Sun's revenue growth in total disk storage systems rose 16.1 percent in 2007's fourth quarter when compared to 2006, reports IDC [19597]. Sun's new Governance, Risk and Compliance strategy is expected to release new products and services over the next 12 months [19585].
Two key Python developers have join the Sun team [19577].
VMware Infrastructure product suite will now be available on Sun x64 servers with full support from Sun under an OEM agreement [19534]. Find out why Sun decided to resell virtualization technology [19555].
Virtualization's breakeven point [19483] is examined in the Sys Admin section that also covers five significant advantages virtualization brings to enterprises [19431].
Numbers for the IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker show Sun's revenue growth during the fourth quarter of 2007 (4Q07) for total disk storage systems rose 16.1 percent when compared to the same quarter in 2006. This is the largest increase in revenue growth within the top five vendors in this category. Sun and Hitachi statistically tied for the number five ranking.
Sun announced a Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategy that will not only include the recently released Sun Role Manager, but an expanded portfolio of new technologies and features across the entire identity management suite over the next 12 months. The comprehensive portfolio is expected to address access management, federation, web services security and auditing.
Sun believes Python technology is a worthy investment, the company stated this week, and demonstrated this by applying for membership in the Python Software Foundation (PSF) and hiring Ted Leung, long-time Python developer at the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF), and Frank Wierzbicki, lead implementor of the Jython project (Python on the Java VM).
Sun and the University of Tokyo are collaborating on two new projects that focus on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and web-based programming languages. These two projects are an outgrowth of the agreement signed in June 2005 to foster a university-corporate collaboration model and are the first international ventures stemming from the Proprius21 scheme championed by the University of Tokyo for producing results from research collaborations with the private sector.
The "Good News" from Sun for March 2008 includes Sun's intent to acquire virtualization software provider innotek and its VirtualBox, the extension of the company's Open Archive portfolio with several new solutions and the donation of Sun StorageTek 5800 System's source code. Plus, read business results from Sun customers and how recent product updates provide a competitive advantage.
The VMware Infrastructure product suite will now be available on Sun x64 servers with full support from Sun under an OEM agreement to extend the companies' virtualization offerings. VMware Infrastructure will appear as a datacenter virtualization run-time and management stack on Sun x64 systems.
Manesh Dubash of Techworld needed an answer to the question of just why Sun would choose to feature the VMware product suite on its hardware and to offer full support, especially when it had a virtualization solution of its own. Ben Lenail of Sun provided an answer, which was that the deal gives Sun parity with such mainstream server vendors as HP and Dell.
Sun's Vice President of Global Partner Sales Jesse Chavez ranked 14th in CRN's list of 25 channel chiefs that it believes you should know. In a brief questionnaire, Chavez answered various personal and business related questions, including naming the Sun Partner Advantage Program as the major accomplishment for the company's channel over the past year.
Starting February 29th, the Sun Startup Essentials Program was to begin offering the following new systems to its qualifying members: Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4450. Listen to Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of Sun's Global Market Development, on the particulars of the Sun Startup Essentials Program in an 11-minute Sun Net Talk, where he provides full details on the program's membership rules and benefits.
Some of the latest partner activity at Sun over the last few weeks includes Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL Version 2.1, Imation to Support T9840D Tape Drive, VMware Infrastructure Product Suite on Sun x64 Servers, New Inline Data De-Duplication Solution for Sun's Channel, Solaris 10 on SPARC Now Supported by Layer 7 Technologies, SugarCRM Stack Installers for Solaris and OpenSolaris, and much more.
Hard on the heels of Sun's acquisition of MySQL, Matt Asay of CNET News had 15 minutes to sound out Jonathan Schwartz on several items of interest concerning the company.
Chairman of Sun's Board of Directors and Sun Federal Scott McNealy suggests that telecos need to acquire Internet destination sites in order to avoid becoming mere bit providers of bandwidth. In an interview with PC World's Agam Shah, McNealy asserted that eBay, Google and, possibly, Microsoft/Yahoo are ready examples of how destination sites are taking over telcos.
