New product announcements from Sun headline this week's edition. Some were revealed during the Supercomputing 2007 Conference, such as the Sun Constellation System and Sun StorageTek 5800 System [18961]; others during the Oracle OpenWorld 2007 Conference, which introduced the Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun [18988] and announced Solaris OS on Dell PowerEdge servers [18999]; while some others were just generally announced, including a soon-to-be released Sun Netra multi-core and multithreaded 10G Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) portfolio [18993].
Other interesting updates include Sun's move to acquire Vaau, Inc. [18992]; Red Hat joining the OpenJDK community [18960]; Cool Stack 1.2's [18955] and JRuby 1.1 beta 1's [18974] release; and the first JavaFX Script technology book being published [18921].
Read Jonathan Schwartz's perspective on Sun's Q1 Report [18975].
Spec leads for the Java EE 6 discuss key design considerations for the upcoming version [18963]. The open source Java community takes a look back over the past year and into the future during the technology's one-year open source anniversary [18995].
In Partners news, see a recap of recently released solutions and partnerships from Sun and some of its partners [18989]; Sun Partner Advantage Program adds the T5120/T5220, X4150 and X4450 servers to its offerings [18930]; and Channel Chief Bill Cate briefly explains efficiency updates in Sun's global channel [18851].
Purchase one of three Sun Fire X4600 M2 server configurations and take up to 28 percent off the purchase price. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server is the only 4- to 16-way server that has the capability to scale to 32-way in a single 4U chassis.
Purchase a Brocade 48000 Director with 64 fibre channel ports and Sun will give you two fibre channel blades for the price of one. Fill the remaining six slots with 16, 32 or 48-port fibre channel blades at half the cost.
If you'd like to read between the lines of Sun's recent Q1 earnings report, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogs on the subject to help with that effort. Among the issues he addresses are what went well; what didn't; and why Sun didn't grow.
Sun announced the addition of the Sun Constellation System and Sun StorageTek 5800 System to its HPC portfolio at the Supercomputing 2007 Conference held November 10-16 in Reno, Nev. The Sun Constellation System is the first open petascale computing environment that combines ultra-dense, high performance compute, networking, storage and software into an integrated general purpose system. Sun StorageTek 5800 is designed for long-term preservation, protection and integrity of massive data stores with extensive metadata facilities.
Sun plans on releasing a new Sun Netra multi-core and multithreaded 10G ATCA portfolio in December. These soon-to-be released products include the Sun Netra CP3260 ATCA blade server, powered by UltraSPARC T2 processors, Sun Netra CP3220 ATCA blade server, powered by AMD Opteron processors, and Sun Netra CP3240 10 GbE ATCA switch. The company also introduced the Sun Unified Network Platform (SUN-P) that consists of contemporary
multi-core processors, virtualization technology, fast-path packet processing software,
robust system management and High Availability (HA) middleware.
The new Oracle Optimized Warehouse for Sun is a complete, out-of-the-box data warehouse solution. It consists of Oracle Database Enterprise Edition, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Partitioning on a Sun Fire E20K server, the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun StorageTek 6540 arrays.
Sun announced it plans on acquiring Vaau, Inc. and has entered into a definitive agreement with the enterprise role management (ERM) and identity compliance solution provider. The acquirement is expected to be completed during Sun's fiscal third quarter 2008, which begins on December 31, 2007.
Dell customers will soon have a choice of installing the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) or OpenSolaris on Dell rack or blade servers, reports eWeek's Chris Preimesberger. This is the first time Solaris OS has been authorized for use on any kind of Dell hardware.
Approving what some call a "cosmetic move," Sun shareholders passed a 1-for-4 reverse stock split in the hope of bolstering the company's persistently lagging stock price despite having turned the corner on earnings. Overall valuation of the company, which is in the vicinity of $18 billion, is not expected to be affected.
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:
Web Video of Jonathan Schwartz's Keynote At Oracle Openworld
Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
Video Product Tour of T5120 and T5220 Servers and T6320 Blade Server
Sun Investors approve a 4-for-1 "reverse split"
Deconstructing the Security Capabilities of the Solaris 10
Open xVM Website
Sun Datacenter Switch 345
COMSTAR - Solaris as a SCSI (not iSCSI, SCSI) Targe
HPCwire honored Sun with two Editor Choice Awards at the Supercomputing 2007 conference. Sun was picked as one of the top five companies to watch in 2008, and its Sun Fire X4500 Server was awarded Best Price/Performance HPC Storage Technology or Product.
