The UltraSPARC T2 servers are breaking all kinds of records. Take a look at the benchmark results on Lotus Domino R6iNotes [18822], SPEComp [18784] and SPECjbb2005 [18783].
Sun's Customer Satisfaction Index earned the company a spot in the top 20 percent of technology support organizations and certification from J.D. Power and Associates [18838].
Sun has outlined its commitment to Lustre and its community, vowing continued support of it as an open source technology and on Linux [18800]. The company also has committed to its channel business, setting a $7 billion goal by 2010 [18755].
John Fowler talks about the newly merged server and storage divisions as well as Niagara 2 [18797], while Andy Bechtolsheim talks about the value of design in a commodities market [18787].
Storage releases include the Sun StorageTek 9985V [18806], additional parts for NetBackup 6.5 [18804], half height drives for Sun StorageTek SL24 and SL48 [18813] and a free download of the latest version of Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager [18830]. Also read about Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Coverston's project on "intelligent storage." [18700]
Another free download is Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 [18824], and find out more about the open source projects Lively Kernel [18775] and jVoiceBridge [18739].
Get your hands on the first 64-thread, general purpose servers powered by UltraSPARC T2 "System on a Chip" processor and save up to 25 percent with a trade-in of your current Sun, IBM, HP or Dell server. Upgrade to the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers and receive greater performance and savings on power, space and money.
Sun is offering bundled pricing on selected services for the Sun Storage 6000 series modular storage array when you buy services of your choice from the menu of services in the Sun StorageTek 6000 series Performance Plus Pack.
Receive free drive conversion trays when you upgrade from the Sun StorageTek PowderHorn Tape Library to the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System. Also receive a free additional year of silver–level SL8500 service under this special offer that is available through December 31, 2007.
Sun has been certified under the J.D. Power and Associates Certified Technology Service and Support Program due to its outstanding customer support in North America. Sun earned this certification by scoring in the top 20 percent for high customer satisfaction among technology support organizations and is the first major network infrastructure solutions vendor to be certified.
In a letter to the Lustre community, Sun affirmed its commitment to continue to support Lustre as an open source technology as well as support and enhance the cluster file system on Linux across multi-vendor hardware platforms. The October 1st letter confirmed the completion of Sun's acquisition of Cluster File Systems, Inc. and outlined Sun's commitment to Lustre.
Sun is piloting a payments processing system using the SWIFT ISO 20022 XML global financial messaging standard and the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) software to process the transmission of payments data to Bank of America, a key provider of treasury services to Sun. This treasury project is part of a major redesign of Sun's business-to-business IT infrastructure which eventually will be an XML-based service-oriented architecture (SOA).
SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin posts items of interest to Sun Users regularly on his blog. A quick recap of John's posts for the last week, include Applications: Solaris/SPARC vs AIX/Power; Summary of the New Sun Servers; A Fresh Look at Datacenter Power, Cooling, and Cabling; Recent Sun Technical Videos; and UltraSPARC T2 Server Benchmark Results.
ODIN Fund Management, second in Norway's domestic equity fund market, selected the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) as its integration framework for the adoption of the SWIFTNet messaging infrastructure. Java CAPS was recently certified with the SWIFT Gold Label for the ninth year in a row.
Touting the best product and solution portfolio in its 25-history, Sun is aimed at growing its channel business from $3 billion to $7 billion by 2010, and eventually to $10 billion, Sun executives said at this year's New Frontiers conference for Sun partners.
A SWIFT Delivery Partner Network will be available to Sun partners, enabling them to leverage this network community to provide SWIFT-compliant technology on the Sun platform. SWIFT is a co-operative that supplies standardized messaging services and interface software to over 8,100 financial institutions in 208 countries and territories.
John Fowler, newly named executive vice president in charge of Sun 's merged storage and server divisions, shared his views in an eWeek feature by staff writer Scott Ferguson on how the company might fare in the current market.
Chief Architect of Sun's Systems Group and co-founder of the company Andy Bechtolsheim talks about the value of design in a commodities market in a recent interview with Hal Stern, VP of Global Systems Engineering, during an episode of Innovating@Sun.
Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Coverston, chief architect of QFS, has enjoyed a career studded with achievements and acclaim. Yet, her current project at Sun, which she describes as "...the biggest paradigm shift in storage in more than 30 years," promises even further renown.
Tune in to ZDNet's The Green Enterprise and hear Sun's VP of Eco-responsibility Dave Douglas explain the company's green strategies and how they are realizing cost savings from eco-practices with ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das. The 12-minute video takes viewers on a tour of Sun's energy efficient data center, virtualized data center Project Blackbox and into the company's OpenWork program.
In this TechWebcast, Sun Microsystem's partner Fotolog shows creative ways used to scale their Web 2.0 architecture and MySQL Enterprise with Solaris 10 advanced features. Unlike typical scalability presentations which focus on the entire stack, Fotolog will emphasize on the role that understanding one's application, operating system and storage engine can play in addressing scalability challenges.
