Sun is taking its commitment to the environment seriously by making its own data centers energy efficient. Three, new centers in the US, the UK and India take advantage of Sun's eco-friendly servers to reduce energy costs and the impact on the environment; see article [18533].
To help their customers achieve the same goals, Sun is offering three new Eco Ready Kits (see [18532]) that can help customers assess their data center energy efficiency and optimize or refresh their hardware.
Sun's "green" technologies will be showcased at the GITEX technology event in Dubai. Students in Indian universities can enter a new open source contest (see 18531]). Open source continues to make headway in Malaysia, with the government creating a new planning unit just for promoting open source adoption [18506].
In open source tech tips this week, we have a Glassfish technical article from Carol McDonald [18503]. Educators can find updated curriculum guides for the OpenSolaris project [18528]. There is also a security tool for OpenSolaris now available [18500].
For those who need more details on the Solaris OS support on IBM BladeCenter, see a white paper in article [18519].
Receive discounts of up to 15 percent toward the purchase of a new Sun SPARC Enterprise server when you trade-in a legacy Sun or qualified competitive system with the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP).
Evaluate VMware VI3 and Solaris 10 Appliance for VMware risk free on the Enterprise Class Sun Fire X64 system of your choice: A Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, Sun Fire X4100 or a Sun Fire X4200 M2 server.
The Sun Labs team has been working on solving a problem that developers face when trying to create applications that take full advantage of the chip multiprocessing (CMP) technologies on processors such as the Sun Rock chip. The answer is "transactional memory."
To help customers save energy and improve data center efficiency, Sun is introducing three Sun Eco Ready Kits. The kits include assessments, services and offers to help customers achieve eco efficiency and cost savings.
Sun Microsystems will change its Nasdaq stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA on Monday, August 27, 2007. Sun expects to derive a business advantage from the exposure Java technology already has and the change in ticker symbol more effectively connects the company with the marketplace.
Synchronica, a mobile synchronization and device management company, has signed a contract with Sun Microsystems to license key components of the Synchronica Mobile Gateway for integration with products from its Communications and Applications software divisions.
Sun plans to invest $100 million in the new Partner Growth Fund in the fiscal year as "demo dollars" for executive-level and principle-level partners in the Sun Partner Advantage Program. Money invested by Sun in the first quarter will enable partners to gain demo products before their demo dollars begin.
In August 2007, version 2.2 of the documentation for OpenSolaris curriculum guides were released. These guides are in English, with translations in Italian, German and Polish on the way. Updates include new content about networking, advocacy, consolidations, user groups, and more.
System administrators can help verify the integrity of Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) files on their systems with two tools from the OpenSolaris Security Community: Solaris Fingerprint Database Tools and Solaris Fingerprint Database Sidekick.
Sun opened three new data centers that were designed to be energy efficient. One is in Santa Clara, CA; one in the United Kingdom in Blackwater; and one is Bangalore, India.
Australian Finance Group (AFG), Australia's largest mortgage broker, was looking to consolidate its server hardware onto fewer systems with the power to increase application performance, scale with growth and lower operating expenses. Three Sun Fire T2000 servers coupled with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) helped provide the optimal solution.
Recent Sun news from the Middle East and India illustrate how Sun is growing and encouraging new developers to learn open source. Sun will present its energy efficient technology at the GITEX Technology Week 2007 in Dubai. A new contest for student developers at Indian universities features laptops and iPods for prizes.
Get Sun's multithreading ASIC with enhanced packet filtering and classification with the Sun Quad GbE UTP x8 PCIe ExpressModule for Sun Blade servers. This module is based on Sun's multithreading Neptune chip using x8 PCI-e bus. This performance enhanced module also offers hardware check sum off load, virtualization, multiple DMAs and more.
The Sun Type 7 Keyboard is a full-size keyboard with short-cut keys for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). It is tested for compatibility with Sun workstation and Sun Ray thin clients.
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 3, were:
IBM To Distribute the Solaris Operating System [18517]
Logical Domains: Create 64 with New UltraSPARC T2 Processor [18479]
StarOffice Software Added to the Google Pack [18505]
Using PAM for Authentication on Solaris OS [18475]
Solaris Subscriptions offer individual-system or enterprise-wide support for Solaris on Sun and non-Sun SPARC and x64/x86 systems, including certain IBM systems as recently announced.
Since the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) will now be supported on certain IBM systems, this white paper will be useful for those installing the Solaris OS on supported BladeCenter servers. Topics include Fibre Channel, Solaris Containers, DTrace, IBM Director, and more.
Two of the recent contributions by Sun to the OpenSolaris project of open source storage-related software code are Object-Based Storage Device (OSD) and Fibre Channel support. Developers can use this code to create storage solutions for less money.
Derby version 10.3.1.4 is now available. It has improvements to security, SQL, Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC), performance and memory usage, administration and platform and testing.
The recent Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) World survey of Malaysia and an IDC report indicate that adoption of Open Source Software is increasing in Malaysia. ZDnetasia.com talked with Ditesh Kumar, OSS developer evangelist for Malaysia's Free and Open Source (FOSS) Foundation, and C.P. Loo, country sales director, Sun Microsystems Malaysia, about Open Source Software use.
Ed Ort et al. provide an example of a client-side mashup, one in which the service or content integration takes place in the client -- typically a web browser. "There are good reasons for using either the client-side style or the server-side style in developing a mashup," the authors say. There is a table comparing pros and cons to help assess what type is best for your situation.
Learn how to apply web service security to Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) applications with Sun Java System Access Manager in a three-part tutorial on the Sun Developer Network.
Carol McDonald presents a Sample Store Catalog application that she refactored to use Seam on Glassfish. The application demonstrates the usage of JavaServer Faces (JSF), a Catalog Stateful Session Bean, the Java Persistence APIs, and Seam to implement pagination of data sets.
Todd Jobson of Sun presents an article on his blog called "System Profiling 101: Getting started using sys_diag v.7.04". This method will provide a high level summary of resource utilization and bottleneck identification of a system during a certain period of data collection.
Want to learn how to use JumpStart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) to speed up the installation of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and to push a pre-built Flash Archive? See a recent Sun blog for details.
Sun blogger Martin Englund opines that ZFS is "the perfect file system to store audit trails." He explains why and how to use ZFS to compress files in his August 8th blog.
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