Volume 115, Issue 1 - Preview Sun Quad-Core Intel server; Sun Leads in User Provisioning; OpenSolaris News; SPARC Enterprise Servers Praised - System News
Look for a new system soon from Sun featuring the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300. The system was demo'd this week (see News article [18608]). Another award illustrates the quality of Sun products -- Gartner has named Sun in the Leaders Quadrant of their Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning (see [18603]).
Learn about recent changes in OpenSolaris with Tim Foster's podcast [18583]
and how project Indiana [18604] will attract Linux users to Solaris.
To keep prices competitive, Sun has re-priced the Netra X4200 2 server [18592]. For more savings act before the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server promotion expires September 30 -- (see [18609]).
The Sun SPARC Enterprise servers have garnered praise from the Gabriel Consulting Group (see [18530].
For sys admins this week, we have tech tips on the Solaris OS [18588] and DTrace [18600].
A new promotion from Sun saves you 20 percent on a new Qlogic switch when you trade in a switch from a competitor. Eligible switches include HP StorageWorks SAN Switches and SAN Director switches, IBM SANs, EMC Connectrix, Brocade/McData and Cisco. See the list online for specific details.
An extended Sun promotion gives 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. Act before September 30, 2007.
Sun demonstrated a new system: a four-socket, 2U quad-core system that runs on the newly introduced Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 7300. In Intel-related news, Intel also announced that it will support the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Intel Xeon processor-based servers.
The 2H07 update to the User Provisioning Magic Quadrant from Gartner, Inc. placed Sun Microsystems in the leaders quadrant in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning. The Sun products that enable user provisioning include the Sun Java System Identity Management Suite.
Interested in the latest happenings on OpenSolaris? Then visit Tim Foster's August 30th blog that offers OpenSolaris news from this past July and August via a direct link to his mp3 or notes and links. Foster also has posted a podcast covering the Irish OpenSolaris User Group's last meeting.
Sun is trying to increase adoption of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and OpenSolaris with Project Indiana as well as attract more developers. Hopes are that with more developers using it, then they will not develop other distributions.
When auto insurance provider Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) found challenges in supporting information to their 11,000 employees, brokers and agents, they turned to Sun and the Sun Java System Identity Manager for its increased functionality and lower TCO.
Sun has announced their first update to its Sun Java System, the new Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.1. This high-performance directory server includes proxy, virtual directory and data distribution. In 6.1, there is a new database compaction that lets customers recover unused disk space.
A new course is being offered by Gabriel Magarino, and it is hosted on the JavaPassion.com site of Sang Shin. The first class will be on September 17, 2007, and will provide an overview of the Sun Java System Identity Manager, installation and interfaces and objects.
Drew Robb with ServerWatch has written a summary of Sun's new M-Class servers, the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System and its CoolThreads models, highlighting their features and benefits.
The fastest blade servers on the market are the Sun Blade X8440 server module, says Sun. The modules come with up to four AMD Opteron dual core 8222 CPUs (upgradable to quad core), up to 128GB DDR2-667 memory and offer four-socket dual core 3.0GHz (95w) CPUs with 32 DIMM slots.
The Sun Fire x64 Servers Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is now available for download from the Sun Download Center. The pack provides the tools and utilities needed to completely integrate Sun Fire x64 servers into the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 environment.
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 5, were:
NetBeans.tv has been launched: You can add your own content to the site and connect the people, projects and technologies around NetBeans. Find interviews, projects and more. A contest will run through September 30, 2007, with prizes such as a mobile phone and a chance to meet James Gosling.
Robert Eckstein presents a simple introduction to client-server programming using JavaFX Script technology and the Java platform's Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) libraries in the second of his three articles focusing on JavaFX Script.
Tools that allow a server-side paradigm to build Ajax applications are fine in some scenarios; however, using some of these can lead to interoperability challenges. Marina Fisher and Gerald Beuchelt examine these interoperability issues and offer solutions in an SDN article.
Chet Haase and Romain Guy's new book, "Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications" covers how to write high-performing GUI applications, elements of Swing and Java 2D and more to help developers write "applications that are so graphically rich that they ooze cool."
Demonstrating Solaris 10 Trusted Extensions (TX) with pre-built VMWare images is the thrust of a blog by Dave Walker, who explains the initiative known as TX Ranger and offers code on automating a build of TX on Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System (Solaris OS) in a related posting.
There are two ways to use the Solaris DTrace Utility with Open MPI applications, and Karen Norteman explains just that in a technical article hosted on the Sun Developer Network site. Additionally, Alvaro Lopez Ortega's blog offers a link to a video on DTrace that shows you "how to see software without making it slower."
We've pulled together a few blogs from Sun bloggers about the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). The first is on SAMBA and SWAT in Solaris 10 8/07 OS, the second is from the storage team that works with the Solaris OS and the third is a brief tip on how to isolate applications using Solaris 10 Containers.
Registering your products with the Sun Connection Inventory Channel can help you manage and organize your assets while being kept up-to-date on the latest product information. Tim Smith explains the registration procedure and how to use the Sun Connection Inventory Channel to coordinate your assets for maximum benefit in two Big Admin Sun Docs.
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