We are covering news about Sun's "Four S's" -- Storage, Software, Servers and Services. This week we have Storage and Software for you.
The February 2007 Early Access of Sun Studio software is out [17818], and Logical Domain 1.0 Early Access software is available for download too [17821].
Sun StorageTek downloads include three versions for the Windows Server 2003 [17795]. There is also an article on the Sun-Hitachi relationship [17792], and one on storage software transfers [17794].
Increasing resource utilization with Solaris Containers is the focus of a new, large Sun BluePrints document [17787]. Sun continues to advance its grid technology and offerings with a new set of applications available online at the network.com site [17823].
If you are looking forward to the upcoming JavaOne Conference, see article [17803] to get a sneak preview of what will be included in the event.
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.
Through Sun's Try and Buy Program, you can try out Sun products such as the new Sun 10 Gig E Network Adapter card to evaluate and test at no charge for 60 days. If you do not choose to keep the product, you can ship it back to Sun at no charge.
Check out Smugmug.com CEO Don MacAskill's blog to find out why the online photo
sharing service chose Sun X2200 M2 servers over HP, Dell, IBM and Rackable
servers. "[Sun's] engineering rocks. ZFS is drool-worthy, Thumper is
a cool piece of hardware, Sun Spots are innovative, and Black Box is just
pimp. I'm a geek, what can I say?"
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After trying Sun servers, dating Web site eHarmony bought three Sun Fire x64 servers
to run Oracle, serving its 14M+ registered users. Prior to using Sun servers,
eHarmony used Dell 6800 series machines. "The power consumption [of the
Sun servers] was the absolute lowest we could find, and then we found the
performance was outstanding," eHarmony's Mark Douglas said. Sun is "the
only real hardware company doing engineering."
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A large database marketing firm saved $400K one-time and $100K/year in software
licensing by migrating its Oracle_perl data warehouse to open source PostgreSQL.
After 20 outages in four months on Linux, migration consultant OmniTI switched
the marketing firm to Solaris 10 increasing stability and reliability.
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DVD trading site Peerflix increased membership and vistor-to-member conversion
rates by replacing its .NET Web application platform with a more scalable,
reliable and cost-effective platform based on Sun Fire x64 servers, the Solaris
10 Operating System and Sun Java System Application Server.
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A new feature added to Sun's online grid utility service, Network.com, is an application catalog. In the catalog are applications customers can choose from to use on a pay-per-use model. Applications include a protein and DNA sequence program and a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator.
Sterling Commerce, a subsidiary of AT&T, tested its Sterling Customer Order Management application software on Sun Fire E25K server and three Sun Fire E6900 servers, all running UltraSPARC IV+ dual-core processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to achieve a benchmark that set new standards in order management processing performance.
For the first time, Sun Tech Days went to Malaysia (March 6-8, 2007). The theme at the event in Kuala Lumpur was "Unlock Opportunity". Over 1500 people participated to learn about the latest technologies and tools from Sun. The conference highlighted the key messages of how participation, sharing and collaboration can help boost the local developer community.
Erwin Tenhumberg, on his blog, said he installed the latest Solaris OS build on his laptop. While the installation and configuration "was not as smooth as with Ubuntu" it is now "stable and fast." The OpenSolaris Starter Kit can get you up and running also.
New screen casts on DTrace for JavaScript Debugging, Chime Visualization Tool for DTrace, and Dual Boot Installation of OpenSolaris on a Laptop are available online.
The March meeting of the Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group will be held
Tuesday, 3/20, at 7PM at the Sun office in Alpharetta. Directions can
be found at
[url "http://opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/atl-osug"]
This month, Alok Aggarwal will give us an update on What's new with NFS
in Nevada, as well as what new features have been put back in the last
several Nevada builds. Alok is a member of the Solaris engineering team
and one of the developers of NFS in OpenSolaris.
As usual, there will be time for discussion of other OpenSolaris topics.
Sun has provided a full-install product download for Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.4 that will upgrade existing Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0 configurations or can be installed by itself.
