Commercial software subscriptions for the Sun xVM Ops Center are now available [19487], while coming soon is the Sun Blade X8450 Server Module with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors [19491].
Sun also announced that TSMC will be manufacturing its 45-nanometer processors [19488] and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 bests IBM, HP, and others on another SPEC benchmark [19468].
Read reports on Sun's business strategy revealed during the recent Global Media Summit [19467], [19465].
Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08 earned high marks in a recent review [19436]. Plus, find out which of its three databases is the right one for your applications [19448].
Network.com has added 14 new applications, a new partner program, and extended its international availability [19464].
Sun's Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based servers are now available as part of the Try and Buy Program that allows you to test Sun products for a full 60 days with no risk, no commitment, and no charge. The Sun Fire X4150 Server and Sun Fire X4450 Server are part of Sun's roster of eco-responsible servers, powerful workstations, and secure storage units currently available for trial.
Receive discounts of up to 20 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).
Sun is offering up to 20 percent off its Sun Fire X4150 Server and Sun Fire X4450 Servers fully loaded with memory and disks. The eco-designed Sun Fire X4150 Server and the Sun Fire X4450 Server provide an innovative way to cut power costs significantly while delivering world-class performance.
The Sun xVM Ops Center is now available with commercial software subscriptions from US$100 per managed server up to $350 a year, depending on customer selected features. Subscriptions can be purchased as an annual or multi-year enrollment and come in three module levels: Starter, Standard, and Enterprise.
The soon-to-be released Sun Blade X8450 server module is the first Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor-based blade for the Sun Blade 8000 modular system family. Expected to begin shipping next month, the new X8450 will be priced at $8,905 for entry-level models.
Sun racked up yet another benchmark world record, this time with the Single-Chip UltraSPARC T2 SPECint_rate2006 Performance with gccfss on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server running at 1.4 GHz. The system delivered a result of 83.9 SPECint_rate2006.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has been selected to make Sun's 45-nanometer (nm) processors and will be collaborating to expand Sun's OpenSPARC program. This announcement comes in part due to Sun's long-time partner Texas Instruments (TI), who has been making chips for the company, and now plans to stop developing processes for fabricating chips.
Demand for Sun's high-end server computers and technology services outside the United States is driving Sun's revenue growth, which is expected to increase between the low- to mid-single digit percentage range in its current fiscal year, Sun executives said during the company's Global Media Summit held February 12-14.
Rick Merritt of EE Times reports on Sun's plans to beat the competition to market with Infiniband for a broad net role that would include the native handling networking, storage, and clustering jobs.
Sun is planning on recruiting 40 new executives for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and 300 new employees for the Asia-Pacific territory in the next few months. This hiring frenzy comes on the heels of Sun's double digit growth during the second quarter of fiscal year 2008 in emerging economies like India, China, and the Middle East.
System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. A quick recap of posts for the last week includes Sun Blade X8450 Server Module with Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processors, New Inline Data De-Duplication Solution for Sun's Channel, Sun xVM Ops Center Released, and Sun SPOT Hits European Market.
Sun has announced Network.com Application Catalog, a collection of online grid-enabled applications that are available from its Sun Grid compute utility service, has 14 new applications. Additionally, the company has launched a new partner program called the Sun Network.com Connection for independent software vendors (ISVs) to create and expand lucrative on-demand service offerings to end-users.
Sun Vietnam is a joint venture between Sun Microsystems and Frontline Technologies Corporation Ltd. to further establish the company in that country by supporting the rapidly growing interests and demands for enterprise-class IT services and solutions. Sun expects sales offices to open in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in 2008.
When SearchForce was founded in 2004, its goal was to enable advertisers to maximize profitability from Pay Per Click Marketing by making PPC management easier. The startup was focused on maximizing ROI on search engine marketing (SEM). As time went on, the company needed to upgrade its datacenter and migrate it to a new facility within a three-month time frame. This is when it turned to the Sun Startup Essentials Program.
A recent assessment by Current Analysis ranks the Sun Java Enterprise System as a top performer in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suites, and its Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) as strong, competitive, and outstanding.
Deploying the Sun Java System Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) will be a good deal easier for readers of Wojtek Chemijewski's BigAdmin piece on the preferred practices for this process. He deals chiefly with issues of anti-virus/anti-spam (AV/AS) services.
In their recent article for developers on sun.com, Jonathan Gershater and Marina Sum offer readers a way to automate installation and configuration of the Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 using a Perl script. The recommended procedure, the authors contend, also saves users time and effort while also steering them away from errors.
The German credit card and point-of-sale transaction processing service easycash chose the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) in the expansion of its services to provide online transaction processing (OLTP), customer account management, and credit scoring. Java CAPS assisted easycash by requiring a mere two days and two individuals to install the solution, and migration was seamless.
Exuberant would not be too strong a word to characterize the response of Phoronix's Michael Larabel to the release of Solaris Express Developer Edition 1/08, given that he uses the term "rejoice" in his description of the expected user acceptance of this quarterly update to the next-generation Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) built from the latest OpenSolaris Nevada technologies.
Mac users of the world, unite! InfoWorld's Tom Yager has a suggestion for those of you with AMD processors that are unhappy with the performance of OS X on their machines. What leaves Yager most unhappy is that his need to be able to perform virtualization operations on his Mac is frustrated by Apple's having barred OS X from running as a virtual guest even on its own Macs. His solution? Run the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
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 120 Issue 2, were:
Rock Release Now Expected in Latter Half of 2009 [19430]
Even in biblical times, it has been said that what you give away will be returned to you ten-fold, and faith-filled Sun continues to believe in this old adage. At Sun's Global Media Summit held February 13th, Sun executives held strong to the company's open source strategy that software giveaways lead to support contracts and hardware buys, equaling revenue growth.
The Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 1/08 offers three different databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, and JavaDB - all of which are optimized for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). The question is which is the right one to use for which applications.
OpenOffice.org took tops honors in CNET TV's Best Downloads of 2007. Tom Merritt, executive editor at CNET, noted its compatibility with Microsoft Office formats and free cost as highlights of the office suite that offers word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, and database.
Marina Sum covers quite a lot of ground in her recent interview with Sun technical specialist Paul Bryan. The two discussed identity-related development and OpenSSO Extensions, including support for OpenID. Sum notes that among Bryan's goals is the creation of an authentication system that will alleviate security fraud and theft, such as phishing.
Joseph Kwan has written a piece on enabling remote updates via rdist and rsync using ssh from a master machine by employing sudo on the client machines from a non-privileged account. Kwan includes code samples in the setup and testing sections of his article that demonstrate how to arrive at his recommended procedure.
The 4TRESS OTP (one-time password) authentication module allows users to incorporate any OTP authentication schemes handled by ActivIdentity 4TRESS into the Sun Java System Access Manager authentication framework. This includes Europay, MasterCard, and Visa (EMV or Chip and PIN). It also protects applications in which access control is managed by the Access Manager with the OTP schemes supported by 4TRESS.
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