There are two new Florida OpenSolaris Users groups; one in Ft. Lauderdale
and one in Tampa [17778]. First meetings will be held March 12th and 13th.
Sun gained market share for the fourth straight quarter, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report [17742]. What should help server sales even more are some repricings due to less expensive AMD processors: Sun Blade X8400 and X8420 server modules [17716] and the Sun Fire V40z server have been repriced [17719]. Remanufactured servers are also available [17676].
Also making news this week are Sun's enterprise level tape library systems, as tested by Diogenes Labs and Storage magazine [17732] where they earned high rankings.
What economic incentives are in place for physicians to file patient claims electronically and how can that patient data remain secure? These are some of the questions discussed by Joerg Schwarz, Sun's director of healthcare and life sciences in article [17743]. Sun offered some tech solutions at the recent HIMSS healthcare event in New Orleans [17741]. The Healthcare section this week provides more details, including an RFID training course [17744], ANSI approved standards [17737], and a Sun Net Talk [17721] on digitizing data.
For the latest tips and versions of some Sun software, see these articles: The benefits of using Sun Cluster 3.2 with Oracle 10g R2 RAC [17740], Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Tuning Manager version 5.5 [17720], and Solaris Container Manager software [17725]. There are also two Early Access programs to test: Sun Studio 12 Software [17733] and Sun HPC ClusterTools 7 [17724].
A new promotion from Sun gives you a chance to buy a Sun Fire V125 server online and add a second 73 GB disk drive for only $185. This offer ends April 20, 2007.
Purchase two or more Sun StorageTek T10000 drives, KMS Integration Services, and KMS country kits and received one of the following free: Crypto Key(s) for T10000 Tape Drives; a appropriate Crypto Accessory kit; and Sun StorageTek Crypto Key Management Station.
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker (released February 26, 2007) indicated that Sun was the only vendor among the top five server vendors to achieve market share growth in Q406. Sun's year-to-year total server market share grew 1.5 points.
Two new Open Solaris User Groups (OSUGs) will have their first meetings this month. Jeff Victor (see Jeff\'s blog), a Sun Microsystems' OS Ambassador, will speak on Monday March 12th in Ft. Lauderdale and Tuesday March 13th in Tampa. There will also be discussions about the groups, how to organize, future topics etc. After the main meeting, networking will continue at a nearby restaurant.
The Florida Open Solaris User groups offer a strong ROI for guest speakers with customers in FL and appropriate topics for the OSUGs.
During his keynote presentation at the recent Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) in Brussels, Simon Phipps announced that Sun became a Patron of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
At the recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in New Orleans Sun introduced a solution that can help healthcare organizations achieve secure health information exchange, cost-efficient data management, regulatory compliance and caregiver mobility.
Sun announced that it is offering Mobile Service Architecture (MSA) compliance testing kits and tooling to Java ME developers. MSA includes specifications for handling 3-D graphics, secure transactions, VoIP and streaming video.
The latest version of the Sun Java Enterprise System (Java ES) 5.0 is now modular and provides greater choices for enterprises to consolidate their IT infrastructure on an integrated, open and standards-based software system. Learn about more of the new features.
Staff engineer Tim Read contributed to a white paper on the benefits of using the Sun Cluster 3.x software with Oracle 10g R2 RAC. New features of Sun Cluster 3.2 pertinent to Oracle Database 10g RAC are covered in the white paper as are the technical features of Solaris Cluster software that help to reduce the risk of outage through increased protection against data corruption, and more.
The new version of Sun HPC ClusterTools 7 software (January 19, 2007) includes an implementation of the uDAPL Byte Transfer Layer (BTL) using uDAPL RDMA, enabling better performance over Infiniband.
The Sun Studio 12 software Early Access (EA) program will run through April 2007, giving developers the chance to to preview numerous enhancements such as next-generation IDE based on NetBeans 5.5.1 software and improved binary application performance for all platforms - SPARC and x86/x64.
A recent review of the Sun Blade X8420 server module by Tony Bradley in Processor.com characterized the blade as having "more power and speed than anything else available". And they have just been repriced.
The price of the Sun Fire V40z server has been reduced to reflect decreases in memory and AMD processors. With faster memory support, the Sun Fire V40z is now among the fastest 4-way servers.
Paul Venezia, senior contributing editor at the InfoWorld Test Center, reported on a recent three-way "shootout" involving the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade System, the HP Blade System c-Class and the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System in the magazine. Results were remarkably similar.
The Sun Fire X4500 server now integrates better with more customers' heterogeneous computing environments because Sun is now announcing new support for popular operating systems such as Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Edition SP1 32-bit (and 64-bit) and the enterprise edition.
