Sun has been recognized as "green" company.
Subscribers with an interest in SOA are encouraged to cast a vote for their favorite technologies.
xVM VirtualBox has been upgraded to version 2.1. Learn about Sun xVM Ops Center in anticipation of a
new release in the near future.
Force10 Networks suggests that the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage product family will benefit greatly from
10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking options.
Voting is underway for the SOA Readers' Choice Awards with readers able to cast their votes in 19 categories through December 31st. The online magazine is hosting live voting statistics and many Sun-related technologies are faring quite well, including GlassFish, OpenESB, NetBeans, Metro, Sun Java System Portal, OpenSSO, Java CAPS, and JAXP.
Sun's UltraSPARC T2 Reference Design Kit (RDK) released this week gives system designers the essential tools necessary to design, test, and verify designs based on this CMT technology. The kit comes with CMT development tools, complete board level design database, Solaris 10 and Linux boot options, and more. Also included is an eATX form-factor motherboard with a host of interconnect options and an eight-core, 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor.
A recent report analyzing climate change governance practices at 63 of the world's largest companies finds Sun has more than just talked about eco-responsibility, but has taken strong action. The company placed third in the technology sector and scored 25 points higher than the overall median score covering 11 industry sectors.
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The new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage product family features 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking options as the perfect match to this innovative, standards-based storage system. High performance 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches from Force10 Networks, including the company’s S2410 access switches, complete the storage solution, providing a scalable, flexible network architecture for demanding storage environments.
Charlie Schluting has to wonder -- in fact, has to ask -- whether OpenSolaris 2008.11 has anything in its many new features that will appeal compellingly to hard core Linux users. He answers his own question quite unambiguously, "Yes, yes it can. The install is identical to all other Linux distros, and it uses the familiar GNOME desktop. OpenSolaris on the right hardware is basically the same as running Linux, from a casual user’s perspective."
Sun's press release announced the completion of The USC Shoah Foundation Institute's first stage of the living history project. As one of the world's largest digital video archiving projects, the Shoah Foundation utilized Sun's solutions to capture more than 100,000 hours of interviews of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
The Man Behind JavaFX
Chris Oliver's Story for Developing this Rich Internet Application
From F3 to JavaFX, Chris Oliver's experience in developing "JavaFX for rich Internet Application" is featured in Al Riske's article, "Mind-Bendingly Cool Innovation." Oliver developed F3, as an independent project that helped to integrate people, because "'there was a use case for graphics in the enterprise application space.'"
Owen Allen's announced intention in his blog on Sun xVM Ops Center is to present a summary of the solution and what it can do for users. "Sun xVM Ops Center is a datacenter management tool. You install it within your datacenter, and it serves up a browser user interface that lets you do a variety of things," he writes. Allen touches on these "things" and offers readers a video tour for more.
Sun announced the release of xVM VirtualBox 2.1 this week with several enterprise-class enhancements, including 3D acceleration graphics adapter, improved network performance, and bridged networking configuration. This high-performance, open source desktop virtualization software supports the most popular enterprise host operating systems, including the Solaris OS and OpenSolaris, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Apple Mac OS X.
Ten of the latest software updates available from the Sun Downloads page include Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4, HPC Software Linux Edition 1.1.1 GA, Message Queue 4.3, Solaris InfiniBand (IB) Updates 2.1, and more.
Sun has announced the release of Sun StorageTek HiCommand Tuning Manager v6.1, developed for the Sun StorageTek 9990V, 9985V, 9990, and 9985, along with Sun StorEdge 9910, 9960, 9970, and 9980. This latest release includes revised platform versions, RAS improvements and general bug fixes.
Sun has announced two new solutions in its storage portfolio: the Sun StorageTek 9900 Dynamic Link Manager 6.1 (DLM) for Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Windows and Linux, and Sun StorageTek 9900 Global Link Manager 6.1 (GLM).
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Cloud Computing
A Means of Delivering IT Resources as a Set of Well-defined Services
Sun sheds light on Cloud Computing. Learn about the following: What's in it for IT, what it is, why it changes everything, the silver lining, and how Sun can help. The three dimensions to cloud computing are 1) Layers of abstraction, 2) Types of deployment, and 3) Application domain.
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