The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker Report states Sun gained market share for a fifth straight quarter [18149]. Learn about Sun's newest line of servers, the Sun SPARC Enterprise family in article [18122].
Also announced this week is a new storage system, the Sun StorageTek 9990V enterprise system for demanding datacenter environments. Get details in article [18143]. Sun's recently announced low-cost arrays, the Sun StorageTek 2500 arrays, use SAS technology; see article [18128] for the advantages of SAS over SCSI. If you've been wanting to upgrade your tape library, there is an upgrade promotion for the Sun StorageTek L1400 (see [18110]).
Learn about the Honeycomb project and the open source storage community on the OpenSolaris web site [18116]. Also in open source news is information on features in GlassFish v2, including in-memory replication, a hot topic at the JavaOne Conference [18114].
Now you can learn how to install and administer Sun Cluster 3.2 and save $200 on the tuition cost if you act before June 30, 2007. This training takes place in a Live Virtual Class.
Sun is offering a $100 Best Buy gift card and $100 discount (U.S. dollars) to those who enroll in and complete any four- or five-day traditional Classroom or Live Virtual Class course from Sun by June 30.
The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report (May 23, 2007) showed Sun having its year-to-year total server revenue market share grow for the fifth straight quarter in Q107.
The new Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise Storage System from Sun and Hitachi Data Systems is designed for mission-critical enterprise applications, data center SANs, large-scale storage consolidation, and dynamic, tiered storage infrastructures.
"In today's insurance industry, the product is no longer a competitive differentiator. What is most important today is how insurers find and serve their customers," explained Larry Scott, vice president, global financial services industry for Sun. To address this problem, Sun is now offering a new solution for the insurance industry, the Sun Distribution Channel Portal.
Sun licensed its chip multithreading processor design to ARM Holdings. ARM produces processors, physical IP, cache and SoC designs and the software and development tools that developers need to for product design.
The OpenOffice.org community and Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co, Ltd. will jointly develop new features into the RedOffice software application that is based on OpenOffice.org as part of the Chinese localization of OpenOffice.org.
NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 and FX 4600 graphics boards are now available for the Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation. These boards in the Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstations are well suited for professional 3D applications such as MCAD, non-linear video editing and other visualization applications.
Sun Ultra 40 M2 Workstation documentation includes an updated product notes document and OS installation guide. Other reference materials include a service manual and a safety and compliance guide.
A new white paper explains in detail the architecture of the recently announced Sun SPARC Enterprise servers. The servers provide built-in virtualization capabilities and associated tools, technologies and processes that work to optimize sever utilization. They provide the benefits of traditional mainframes but not the cost and complexity.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server features a new 10RU rack optimized enclosure with PCI-X and PCI-Express I/O and up to 50 PCIe or PCI-X slots with optional External I/O Expansion Unit. Get mainframe RAS capabilities in this mid-range server that is ideal for virtualization and application consolidation.
Instead of acquiring new licensing for the new Sun StorageTek ST9985 system, customers can now transfer their software licenses from one or several storage Sun StorageTek ST9970 systems to a Sun StorageTek ST9985 system.
A recent white paper outlines the advantages of the SAS technology in the Sun StorageTek 2500 arrays over SCSI. The paper explains SAS from an interface and a drive perspective.
The Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library is now available through the Sun Upgrade Advantage program. The L1400 is eligible for two levels of trade-in allowances: 10 percent allowance for a newer and larger tape system trade-in or 5 percent allowance for an older and smaller tape 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 111 Issue 3, were:
Version 2 of the GlassFish server (beta 2 level) will be released soon. New features include improved clustering and session failover capabilities, Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) and support for Java Business Integration (JBI) technology.
The Honeycomb project, another open source endeavor from Sun, is providing the open source community with fixed content storage technology and a place to work with other OpenSolaris members on the first open storage software stack from a major vendor.
OpenPortal is the new name and project site for the Enterprise-class Portal Server Project hosted by java.net. Derived from the Sun Java System Portal Server 7, this project provides the portal server's enterprise-class capabilities to the open source community who are encouraged to experiment and advance the portal server from its current status.
Solaris Container Manager, part of Sun Management Center software, is used to manage software containers, maximize resource utilization and increase data center productivity. The newest version 3.6.1, contains enhancements to zone enhancements and more.
Learn more about core dumps and features in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) along with its analysis tools that address these processes and can help manage core dumps in a Sun Developer Network Article, entitled "Core Dump Management on the Solaris OS".
A tech tip on the BigAdmin site explains how to use a baseline pre-caching script to download an entire Solaris baseline to your system dependency server (SDS) prior to simulating or deploying a baseline job to any agents in the environment.
Buzz around JavaFX Script and the JavaFX Mobile platform has Robert Brewin, Sun Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technology Officer in the Sun Software Group, talking. In recent interviews, he discussed these latest developments as well as the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 7 and a new consumer-focused JRE.
The open-source Mobile & Embedded Community team has launched a new project called the ME Application Developers Project to encourage and assist Java ME application developers in building mobile applications. Find resources such as demos, source code, tools and tips.
Sun has released patches to address two recent vulnerabilities in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). The first of these vulnerabilities gives local information disclosure from the "srsexec" utility, while the second can cause a local denial of service due to an integer signedness error which affects the "ACE_SETACL" cmd parameter of the "facl()" system call.
Solaris IP Filter Firewall
Allows SysAdmins to Restrict Access to Particular Networking Services in a Stateful Manner
Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) includes many security features that let you securely host thousands of applications and multiple customers on the same system. Learn about the Solaris IP Filter firewall and how it is used for network traffic protection.
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