Sun wins 3 BOSSIEs
(Best of Open Source Software Awards 2008) for MySQL, VirtualBox and OpenOffice.
Several companies are now OEMing VirtualBox
and a leading online advertising representation, firm Gorilla Nation Media, has
selected MySQL. Sun is now selling
support subscriptions for OpenOffice.
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Parallel NFS (pNFS) as NSF has had a
profound overhaul, delivering higher than ever levels of performance and security,
particularly in enterprise data centers.
In this year's annual Bossie (Best of Open Source Software) awards, the InfoWorld Test Center editors, analysts and reviewers selected products in eight categories to represent the best of the best in Open Source.
The 2008 winners include 60 products in eight categories: enterprise applications such as CRM, ERP, BI, and reporting; collaborative applications, including mail/calendar, wiki, and social networking; desktop productivity apps from office suites to 3-D modeling; platforms and middleware, including operating systems, databases, virtualization, and SOA integration; developer tools from AJAX and rich Internet apps to Web service testing and version control; networking, including server monitoring, routing, Wi-Fi scanning, and VoIP software; security software, including firewall, IDS, disk encryption, and security testing; and storage, including monitoring and administration, backup, and NAS.
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At the OpenSolaris Developer Conference in Prague on June 25, 2008, Roman Shaposhnik presented OpenSolaris as an ideal development platform. In a video, Sun's Roman Shaposhnik presents on OpenSolaris as an ideal development platform. Also featured in the video are Adriaan De Groot from Project KDE. Here de Groot explains the use of Solaris as the platform for development on the KDE project. Furthermore, Dennis Chemoivanov from Tocarema AB explains a more commercial style of using OpenSolaris.
Ben Rockwood says that, "The first annual OpenSolaris Storage Summit is coming on Sunday, September 21st, to San Jose, to be followed by SNIA's Storage Developer Conference. This is really exciting. SNIA SDC is one of the best storage conferences in the world (along with USENIX FAST), and OpenSolaris is undoubtedly the most powerful storage platform on earth... this is an excellent opportunity to get a lot of excellent and rewarding information in a week and get to meet the minds behind the technology in OpenSolaris."
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the award of a $2 million grant over three years to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to fund its GreenLight project, which will connect scientists and their labs to more energy-efficient "green" computer processing and storage systems using photonics -- light over optical fiber. The NSF infrastructure grant allows UCSD to purchase two Sun Modular Datacenter S20s (Sun MD), one which has already been installed; the second will be installed in the third year of the GreenLight project.
At the recent 2008 Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Sun Microsystems hosted a comparative demonstration of four commercially available, energy efficient modular cooling systems for data centers [20368]. Each was designed with different goals, which made direct comparisons of the systems difficult and that each assessment used system-specific inlet air temperatures, supply water temperatures, and server loads. The goal was not so much to compare the modular systems against one another but rather against conventional cooling systems.
Leading online advertising representation firm Gorilla Nation Media has selected a MySQL Enterprise database subscription to help power its business intelligence platform. With more than 66 million unique visitors per month, Gorilla Nation turned to Sun to help support the exponential growth of its business by improving performance and lowering costs. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database.
Sun xVM VirtualBox OEM Agreements
Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech Among Leading Partners Delivering xVM Virtualization Solutions
Sun xVM VirtualBox is a high performance, small footprint virtualization platform enables users to create "virtual machines" into which they can install whichever operating system and application stack they choose. Users benefit from the ability to run multiple operating systems on the same computer at the same time, while OEMs gain the added benefit of using virtual machines as a self-contained distribution mechanism for their solutions. Sun xVM VirtualBox is incredibly compact and modular, making it suitable for use as an embedded component and ideal for OEMs.
Sun has entered into new multi-year original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreements with Avanquest Software, Q-layer and Zenith InfoTech Ltd.
Sun Grid Engine software is a highly scalable distributed resource management (DRM) system that allows administrators to accurately model compute resources and business policies in order to achieve optimum utilization of resources and a higher level of productivity for users.
Bob Porras - Vice President, Solaris Data, Availability, Scalability & HPC, says, "What is really exciting is the new Service Domain Manager capability of Sun Grid Engine 6.2,
click here
to see a demo of managing elastic resources. Totally applicable to your cloud including network.com and other cloud resources. Dynamic, on the fly and transparent to your workload. Check it out! "
Considering an software solution from Sun? Then you might find it useful to have a look at "Vendor Focus for Sun Microsystems' Software," a review of the company's offerings by Gartner Research. In overview, the authors make the following points: Through acquisitions, Sun is rapidly growing into a multi-product vendor that uses an open-source technology base; Sun is a leading supplier of open-source software and contributor to many additional open-source project; and Sun has struggled in the past with software acquisitions and has to prove itself successful with its recent acquisitions.
The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation by Intel with the Core 2 Duo E7200 Processor that is XATO compliant, with its 1TB disk drive, provides storage for increasingly larger data sets. It broadens the processor speed offerings and price points for the Sun Ultra 24 Workstation.
This is an exiting time for the HPC marketplace. In this Gartner video/webcast see why. Learn from a Gartner analyst, a Sun HPC specialist and a major commercial HPC ISV as they talk about the HPC market and how they expect it to evolve.
Speakers:
Carl Claunch, VP Distinguished Analyst Garter (11 minutes)
Dave Teszler, America's HPC Manager, Sun Microsystems (10 minutes)
Jeffrey M. Brennan, VP of Software, Altair Software (10 minutes)
Brief registration is required to view this webcast.
