The Sun xVM Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 1.0 that allows users to access Windows, UNIX or Linux running in a VM in the datacenter from nearly any type of client device. [18868]
OpenSolaris Developer Preview (Project Indiana) - the binary distribution of OpenSolaris [18881]
Sun Message Security Solution for Brightmail Software for Sun Fire T2000 and Sun Fire T5120 Servers [18805]
Sun StorageTek IBM LTO4 SCSI for SL500 & L180-700-1400 Tape Libraries [18809].
The product roadmap for storage [18854] and open source [18835] solutions were each recently discussed. James Gosling also shared his view on the present and future of open source [18863], while Scott McNealy discussed the advantages of open sourcing technology [18907].
NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is ready for download and is now dual-licensed under both GPL2 and CDDL. [18908]. Learn more about FileBench in OpenSolaris [18761] and the new OpenSolaris self-service testing application [18879].
Guess which OS has a lower cost of ownership - Solaris or RHEL? Find out who and why [18878].
Solaris Live Upgrade is the recommended tool to use for upgrading and patching. Discover how it works [18887] as well as the Sun Installation Assistant which easily installs Linux and Windows on Sun x64 servers [18864].
Save 30 percent off the list price of a new Sun Ultra 45 Workstation and 20 percent off the list price of a new 20- or 24-inch Sun LCD monitor, when you trade-in any Sun Blade 1500 Workstation along with any Sun or non-Sun monitor. This promotion is available now through March 30, 2008.
Enroll and complete a classroom or live virtual class course by December 28, 2007, and receive a $100 Best Buy gift card. If the course is ordered online, you can also save an additional $100 off the cost of the course of your choosing. Sun three- four- or five-day training courses qualify for this offer. Offer good in the United States and Canada only.
The newly available Sun xVM Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 1.0 enables users to access a Windows, Linux or UNIX desktop environment, running as a virtual machine in the datacenter, from nearly any type of client device on the network. It can deliver virtual desktops to PCs, thin clients, Sun Ray virtual display clients and even some mobile devices.
As promised, the OpenSolaris Developer Preview (Project Indiana) has been released for preliminary study of the binary distribution of OpenSolaris. This preview release is intended for anyone who wishes to help develop and test the distribution. An official release of the distribution is planned for the first half of 2008.
Robert Nieboer, Sun's Asia-Pacific technology evangelist, told an audience at an open source storage event that the company plans on offering its first server-storage hybrid product in the first quarter of 2008 under the label FishWorks ("Fish" refers to "fully integrated software and hardware"). The initial FishWorks products will be aimed at small- to medium-sized enterprises.
Sun Microsystems will be hosting events in the Tampa, Orlando, and Fort Lauderdale area for developers who use Solaris and/or Java to create software. The 2-hour sessions will be held at Sun's office locations. They will include lunch with Solaris and Java experts presenting up-to-date tools, tips, and techniques.
SNI Editor-in-Chief/CTO John J. McLaughlin posts items of interest to Sun Users on a
regular basis on his blog. A quick recap of John's posts for the last week, include Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 for VMware, Sun xVM Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 1.0, OpenSolaris Devekoper's Preview (Project Indiana), and an update on the OpenSolaris Storage Community.
Developers with advanced certification in Java technology earn 15 to 25 percent more than the average IT professional, according to Certification Magazine. To increase your earnings potential, Sun offers a range of Java training, including three new Java web services courses: Creating Web Services Using Java Technology; Developing Java Web Services; and Developing Secure Java Web Services.
Staying current on the latest technologies can enhance professional credibility and increase the possibility for advancement. Sun offers extensive training and certification courses on its software technologies and hardware products. For a comprehensive listing of Sun courses currently available, take a look at the Sun Training Guide.
If you are brand-new to the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and want to learn more about it and its advanced features and capabilities, the Solaris Associate Seminar course could be the right next-step for you. According to Stacy David Thurston, the full course will consist of three days' worth of material with the first day spent on introducing the Solaris desktop and applications, the second introducing the Solaris Environment and the third covering advanced features of the Solaris OS.
Certification advances professional credibility and can increase earnings potential for everyone in the IT industry. Right now, Sun is offering system administrators and developers a chance to become certified under its eLearning Certification Success Packages that makes courseware available to you 24x7 via your personal computer or online access.
There's good news in Eric Kustarz's blog about changes in File Bench. He reports that there is now an updated version and that users will now find it included in OpenSolaris. The author describes FileBench as "...a framework of file system workloads for measuring and comparing file system performance that uses a simple .f language that allows you to describe and build workloads to simulate applications."
With the OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing application developers can run functional and performance tests on their code in a fully automated fashion prior to integration into the OpenSolaris code base. Binary code is uploaded, tests and benchmarks are selected, the tests are run and results are made available online for viewing. It's all pretty simple.
