If you are looking to reduce the management of the traditional desktop environment, then take a look at a new podcast that explains the virtual desktop concept and how to use Sun Ray thin clients, Sun Secure Global Desktop software and VMware (see article [18146]). There is also a new version of the Sun Secure Global Desktop available [18145].
Another podcast focuses on Solaris Containers and virtualization [18169]. Also in our SysAdmin section is a tech tip on setting up a Samba server to share a Solaris 10 OS file [18154].
Get technical details on a recently announce storage system from Sun, the Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise storage system in article [18147].
For developers interested in Swing, we've gathered some sessions from the JavaOne 2007 Conference in article [18170]. Another tech tip is the first in a series by Ed Ort et al. about how to build mashups [18113]; this week is server-side mashups and a future article will discuss client-side mashups.
Purchase a new Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 or M5000 server and get free Sun Enterprise Installation Services (EIS) between now and July 17, 2007. These mid-range servers are highly scalable virtualization/consolidation systems optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing.
If you have used GlassFish in a production deployment or are planning to, then write about it in a blog for a chance to win a 52-Inch LCD HD TV. The contest ends on June 15, 2007.
This week, Sun will be introducing a new blade platform designed by a team led by Andy Bechtolsheim, Chief Architect and Senior Vice President, Network Systems.
Sun is inviting customers to "Join Jonathan Schwartz, Sun CEO and President, John Fowler, EVP, Systems, and other Sun executives, partners, and customers via a live web cast from Washington, D.C. See for yourself how Sun's continued investments in technology innovations can help you quickly prepare to meet changing business demands, optimize space, power and energy savings in the datacenter to help reduce environmental impact of computing."
Hot Deals from Sun
Hot Deals from Sun get hotter each year during Sun's fourth quarter
June is the last month of Sun's fiscal year and a number of "hot deals" will soon be expiring:
Get three Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers for the price of two. Offer ends July 11, 2007
Get 45% off the list price of new processor boards when you trade in your older processor boards on Sun Fire X4600 and X4600 M2 servers. Offer ends July 11, 2007
-1+1+1=Free! Purchase three select 1.8 GHz V490 or V890 systems and receive the fourth system free. Offer Expires June 29, 2007
Free Frame! Get a free frame for purchasing select E2900, E4900 or E6900. Offer Expires June 29, 2007
Get 50% off the list price of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 when you trade in your current qualifying tape library. Offer ends June 29, 2007
Double Trade-in Discount when you trade in 3 eligible servers for T1000, T2000, and V490 servers. Offer ends June 30, 2007
Free tape-based encryption hardware and feature key with the purchase of 2 or more Sun StorageTek T10000 drives and KMS Integration services. Offer ends September 30, 2007
25% off on Sun Blade "turnkey" starter kit. Offer ends December 31, 2007
In the Singapore Airlines business class section of the new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft and the economy seats, you can rest, play or work. There is an all-in-one Business Panel (in business class) that features laptop power supply and 2 USB ports. Built-in office software allows you to create spreadsheets and presentations, without the use of a laptop. That software is StarOffice software.
Driving eco-responsible business practices and products, Sun vice president of Eco Responsibility David Douglas convinced Fortune Senior Editor David Kirkpatrick that Sun is leading its peers in the scope and seriousness of its multi-tentacled environmental efforts.
Here Comes Sun
Schwartz and Project Blackbox Credited for a New Sun on the Horizon
Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Project Blackbox - a prototype of a virtualized datacenter built into a shipping container - are key to the company's reemergence as a major player in the high-tech industry, comments Alan Deutschman with Fast Company.com. In a recent article, Deutschman retraces Sun's steps from its beginnings to the dot.com bust and its current status in the marketplace.
If you are looking to reduce the management of the traditional desktop environment, then take a look at a new podcast with Sun's Virtualization Solutions Architect, Matthew Legg, and Virtual Desktop Solutions Architect, Daniel Cifuentes, who talk about virtual desktop solutions, VMware, and the Sun Virtual Desktop Access Kit.
Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.31 is available for download. New features include support for connecting to Remote Desktop on Microsoft Windows Vista, audio support for UNIX applications and support for new clients, including Ubuntu Linux and Microsoft Vista clients. See the Sun Download Center for the link to get the 4.31 version of the software.
Learn about SOA from a new video presentation by Sun's marketing team. The presentation covers why businesses should use Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), how it works and how Sun helps simplify SOA with its Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS).
Now Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers can support up to 256GB of memory in a single system using the new standard configuration (only). There are 2 standard configurations using this new 8-DIMM processor board with the 8220 processor: 4-processor with 16GB and 8-processor with 32GB. XATO option also available.
Management Information Base (MIB) modules in Sun ALOM-CMT MIBS 1.0 Revenue Release are provided for download to enable SNMP management systems to monitor and manage Sun Fire or SPARC Enterprise servers.
Highly demanding storage data centers are ideal environments for the Sun StorageTek 9990V that delivers enterprise-class functionality, integrated storage virtualization, thin provisioning, logical partitioning and universal replication.
Virtual tape solutions such as the Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) for mainframe environments place disk devices into the backup/restore/disaster recovery path to facilitate tape operations while still maintaining the cost advantage, portability and removable media advantages of traditional tape. Learn about the advantages of the Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager in a recent white paper.
Customers who purchased a single filer Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS and now need additional performance or higher data availability can take advantage of the StorageTek 5320 NAS Cluster Upgrade Kit. With the kit, a single filer Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS can be converted to a Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Cluster configuration.
Find out how you can optimize your storage environment and control costs by identifying and solving hidden storage-related expenses addressed in the third report of the Sun's Storage Strategies series that focuses on storage optimization.
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 4, were:
Sun Gains Market Share for Fifth Straight Quarter [18149]
Sun SPARC Enterprise Family Architecture White Paper [18122]
Technology Brief on Advantages of SAS over SCSI [18128]
Zone Enhancements in Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 [18138]
New Sun StorageTek 9990V Enterprise Storage System Provides Advanced Functionality [18143]
Participate in the development and improvement of Sun products and services by joining the Sun Advisory Panel. Not only do panel members help direct future technology through surveys, discussions and other programs, they also earn points that can be redeemed for merchandise, gift cards or given as a charitable donation.
When updating your data center, it is important to maintain operational control. Since this can be quite demanding for many organizations, Sun has developed a solution - the Sun Interim Operations Management service, which offers short-term on-site management of your data center's IT operations.
Sun Connection Service comes in three versions: the Update Manager, a web-hosted application and a customer satellite infrastructure. With Sun Connection, you can monitor the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Linux. You can provision new systems and manage updates.
If you need to grasp the basics of Mashups, start with a tech article by Ed Ort. The first article explains what a mashup is, some of the common types or styles of doing mashups, focusing on server-side mashups. There will be more articles in Ort's series that will compare and contrast these styles and discuss some of the major design considerations related to each.
Version 2.5.1 of the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit (formerly known as J2ME Wireless Toolkit) is now available. It can be used to develop applications for CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0. The beta was released in April 2007.
Release 2 of the Sun Web Developer Pack includes AJAX technologies (Project Maki and Project Dynamic Faces), the scripting technology Project Phobos, RESTful Web service API, and ROME Propono, an Atom client and server library. Also included are bug fixes to all the existing components and updates to the NetBeans IDE plug-ins.
Swing is one of the APIs distributed with Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE). There are a number of sessions now available online from the 2007 JavaOne Conference that focus on Swing. Session topics include writing multithreaded desktop applications, using SVG in Swing applications, and creating effects in Swing.
"Virtual Strategy" magazine recently published the podcast "Solaris containers and Sun's view on virtualization". The podcast is an interview with Paul Steeves, Sun's director of marketing for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
Sun blogger Tim Thomas explains his recent experience with basic Samba server installation on Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 11/06. Thomas worked with Symantec's Enterprise Vault software and Sun StorageTek Storage Archive Manager (aka SAM-FS).
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