Sun's Microelectronics division will begin selling the new UltraSPARC T2 processor, enabling Sun to compete in this market. Get the technical details in article [18461]. There is a new beta program also [18466].
Also new this week is a lower cost virtual tape library, the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value system with 24 TB of raw capacity [18472]. It is built on the Sun Fire X4500 server, which is discussed in a Sun Expert Exchange [18465].
One way to try these products and others from Sun is to check out the Sun Try & Buy program [18452]. Another promotion offers a Sun Blade Starter Kit at 25 percent off [18456], and Sun has expanded its Startup Essentials program to India and China, to allow new businesses that qualify to get discounts on Sun technology (see article [18472]).
Scott McNealy was recently in India, talking with customers; see article [18450] to learn more on his keynotes there and in Japan.
Since Sun introduced JavaFX a few months ago, a new compiler has been released [18448], there are more resources online such as a podcast [18444] and a tech tip [18442].
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.
The Try & Buy Program from Sun gives you a chance to test a new Sun product for 60 days at no cost to you. If you choose not to keep the server, you can return it at no cost also. Many servers are available to try out, including the Sun Fire X4600 M2 Server and Sun Fire X2200 M2 server.
The UltraSPARC T2 chip from Sun (code-named Niagara 2) is being unveiled and will be in the Sun Blade T6300 server module, 1U and 2U servers later in 2007.
Members of the OpenSPARC.net community can have access to the source code of the OpenSPARC T2 prior to public release. The beta program is designed to increase the speed of the debugging process so as to have a better first release of the technology.
The UltraSPARC T2 processor will be available for sale separate from Sun systems, launching Sun into the commodity market for processors. "Our microelectronics team is free to sell to our competition," Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz states. Get his view and David Yen's, the EVP of the Sun Microelectronics division.
Start ups in India and China will now be able to get discounts on Sun technology, hardware, software and services as the Sun Startup Essentials program expands. Discounted Web hosting is also available.
The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Value ("VTL Value") System is built with the Sun Fire X4500 server and designed for small and medium sized businesses. It uses one server node with 24 TB of disk-based capacity, simplifying management.
A new license compatibility kit is available for the OpenJDK community. Members of the Java GPL software community can use the kit to test their open-source Java implementation to see if it complies with the Java SE 6 specification.
The Sun Podcast Network features a series of mini presentations called the McNealy Minute. As he travels the globe, he talks with customers and partners about how open source lowers the barrier to entry for people to start new businesses online and about ending the digital divide.
The Las Vegas Valley Water District has deployed Sun servers and storage technology and estimates a 40-50 percent improvement in server price-performance and 30 percent reduction in power and cooling requirements for its VMware environment.
Sun executives Ian Murdock, chief operating platforms officer, and Marc Hamilton, vice president of Solaris Marketing, recently spoke to The Unix Guardian about the future of operating systems and, in particular, the Solaris Operating System (Solais OS).
The Netra CP3010 UltraSPARC ATCA Blade is energy efficient and flexible to accommodate expanding telecom needs. "Eight out of 10 of the world’s largest telecom carriers use Sun solutions, supporting over 500 million subscribers, and over 90 percent of the world’s NEPs use carrier-grade Sun Netra servers," according to a Sun white paper. This article covers the ATCA standard and how Sun meets that standard with its Netra line of products, specifically the Netra CP3010 UltraSPARC ATCA Blade, one of the products that is contributing to Sun's rebound.
What are the future plans for the Sun Fire X4500 data server, and what capabilities does it serve in the Sun Fire X4500 Video Surveillance Solution? These questions and more are answered in the June 2007 Expert Exchange on the "Data Dynamo: Sun Fire X4500 — The World's First Server/Storage Hybrid."
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 114 Issue 1, were:
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 114 Issue 2, were:
The Java Enterprise System Health Check Service will assess the status of your environment in relation to the Java Enterprise System, whether it is currently deployed or being proposed as a solution. This fixed-priced service is a one-week, high-level review of a customer's environment by an architect or senior technical specialist.
The Sunspectrum Enterprise Service Plan impressed Joe Fay with the ChannelRegister.com, who noted that "it is so all-encompassing, that it will even support customers who like Solaris but, for some strange reason, run it on Intel and AMD powered kit as well as Sun’s own boxes."
OpenProj, a complete open source desktop project management solution, is now being beta tested in over 50 customer sites. The solution is available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It enables distributed project teams to access the same documents and to collaborate on projects.
What's the state of the OpenJDK project since it started? Ray Gans, a manager at Sun, says the OpenJDK project is going well. It has been less than a year since it started, and Gans says the parts that are working well are the "interim governance policy" and more.
A recent edition of SDN Channel TV features Chet Haase who has been working on Java desktop technologies. He talks with Ed Ort of Java.sun.com about creating graphics and animations with Java 2D and Swing.
Software developers have a new tool available for detecting programming errors related to the allocation and use of program memory at runtime on SPARC systems: the Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool (also called the Discover). It can be used with Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools or the GCC for SPARC Systems compiler.
A compiler for the JavaFX Script language and a plug-in for building JavaFX applications in the NetBeans IDE have been released by Sun. The complier is designed to make high performance applications run faster.
Get started learning the JavaFX programming language in part one of Robert Eckstein's three part series that introduces this declarative, statically-typed scripting language from Sun. Eckstein explains everything from what static typing is to explaining the difference between declarative and imperative programming languages. The basics of JavaFX technology also are covered.
International calls have just been made simpler and less expensive with Globe Dialer - a free, Java technology-based software that acts like a phonebook storing international telephone numbers. Users simply click on the contact to call and the software routes the call through Globe Dialer's network, avoiding carriers' international calling charges.
Sit in on a chat between Sun CTO Bob Brewin and Innovating@Sun host Hal Stern as they discuss the capabilities of JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script, and how JavaFX Script moves us further along the path of "write once, run anywhere."
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