Chris Mellor kept his ear to the ground at Sun's Denver forum, where he gleaned plenty of information on the forthcoming releases of disk and tape storage products. He calls his Techworld report "Sun's storage product roadmap."
Read an introduction to the programming model for Honeycomb and the Sun StorageTek 5800 system in a recent Sun blog. This piece is part of the Sun StorageTek 5800 API Programming Guide. Content covers the 5800 Client API along with its data model, metadata model, query model and query integrity model. Information on deleting objects and the 5800 System virtual view model also are discussed.
New Sun StorageTek IBM LTO4 SCSI drives are available for the Sun StorageTek SL500 Library System and Sun StorageTek L180/700/1400 Tape Libraries. LTO4 tape drives have a 800GB/cartridge native capacity to back up more data at twice the transfer rate as a single cartridge, and 120MB/sec native throughput for double the read/write speed of LTO3 tape drives.
For the latest information on the Sun StorageTek SAM-QFS 4.6 release and future releases, check out the Sun StorageTek SAM-QFS Wiki that offers information on patches, the latest hardware qualifications and links to documentation. The wiki also hosts the SAM-QFS Weblog.
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 4, were:
Solaris 8 Migration Assistant (Project Etude) Now Available [18803]
Sun Plans Countersuit Against Network Appliance (NetApp) [18882]
New Sun Ultra 24 Workstation Powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad Processors [18869]
The Sun Message Security Solution for Symantec Brightmail Software is now delivered by the Sun Customer Ready program for the Sun Fire T2000 (UltraSPARC T1) and the Sun Fire T5120 (UltraSPARC T2) servers.
If you've ever wondered about the scope of the Sun Developer Services Portfolio the answer is here in Darren Bibby's IDC white paper "Sun Developer Services Portfolio: The Whole Story," which reviews and analyzes Sun’s portfolio of developer support services.
Sun recently convened an Open Source Worldwide Panel hosted by Ian Murdock, the company's chief operating systems platform strategist, that considered the future of Open Source technologies. Panels were also held on PostgreSQL, Project OpenJDK, Sun's Image Package System and OpenSolaris.
Since OpenOffice.org 2.3 was released in September, downloads have skyrocketed to nearly a million per week and this number could continue its rise with Sun offering the free download to users receiving regular Java updates.
For James Gosling, the important thing about open source is community engagement. At least that's what he told Tim Scannell in an interview for InternetNews.com. "A lot of our customers and the people we work with are just really smart and really good people," he continued. Gosling was careful to position Sun as a "supplier to other technology companies," which puts the corporation squarely in the business of supplying the infrastructure that underlies numerous applications developed by others.
NetBeans latest build, NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2, comes bundled with MySQL and PostgreSQL drivers, and adds improvements to Ruby code completion and Woodstock 4.1 Build 14. The Java-based integrated development environment (IDE) is now dual-licensed under GPL v2 with ClassPath exception and the Sun Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) license.
Dmitri Popov's article entitled "Sun Report Builder: Better reporting in OpenOffice.org" focuses on the improved utility provided to Sun Report Builder (SRB) in its new extension, which is a result of collaboration with Pentaho.
There are some distinct advantages for open source technology, said Scott McNealy, speaking at the NICSA Technology Summit 2007 in Las Vegas. The Sun Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of Sun Federal, Inc., said sharing of technology is beneficial to providers and users if it is done correctly.
Project Open Provisioning ToolKit (OpenPTK) is an open toolkit bridging specialized user interfaces and access points to identity solutions. This java.net community project launched earlier last month with the release of OpenPTK version 1.0 that comes with a consumer Java API, web services (.wsdl), HTML Taglibs and JSR-168 portlets with user self-service, administration and command line interface (CLI) examples.
Sun's Crimson Consulting Group reports on a comparison it made between the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems in "Cost of Ownership: Solaris vs RedHat Linux." The study involved detailed primary research with a dozen enterprise level companies representing over twenty unique and significant deployments of Solaris and RHEL, research that demonstrated the advantage belonged to Solaris.
Solaris Live Upgrade is a useful tool and strategy for minimizing downtime and risk when upgrading or patching systems. To learn how to get started using this Sun recommended tool, two recent articles have been released recounting the particulars in upgrading, patching and installing patches with Solaris Live Upgrade.
Installing supported Linux and Windows onto Sun x64 servers is easy with the Sun Installation Assistant (SIA). Just boot from the SIA CD or a local network copy of SIA, then choose the required OS from the list in the graphical menu and follow the installation instructions. The Sun SIA team has posted a brief how-to guide on using the installation tool so viewers can see just how effortless it really is.
The Diskless Setup for the Solaris OS for x86 Platforms is the subject of Vijay S. Upreti's BigAdmin article, which takes readers, step-by-step, through the process.
Sun's BigAdmin website has been updated to help visitors find resources and information more easily. In the past couple of months, the site has added a wiki, a scripts filter and an open source resource page.
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