There is a lot of news surrounding the CoolThreads servers: Sun has passed the half-billion dollar revenue mark for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers and has sold enough servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) UltraSPARC T1 processor to reach a milestone of "over one million CPU threads" shipped (see article [17859]).
A trade-in promotion on the servers has been extended until June 1 [17829]. Learn more about them during the Sun Expert Exchange on Wed. March 28 [17861]. Get an inside look at the Sun Fire T1000 in article [17830] and learn about administration of the Sun Fire T2000 in a training course package [17831].
In other news the open source version of the Java EE 5 application server -- GlassFish V2 -- is now available as a beta release (see article [17849]). Learn about Sun StorageTek T10000 drives in a success story [17832] and get the drive and more in a promotion in article [17833].
Sun announced that it has passed the half-billion dollar revenue mark for its Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers. They have shipped enough servers with chip multi-threading (CMT) UltraSPARC T1 processor to reach a milestone of "over one million CPU threads" shipped.
A new solution from SAS and Sun reduces the cost and complexity of implementing and managing an enterprise Business Intelligence solution. This offering runs on the Sun Fire X4500 server and uses the SAS Scalable Performance Data Server (SPDS) to integrate data from any source, increase the speed of business analytics, and handle large amounts of data.
Thought Equity Motion has dramatically increased the storage density, performance and scalability of its digital archiving and on-demand content delivery system through the addition of Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drives. Thought Equity Motion can now deliver content four times faster than it had previously while more than doubling its data storage capacity within its existing data center footprint.
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The Web 2 Journal created its own list of the "All-Time Heroes of i-Technology," innovators of the Internet, including some Sun employees, both current and former, such as Joshua Bloch, Tim Bray, James Gosling and Bill Joy.
The white paper "10 GbE Rising -- Factors Driving the Emergence of 10 Gigabit Ethernet" addresses the traditional imbalance between server throughput and Ethernet attachment, noting how the standardization of 10 GB Ethernet over Category 6 UTP copper, when it is combined with even more cost-effective silicon, is bringing about change in the dynamics of local area networking.
Sun has released an RoHS-compliant 300 GB 15,000 RPM enterprise class SAS Drive and 750 GB 7,200 RPM SATA Drive Options for the Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers and for the Sun Ultra 20 M2 and Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstations.
A new addition to the Sun Partner Advantage Program in its Development Hardware Offerings is the Sun Ultra 45 workstation, now available at deeply discounted prices for the Sun Ultra 45 workstation-1x1.6GHz, XVR300, 1GB, the Sun Ultra 45 workstation-1x1.6GHz, XVR2500, 1GB and the Sun Ultra 45 Workstation-2x1.6GHz, XVR300, 2GB models.
The new Netra X4200 M2 Server, a 2U Carrier-Grade, AC and DC powered rackmount, NEBS Level 3 certified and ETSI compliant server, is expected on the market in May 2007. The Netra X4200 M2 is Sun's first Netra Rack Server to support up to two Next-Generation AMD Opteron model 2214HE, dual-core processors. It is ideal for the most demanding applications in the toughest environments.
The Sun Fire T1000 server is well suited to run J2EE (Java EE) and custom applications and for multi-threaded computing. Learn about recent performance enhancements and what promotions are available so you can get one of these CoolThreads servers.
The Sun Fire T2000 Server Administration Course Package (PK-ES-346) course package provides students with information on the server architecture, installing the server and configuring the server processor. The training also covers troubleshooting and replacing internal components.
There are setup and administration guides available for the Sun Fire V490 server. Also available are a parts installation and removal guide and a CPU/memory module configuration guide.
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 2, were:
How to Increase Resource Utilization with Solaris Containers [17787]
Logical Domains 1.0 Early Access Software Available for Download [17821]
Sun StorageTek 9900 Series Relationship with Hitachi Data Systems Reinforced [17792]
Service plans are available from Sun for systems running the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) or Windows OS. The plans are based on a single price, total-system approach.
Sun ValuePlus System Migration offering allows you to upgrade and migrate technology with minimum budget impact. The flexible financing arrangements enable you to plan and control the costs of systems upgrades before the end of your lease term.
Create a short video about a new mobile application or service that was created using the Java ME platform or open source phoneME project. The deadline is April 27, 2007. The winning videos will be posted on the java.sun.com site and be showcased at the 2007 JavaOne Conference.
A security report from Fortify Software conducted through its Java Open Review Project found that software components written in the Java programming language are, in general, more secure than components written in languages such as C or C++.
Jarod Jenson's article "DTrace and Java: Exposing Performance Problems That Once Were Hidden" demonstrates the power of combining DTrace with Java SE 6 and shows how to leverage the combination to gain an unprecedented view across all layers of any Java application, the Java virtual machine (JVM), or any other aspect of the software. According to Jenson, developers finally have a tool that will enable them to identify transient failures (performance problems) in complicated software stacks.
Mobile application development was a topic of discussion at the recent Sun Tech Days developer conference in Kuala Lumpur. The "pervasiveness of mobile phones is driving the rapid growth and innovation of the application," according to a report by Lee Min Keong, ZDNet Asia.
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