A benchmark tested the Sun Fire X4600 server, showing its fast processing speed for financial transactions; see article [18267] for details. A promotion for the Sun Fire X4600 server can get you three servers for the price of two; the promotion ends July 11, so act now [18256].
There's a lot to learn about new Sun products such as the Sun Blade 6000 modular system, so we have listed some documentation for the recently announced blade system [18262].
Sun services aims to make life less stressful for IT staff with the new Sun Connection Inventory Channel. It's free; see article [18211]. A new SunSpectrum Enterprise Service Plan will support not only Sun hardware but the products in your data center from other vendors; learn more in article [18266].
In Software news is the new ODF plug-in from Sun for Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003; see [18208]. Also learn about the new language extensions in Sun Studio 12 C Complier [18215].
Sun is offering its customers the opportunity to buy three Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers for the price of two. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server features multi-core AMD Opteron processors, which offer the perfect balance between performance and energy efficiency, along with its record as the world's fastest of its kind on SPEC's new integer throughput benchmark. The offer is good through July 11, 2007.
Combine the cost-saving benefits of Sun StorageTek arrays and NAS products with the power and performance of Sun servers and save money.
Take 10 percent off select Sun StorageTek arrays or 15 percent off select Sun StorageTek NAS products when you purchase a qualifying Sun server at a discount.
Sun and the IP telecom company Mitel Networks Corp. have signed an agreement to create a solution that will allow companies to use call control software as it meets their needs. Mitel provides unifying IP communications solutions and applications. The solution will allow different versions of the same software to run on a mulit-tenant PBX.
Sun achieved a position as a Leader in the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Infrastructure for Back-End Application Integration Projects, 2Q07.
When Allied Irish Bank experienced increased need for access to data, they moved one of their data centers and upgraded to Sun StorageTek products. The bank moved its tape backup infrastructure to a new building within the time frame and budget allocated for the project.
Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, talked with Joab Jackson of GNC.com about Sun's three-chip strategy, the benefits of using the right server for the right job and of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
See a video of Project Blackbox's shipping container getting shaken in a earthquake testing center. The box's tour continues, visiting as many cities as a rock band, and is currently in Europe. See photos online.
Jim Grisanzio reports on some of the highlights from the OpenSolaris Community as it reaches its second birthday. The mailing list has grown, website registrations are up, contributions continue and much more has been happening. See the overview and stats on the blog.
Sun is offering a plug-in for Microsoft Office that allows users of Microsoft Office 2000/XP/2003 to read, edit and save to the OpenDocument Format (ODF). The add-on (extension) is called the Sun ODF Plug-in for Microsoft Office. The plug-in allows users the ability to seamlessly convert Microsoft Office documents to and from ODF.
Sun's Dmitry Mikhailichenko introduces Sun Studio 12 C compiler's C-language extensions: "typeof" keyword, statement expressions and block-scope label names in a recent Sun Developer Network article, which also demonstrates using the new C compiler features for creating generic macros on example of linked-list manipulation-routines.
The Sun Fire x4600 server reached a benchmark in the Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark test that showed fast processing speeds of 359,000 messages per second. The test ran Wombat Financial software on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) 11/06.
Two integration tool downloads are available from the Sun Download Center: Sun Servers Integration 1.0 for BMC PATROL Enterprise Manager and Sun Fire Servers Integration 2.0 for CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management.
Documentation for the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System includes a Site Planning Guide, Getting Started Guide, Installation Guide, Service Manual, Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Administration Guide, Safety and Compliance Manual and product notes.
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 112 Issue 2, were:
The new SunSpectrum Enterprise Service Plan for enterprise customers provides one support contract for all Sun hardware and software at a single, low price. The goal is to simplify management for the customer. Customers also have the option of support for hardware from other vendors.
The new Sun Connection Inventory Channel is a free service for Sun customers to organize, group and report on inventories online. Multiple libraries can be managed online or exported in XML format to third-party products.
Jonathan Bennett of ZDNet UK lists a quick Q&A of what is new in GNU General Public License 3 (GPLv3) and why it is being changed from version 2. The debate on GPLv3 also includes Jonathan Schwartz and Linus Torvalds.
OpenSPARC T1 1.4 final release is available now to download free in two pieces. The first is the chip source code for the hardware engineering community with experience in chip design and verification. The second is the architectural tools and software for software engineers and architects.
GlassFish v3 was presented at the JavaOne 2007 Conference and drew quite a bit of interest. Its architecture is modular by default, its kernel is extremely small and its startup time is under a second. Get the preview release to test and experiment with.
The newly approved OASIS standard Digital Signature Services (DSS) version 1.0 allows documents to be efficiently and effectively secured without complex client software and configuration. Approved this past April by OASIS members, DSS defines an XML interface to process digital signatures for web services and other applications.
NetBeans IDE Milestone 9 (M9) has so many new features of NetBeans 6.0 that it is being promoted as the NetBeans 6 Preview release. Improvements include a smarter and faster editor, an improved Highlights feature, Ruby on Rails support and simplified installation.
Learn more about the Community feature of the Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Update 1 and its latest capabilities - flexible access control and community management - in a Sun Developer Network article by Jeff Blattman, who explains the simplicity of creating a community service, how to add it to a community template and the importance of collaborative services.
Performance Analyzer lead engineer, Marty Itzkowitz, for Sun Studio software demonstrates the basics of application performance analysis, Java profiling and hardware counter profiling using Sun Studio 12 tools in three new demos
If you want to be a more proficient user of shell scripting, pick up O'Reilly's "bash Cookbook" that offers recipes and tricks along with examples that explain how to create better, more automated scripts.
A recent Sun blog titled "The Foundations of Solaris Realtime" posted by James Litchfield of Sun goes back into the past to highlight the real-time capabilities of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and what enhancements have been made that have added functionality to make its "time-critical processing capabilities more compelling".
Did you know that John Weeks with Sun has created an application using Java for Solaris Trusted Extensions that implements "tearlines" which allow a single document to reveal differing types of information to users depending on their classification within a system?
If you ever wanted to know more about Windchill on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), then see Jeff Taylor's Sun Weblog where he answers frequently asked questions about hardware configuration, Solaris kernel settings for Windchill, patch levels, SAR, monitoring CPU activity, processors, run queue, disk activity and more.
Phoronix tested the Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool 1.2 and found it "is a quick and very easy way to figure out if your hardware stands a chance with Solaris". Version 1.2 loads the Solaris 10 11/06 kernel instead of the Solaris 10 6/06 kernel and has an updated driver database.
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