This week, learn more about LDOMs [18376], improving security with Containers [18387] and Migrating to Solaris 10 OS [18401]
Intel is now offering two carrier grade rack mount servers certified to run the Solaris 10 Operating System [18403].
If you are the admin for a Website that uses SSL or TLS, there is a service pack for the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 (SP8) that contains important security enhancements and bug fixes (see article number [18405].
Benchmark results featured this week highlight the performance of the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 [ 18388]; the Sun Blade T6300 server module on a J2EE mulit-tier benchmark [18402]; and the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server [18390].
Get new hardware and storage software: A new 24.1 inch LCD monitor [18409]; power supply upgrade for Sun Fire servers [18414]; Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC Dual Port ExpressModule HBAs [18410]; Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Protection Manager 4.4 Software packaged for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server [18406]; and Sun StorageTek 9900 Series HiCommand Device Manager 5.7 [18408].
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.
Purchase a Sun Software Service Plan by September 30, 2007, and receive Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 from Symantec free. This limited time offer allows users to upgrade from any version of Veritas File System or Veritas Volume Manager when buying a one- or three -year Sun Software Service Plan.
Two carrier grade rack mount servers from Intel have been certified to run the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) - the TIGW1U and MCPBL0050. This announcement is a result of the January 2007 Sun-Intel broad strategic alliance that centered on Intel's endorsement of the Solaris OS.
The Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) received the SWIFTReady Gold Label for Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) for the ninth year in a row. SWIFT is an industry-owned co-operative. The 2007 Gold Certification recognizes Sun's strengths in financial service solutions.
The highest ever SPECjAppServer score by any application server running on a single Sun appserver machine was achieved by a Sun Fire T2000 equipped with one UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.4 GHz running the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1.
New documentation for the Sun Java Communications Suite 5 Evaluation Guide is now available online. The Sun Java Communications Suite delivers industry-leading email, calendaring and real-time collaboration functionality for service providers and large organizations worldwide.
Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Service Pack 8 with critical bug fixes and security enhancements is now available for download. Users are strongly encouraged to install this service pack, especially those with sites that use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS).
The Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCIe Express Module for Sun Blade servers is designed for high performance data center applications requiring large throughput. It is fully compliant with IEEE standards and offers Dual 10 GE port PCI Express 1.1 compliance, Fiber XFP MSA compliance, among others.
Sun is introducing a new 24.1-inch, 4th generation LCD monitor to replace the current 24.1-inch LCD monitor. The new monitor offers ultra-fast, motion-enhanced, HD+ 24.1-inch LCD monitor; a resolution of 1920x1200, 2.3 million pixels; and S-PVA technology for an extreme wide viewing angle and smooth motion performance.
There are new rail and rackmount kits available for Sun Fire servers. A new Express Rail Kit is available for Sun Fire X4100 server (and M2), Sun Fire X4200 (and M2), Sun Fire X2100 M2 and Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers that can be installed without tools. There is also two-post rackmount kit for the Sun Fire V445 server.
The last order date (LOD) of two configurations of Sun Rack cabinets has been extended. The Sun Rack 1000-38 with front door and PDS installed and the Sun Rack 1000-42 with PDS installed can now be ordered through November 20, 2007.
A 950 Watt power supply is now available as a 4 x 950W X-option kit for the Sun Fire X4600 and Sun Fire X4600 M2 servers. This power supply upgrade offers high power output to support 2+2 redundancy for a system with fully populated 8-processor and 64-DIMM configurations.
Sun Fire X4500 Video Surveillance Solution is a single, integrated system based on the Sun Fire x4500 data server that comes with 24TB of onboard storage, ipConfigure software and a wide range of digital cameras from Axis Communications.
In a Linpack benchmark, the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server outperformed IBM's new 4.7GHz POWER6 based p570 by more than 12 percent, reports BM Seer in a recent blog. Sun also beat the HP Itanium 2 rx8640 system by 40 percent on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
BM Seer reports that a world record has been set by 10 Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules with a result of 8253.21 on the SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. The Sun Blade performance using 10 UltraSPARC T1 chips was 8% better than HP's best result of 7629.45 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard that used 6 rx6600 servers with a total of 24 Itanium2 chips.
Solaris Zones goes beyond what other server virtualization technologies can offer and Jeff Victor shows how in his July 12th blog that covers a new method of securing an NTP client and how to limit the abilities of processes in a zone to only ones that provide a single function for the system.
Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Protection Manager 4.4 now supports Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Edition (Service Pack 1) and MS Windows 2003 R2, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 1 and Veritas Storage Foundation 4.3 Maintenance Pack 1.
Version 5.7 of the Sun StorageTek 9900 Series HiCommand Device Manager software for the Sun StorageTek 9910, 9960, 9970, 9980, 9985, 9990 systems has new features such as GUI improvements, CLI usability, SMI-S enhancements and additional platform support.
Sun has two storage related announcements: there are new ExpressModule 4Gb FC HBAs for high performance connectivity needs and the Sun StorageTek T10000 2 Gb drives are being transitioned for 4 Gb drives.
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 113 Issue 3, were:
Disk Allocation: What Space Are You Really Using? [18355]
Sun Net Talk On Demand: Sun Delivers Microsoft Interoperability Year 3 [18356]
Deploying SAP Systems with Solaris 10 OS Zones [18382]
Cluster File Systems (CFS) To Integrate Lustre with OpenSolaris ZFS [18370]
Tunables for the Sun StorEdge SAN Foundation Suite [18337]
Oracle Certifies RAC 9i/10gR1/10gR2 64-bit on Solaris 9 and 10 OS SPARC [18374]
Sun Software Quarterly News Spring 2007 Highlights Recent Wins [18361]
Project Blackbox Has Its First Customer - Stanford University [18359]
SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Power Calculator [18375]
Project D-Light: New Sun Studio Express Plug-In [18357]
Sun tech evangelist and engineer John O'Conner posted a tech tip that shows you how to create reusable libraries and small application frameworks to make it easier to manage commonly used services for Swing applications.
Sun Studio C, C++, and Fortran compilers provide user-friendly performance tags and allows for inline assembly code to help developers maximize performance from C, C++, and Fortran programs. A Sun Developer Network article demonstrates each of these features, comparing their benefits and differences.
Learn about migrating enterprise and web tier customers to the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) in a recent Sun podcast, and read more about security features in Solaris OS as compared to Red Hat and why switching from Red Hat to the Solaris OS is a better option.
If you're not sure how to set up a Sun Fire T2000 server with Sun's Logical Domains (LDOMS), then see Brad Beadles' July 12th Weblog that covers the essentials - from loading the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to creating and jumpstarting the guest domain.
If you ever tried to find information on scp/rcp protocols, you may have found documentation a bit scarce, or so did Jan Pechanec. In a July 9th Weblog, Pechanec details information gathered on these two protocols and describes how to use them.
The first tech tip focuses on improving cache performance of Sun Connection's satellite deployment architecture, while the second explains how to improve Sun Connection version 1.1's performance by disabling database dumps.
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