Sun has released remanufactured Sun Fire 440 servers and remanufactured Sun Fire V490 Servers, along with remanufactured CPU/Memory Modules for the Sun Fire V490 and Sun Fire V890 servers.
The Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for tape libraries ranks products from Sun, HP, IBM, ADIC Scalar, Dell and others. In the enterprise tape library category Sun StorageTek earned high marks with the StreamLine SL500/SL8500 and/or L700E/L1400M.
Sun has released the BakBone NetVault Backup product with the NetVault Backup 7.4.5 media kit and hardcopy documentation in English. NetVault Backup 7.4.5 will support heterogeneous platforms (all Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), UNIX, Linux and Windows) in three different editions -- Workgroup, Datacenter and Enterprise.
New to Sun StorageTek 9900 Series HiCommand Tuning Manager 5.5 software is support for Linux 4, HP-UX 11.31, and VxVM 4.1 for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and support for SQL Server 2005.
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 3, were:
Niagara 2 -- Key Features, Architecture and Diagrams [17688]
Sun Multithreaded 10 Gig E Networking Interface Accelerates Multi-threaded Application Performance [17707]
Schwartz and McNealy: A Comparison in Styles [17713]
Sun Developer Network Channel Video on Solaris Containers [17692]
New Configuration for Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server [17678]
Improved Security and Developer Support in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 [17577]
Sign Up for a Free 60-day Trial of New Sun 10 Gig E Network Adapter [17708]
Looking for a new office productivity suite? Considering MS-Office 2007? Before you put down your money, have a look at OpenOffice.org 2, which has been shown to cost 90 percent less than an upgrade to Office 2007.
OASIS has approved the proposed version 1.1 of the Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) as an OASIS Standard. this new version of the standard provides key accessibility enhancements to ensure that the OpenDocument format (ODF) addresses the needs of people with disabilities.
Kai Sommerfeld gives readers of his blog the scoop on what's in store for users of OpenOffice.org in version 2.2 in the entry entitled, "Extensions Infrastructure – What's new in OpenOffice.org 2.2"
Steve Wilson illustrates container migration, which he learned from the Sun Management Center (Sun MC) team in India who demonstrated the latest additions to the Solaris Container Manager, especially the Zone Migration feature.
The third edition of the Samba guide from O'Reilly has been updated to cover how to migrate from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Samba and integrate with Active Directory and OpenLDAP. The authors examine the internals of the Windows activities and protocols and the strengths and weaknesses of each feature in Windows domains and in Samba itself.
Receive a custom proficiency profile when you take a pre-assessment test. The tests are free and will help you discover what's next in your professional development. Pre-assessments are currently available for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS).
The Sun Managed Operations for Security now takes the place of Sun Managed Security Services, which is being transitioned from the product list. Sun Managed Operations for Security provides complete and robust IT infrastructure security solutions that reduce network and systems vulnerability and risk for users. The solution provides monitoring and management of firewalls, VPN and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, as well as proactive network vulnerability protection.
This article presents some resources on Solaris Trusted Extensions and Trusted Sun Java Desktop System. Trusted Java Desktop System introduces the world's first labeled interface based on the GNOME open source desktop standard. Each window is labeled with a stripe that alerts you at a glance as to a document's security classification.
Sun has a new Secure Application Switch V4.0 available as a download. This intelligent application switch provides advanced Layer 3 to Layer 7 (L3 to L7) load balancing and advanced Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) acceleration with reencryption. The switch provides these services on a flexible, virtualized basis, within the convenience of a single enclosure, and with industry-leading speed, security and availability.
John Russell of Bio-ITWirld.com interviewed Joerg Schwarz, Sun's director of Healthcare and Life Sciences. Sun is in the midst of the challenge helping to solve the "digitization of healthcare" by providing "technology, standards, software, hardware and middleware," Schwarz said.
Sun will be offering training in RFID technology for the pharmaceutical industry on April 18, 2007. The training session will be held at the Sun APT Labs in Longmont, Colorado.
Tune in to the Sun Net Talk to hear about the latest solutions for a secure, high-performance IT network used for healthcare data. This talk features Joerg Schwarz, Director, Sun Healthcare and Life Sciences; and Ambre Chevalier, Healthcare Marketing Manager.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity (GOSHCC) recently upgraded its IT infrastructure in order to manage the 50 million pounds it needs annually to support the hospital. The charity wanted to increase staff productivity and efficiency to enable higher fund raising goal; improve the donor experience; and remove functional silos. The results promise the delivery of all the expectations current at the outset.
Health Level Seven (HL7) released a new standard for electronic health records that has been approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
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