Wondering what Sun was thinking when they announced an expanded
relationship with Microsoft? Now find out what was in the minds of
Jonathan Schwartz and Greg Papadopoulos in News article [18651].
GlassFish 2 is now available with clustering and more [18650].
What role does storage play in Sun's Eco Initiative? Find out from
Nigel Dessau in article [18630]. Take a look at the SPC/1 benchmark
featuring Sun storage technologies [18648].
There's more this week on the latest Solaris OS update, Solaris 10 8/07
OS. There is an installation guide for novices working on the Solaris
10 8/07 OS on x86 systems [18628]. Read about the ZFS enhancements in
article [18631]. Learn about eTude, which will allow Solaris 8 apps
to run in a Solaris 10 containers.
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.
Trade in a qualified Sun, IBM, HP, or Dell server for a new Sun Fire T2000 and receive an upfront enhanced trade-in allowance. Save money while improving data center efficiency and reducing the data center's impact on the environment.
Version 2 of GlassFish - the open source Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 application server - is now available, as is its commercially-supported counterpart, the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 that now offers lower cost annual subscriptions for support. This release has new enterprise features, including clustering, centralized administration and more.
The announcement of Sun and Microsoft's expanded strategic alliance has many Sun loyalists questioning the move. Jonathan Schwartz answers the skeptics in his blog, pointing out the opportunities this agreement will bring to the company and its products, particularly Sun's virtualization, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun's Systems portfolio.
InfoWorld named its choices for best open source software and storage, awarding NetBeans IDE and ZFS with 2007 Bossie Awards in their respective categories.
Uniboard X-options with 1.95GHz UltraSPARC IV+ processors are now available for Sun Fire E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K servers. The UltraSPARC IV+ processor is a 64-bit chip processor that delivers over 5 times the throughput of UltraSPARC III technology and over two times increased throughput over UltraSPARC IV systems on commercial applications.
Learn more about the new fault management capabilities associated with the UltraSPARC T2 processor and how they will work retroactively with the UltraSPARC T1 processor in handling core offlining, as well as how chip multithreaded processors allow for "micro-parallelization" to avoid previous performance issues in multithreaded applications that are the subject of two different Sun blogs.
Now get Capacity on Demand (COD) on the SPARC Enterprise M4000 through M9000 servers. Capacity on Demand is a "pay when used" model that offers organizations needing extra capacity the ability to meet those needs as they arise. There is also a "Headroom" option available that provides instant access to COD resources while RTU licenses are being purchased.
New information on Sun servers covered in a few of the company's blogs include datapoints on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 compared to Sun Fire E25K; devices and PCI buses on the newer version of Sun Fire T2000; a technology start-up's experience with Sun Fire T2000 replacing multiple servers cheaply; and a technical brief on the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System with comparisons to HP's BladeSystem c7000 System.
The Sun Fire E2900 server now offers 1.95GHz UltraSPARC IV+ x-option CPU/memory boards. The 1.95GHz UltraSPARC IV+ 64-bit chip multithreading (CMT) processors provide up to five times the throughput of UltraSPARC III technology and up to two times increased throughput over UltraSPARC IV systems on commercial applications.
Sun announces certified remanufactured products that offer significant cost savings with the same reliability, quality and industry-leading performance as new Sun products. All Sun remanufactured products come with the same warranty as a new product and legal Solaris Right-to-Use licenses. Configurations include Sun Fire E4900, Sun Fire E6900 and others.
The Sun Eco Innovation Initiative announced this past August is aimed at providing customers with technological innovations built to be more energy efficient, eco-responsible and cost effective. Sun Storage's role breaks down into three basic areas: balancing its approach to storage, building better products and being a part of the Sun Systems family, remarks Nigel Dessau, vice president of Storage Marketing & Business Operations, Sun.
BM Seer reports the Sun StorageTek 6540 achieved a price/performance of $6.62 $/SPC-1 IOPS, thereby lowering the total cost of ownership among higher midrange systems to $307,710. These results were two times better in price/performance than IBM's $16.03 $/SPC-1 IOPS.
Sun StorageTek Backup Manager (SSBM) software version 1.0 improves reliability and efficiency of tape and backup applications. With it you can obtain detailed reports on backup applications such as Symantec NetBackup, EMC Networker, which is also known as Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Value Software IP Replication, designed for small-to-medium businesses, provides asynchronous data replication for backup, disaster recovery and business continuity safeguards.
Get the fundamentals on Storage Area Networks (SAN) in two articles by Tim Thomas hosted on BigAdmin: "SAN Fundamentals: How Fibre Channel SANs Are Built, Secured and Managed" and "IP SAN Fundamentals: An Introduction to IP SANs and iSCSI." Both have been updated as of April 2007.
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 2, were:
Solaris 8 Migration Assistant (or Etude) can do a number of things: it can migrate legacy Solaris 8 environments onto modern, environmentally friendly, cost effective hardware and onto Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). It can perform a Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) transformation of existing Solaris 8 systems into containers running on a Solaris 10 host.
Solaris Containers for Linux Applications released at the end of August, allowing Linux applications to run unmodified on the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS). It is available for free for existing Solaris OS customers.
Sun recently posted quick installation instructions of the Solaris 10 8/07 Operating System (Solaris OS) on a Sun-supported x86 System. These instructions are written for novice users and those who have no prior experience with Solaris 10 OS installation.
ZFS enhancements to the new update of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) (Solaris 08/07 Update) include ZFS command history, Improved storage pool status information, ZFS and Solaris iSCSI improvements, ZFS property improvements and more.
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