To make it easier for developers to build applications for the Solaris OS, Sun introduced the enhanced version of the Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07. See News article [18242] for an overview and article [18236] for more technical details. The new release contains Sun Studio 12 software; learn about the software's new features in [18157].
The new Inventory Channel helps manage IT assets by tracking contract information, licensing, and registration status in a data center [18226].
We follow up on last week's announcement of the Sun Blade 6000 modular system with a technical details article [18210]. Save 25 percent on a blade starter kit for Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 8000 configurations; see [18218]. Sun Cluster (aka Solaris Cluster) now supports the Sun Blade 6000 [18209].
In a recent review, Solaris ZFS was rated highly and characterized as poised to be very influential in future file system designs [18234]. If you're just getting started with ZFS, there is a course on its administration [18235].
Sometimes you are your own competition: A new benchmark shows the Sun Fire X4100 M2 server beating out a previous Sun record [18230].
Save up to 25 percent off one of these two Sun Blade Starter Kits: Sun Blade 6000 or Sun Blade 8000 system. Sun Blade modular systems are designed specifically to improve data center efficiency and utilization. When you purchase a starter kit, you can get select Oracle licenses and support or VMware ESX Server licenses at 25 percent off also.
For a limited time, 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 latest version of the Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 includes new functionality such as new compilers and development tools. The new version is designed to be an advantage for developers who are working with applications that will run on multi-core chip architectures such as the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor. It has also been optimized for servers being developed based on Sun's 64-thread Niagara 2 processor. Sun Studio 12 software is also included.
Synchronizing remote office data with headquarters is the goal of the new remote office back-up solution that combines Sun StorageTek hardware with a Symantec appliance.
Need a better way to track, sort, search and group your IT assets and support contract? Sun introduces the new Sun Connection Inventory Channel, a free offering for Sun customers that allows system administrators and IT operators to quickly and easily discover, organize and report on their IT assets.
Sun Studio 12 is Sun's latest version of its compilers and performance tools designed for the C, C++ and Fortran developer communities. Accompanying its release, Sun also is offering Sun Developer Service Plans and Sun Software Services Plans for Sun Studio 12, and announced the end of life for Sun Studio 9.
The StarOffice 8 End User Bundle (WOB-1601-08) provides courses that introduce students to various modules of the StarOffice 8 software application suite. The courses describe how to use the features of these modules to create and enhance text documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Version 1.0.1 of the Sun Shared Visualization software is now available for download. With Sun Shared Visualization software, organizations can share centralized compute and graphics resources from a variety of clients across the network, aiding collaboration and security as well as lowering TCO.
The recently announced Sun Blade 6000 Modular System allows users to mix and match processors and operating systems. The Sun Blade 6000 Modular Systems are the only heterogeneous systems in the marketplace supporting all three major volume CPU architectures: Intel, AMD and SPARC processors. Get technical details and comparisons with other blades.
Sun Cluster 3.1 (8/05) and 3.2 and later now support the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and the Sun Blade T6300 Server Module, allowing them to be deployed in a Sun Cluster environment. This high-availability cluster software offers a business continuity and disaster recovery platform for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
The BM Seer blog reports benchmark results for the Sun Fire X4100 M2 server on the TPC-H @300GB Performance test, showing that the Sun Fire X4100 M2 has 50 percent better price performance than the HP DL585.
The value of implementing storage resource management (SRM) offerings into IT infrastructure and storage operations is being overlooked by enterprise customers primarily because vendors are not properly educating administrators, finds a recent Forrester Research study.
The QLogic SANbox 5602 stackable IP switch features dual hot-swappable power supplies, 4 Gb/sec Fibre Channel fabric speeds and now has a lower price for a bundle of four. With 16 4 Gb/sec ports, this lower-priced bundled offer provides 64 ports of connectivity.
The Sun StorageTek 2540 array has been added to the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP). There are also new trade-in allowances for Sun StorageTek SL500 tape library bundles.
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This new release of Solaris Express Developer Edition 5/07 features the new Sun Studio 12 compilers, enhanced wireless support and automatic network configuration for developing applications based on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Java technology and Web 2.0 applications.
New NetBeans IDE 5.5 tutorials are available online. One covers end-to-end application development and the other shows you how to set up internationalization in NetBeans IDE 5.5.
A new tech tip on the Sun Developer Connection (SDN) illustrates how to reduce the size of applications to lower the overall MIDlet suite size. C. Enrique Ortiz explains using a local cache and utility classes such as ImageRmsUtils.java and NetworkUtils.java.
A white paper by John Vossler, a UNIX and Linux infrastructure consultant, presents a case study of designing two sites for a cluster to prevent loss of function of the cluster in case of a disaster. The paper outlines selecting a co-location hosting company with sites in different cities, setting up the Ethernet and SAN network connections, and how the Sun hardware and Cisco switches were set up and connected.
Paul Venezia posted a review of the Solaris ZFS on the InfoWorld Test Center in which he stated that after he started working with ZFS, "one thing became clear: the file system of the next 10 years will either be ZFS or something extremely similar. The fluidity, the malleability, and the scalability of ZFS far surpass anything available now on any platform."
Sun demonstrated its systems management technologies during the 2007 JavaOne Conference held last month in San Francisco. In his blog, Steve Stelting with Sun described this demonstration that illustrated remote administration with groups of servers that performed infrastructure, test and production jobs.
Solaris Container Manager 3.6.1 software provides zone management enhancements, such as zone rename, move, clone and migration, which are further enhanced when using Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System (Solaris OS). This software release also includes alarm functionality enhancements and search feature.
If you read Paul Venezia's InfoWorld review of Solaris ZFS (article [18234]) and want to learn how to use the file system, this course will fill that need. Course number VC-SA-229-S10 "Solaris 10 ZFS Administration" shows you how to set up, configure, administer and manage this file system.
Core developers Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo joined Sun in September 2006. Kirk Pepperdine of TheServerSide.com talked with Nutter about the progress of JRuby since then, the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), NetBeans IDE and more.
Security is the topic for three JavaOne Online technical sessions now accessible. These sessions focus on Ajax security essentials, securing JavaServer Faces Technology/Spring/Hibernate applications and using Solaris Trusted Extensions to implement platform security services for the Java language.
Sun Systemic Security Program is more than just systems: it is about people, architecture and processes. Join Joel Weise, principal engineer, for a Sun Net Talk on "Protecting Your Organization with Sun Systemic Security".
Join Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer Vipul Gupta and Hal Stern, VP of Sun Global Systems Engineering, in a podcast as they discuss the advantages of Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) over RSA.
The Enterprise Intrusion Analysis course provides students with the skills needed to discover and analyze enterprise intrusions in a UNIX environment. Upcoming courses are being offered in July 2007 in Atlanta and the Boston area.
The SANS Institute reports three vulnerabilities for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS): The management console is exposed to a remote privilege escalation issue; it is also exposed to a remote privilege escalation issue; and Solaris versions running Gnome sessions with Assistive Technology and xscreensaver are exposed to a local arbitrary command execution issue.
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