At Sun's education conference, Sun addressed issues such as how technology can facilitate education better in the future [17638]. Programs abound to assist students learn programming in Java and the Solaris OS; see article [17637] for details.
Have some Java skills you want to show off? Especially for mobile devices? Enter one of the upcoming contests (see links in article 17645]).
Mobile technology was the center of attention at the 3GSM Congress [17675]. Behind the flashy devices is a lot of Java technology and applications that may not be so sexy but make everything run such as a Data Retention Solution from Sun and Comptel [17665]. We'll have more on Telco next week.
Sun has also added more ways to help developers take advantage of the Solaris OS with the Solaris Express, Developer Edition, program and the open source tool Solaris + AMP [17666]. The security vulnerability in Solaris has been patched [17667]. See the Security section for other articles on encryption.
Want to extend Solaris 10 Containers? See what Trigence has to offer by downloading their new white paper [17664] for free.
The mobile datacenter from Sun called Project Blackbox will be making visits to cities across the U.S. to give people a chance to get up close to the box and look inside. The "Discover Sun Tour 2007" will highlight how Sun can help you grow your business without increasing datacenter costs and how to have more capacity in your datacenter.
Three new offerings from Sun aim to make it easier for developers, start-ups and Internet companies to build and deploy their Web infrastructure on the free and open source-based Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). The programs are Solaris Express, Developer Edition; Solaris + AMP; and an expanded Sun Startup Essentials program.
A new Data Retention Solution was introduced at the 2007 3GSM World Congress. The solution is being developed jointly by Sun and Comptel Corporation, an Operations Support System (OSS) software vendor, to meet new EU requirements.
The website eHarmony used the Sun Try & Buy program to test Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers in its datacenters to process traffic on the web site and do data analysis. The Sun Fire X4600 servers resulted in more performance over the servers they were using before while using the same amount of power.
Sun participated in the 3GSM World Congress this year. More than 55,000 executives from across the mobile industry value chain gathered in Barcelona for the world's leading mobile communications event.
Featured speakers for the Webinar "From Challenge to Opportunity -- Customer Data Integration" slated for February 21, 2007, are three individuals from Sun, including Ross Altman, CTO Business Integration Platforms at Sun, David Codelli, director of segment marketing and Jennifer Belissent. The time is 12:00 p.m. EST.
Jim Dunham writes about the OpenSolaris Project: Sun StorageTek Availability Suite that he says provides two filter drivers: Remote Mirror Copy and Point in Time Copy, a filter-driver framework, and an extensive collection of supporting software and utilities. The Sun StorageTek Availability Suite is a Solaris 8, 9 and 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) product, available on SPARC and x64/x86 platforms.
The OpenSolaris Curriculum Development Resources site offers guides designed for computer science educators who are adding OpenSolaris to their curriculum. Guides include the Curriculum Development Guide, which has been updated and translations in Spanish, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Chinese added.
Join fellow OpenSolaris fans at the next Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting to be held February 20, 2007, from 6:30 pm (18:30). The featured talk will be presented by John Rice who will discuss how to use Java-GNOME to develop Java technology based GNOME applications on OpenSolaris.
With Trigence AE application virtualization technology, you can now run older Solaris applications at peak performance in Solaris 10 OS. Download the free white paper "Trigence Capsules Extend Solaris 10 Containers" today.
There's been a lot of talk about Sun Cluster 3.2 software so we went to the source, the release notes, to bring you what's new in 3.2 for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). Read up on the new CLI, easier set up of Oracle RAC within Sun Cluster configurations, new data service configuration wizards and more.
Sun has released an expanded Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 11/06 media kit with software that offers a complete enterprise-class solution that includes, in a single kit, media for the 11/06 OS as well as for N1 Management Software and Solaris Cluster, including the new releases of Sun Cluster software.
When migrating to a clustered environment, businesses often look to upgrade their storage systems to complete the transformation. Data-centric service company Etagon offers Sun StorageTek solutions to integrate into its customers' IT environments. They also work with Sun partner CDW and created a test environment.
Sears Canada has implemented the Sun StorageTek Virtualization Solution enabling consolidation of storage media and devices, more efficient use of backup resources and elimination of costly overruns of backup windows. Batch processing windows have been reduced by up to 83 percent; cartridge media consumption by 75 percent. The company has also saved 9,600 CPU hours per year as a result of the implementation.
