Sun and Microsoft make the news again, this time with they have expanded their alliance: Sun will sell Windows Server on its x64 hardware and will provide additional utilities and value-added software offerings to server systems carrying Windows Server. Read more in article [18624].
Another big announcement this week details update 4 of the Solaris OS -- Solaris 10 8/07. It has more mature Solaris Containers technology and more. See the details in [18625].
Sun has announced that it will buy CFS, the company which makes the Lustre file system [18623]. Product announcements include the X8840 [18621] Sun Blade 8000 blade and the 9985V [18620] addition to Sun's storage virtualization portfolio.
There is a new software from Sun this week: Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Sun VDI) Software. It provides a highly-secure platform for accessing virtualized Microsoft Windows desktop environments from a wide variety of client devices when installed on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). See [18622].
Have you ever worked in a 3D environment online? See what Sun Labs is cooking up with the MPK20 project [18617].
Sun is offering a promotional reprice of the Sun Blade 6000 and 8000 Modular Systems in its starter kits. Choose from six starter kits marked with savings up to 25 percent off the list price of comparable configurations. Experience industry-leading performance and a longer life cycle at competitive prices
Earn your certification through Sun eLearning Certification Success Packages and receive a free gift -- a Swiss Army Field Watch or a Solio Universal Hybrid Charger. Training is available for system administrators and developers.
The newest update to the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) makes it easier for new customers to migrate to the Solaris OS, while enabling existing customers to reap the power of Sun's continuing investment in innovations for Solaris without disrupting operations. The new version is Solaris 10 8/07.
Sun and Microsoft will work together to make Windows Server deploy easily on Sun x64 systems. Sun will become an OEM for Windows Server. Microsoft and Sun will also work together to test and validate the Windows platform on Sun x64 systems and storage. Microsoft and Sun will also build an Interoperability Center on Microsoft's Redmond campus.
With datacenter-class functionality, embedded heterogeneous virtualization, and dynamic provisioning, the StorageTek 9985V improves storage management, efficiency, and availability while reducing costs.
Sun's introduction of the Sun Blade X8440 Server Module is as "the world's first blade server designed for Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors." This blade module comes 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.
Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. The deal is expected to be completed by October 1, 2007.
Sun recently announced its new Eco Innovation Initiative to help customers improve economic and environmental efficiency. The site offers links to new Eco solutions, Eco tools and other products and services such as Sun Eco Ready Kits.
MPK20 is Sun's virtual office that offers half of Sun employees who work remotely a virtual 3D environment to work, share documents and meet with colleagues using natural voice communication. Find out how this virtual 3D environment actually works in providing Sun employees a real-world work environment.
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Sun VDI) Software offers users a highly-secure platform for accessing virtualized Microsoft Windows desktop environments from a wide variety of client devices. It can be installed on Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Linux operating systems.
Martin MC Brown reviewed StarOffice WebLog Publisher on Computerworld’s Blogs and listed pros and cons, according to his experience. An add-in to the StarOffice 8 productivity suite, WebLog Publisher enables users to post web blog items directly from Writer.
Keeping up on what's new in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) can be a big job, so we are featuring "What's new in the Solaris 10 8/07 Release". This is from the docs.sun.com site and presents need-to-know information on this release that summarizes new features in this current release.
Sun Distinguished Engineer Brian Wong believes semantics is the answer to many of today's and tomorrow's storage issues. With high semantic storage, a storage system will not only be able to hold data, but will actually help system administrators by understanding the data that it is storing and share that data across platforms. Wong explains in an interview with Al Riske.
Unmanaged files can be brought under control with Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution (C2MS) File System Archiving, a single-software, end-to-end solution powered by AXS-One Software.
Learn how to use the NAS Anti-Virus Agent (NAS AVA) - a standard part of the Sun StorageTek 5000 NAS Appliance's operating system - and manage its capabilities within your environment in a Sun Docs article by Tim Thomas.
Five new downloads for the Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (EBS), Release 7.4 or later are now available for free from Sun. They include EBS 7.4 Modules for NME-5.1, NMSQL-5.1, Networker Module for Sybase, Networker Module for Informix and Networker Module SAP.
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 115 Issue 1, were:
Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7300 Series Platform Previewed [18608]
What are the underlying dynamics that drive open source? Janice J. Heiss explores the answer to this question in a recent article that reflects on Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps' presentation "Liberating Java; Free and Open Opportunity for the Future."
Documentation for chipsets is being added to a new Sun wiki site. The Sun Microelectronics division has been adding older documentation so members of the OpenBSD and FreeBSD communities can include support for features. The site is the FOSS Open Hardware Documentation page.
NetBeans IDE users now have a way to develop rich Ajax web features without the need for JavaScript, while staying compliant with Java EE standards: a dedicated plug-in to ICEfaces open source software.
Source code for Project Darkstar is now freely available for download and use under the GPLv2 license. Project Darkstar is the video game industry's first enterprise grade, high performance, fault tolerant and highly scalable server technology for online, multiplayer games.
To enhance the buying experience on your e-commerce website, integrate Google Checkout into your web applications. Google Checkout provides an easy, web-based console for merchants. It has a powerful REST and XML based API to enable merchants to integrate their backend systems for order processing. Now there is a new NetBeans module that provides a wizard-driven interface to integrate the Checkout SDK in any web project.
In the last of Robert Eckstein's three part article series focusing on JavaFX Script, he explains how JavaFX Script can be used in conjunction with NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 to communicate with a server across a network, using the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.1.
Sun Chief Security Office Whitfield Diffie schools ComputerWorld's Joyce Carpenter on encryption, data mining, outsourcing security and more in a recent interview.
Venu Gopal has been working on security features for Project Sailfin, which adds Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Servlets technology extension to the Sun Java System Communication Application Server (Glassfish). He offers links to the latest functionalities under development in his blog.
Here are some recent SunSolve alerts with links to details and workarounds (as available): Sun Java System Application Server and Web Server processing of XSLT Stylesheets; Solaris 10 BIND vulnerability; and a Sun Cluster Software vulnerability.
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