Some of the latest product activity between Sun and its partners over the last few weeks include the releases of the Ultra-Fast Data Warehouse powered by Sun and ParAccel, Syncro (Subversion) SVN Client 2.5, CCG's Molecular Operating Environment for Solaris 10, GO-Global for UNIX Version 2.2.6 from GraphOn, Centrify DirectControl 4 and more.
The Sun Partner Advantage program is now offering the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220, Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 servers to its Development Hardware Offering portfolio, which provides exclusively priced hardware systems and discounts to qualified members.
Sun's Channel Chief Bill Cate says the company is streamlining and simplifying its global channel business to make it easier and more consistent worldwide. From instituting compliance guidelines for field organizations to deciding to use the same one word in reference to partners (instead of the 80 different ones previously used), the channel is becoming much more efficient.
Sun named LSI Corporation as its 2007 StorageTek Ready Partner of the Year, recognizing the organization for its commitment to supporting Sun's systems and the development of storage solutions to meet market demand. LSI is a member of the Sun Partner Advantage Program.
There is now internal 73GB 15K RPM 2.5-inch SAS hard disk drive support for the Sun Fire X4100 M2, Sun Fire X4200 M2 and Sun Fire X4600 M2, available as an X-option and XATO. The 73GB SAS drive is an enterprise class drive that is ROHS compliant and offers increased rotational speed for improved performance.
You can now get a 400GB 10K-rpm drive RAID and expansion unit for the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS appliance for higher density and increased Fibre Channel raw capacity. Along with this new product, Sun also is ending the life for the 300GB 10K-rpm drive RAID and expansion unit options for the Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS appliance.
Sun is making a 1,000GB 7.2K SATA-II drive available for the Sun StorageTek 6140 and Sun StorageTek 6540 storage arrays. The 1,000GB 7,200 rpm SATA-II configurations allow dynamic expansion to a maximum capacity of 224TB for the 6540 array and 112TB for the 6140 array while requiring no increase in air-conditioning and power requirements compared to the arrays with the 500GB or 750GB SATA-II hard disk drives.
Sun has announced the end of life for the 300GB 10,000 rpm Fibre Channel drives from its Sun StorageTek 6140 and Sun StorageTek 6540 storage arrays and recommended 400GB 10,000 rpm Fibre Channel drives as replacement products. The last order date for the 300GB drives is January 11, 2008 and the last ship date April 11, 2008.
Sun is recommending customers consider its Sun StorageTek T10000 enterprise tape drive with Fibre Channel interface with the end of life of the Sun StorageTek T9940 tape drive program. This next-generation of StorageTek tape drives is an ideal complement to Sun's premier StorageTek automated tape libraries.
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 117 Issue 1, were:
Red Hat Joins OpenJDK
Signs Sun's Contributor Agreement and OpenJDK Community TCK License
Red Hat has signed Sun's broad contributor agreement and its OpenJDK Community TCK License Agreement, allowing the open source solutions provider to participate in all Sun-led open source projects and help determine whether an implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) platform, derived from the OpenJDK project, complies with the Java SE 6 specification.
The release of CoolStack 1.2 comes with updates in its packaging like decomposed CSKamp to CSKapache2, CSKphp5 and CSKmysql32; components, which offer upgraded versions of Apache and MySQL; build that offers ease in customization with a top-level script setupcsenv.sh; and bug fixes.
In a conversation with Artima Senior Editor Frank Sommers, Bill Shannon and Roberto Chinnici, spec leads for JSR 316, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6,
discuss the key design considerations for the upcoming version of the enterprise Java specification.
This year's election for the Executive Committee (EC) on the Java ME and Java SE/EE is complete. Joining the Java Community Process (JCP) ECs are the Eclipse Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, Google, Nortel Networks, Red Hat Middleware, Intel, Orange France, Research In Motion LTD (RIM), Samsung Electronics and Time Warner Cable.
See how easy it is to develop Rich Internet Applications and rich client-side user interfaces quickly and easily with JavaFX Script in the firstPress publication "JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications," by James L. Weaver.
It really has been one year since the release of the initial source code for the Java programming language under the GPL v2 license and the launch of the OpenJDK community (for the Java SE implementation) and the Mobile & Embedded community (for the Java ME implementation). The community is taking a look back over the past year and into the future of open source Java.
Sun's Java-powered Ruby implementation, JRuby, is now available in version 1.1 beta 1, which is the most compatible release with the stable Ruby 1.8 compiler. This is the first release from the open-source JRuby project since its initial version 1.0 was announced in June.
A Java.net poll indicates more than half of the Java developers never attend their local Java User Group (JUG) meetings, and Yakov Fain takes the non-attending number to task in his Sys-Con Media piece promoting the benefits of JUG membership.
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