The big news out of Sun this week is the new line of SPARC Enterprise servers [17987]. They deliver up to 50 percent higher performance than current SPARC-based servers. When you purchase one of the new M4000 or M5000 SPARC Enterprise servers, you get free Sun Enterprise Installation Services [17990]. Read up on the features of the new M4000 server in article [17993]. We'll continue to cover more of the servers in detail next week.
Another new product this week is the low-cost Sun StorageTek ST2500 array [17988], available for under $10,000. Technical details are in article [17985].
With the JavaOne Conference on the horizon, we have some developer tech tips and resources this week: SOA Sun Net Talks [17974], an Ask the Experts session on WSIT and Project Tango, a download for Solaris Express - the Developer Edition [17967]. Java technologies and NetBeans are now available for Ubuntu users [17995]; an upcoming JavaOne session will provide more details too.
Two security alerts for Solaris admins [17986] and [17949]. There are also new resources for those working with LDoms [17946].
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.
A limited-time promotion from Sun offers the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server with 64GB memory and 8 cores for less than $48,000 (USD). This high memory configuration is designed for memory-intensive applications, including EDA, Oracle, and data warehousing.
Fujitsu and Sun introduced new servers based on the SPARC architecture and running the Solaris 10 operating system (Solaris OS). There are six new models. These systems deliver up to 50 percent more performance than current SPARC-based servers.
Elektrofilm Digital Studios, a digital media services provider to the entertainment industry, has selected Sun's storage, servers, software and services to create a Digital Media Environment where people who have created content can view it, edit it and store uncompressed data.
Sun Microsystems of Canada will build an e-health system for the province Of British Columbia. Sun and partner, First Consulting Group, and Quest Diagnostics healthcare information technology subsidiary MedPlus will design and build a comprehensive electronic healthcare solution.
Sun expanded its modular disk storage family with the addition of the Sun StorageTek ST2500 Low Cost array. It is Sun's first serial-attached SCSI (SAS) storage array, and it achieved a world record for price/performance. Other storage news from the Storage Networking World Spring 2007 event includes new storage software versions and new features for existing Sun storage products.
An announcement from the OpenSolaris website states that there is ZFS boot support for the x86 platform. The previously announced ZFS Mountroot support in build 36 will no longer work.
A community on the OpenSolaris web site has been formed to focus on issues of observability in Solaris OS. They claim "if you cannot see a problem, you cannot fix it". This community will serve to explore existing Solaris tools and features as well as plan the next generation of OpenSolaris observability tools.
Anyone interested in the storage possibilities inherent in OpenSolaris needs to log on to the OpenSolaris Community: Storage, where blogs, discussions, information on endorsed projects (and an opportunity to join these), presentations and details about related storage communities can be found.
What is Ian Murdock, half of the team that developed Debian Linux, doing at Sun? Robert Mullins ferrets out the answer in his IDG News Service interview.
We present a few details about the recently formed Microelectronics group at Sun and David Yen's role. Sun hopes their microprocessors can be used on more than Sun hardware.
The new version of the Sun Java Communications Suite, version 5, has new features for compliance and content management. It also offers enhanced message filtering support, improved customization in Communications Express client, and more. The suite includes:
Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 includes a new feature that allows portal users to create communities with controlled access. This version also has a new administration framework that includes a new Admin Console and Admin Portlets, support for multiple portals, Struts/JSF Support, Interportlet Communication, System Monitoring and UBT.
The Sun Java Web Console is a web application that provides a single point on entry for many of Sun's systems management applications. Updated version 2.2.6 is available for download online.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server is part of a new generation of mid-range data center-class systems. This server from Sun and Fujitsu brings together the power of new SPARC64 VI processors and the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). This is one of a group of new and fast Solaris OS/SPARC servers that bring mainframe-class availability and partitioning to the open systems market.
Sun is introducing new low power server modules for the Sun Blade 8000 and Sun Blade 8000P Modular Systems. These modules are now available with AMD Opteron 8218 HE (High Efficiency) 2.6GHz, 68 Watt Processors.
Sun is offering a three-part training package on the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System. The components include the (1) WET-4993 Sun Blade 8000 Modular System - System Overview, Features and Architecture; (2) ES-4993 Sun Blade 8000 Modular System Installation, Administration and Troubleshooting; and (3) WGS-PREX-4993 Sun Blade 8000 Modular System - System Overview, Features and Architecture Assessment.
Get primary (or secondary) storage at a low cost with Sun StorageTek 2500 arrays. These arrays feature enterprise-class RAID functionality and support for Fibre Channel, SAS and iSCSI.
The new Brocade Silkworm 5000 32-port auto-sensing 1, 2, or 4 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel switch is the first common switch platform capable of providing native E_Port switch interoperability for Brocade and McDATA SANs. Existing Brocade or McDATA management tools can be used to manage the Brocade 5000, simplifying deployment within today's customer environments and reducing the need to train end users on new tools.
Sun is repricing the Sun StorageTek 9985 and Sun StorageTek 9990 systems. Accordingly, the average hardware configuration will be reduced by approximately four percent on the Sun StorageTek 9990 and seven percent on the Sun StorageTek 9985. These lower prices enable the Sun StorageTek 9985 and 9990 to maintain their competitive positions in the market. Sun StorageTek 9900 series software is not impacted by this pricing action.
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 110 Issue 2, were:
Solaris Express, Developer Edition Appliance for the Parallels Virtual Machine 1.0 is available for download. Included is an pre-installed and pre-configured Solaris Express Developer Edition, an open source network driver ni, and Inetmenu 2.3.4, a GUI tool to configure network.
Arun Gupta, technology evangelist for Web Services and Next Generation Web Applications, Sun Microsystems, and Sun's engineering lead for enterprise web services interoperability, Harold Carr will answer your questions on Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and Project Tango on an Ask the Experts Session from April 30 through May 2, 2007.
There are now three additional sources of information on the Sun Web Developer Pack (SWDP), a solution that helps users leverage emerging web technologies and techniques to create interactive and dynamic web applications for the enterprise. The SWDP toolkit is a collection of technologies for AJAX, Scripting and REST-based services development supported by a NetBeans IDE plug-in that simplifies the design and development of Rich Internet Applications.
The ZFS file system has been incorporated to the FreeBSD code base. FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible, AMD64 compatible IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures.
Three Sun Net Talks on-demand feature the topic of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Specialists discuss what the benefits of an SOA could be for your business and what role the NetBeans IDE could take.
Resources abound for those working with Sun Microsystems' Logical Domains (LDoms) technology. There is a new forum where you can ask questions, a new Hub on the BigAdmin site, and more.
Systems administrators, operators and data center managers who need to work with Shared Virtual Array (SVA) have a new course available: the "SVAA Administration for OS/390" course.
A quick guide offers examples of the libkstat APIs to do performance analysis and extract operating system metrics. Weisner recommends using the libkstat API instead of the system() call.
A recent Sun alert notifies sys admins of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) that systems may experience a race condition that results in Kernel memory corruption followed by a system panic.
A security vulnerability in the Solaris 8 and 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) IP implementation may allow a remote unprivileged user to degrade the performance of a networked Solaris system by sending specially crafted IP packets. This could result in a mild Denial of Service (DoS) against network services provided by the system and/or local services, due to increased CPU usage.
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