The newly appointed senior VP for Sun's EMEA sales and services region will be taking on a vital role since this area brings in nearly 40 percent of Sun's business [19163].
OpenOffice.org and StarOffice 8 enhancements were announced. Sun will be providing backline support to the open source office suite and update 8 of StarOffice offers new features and enhancements [19149].
Sun's director of Mainframe Storage Marketing discusses the company's move to increase its mainframe storage market share [19131], while Sun's group manager for Tape explains why tape libraries and the LTO 4 are an important value to customers' investment protection [19107]. Sun StorageTek LTO4 Fibre Channel and SCSI drive options are available for the Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader and SL48 Tape Library [18973].
A new java.net project offers a 100 percent Java PDF renderer/viewer [19159]. Learn more about the new performance and scalability improvements in Java SE 6 [19010] and how you can become certified in this latest Java technology [19099].
Receive discounts of up to 15 percent toward the purchase of a new Sun SPARC Enterprise Server when you trade-in a legacy Sun or qualified competitive system with the Sun Upgrade Advantage Program (UAP).
Purchase a Sun Software Service Plan by December 31, 2007, and receive Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 from Symantec free. This limited time offer allows users to upgrade from any version of Veritas File System or Veritas Volume Manager when buying a one- or three -year Sun Software Service Plan.
Sun is offering 15 percent off its Basic Operating System (BOS) and Disaster Recovery software support services with the purchase of either a Sun StorageTek 9990V or a Sun StorageTek 9985V System.
Sun's Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region makes up nearly 40 percent of the company's business, and just this week Sun announced it is giving the responsibility of this region's sales and services team to a new senior vice president - Alain Andreoli.
Mark Herring, senior director at Sun's Network.com, told eWEEK that Sun is offering distributors and OEMs backline support for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. He also announced a new StarOffice server product that converts documents in any of the 40 formats supported by the office suite into a PDF or ODF document, and which can process about 100 documents a minute.
With an increasing concern about servers' energy use, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has developed a new benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of volume server class computers. The SPECpower_ssj2008 provides a means to measure power (at the AC input) along with a performance metric.
A CommunityOne event will be taking place in San Francisco on May 5th, and a call for participation is currently open for interested members of the free and open source community to submit suggestions for sessions. CommunityOne free events allow the community to define the content while Sun takes care of the space, sustenance, and invites.
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 News on NetApp/Sun ZFS Lawsuit, Installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Servers, and System Performance as an Aspect of CPUs and Architecture.
At the recent FOSS.IN conference on free and open-source software held in Bangalore, India, the elephant in the room was not only visible but also the subject of much spirited comment, reports John Ribeiro, writing for IDG News Service. The elephant's ID? The competing loyalties developers increasingly experience between whatever corporate entity signs their paychecks and the open source projects they are contributing to at any given moment.
Paul Macmillan, national public sector industry lead for Deloitte and Touche LLP, commented at a recent Web 2.0-themed technology forum in Toronto that, "There is a clear business value in Web 2.0." Learn more about Macmillan's views on Web 2.0 and what other industry members think about its future.
The Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) at Durham University operates the Cosmology Machine (COSMA), a 4.2 teraflops HPC installation with more than 580 servers and 1300 CPUs powered by Sun technology, that runs simulations to quantify the dark energy that makes up 80 percent of the cosmos to determine what happened during the formation of the universe.
The U.S. Navy's Integrated Warfare Systems Lab (IWSL), part of the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), has among its missions the analysis and testing of surface ballistics to certify their readiness for combat, especially in defense against terrorist attack. The Sun Ray Thin Client plays an important, cost-effective role in the fulfillment of this mission.
Sun Tech Days are coming to Atlanta, Ga., this coming January 9-10. Designed to educate developers on building and deploying Java and Solaris applications, Sun Tech Days are free events that offer hands-on training with real-world examples and practical information. It is considered by some to be a scaled-down version of a JavaOne Conference.
Learn more about the new features offered by the Matisse GUI Builder in NetBeans 6.0 via a screencast demonstration presented by NetBeans Evangelist Roman Strobl.