The latest preview release of Sun's compiler and tools suite for C, C++, and FORTRAN users is now available for free download. Called Sun Studio Express 07/08, this release of Sun Studio marks an important advance for HPC customers and for any customer interested in extracting high performance from today's multi-threaded and multi-core processors. In addition to numerous compiler performance enhancements, the release includes beta-level support for the latest OpenMP standard, OpenMP 3.0. It also includes some nice
Performance Analyzer enhancements that support simple and intuitive performance analysis of MPI jobs. More detail on both of these below.
The Sun Blade X8440 Server Module supports up to 4 quad-core AMD CPUs, with up to 128GB of memory and up to 192 GBb/s of I/O.
X8440: Up to 4 AMD Opteron Dual-Core (8200 Series) or 4 Quad-Core (8300 Series) Processors
Up to 4 sockets/16 cores/16 threads per Server Module (using quad-core processors)
Up to 128GB memory, 32x DIMM slots per Server Module
Up to 192Gb/s I/O per Server Module
The Sun Blade X8440 Server Module Standard Configurations are
similar to the existing Sun Blade X8440 Server Module Standard
Configurations with the exception that they now use DDR2-667
Single-Rank DIMMs.
TrueCopy asynchronous software enables replication with full data
integrity beyond the distance limitations of synchronous copy to
ensure data at a secondary site is safely beyond a wide-area
disaster's impact zone. Moving data to a secondary site for switchover
of primary processing can eliminate scheduled downtime and is critical
when an unexpected event compromises your primary site.
Unlike
traditional data recovery processes that are labor-intensive and can
span several days, recovery based on TrueCopy software can help
businesses resume operations rapidly, almost from the point where they
broke off.
TrueCopy Asynchronous is complemented by TrueCopy Synchronous.
Drew Robb, writing for enterprisestorageforum.com, declares "NFS Enters a Parallel Universe," claiming that Version 4.1 of NFS (network file system), having undergone a profound overhaul, promises higher than ever levels of performance and security, particularly in enterprise data centers. For corroboration, Robb refers readers to Henry Newman's article, "The Future of NFS Arrives".
Sun has made available an eleven page paper by Fred Moore, President of Horison, Inc, entitled "Tape: The Digital Curator of the Information Age." In the paper, he claims that tape is far from extinct and he explains that tape's role is expanding. Tape drives are now being considered premier long-term storage technology, rather than a pure backup solution.
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important.
The top 10 articles for last week, Vol 126 Issue 1, were:
An Update on xVM Server: Starting Early Access [20415]
ZFS Second Level ARC - L2ARC - Testing Show 8x More Throughput [20355]
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. In Volume 125, July 2008, 66k distinct visitors viewed 166k pages on the website for this newsletter. Here is a list of the 25 most viewed articles:
The Solaris 7 EOL (End of Life) last ship date was August 15, 2003. Per the January 23, 2003 Solaris 7 EOL announcement the EOSL (End of Service Life) Phase 2 exit date was announced as August 15, 2008.
Per the above and per the longstanding Sun EOSL policy, upon reaching EOSL on August 16, 2008, except through custom agreements, all support for Solaris 7 will terminate. SunSpectrum and Solaris subscriptions will no longer include Solaris 7 support. Support calls regarding Solaris 7 will no longer be accepted and all patch access for Solaris 7 will terminate.
StarOffice software is supported under Sun Software Service Plans, which include two levels of support that cover extended business hours or around-the-clock service for mission-critical deployments. With this support, you'll always have access to the latest software functionality with upgrades and patches included for covered software.Sun aims to increase the support available to customers using OpenOffice, an open sourced word processing program.
The new software subscription part numbers for OpenOffice.org and change of support and services associated with them provide a revenue opportunity to Sun and Sun Resellers while the list pricing for customers remains the same. The price is now per user per year while the previous support part numbers were listed per user per month.
The OpenOffice Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience. A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time
A download of Sun Studio Express 7/08, which is now available on Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux (RHEL and SuSE), is available. User comments are invited at the Sun Studio Forum.
Sun BigAdmin has a site devoted to
Sun Configuration Diagram Templates to help system administrators quickly document a system configuration like rack placement, internal details, and connectivity of a complete system.
Most recently updated diagram templates include Sun's blades, volume servers and M-Series servers. Also listed are x64 servers, enterprise, Sun Fire 20K/25K, workstations & Sun Rays, storage, Sun StorEdge 9970, Sun StorEdge 9980, Sun StorEdge 9990, Sun StorEdge L180, and Sun StorEdge L700. There are diagram templates available for EOL storage and servers, and one that includes hardware presentations.
SAMP, Sun's AMP stack, bolstered by the Solaris OS, Apache HTTP Web server, MySQL, and the PHP/Perl/Python scripting languages, is drawing kudos as a premier open source platform for web tier development and deployment. Adopters are finding the solution easy to use, familiar and cost effective, as well as offering the greatest possible performance, scalability, reliability and security for web application security.
Open-source operating systems, virtual machines, and clustered computing are among the leading fields of operating systems and networking that are rapidly changing. With substantial revisions and organizational changes, Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne’s Operating System Concepts, Eighth Edition remains as current and relevant as ever, helping you master the fundamental concepts of operating systems while preparing yourself for today’s emerging developments.
Beyond the basics, the Eight Edition sports substantive revisions and organizational changes that clue you in to such cutting-edge developments as open-source operating systems, multi-core processors, clustered computers, virtual machines, transactional memory, NUMA, Solaris 10 memory management, Sun’s ZFS file system, and more. New to this edition is the use of a simulator to dynamically demonstrate several operating system topics.
Intellectual Property and Open Source, written by Van Lindberg, is for readers who want to understand how the law views intellectual property rights in code and other content. As an attorney and a programmer, Lindberg provides a clear look at these issues from a developer's point of view, along with practical advice for situations likely to be encountered including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and open source licenses.
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