See Neil Wilson's blog on the elimination of read-only replicas in Netscape/iPlanet Directory Server 6.0 (the directory server is now part of the Sun Java System).
New features have been added to the compilers and tools of the Sun Studio Express (February 2007 Early Access Release) that are currently under development for both SPARC and x86 platforms.
Sun blogger Dan Templeton posts some "good news" about DRMAA on his blog. DRMAA is Distributed Resource Management Application API. He has tested and added an extension to the Grid Engine DRMAA implementations to allow a session to be restarted in 6.0 update 9.
We already know the challenges that organizations face concerning datacenters; this Sun BluePrints guide aims to show how Solaris Containers technology can be an important tool to help increase operational efficiency while reducing costs.
The Logical Domains (LDoms) software is Sun's new server virtualization and partitioning technology. LDoms software can subdivide supported platforms' resources (CPUs, memory, I/O, and storage) by creating partitions called logical or virtual domains.
Three Sun Net Talks provide information on the Sun Grid Rack System and challenges and the benefits of grid computing. High Performance Computing (HPC) and scalable storage are the focus of two of the talks, which are available on demand. Slides are also available for download.
300 GB SCSI hard disk drives will be available for the Netra 1290 server from Customer System Integration (CSI) only as XATO. Product teams will be announcing support for the X-Option part number as the drive is qualified and support becomes available. Other drives (73GB and 146GB) have been repriced.
Sun has decided to stop selling the Sun StorageTek 6900 series and have Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) support existing Sun StorageTek 6920 users, according to a report on Techworld.com.
The Sun StorageTek 9900 Series Software License Transfer offering provides the 9960/9910/9970/9980 customers investment protection by providing them the ability to transfer the software license from their Sun StorageTek 9960/9910/9970/9980 to a new Sun StorageTek 9990 System.
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 109 Issue 1, were:
Top Ten Articles for Vol 109 Issue 1
Beginners Guide to LDoms: Understanding and Deploying Logical Domains [17757]
How to Use Solaris JumpStart With the Solaris 10 OS for x86/x64 Platforms [17781]
Competitively Priced Sun 19-inch LCD Monitor [17717]
Higher Performance and Lower Cooling Costs Resulted when Physics Lab Switched to Sun Fire X2100 Servers [17784]
The Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Preview release adds the Sun Web Developer Pack and provides a new app server version, Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Beta (based on GlassFish V2 Beta), along with updates to Open ESB, Portlet Container 1.0, and Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1.
Over 60 exhibitors and co-sponsors have signed up to participate in the 2007 JavaOne conference, including Intel, Motorola, Oracle, BEA, NAVTEQ, InterSystems and Parasoft. The conference will he held May 8-11, 2007, at Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The O'Reilly book, "Ajax on Java" (February 2007) introduces Ajax, how to make Java technology based Web applications more responsive and dynamic, and presents strategies for communicating between the client and the server, including sending raw data, and using XML or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for sending more complex collections of data.
With two new products in the Java SE 6 line, users will want to take advantage of the learning opportunities provided in the course "New Features in the Java SE 6 Platform" (WJO-1001). Both the Java SE Development Kit 6 (JDK 6) and Java SE Runtime Environment 6 (JRE 6) contribute to the improved level of maturity, quality, stability, compatibility, scalability and security of the current Java implementation.
Two Sun Alerts have been issued: one about a an overflow vulnerability and another about a security vulnerability in the JMX RMI-IIOP API. See the Sun Alerts for the patch and workaround for these resolved issues.
Interested in protecting your privacy in the digital world? Then you'll want to read Robert McMillan's InfoWorld interview with Whitefield Diffie, Sun's chief security officer and co-inventor of public key cryptography, where Diffie shares his view that "Privacy laws could hurt the little guy."
Malla Simhachalam and Marina Sum use the example of a stock-quote service in developing the 90-minute tutorial they created to step users through the process of securing communications between the service's client and server with Sun Java System Access Manager), the NetBeans IDE 5.5, and the Java Application Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) with Tools bundle.
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