Get 30 percent off all Sun Microsystems Press Books. Recently published books now being offered at this special discounted rate include "Solaris Application Programming, 1/e"; "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages, Volume 2: Advanced Technologies, 2/e"; "Core JavaServer Faces, Second Edition"; and many more.
MySQL AB former CEO Marten Mickos and Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz are headlining keynote addresses for the sixth annual MySQL Conference & Expo scheduled for April 14-17, 2008, in Santa Clara, Calif. Approximately 2,000 open source and database users from around the world are expected to attend this year's event.
The Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD), formerly known as Project Blackbox, is currently on tour in the United States. The virtualized datacenter configured in a 20-foot long shipping container is designed to maximize compute density while minimizing energy and space requirements. Come see it for yourself.
In the latest Innovating@Sun podcast, Dr. Eric Allen, principal investigator in the Programming Language Research Group at Sun Labs, discusses the features and benefits of Fortress 1.0 - Sun's new programming language for high-performance computing.
Goodwin Ting in Sun's Global Government, Education, and Healthcare division presents two Sun Net Talks addressing the governmental concerns of creating a single citizen view and eco-innovation initiatives specifically for the government sector. They run 10 and eight minutes, respectively.
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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 4, were:
Gartner and IDC Release Reports on 4Q07 Server Market [19499]
Running Indiana Preview 2 Under VirtualBox [19504]
Through June 30, 2008, save up to 60 percent on Sun's portfolio of SPARC and AMD servers, storage and workstation products through the 2008 US Education Essentials Matching Grant Program, which can help your institution obtain Sun's innovative and open energy-efficient solutions at a fraction of the cost.
The just-concluded Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC) featured a mix of keynotes, panels and in-depth breakout sessions conducted by Sun executives and teachers that examined the state of education, forecast where it is going and predicted how technology will help it get there. More than 500 university CIOs, professors, researchers, and delegates from the ministries of education of nearly 30 countries attended the conference. Themes included The Power of Communities, What's Next? Education 3.0 and Eco-Computing on Campus.
Universities from around the world continue to turn to Sun to help them meet the ever-growing demand for advanced research, digital archiving, and the "always-on" infrastructures required for their campuses. New Sun patrons include St. Francis Xavier University, Durham University, University of Calgary, University of Oxford and SIM University.
Sun and rSmart are working together to develop Kuali-based solutions certified to run on Sun systems and open source infrastructure software, including Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS), MySQL, GlassFish, OpenSSO and OpenESB. The Kuali Financial System (KFS) will be the first certified with other supported Kuali solutions to follow, the companies announced.
A new Sun Center of Excellence (COE) for Libraries will be established in Alberta, Canada, through the cooperative efforts of Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc., the University of Alberta Libraries (UAL) and The Alberta Library (TAL). It will be focused on creating a province-wide digital library and is expected to be operational by summer 2008.
When it comes to protestations of too-high entry costs for server virtualization, Gerod Carfantan of VMware is a skeptic. He decided to develop a spreadsheet to find out what the virtualization breakeven point is, in terms of a minimum number of servers required for financial breakeven of virtualization, relative to traditional, physical servers.
David Marshall, writing for VMware has published a brief article on "The Five Virtues of Virtualization," that explains how the technology can make a physical resource appear as multiple logical resources and, similarly, also make multiple physical resources appear as a single logical resource.
A recent weblog of Alexandre Chartre's discusses LDoms Virtual Disks, beginning with the examination of the components of the virtual disk, which are the virtual disk itself and the virtual disk backend. The first is a domain guest and the second a locale where data is stored and where virtual I/Os end up.
A recent Sun BigAdmin paper provides readers with an "Overview of Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM)." The paper describes ILOM as an advanced service processor used to manage and monitor Sun servers. ILOM includes dedicated hardware and firmware that is preinstalled on a variety of Sun x64-based Sun Fire servers, Sun Blade Modular Systems, and Sun Blade server modules, as well as on some SPARC-based servers.
Sun BigAdmin has a site devoted to Sun Configuration Diagram Templates to help system administrators quickly document a system configuration. Accompanying the templates, Tom Meier has an article posted on the BigAdmin Website offering users tips on using the Configuration Diagram Templates, which are made with StarOffice software.
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