In the Software section, find out how to install VirtualBox on Solaris 10 OS [19649], learn more about Solaris and AMP [19589] and Jim Laurent suggests several tools that can help readers get started using DTrace [19595].
Sun is making it easier, faster and more cost-effective for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use technology to gain a competitive advantage through a new initiative designed to make buying Sun technology easy and affordable for this market. The company has set up a new Web page and expanded its Try and Buy program specifically for SMBs.
Mitel Inc. and Sun will be releasing a joint solution that combines a Sun Ray thin client with a Mitel IP desk phone to be accessed via a Java-based smart card. The Sun Ray Unified IP Client is expected to ship in May at a cost of less than $500.
For two years in a row the NetBeans IDE has taken the award for the "Best Development Environment" at the 18th Annual Jolt Product Excellence Awards ceremony. The Jolt awards celebrate the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products in the software industry. NetBeans also garnered a "Productivity Award" in two categories: Web Development and Mobility Development (with Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2).
Sun has joined The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises, as a Platinum-level member. Sun will be a contributor to the Architecture Forum, which developed and continues to evolve TOGAF, an industry standard that may be used freely by any organization wishing to develop its own in-house enterprise architecture.
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 QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Solaris/x86-64, SAM-QFS Code is Now Open Sourced, Sun Launches New Initiative for SMBs and Announcing the Sun Ray Unified IP Client.
SAM-QFS code is now part of the OpenSolaris community. The current development source is available as a gzipp’d tarball accessible from the OpenSolaris SAM-QFS project page. Sun StorageTek QFS is the only shared file system Sun offers which can be shared or combined with Sun StorageTek SAM to provide a complete data management solution for managing data throughout its lifecycle across tiers of storage.
Have you had a go at AMP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) with the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS)? The package is designed to offer the same Web applications users are familiar with, but on a more secure open-source platform with greater scalability. To make things even easier, Sun has provided five easy steps for facilitating the quick development of web applications.
Computerworld's Julie Sartain reports on the increasing role of open source solutions in the datacenter. Forrester Research suggests that the built-in support community around open source tools far exceeds in number those dedicated to supporting proprietary solutions.
Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 2.0 is now available for purchase at US$149 per concurrent user with one year of service. This end-to-end software establishes and manages virtual desktop sessions on any operating system, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and even Windows Mobile. A free trial of the software can be downloaded.
VirtualBox is open source software, a full virtualizer for x86 hardware that enables developers to more efficiently build, test and run applications on multiple platforms. Learn how to install the VirtualBox on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) from the UNIX System Administration: Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64, BSD blog, which provides illustrations and code instruction to successfully complete this procedure.
New version 2.1 of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL now offers native support for the Solaris 10 Operating System and includes a comprehensive plug-in architecture for snapshot technologies like Linux LVM, Windows VSS snapshot, Network Appliance SnapManager, Veritas VxFS and Solaris ZFS, enabling MySQL database administrators to backup production environments without application downtime or interruption to online data access.
Sun has announced the flagship offering 'MySQL Enterprise', which is a comprehensive set of production-tested software, proactive monitoring tools and premium support services available now.
Sun Streaming Software has a new release - Version 1.10 for the Sun Fire X4950 Streaming Switch and for the Sun Streaming System - with the added features Integration with Edge Caching and a Continuous Live Streaming Capability.
Sun has released new Sun Ultra 24 Workstation configurations and options with Intel Core2 processors, and will be retiring other configurations and options of this workstation. New features offered in these configurations include the latest generation Intel Core2 processors based on 45nm technology; the E8500 - fastest Intel Core2 Duo processor at 3.16Gz; the QX9650 - fastest Intel Core2 Extreme Quad core processor at 3.0Gz; and Intel Core2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz and Nvidia Quadro FX370.
Denver Health, a comprehensive, integrated healthcare provider serving residents of the Denver area, has adopted a Sun Virtual Desktop Solution to manage their operations. The Sun Ray 2 and Sun Ray 270 clients running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) is the IT infrastructure Denver Health chose.
The HPC Community Portal is a web resource dedicated to information sharing and collaboration on high performance computing. Designed for Sun engineers, partners and customers, the site posts items of interest on topics related to HPC on a daily basis. A quick recap of posts for the last couple of weeks includes: Clouds Still Off on Horizon, Open-source Java Grid Computing, One network, under IB, Intel to deliver six-core Xeon this year, Network.com's Killer App?, and much more.
