The latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker shows Sun maintaining its lead in the UNIX market (see article [18551]). A new server benchmark for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server with the UltraSPARC T1 resulted in a high performance result [18560].
The UltraSPARC T2 processor's Crypto Accelerator is discussed in article [18539]. Also in the Security section are Sun Alerts for Solaris OS [18541][18538] and the JRE [18552].
Details on the Sun SPARC M5000 Server have been added to the Sun Configuration Diagram Templates [18559].
Learn more about Sun server virtualization technologies of Solaris Containers and Logical Domains from a recent Sun BluePrints document [18520].
If you have been wondering what the Amazon S3 Storage Utility Service costs, take a look at article [18527] where Paul Monday provides an example of the planning process he went through when considering using the storage utility or building his own.
Get trade-in discounts of 25 percent when you trade in existing Sun Fire enterprise class systems and upgrade to UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8GHz Uniboards. Get performance increases that are five times better.
Upgrade to the new Sun StorageTek LTO4 tape drive and save 15 percent. Sun StorageTek LTO drives are designed for midrange tape automation environments. This offer is good through February 7, 2008.
The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker for Q2CY07 states that server shipments have grown by 6.1 percent year over year in 2Q07, with Sun maintaining its lead in the UNIX market.
The recent "Good News from Sun" report states Sun beat Wall Street's estimates by delivering 8% profit for the 4th quarter, and the report lists success stories and other recent wins.
The next release of OpenSolaris Project Indiana will be the topic of conversation at the first OpenSolaris Developer Summit. The summit will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) October 13th (Saturday) and 14th (Sunday). Ian Murdock will give the keynote address.
The first meeting of the Melbourne Solaris and OpenSolaris Users Group will be held September 12th, 2007. The meeting will focus on getting the group started by discussing what people are most interested in such as the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), OpenSolaris and closely related technologies.
Rabobank desired to reduce time spent on maintenance and improve performance in their IT department and Sun Microsystems made it happen. By working side by side, this team was able to reduce infrastructure service maintenance by 33 percent and boost data center availability to 100 percent.
In a recent interview with Mercurynews.com Dave Douglas, Sun's vice president of Eco-Responsibility, talked about how Sun is cutting costs and saving energy, from small initiatives to large ones.
Version 6.0 of the N1 Service Provisioning System (SPS) is the latest edition of the software that offers an SPS Modeler, improved usability, UI enhancements, upgrades and more. Additionally, Sun Software Support is available for the Master Server and
Remote Agent components of N1 SPS 6.0.
Since Sun and IBM announced their joint agreement to have the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) supported on IBM System x servers ([18517]), many people have questions. A new FAQ list posted on the Solaris OS site answers: "Why would Sun want to do a deal with a direct competitor to its hardware business?"
Sun Connection Update Manager, which notifies users of the latest updates like patches and features, is now available for versions 8 and 9 of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), and will continue to be an option on the Solaris 10 OS. Download is free from the Sun website.
The latest update to the Sun Configuration Diagram Templates includes the Sun SPARC M5000 server (updated August 2007). The diagrams are in StarOffice software presentation format, so you can simply cut and paste to document a configuration.
The BM Seer blog reports that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server "is the performance leader in Two-Tier SAP-SD Standard Application Benchmarks on single processor systems as of August 22nd, 2007."
Paul Monday provides an example of the planning process he went through when considering using a storage utility or building his own. He selected the ZFS file system and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for a storage utility.
Version 5.7 of the Sun StorageTek HiCommand Global Link Availability Manager (GLAM) includes new features such as enhancements to usability, IO Count and IO Error Display, Host Tree Path Status Icons and network scan with scheduling feature. Also new is version 5.9 of Sun StorageTek Dynamic Link Manager (SDLM) Advanced for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), Windows, AIX, HP-UX and Linux.
New 300GB 15K Drives for the Sun StorageTek 9990, 9985 and 9990V systems provide high-speed retrieval for archives. These drives can be optimized with the storage system for high performance at a higher capacity for applications that require high performance and reliable high availability.
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 4, were:
logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last 4 issues.
Top Ten Articles for Vol 114 Issue 4
Transactional Memory in Sun's "Rock" processor [18516]
The Art of System Profiling -- Using the sys_diag v.7.04 Solaris Utility [18525]
Sun Type 7 Keyboard - Guide to Special Keys [18510]
To simplify the problem of accessing valuable information from many applications across a large organization, Sun has made a new reference architecture, the Sun Data Warehouse Reference Architecture for Structured and Unstructured Data.
If your company or organization depends on Web-based applications for a business advantage, then see what the new approach from Sun called "Sun Dynamic Infrastructure Solution for Web Services" has to offer.
Find out how to internationalize, localize and deploy portlets using the Sun Java System Portal Server in a recent Sun Developer Network article that explains how to display portlet content in different languages and add new language support to existing portlets.
If you ever wondered how watchpoints in the Sun Studio dbx debugger actually work, then you should see Nasser Nouri's recent article that attempts to demystify this debugging feature. This article also shows how you can trace internal steps of the Solaris kernel by using the DTrace facility and a simple D script.
Sun Developer Network (SDN) Channel TV's Kuldip Oberoi interviewed Sun's Linux Strategist, Barton George, regarding Sun's substantial contributions to the Linux OS. Watch the 12-minute video on SDN TV, where they discuss Ubuntu 7.04, Sun's Java Stack and more.
Solaris Containers and Logical Domains are the focus of a Sun BluePrints article that outlines the benefits in implementing these server virtualization technologies within an IT environment.
The August 16, 2007, blog by Alexandre Chartre explains how to "split PCI with LDoms". Chartre uses a Sun Fire T2000 server as an example to show how to create a maximum of two I/O domains.
Jenny Chen outlines how to set up a two-node cluster of Sun Cluster 3.2 Data Service for MySQL. Steps cover installation and configuration. There are illustrations and code.
A recent Sun blog helps clarify Solaris networking abstractions and how they relate within and across layers through the use of an illustration and brief explanation of two common Sun networking cards - ce and qfe.
A local unprivileged user could cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition due to security vulnerabilities in the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), specifically certain ioctl(2) functions in the ata(7D) disk driver.
The single, integrated cryptographic unit of the UltraSPARC T2 processor provides the advantage of lower cost because a separate cryptographic processor is not needed and there is no high-performance penalty previously associated with secure operation. Learn more about the processor and its crypto accelerator.
A remote user who knows the passwords for certain roles could gain unauthorized access to a system due to two security vulnerabilities in the Solaris 8 Role Based Access Control (RBAC) mechanism. These vulnerabilities are on hosts with RBAC (5) roles. A workaround is online.
According to SunSolve, "a vulnerability in the font parsing code in the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) may allow an untrusted applet to elevate its privileges." See the SunSolve site for links to the releases not affected.
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