This week, Jonathan Schwartz's
blog is called, "The dot.com Bubble? There Was a Bright Side."
Jonathan made some
tough choices to, "align Sun's business with the global economic climate". Those choices include a re-org and
a reduction of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 employees.
Sun's Unified Storage Systems, the Sun Storage 7000 family (aka Amber Road) is now available. The innovative storage family delivers breakthrough diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities, optimzed performance, one-fourth the energy consumption, installation and configuration in under five minutes and up to 75% cost savings.
In this week's blog, Jonathan Schwartz quotes the old saw, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Still up on its feet after the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Sun is among those stronger survivors, taking on the competition and breaking new ground with its innovative solutions.
John Fowler, EVP Systems, and Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineer (DE)-Fishworks, unveiled the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System live at Sun's CEC event in Las Vegas. The video from that event is available on-line.
The running time for the launch is about 1hr: Time to change your storage (2:27); Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Technology Demo (15:23); Breakthrough Performance and Web Economics (6:07); Customers Evaluate Ease of Use, Performance, Analytics (10:50); How to Get Started (4:56); and Q and A (21:25)
The launch site also features a 4:46 video in which Sun Group Mgr., Sr. Product Management, Ray Austin delivers a summary of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems and its value proposition.
Sun announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model with the global economic climate and accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations. As part of this effort, Sun is announcing a global workforce reduction and alignment of its Software organization into new business groups - Application Platform Software, Systems Platforms, and Cloud Computing & Developer Platforms - with a focus on boosting open source momentum and growing new sectors of the market who view technology as a competitive weapon.
Sun's Board of Directors has approved a restructuring plan aimed at reducing costs by approximately $700 to $800 million annually.
Sun Enhances OpenEco.org
Helps Members Track and Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Reduce their Environmental Impact
As part of the its continued commitment to sustainability, Sun unveiled significant enhancements to OpenEco.org, a global online community that provides free, easy-to-use tools to help members calculate, compare and reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The announcement was made in conjunction with the Net Impact conference at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where Sun held its second annual OpenEco Energy Camp on Saturday, Nov. 15.
The first generation of virtualization technology has delivered on its promise. For those who are ready for more, Sun and Intel now provide a new class of virtualization benefits - and a higher level of virtualization performance. Powered by the Intel Xeon processor
7400 series, Sun Fire X4450 servers can get the most out of the new Sun xVM Server and Sun xVM Ops Center products. Now you can virtualize everything and manage anywhere - with Intel performance and energy efficiency. Here’s how.
Highlights
Sun and Intel: unique virtualization capabilities enable new usage models
Sun xVM Portfolio: virtualize everything, manage everywhere
Solaris OS: advanced features for reliable, scalable virtualization
Sun Fire X4450 servers: ideal platform for data center-class virtualization
Sun and Intel engineers: working together to optimize the Solaris 10 OS for Intel Xeon processors
Integrated, tested virtualization solutions for the next-generation data center
Comprehensive solutions backed by world-class service and support
The Sun Fire X4450 serve - the most space-efficient and energy-efficient 4-socket, 2U industry standard server among tier one vendors - is now available through Sun's Try-and-Buy program at 20% off list price.
In a Sun blog, Cherry explains how, DB2 Express-C on OpenSolaris is a free version of IBM DB2 database server. However, it is not a crippled or trial version of DB2. This program shares the same code as the other commercial DB2 editions and has a more generous license, which does not impose any limits on databases.
This Webcast is delivered to educate the Sun Microsystems’ sales force, partners, and customers about the criticality of having a solid plan in place to maintain business continuity in the event of any type of disaster. This topic needs to be considered from a policy and technological perspective to address compliance issues, high cost infrastructures, and the cost of doing business.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server is not the only Sun solution to have distinguished itself on SAP benchmarks. The Sun Fire X4600M2 Server set similarly impressive marks on the SAP SD standard SAP ERP 6.0 2005 application benchmark. With 8 Processors / 32 Cores / 32 Threads, Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 8360 SE, 2.5 Ghz, 128 KB L1 cache and 512 KB L2 cache per core, 2 MB L3 cache per processor, the Sun Fire X4600M2 surpassed the HP DL 785 result using the same basic configuration (5800 users versus 5230), as reported by Daniel Powers in his blog.
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) is a system where a digital television service is delivered using Internet Protocol over a network infrastructure, which may be delivered by a broadband connection. A general definition of IPTV is television content that, instead of being delivered through traditional broadcast and cable formats, is received by the viewer through the technologies used for computer networks.
Sun offers the most open, cost-effective, and massively scalable IPTV technologies. Sun solutions are comprehensive and reliable, reducing execution, technical, and business risk.
MySQL 5.1 Community Server and GlassFish v2 Release 2 (UR2) are perfect companions, writes Ed Ort in the first of several articles on the advantages of using MySQL with GlassFish. "When used together, MySQL and GlassFish provide an excellent, low-cost solution for quickly developing and deploying web applications that are not only secure and reliable, but also scale to meet increasing demand and are highly responsive to user requests," Ort declares.