Find out why OpenSolaris is ideal for the PowerPC architecture in an Innovating@Sun podcast where Sun Labs Tom Riddle explains this point to Sun Vice President of Global Systems Engineering Hal Stern. Riddle is the principal investigator of the Pulsar Project, which is porting the OpenSolaris kernel to the PowerPC architecture.
Learn more about virtualization and Sun's approach to virtualization technologies in a "Sun Hot Topics" audio presentation "What is Cool - Virtualization at Sun" with Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen of the Solaris Software team. Other newly listed Hot Topics include "Multi-Thread Coding," "Java DB," "Logical Domain Overview," and many more.
Many people are recognizing Sun's increasing interest in bolstering the company's market share in the mainframe tape storage business. Jay Wallace, Sun's director of mainframe storage marketing, recently announced that Sun is investing a substantial amount of time and money in the next-generation mainframe storage sector and will be coming out with a number of new products.
The third patch, 4.6-03, to SAM-QFS has been released and is available for download. In addition to the usual bug fixes, new features include a 256 node for Fibre Channel; new tape drive and library qualifications; and new server architecture support. In addition, a discussion alias "sam-qfs-discuss@sun.com" has been added, and the source for sdu, sls, sfind, and star to the existing Libsam code are also available.
Sun is betting on a future in the tape cartridge format, as is clear from its introduction of the LTO 4 Fibre Channel drive across the complete suite of tape automation libraries. Alex North, Sun's group manager for tape, discusses Sun's tape library portfolio in a recent interview with enterpriseITplanet.com.
Now available are new 750GB 7.2Krpm SATA-II drive configurations for the Sun StorageTek 2540 FC Array, Sun StorageTek 2530 Array, and Sun StorageTek 2501 SAS Expansion Array in "fixed" standalone X-option system combinations.
Sun StorageTek LTO4 Fibre Channel and SCSI drive options are available for the Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader and Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library. These products support HP LTO2 Half Height SCSI, LTO3 FC and SCSI, LTO3 Half Height SCSI and LTO4 FC and SCSI drives.
The Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC ATCA Dual Port HBA is just what Sun telco customers have been asking for to use with the Sun Netra ATCA servers in order to take advantage of the benefits of FC storage consolidation. This HBA accelerates the delivery of the next generation voice, video, and data services.
The Sun StorageTek 750GB 7200RPM Low Cost Fibre Channel HDD, also referred to as Low-cost FC SATA II, is designed for the Sun StorageTek 9985V and 9990V Systems where it can provide high capacity for applications that require capacity and optimized reads for large files.
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 118 Issue 2, were:
Sriram Natarajan and Marina Sum heartily recommend using Cool Stack in its new, free, downloadable 1.2 release. In a collaborative article, they point out that Cool Stack highly optimizes such open-source components as Apache 2, PHP 5, Ruby, and Light HTTPD, making it possible for each to perform efficiently on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). They note as well that the PHP 5 runtime bundled with Cool Stack 1.2 works with FastCGI, which means users can deploy PHP applications on top of such high performing enterprise-ready web servers as Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.
With the popularity of memcached growing, the Solaris Developer blog has outlined the steps required in setting up the high-performance, distributed memory object caching system on Solaris Zones. memcached is intended to speed up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
The new java.net project "PDF Renderer: a 100% Java PDF renderer and viewer" is an open source, all Java library which renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D. Sun has released the code under the LGPL as part of SwingLabs.
The white paper "Java SE 6 Performance White Paper" gives an overview of the new performance and scalability improvements in Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6, along with various industry standard and internally developed benchmark results to demonstrate the impact of these improvements.
A new implementation of the Java Plug-In has been released with the Java SE 6 Update N Early Access. In an interview with InfoQ, Java SE Product Manager Nicolas Lorain discussed the rewrite of the Java plug-in and pointed out three key reasons consumers will want to adopt the new plug-in.
Sun reports that the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) is the most popular developer certification in the world, and this certification is now available for the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6. You can update your existing Java certification or start your certification with this latest version of Java technology.
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