Sun has enhanced its Sun Startup Essentials Program with the addition of a new Sun incubator partner initiative that allows Sun partners to assist program members by offering their services. Under the new Sun incubator partner initiative, Sun partner Plug and Play Tech Center is offering startups a complete package of support.
Learn more about the Sun-Blackboard Reference Architecture for Throughput Computing in a webcast hosted by Kevin Roebuck that features Steve Feldman, the director of Performance Engineering and Architecture at Blackboard and James Simon, Sun chief technologist from the Global Education and Research Group.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 offers better price/performance than all IBM and HP servers when tested on the Lotus R6iNotes on Domino mail server benchmark using Lotus Domino 7.0.1 mail server. The Sun UltraSPARC T2 server also delivered industry-leading results in best per-socket performance and best power-performance.
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and T5120 servers using the UltraSPARC T2 at 1.4 GHz beat all single chip scores in performance when running SPECompM2001, outperforming IBM p5 520, POWER5+ at 1.9 GHz by 98 percent. The SPEC OMPM2001 Benchmark Suite tests HPC performance using OpenMP for parallelism.
An informal performance study shows WebSphere Application Server V 6.1 gets double the performance on the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 UltraSPARC T2 servers than it did previously on the Sun Fire T2000 server. Dileep Kumar shares performance-enhancing tips he used on the App Server to maximize the power of these new Niagara 2 servers.
Version 1.0.1 of Logical Domains (LDoms) - Sun's server virtualization and partitioning technology - has been released and is available for free from the Sun Download Center. Updates in this latest version include support for the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers plus the Network Interface Unit (NIU) and more.
Sun has lowered the price on its Sun Fire/Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 and T2000 servers, as well as Sun Blade T6300 servers due to the overall drop in memory, the company reports. The new price changes, which went into effect October 9th, are expected to bring these Sun products onto a competitive level with similar offering.
The Sun StorageTek 9985V Storage System offers new thin provisioning capability with Dynamic Provisioning software, application-centric storage management, unified data replication across heterogeneous storage systems and a cross-bar switch-based architecture design that allows performance to scale with capacity.
Additional parts have been released for the Symantec Veritas NetBackup 6.5. These include the SAP module for Solaris x64, shared storage option, client upgrades and the Starter Pack, which provides bundles of both server licenses and client licenses at competitive pricing.
The Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM) software simplifies storage management with a common, simple-to-use interface, making it easy to accelerate deployment and work with Sun StorageTek systems from different families. Version 6.0 is now available and can be downloaded for free from the Sun Download Center.
Sun StorageTek LTO3 Half Height SCSI drive option is now available for the Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader and Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library. The SL24 will support up to two LTO2 half-height drives, while the SL48 supports up to four LTO2 half-height drives.
Given the explosive growth in the volume of corporate communications shared on the Internet, Sun and Open Text Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a solution that can ensure the access, control and lifecycle management of information. Open Text has integrated the Sun Java System Identity Manager into its product line to require the authentication and authorization required of secure system and it has developed the Data Archiving for SAP Solutions, which extends the umbrella of security to all SAP related data.
Some of the more recent storage white papers hosted on the Sun StorageTek site include topics on Enterprise Vault solutions, an overview of Open Text Livelink Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and tape consolidation with Sun StorageTek L1400 Tape Library.
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 116 Issue 2, were:
Sun xVM Infrastructure Previewed: Sun xVM Server and Sun xVM Ops Center [18756]
UltraSPARC T2 Servers and Sun xVM: The Ultimate Virtualization Combo [18786]
The New UltraSPARC T2 Systems: T5120/T5220 Servers and Sun Blade T6320 [18776]
Detailed System Overview of New T5120/T5220 Servers [18798]
Java screams on Sun UltraSPARC T2 declares David Dagastine in his October 9th blog, noting, "The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers equipped with a single UltraSPARC T2 processor at 1.4GHz, delivered a World Record single-chip result of 192,055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24,007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. An average of 464 Watts of power to obtain this result. This result beats the previous SPECjbb2005 single-chip world record by 71%."
The Lively Kernel welcomes visits by members of the open source community at the invitation of project leader Dan Ingalls, distinguished engineer at Sun. Alex Handy reports in SD Times that the Lively Kernel is a JavaScript-based kernel for building web applications that can be modified at runtime and that can spawn copies of itself and of the objects it contains. In addition, the Lively Kernel includes support for vector graphics inside the browser.
Sun Labs Voice Bridge is now an open source project named jVoiceBridge. This Java application handles Voice over IP (VoIP) audio communication and mixing for tasks such as conference calls, voice chat, speech detection and audio for 3D virtual environments.
John O'Conner, SDN staff writer and developer, has explored the ins and outs of JavaFX Script in a three part article series entitled "Learning Curve Journals," where he chronicles his experiences in learning Sun's latest software innovation.
When governmental bodies decided on Daylight Saving Time (DST), they didn't have JRE in mind. However, it is important to keep JRE updated with the latest DST rules to ensure that Java technology-based applications always know the exact time in a given location.
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