsystems. Join Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz from Sun and IDC analyst Stephen Graham to see how you can capture high-growth opportunities and position your business for success.
When Chunghwa Telecom of Taiwan needed a new infrastructure to power their Multimedia-on-Demand (MOD) back-end server platforms, they selected Sun Fire servers and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) for the scalability and reliability necessary to meet their growing subscriber base.
The NetBeans Visual Web Pack (derived from the Sun Java Studio Creator IDE) and the NetBeans C/C++ Development Pack is now available. With this release of the C/C++ Development Pack, developers can use the NetBeans IDE in conjunction with their specified set of compilers and tools to build native applications.
Telefonica Moviles Espana and Sun Microsystems worked for a year to determine what would be required for the telecommunications company to roll out new and advanced services to their customers. Sun installed a new software and systems infrastructure of Sun Fire servers, the Sun Java Enterprise System and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
The new Netra Data-Plane Software Suite for the telecommunications network was introduced by Sun at the Hong Kong ITU Telecom World 2006 event. The software suite will include a lightweight run-time environment that performs packet processing functions at multi-gigabit line rates on Sun's CoolThreads servers.
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Top Ten Articles for Vol 105 Issue 5
Get Your Free Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio Software Media Kit [17326]
New Scripting Language F3 for GUI Programming [17328]
Sun BluePrints Online Guide Explains Differences Between Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Servers and Their M2 Versions [17321]
French members of parliament have decided that, as of June 2007, to replace Windows on their office PCs with a Linux operating system and open source productivity software. The MPs join the gendarmerie and the French Ministry of Culture in making the switch, as reported by Christophe Guillemin in the article "French MPs dump Windows for Linux," written for ZDNet France.
O3Spaces, a document collaboration and management environment that has been developed for use with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, is now available. O3Spaces can handle both Sun's StarOffice Office Suite documents and Microsoft Office documents equally well.
Joomla! has been declared the winner in the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award competition on the basis of its ease of installation and use and because of the active development and community that supports the project.
The "Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual" provides reference information about Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) kernel and network tunable parameters. The manual contains information for both SPARC based and x86 based systems. The manual is intended for experienced Solaris system administrators who might need to change kernel tunable parameters in certain situations.
There is a white paper available online focusing on performance engineering for the Java platform. It covers new features and performance enhancements in the
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 5.0 release, ergonomics in the 5.0 Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and more.
The "How To Guide" on "Upgrading and Patching with Solaris Live Upgrade" demonstrates the use of Solaris Live Upgrade, a powerful tool for managing change, risk and system availability on Solaris Operating Systems (Solaris OS).
Ross Anderson's book "Security Engineering" is now available, not only in bookstores and online from such sources as Amazon.com but as a free download from the publisher, Wiley. Anderson figures that anyone who finds the book truly useful will ultimately buy his or her own copy and trade an unwieldy manuscript in a three-ring binder for the convenience of a bound, printed copy.
The "Solaris Security for Developers Guide" documents the public application programming interfaces (APIs) and service provider interfaces (SPIs) for the security features in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). Topics include developing privileged applications, GSS-API, and SASL.
The OpenSolaris web site lists presentations that focus on security for OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). Recent submissions from the OpenSolaris community include a presentation by Glenn Brunette (October 2006) given at the NSA Red Team/Blue Team Symposium that focuses on security controls from the viewpoint of someone attacking a Solaris 10 system.
A number of courses are now available that cover topics related to security on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Solaris 9 OS. Topics include intrusion detection, incident response policies, forensic analysis, Kerberos, how to conduct an audit of file systems to determine attacker modifications and preparation for working with a legal investigation.
Sun security engineer Glenn Brunette discusses Sun's holistic approach to security and compliance, specifically how Sun has built in security to all its products, not added it as an afterthought. He lists government and private company customer wins where Sun has helped with security and regulatory compliance needs.
The Sun Netra Data-Plane Software Suite consists of a unified development environment, a lightweight runtime environment and virtualization that is based on Hypervisor and Logical Domains (LDOMs). It provides accelerated development and reduced costs via a unified development platform that supports open ANSI C programming.
The November/December 2006 issue of "Global Telecoms Business" features an interview with Scott McNealy who emphasizes the need for open standards and how Sun is meeting that need in the telecommunications market, Sun's biggest.
New features for the Sun Java System Content Delivery Server ease management of new services such as wireless content. New customers adopting the Sun product include Telecom New Zealand and Telefonica Moviles de Argentina. They will run the system on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
Check out the featured Sun Net Talk with Bob Sellinger, Telecom Architect, for a discussion of telecommunications issues such as keeping up with subscriber demand and consumer expectation.
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