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 the last 4 issues. The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 108 Issue 1, were
Top Ten Articles for Vol 108 Issue 1
Daylight Savings Time Information for the Solaris Operating System [17628]
Register Your Solaris 10 Systems Before February 28, 2007 for Gift [17623]
Inaugural Solaris University Challenge Winners Announced [17640]
Sun Analyst Summit 2007 Held on Tuesday February 6 [17642]
DTrace Course Teaches How to Diagnose Application and System Problems [17608]
Enter Your Video in the Java Mobile Application Video Contest [17625]
OpenDocument Format Plug-in Application to be Available [17641]
Ruby on Rails How-to Article: Build a Simple Web Application [17594]
Wireless Service Provider Serves Customers with Sun and Greenplum Data Warehouse Appliance [17639]
Get a 60-Day Free Trial of the Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server [17597]
A host of educators and IT industry leaders gathered in San Francisco February 6-8 for the 2007 WWERC, the Worldwide Education and Research Conference sponsored by Sun. The attendees busied themselves with defining a new age for education -- known as Education 2.0 -- and exploring such issues as the state of education today; the move to new teaching, administrative and research models in the Participation Age; and the Sun technology that will enable the transformation to Education 2.0.
At the Worldwide Education and Research Conference recently hosted by Sun in San Francisco, the creator of Java technology reconfirmed its commitment to empowering academic developers through sharing, collaboration and open innovation. Sun is proving its dedication to providing the next generation of developers with the educational tools and resources they need, including Sun's successful Campus Ambassador Program, which supports more than 180 student evangelists in more than 30 countries who are introducing Sun technologies and open source projects to academic developers.
If you need to determine if your workload would be best run on a Sun Fire T1000 or Sun Fire T2000 CoolThreads servers, use the "cooltst" a selection tool to screen workloads that are candidates for migration to Sun Fire T2000/T1000 servers.
In his Sun BluePrints Online Sun BluePrints paper "Remote Monitoring of Sun x64 Systems using ipmitool and ipmievd" Eric Markwardt discusses the various means available to sys admins for maintaining numerous managed servers. While he concedes the value (and notes the cost) of several off-the-shelf solutions, he also recommends the use of the open source tools ipmitool and ipmievd to interface with the ILOM, query hardware-related status of local and remote servers, and automatically aggregate events into a centralized log file.
The new section of the Solaris Developer Center features documentation for Solaris developers working with the Java Development Kit (JDK). The "JDK for Solaris Developer's Guide" introduces new features and enhancements in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5 (Java SE, formerly called J2SE), for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
The first edition of the O'Reilly book "Backup & Recovery" by W. Curtis Preston contains revised material from the author's previous book on UNIX backup and recovery. This book covers solutions for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems.
Steve Bohne has some tips on memory usage of multiple Java processes on Windows in his blog, where he provides code for using to determine the total resident memory footprint. The key, he writes is to sum up the Task Manager Mem Usage numbers for all java[w].exe images and then (and this is the essential part) subtract out all shared memory that's counted more than once using the vadump.exe tool.
The phoneME project is designed to encourage using the Java ME platform for mobile handset development by reducing implementation variation, increasing the rate of innovation and enabling new devices to leverage the power of the Java ME platform. There is Feature software and Advanced software. Learn about two Java technology contests, one using phoneME.
Sun Alert ID 102802 reports a security vulnerability in in.telnetd(1M) daemon shipped with Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) may allow a local or remote unprivileged user who is able to connect to a host using the telnet(1) service to gain unauthorized access to that host.
Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) is prone to an unspecified remote denial of service vulnerability that resides in the ICMP handling process, according to a SunSolve report (Sun Alert ID: 102697). Only systems that are configured to receive ICMP ping(1M) requests are affected.
Dr. Vipul Gupta, Sun distinguished engineer, Sun Labs, talked with Jack Germain of TechNewsWorld about security issues such as the importance of encryption, security standards, and more.
Sun has confirmed its commitment to elliptic curve cryptography to foster interoperability across multiple platforms, including the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Windows and Linux. The effort is being spearheaded by Sun Labs, Certicom, Microsoft and Red Hat under the ECC Interoperability Forum umbrella. Completion of this undertaking will help ensure that ECC products from these vendors will integrate seamlessly, providing end-to-end security for customers.
Interested in finding out what open source tools will encrypt data? Kerry Thompson, a UNIX and open systems admin, evaluates a few in his article "Backup Encryption" in a recent issue of Sys Admin magazine. Thompson covers OpenSSL, GPG and Amanda.
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