Nick Kloski explains "MySQL Database Scale-out and Replication for High-growth Businesses" in his Sun BluePrints Online paper. Kloski defines scale-out as the ability to improve "...application performance and scalability on an incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database servers on low-cost commodity hardware." He makes a distinction between scale-out or horizontal scaling and scale-up or vertical scaling, in which users add server hardware.
In an article entitled "Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portal Products, 2008" Gartner staffers David Gootzit, Gene Phifer and Ray Valdes positioned Sun in the leaders' quadrant. According to Gartner, evaluation is based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period, depicting Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace. Other companies in the leaders' quadrant include IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Vignette.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Sun announced the arrival of AMSTAR, a new digital storage library that will preserve and protect valuable scientific data for the next 15 to 20 years. The new system, designed by Sun Microsystems and based on the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library, will give NCAR five times its current storage capacity, enabling it to generate increasingly sophisticated computer studies of Earth's climate.
With the introduction of the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 single processor server by Sun and Fujitsu, customers now have a full product portfolio to choose from: entry-level (M3000), mid-range (M4000/M5000), to high-end (M8000/M9000). The M3000 server inherits the mission critical DNA of the Enterprise M-Series family, bringing extreme RAS, and extreme performance, in an ultra dense footprint at an entry-level price point.
There are now 4- and 6-core standard configurations for the four-socket Sun Blade X6450 server module with Intel Xeon 7400 series (Dunnington) processors. These configurations have up to 16MB L3 cache and help to support up to 192GB of memory. The 24 DIMM slots per server module deliver 50% more memory capacity than competing blade servers.
Sun has introduced a new tool for consolidating IT infrastructures and web service farms at less than half the cost of blade servers from the competition. That tool is the Sun Blade X6250 server module, a two-socket, enterprise-class datacenter engine based on Intel Xeon dual- and quad-core processors, and capable of providing major savings in cooling and power.
Sun's range of CoolThreads rack and blade servers, based on the industry's first massive multi-core, multi-thread UltraSPARC T1,T2 and T2 Plus Chip Multi-Threading (CMT) processors, delivers a unique combination of world record performance, power and space efficiency and price/performance without compromise.
Bernd Panzer-Steindel's paper on "Data Integrity" reports on investigations done at the CERN computer center into the causes of data corruption. The research employed a program that writes a ~2 GB file containing special bit patterns and afterwards reads the file back and compares the patterns. This program was deployed on more than 3000 nodes (disk server, CPU server , data bases server, etc.) and run every 2h. About 5 weeks of running on 3000 nodes revealed 500 errors on 100 nodes.
There is now a new Sun entry level port switch, the Brocade 300 24-port switch, with 8 ports activated and No E-port connectivity. Also announced is the longwave length 8 and 16 port upgrades Port-On-Demand (PODS) for the Brocade 5100 and 5300 in both 4GB and 8GB configurations.
Roger Bitar's Sun BluePrints Online paper, which he entitles "Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools with Sun Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System," provides an overview of Flash technology and discusses its introduction into a new tier of storage infrastructure. Bitar explains how companies can utilize Flash technology and the Solaris ZFS file system to take advantage of the high performance of enterprise solid state drives (SSDs) and the low cost of high-capacity hard disks to create hybrid storage pool solutions that help balance system performance and cost.
The Open Solaris Storage Community is a new initiative by Sun to enable developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. The initiative includes the addition of powerful developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities.
In the introduction to his Sun BluePrints Online paper "An Economical Approach to Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," Mike Shapiro writes that the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems meet the industry requirements for reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) that enable the line to preserve customer data and meet enterprise requirements.
In an episode of Innovating@Sun, host Hal Stern, VP Global Systems Engineering, interviews Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineer for FISHworks, live from CEC 2008 in Las Vegas, NV to discuss the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems also known as "Amber Road," the industry's first open storage products.
Bryan Cantrill, one of the key developers of DTrace, has posted a blog entry
that tells the story of the origin of the project that has just produced the
new NAS appliances from Sun: the Sun Storage 7110, Sun Storage 7210 and Sun Storage 7410.
Bryan tell hows he and his "longtime partner-in-crime", Mike Shapiro, pitched an idea to Sun's CTO, Grep Papadopoulos. His blog includes a link to the original PDF presentation that was delivered to and accepted by Greg Papadopoulos.
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, Vol 129 Issue 1, the top 10 articles were:
Early on Sunday 9th, the OpenOffice.org Community achieved an historic milestone. when the ten millionth person clicked on the "Download OpenOffice.org" button since the Community announced version 3.0, just four weeks ago. The week also saw the first time the OpenOffice.org Annual Conference has been held outside Europe, with over four hundred people attending the Conference in Beijing, China from Wednesday to Friday.
(Note: that's 10 million direct downloads. With torrents, mirrors and distro repositories, the effective number of installs is much higher.)
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