Watch a two-minute video demonstration hosted on the HPC Community Portal that evinces the power of Sun's offering in visualization. Presented by Barton Fiske, in Sun's HPC Technical Marketing Group and Technical Community Lead, the short video shows off multi-display, 3D immersive environments, and illustrates how users can simultaneously view and interact with centralized data and 3D applications over the network via remote visualization capabilities.
Customer can now custom order some aspects of the Sun StorageTek 2500 Arrays via an ATO Ordering Model. Eligible arrays include the Sun StorageTek 2540, 2530, 2510 and 2501, which can have custom drive quantities between five and 12 drives, AC or DC power supply options and single or dual controller models.
The new version of Common Array Manager (CAM) software, v6.0.1, provides users with a common, simple-to-use interface for Sun's modular array family, along with many other new features. The software is now available and is delivered on CD with all support Sun StorageTek Modular Array.
Hardware parts for the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus (VTL Plus) System 2.0 were to be general available on March 19th for the VTL Plus 2.0 1202, 2600, 3600 models. With the StorageTek VTL Plus 2.0, Sun says customers can improve the performance and reliability of existing backup and recovery application processes by presenting a variety of virtual tape drives, libraries and tape cartridges to those applications.
The Sun StorageTek 1U Rackmount Media Tray with HP LTO3 HH SAS/SCSI Tape Drive offers a tape backup and archive option for customers looking for a lower solution price point, exactly in the gap between DAT and full-height LTO technology.
During the last quarter (Dec 07, Jan 08, Feb 08), the web site for this newsletter had 130k unique visitors who viewed 281k pages.
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 121 Issue 2, were:
Virtual Windows and Linux PCs to be Offered by Sun [19626]
Sun/Microsoft Alliance Produce Two New Joint Projects [19643]
Sun to Build JVM for Apple iPhone, iTouch if Licensing Permits [19628]
Sun Fire X4150: Lots of Power in a 1U Chassis [19575]
Sun Earns Spot on Fortune's Most Admired Companies List [19601]
NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta is available now via download, offering features for JavaScript development and tighter integration with MySQL database capabilities.
A Sun blogger has discovered a zip file that can be downloaded with all the samples in Adam Myatt's book "The Pro NetBeans IDE 6 Rich Client Platform Edition." This book is focused on enabling the rapid development of Java front ends of applications using API buttons, functions and features mostly based in the Java SE 6 platform.
When the beta release of OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.0 becomes available later this year, it will be licensed under the Lesser GPL (LGPL) 3.0, which Sun says is more flexible and protective against software patents. Currently, OOo is covered under LGPL 2.1.
March 26th has been declared Document Freedom Day (DFD). This global day for document liberation was selected to provide a global rallying point for the promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards. Find out how you can become part of Document Freedom Day by joining a DFD team or registering one of your own.
Some of the newest add-ons for OpenOffice.org (OOo) extend or modify the functionality of Writer, including Pagination, CropOOo, TestFonts, Text Clipboard, Template Changer and Alternative dialog Find and Replace for Writer. Each installs from Tools > Extension Manager and can be installed either to the current user account or globally on one's system. Find out what each of these add-ons can bring to your OOo experience.
According to the FreeBSD Project, the newly released version 7.0 offers the most significant introduction of new technologies since 5.0 was issued. Version 7.0 is the first official implementation of ZFS outside of Solaris and it includes DTrace. It also includes SMP and kernel scheduler improvements that enhance performance and introduces "gvirstor" - the FreeBSD GEOM Storage Virtualization Layer.
Filebench 1.1.1 is now available, making it "much nicer for workloads that are designed to do X amount of work (as opposed to workloads that ask how much work can
get done in X amount of time)," writes Sun's Eric Kustarz, who notes that the workloads bringover, createfiles, copyfiles and deletefiles have been updated to take advantage of this.
Jim Laurent uses an illuminating metaphor in writing about DTrace in his blog, where he likens the facility to a CAT scan that in turn allows users to see things as doctors, who heal the sick, rather than as coroners, who search for causes of death. His blog highlights a number of tools that can make using DTrace somewhat less formidable than starting with only the 400 page instruction manual.
The Sun Management Center (MC) 4.0 has a new release meant to replace version 2. The Sun MC 4.0 Version 3.0 adds support for Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 Servers and comes with add-on software and documentation.
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