Learn how Sun's innovations can contribute to the reduction of TCO.
The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus features tape stacking, which allows the VTL user to consolidate multiple virtual tape volumes in one physical tape cartridge. Zmanda offers comprehensive backup solutions that are fully certified with Sun Open Storage product lines.
Sun, having successfully used its telecoverage model in the Indian market for the past six years, has decided to deploy it in its marketing efforts in the Emerging Markets (EM) region. The company plans to take telecoverage live in 139 EM countries, reaching out to high growth SMBs, startups and Web 2.0 through its local partners in order to foster growth in the mid-market area.
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Both Amanda Enterprise and ZRM are fully certified with Sun Open Storage
product lines including Sun Storage Unified Storage Systems, Sun Storage
J4000 Family, Sun Fire X4540 Storage Server, and Sun StorageTek tape
libraries.
The combination of Zmanda backup solutions with Sun’s innovative OpenSolaris
operating system, including the advanced ZFS file system, creates one of the
most advanced backup-to-disk offerings available on the market today.
Specifically, the snapshot capability of ZFS enables fast and scalable
backups of today’s most demanding workloads. The combination of Open Storage
and Zmanda provides enterprise grade backup to disk (with optional backup to
tape) solution at the price point that is unmatched in industry.
Sun Microsystems Italia Senior Systems Engineer Danilo Piccia has created a slide presentation that outlines the benefits to customers of Sun's innovations that contribute to the reduction of user TCO. Among the items he cites are chip multithreading (CMT), open storage, OpenSolaris and xVM.
Eric Arseneau would like to see a proliferation of computers and, just so we won't be tripping all over them, they need to be as small as possible. "I'm trying to go to as small a machine as possible," he told Al Riske in the interview entitled "Go Small or Not at All."
By migrating its production storage systems from Linux to OpenSolaris, OurStage.com increased its I/O performance and Web response time. With OpenSolaris, they found a long-term scalable storage solution that was built to handle exponential growth of monthly Web site users.
Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos would like engineering students, their professors and working engineers to "...think more about what they're doing," or so he told Brandon Bailey, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. Papadopoulos and Sun colleague David Douglas co-wrote the book "Citizen Engineer" hoping to prompt their target audience to that habit of self-examination they feel is essential among modern day practitioners of engineering. Environmental sustainability, intellectual property, economics and their respective roles as citizens in the global community are the concerns the book advances.
Webzzle (General Internet Company "GI") selects Sun to help it build a secure and scalable open source Web infrastructure. With this structure, Webzzle will be able to deliver ever-increasing volumes of explore results and also support the collaborative development and testing of new Webzzle services and applications.
If you're not already excited about the capabilities of OpenSolaris 2008.11, then let Roman Strobl, an evangelist at Sun for its distribution, who has created a most informative presentation on the release, stimulate your interest.
Support for OpenSolaris by the Intel Atom processor has been reinforced with two important Atom features being placed back into the code base of the open source platform: performance counters and support for the MOVEB instruction. These two features optimize drivers and other software to run Atom, Intel's smallest and lowest power processor.
Marten Mickos wasn't always enthusiastic about running a database company. Not even when his friends, who were then running the fledgling MySQL, offered him the job of CEO. He turned it down, as Al Riske discovered, in an interview he conducted with Sun's Database Group Senior VP.
Sun Web Stack is a fully supported and integrated enterprise-quality AMP (Apache/MySQL/Perl or PHP) stack, offering a collection of some of the most widely used open source applications optimized for Solaris 10 5/08, RedHat Linux Server 5.2, and OpenSolaris 2008.11. Version 1.4 stands as the successor to Cool Stack 1.3.1 and is available free from the Sun Web site.
Sun employees Bob Doolittle and Matt Hatley have prepared a dynamic recipe for the installation and configuration of Sun Ray Software 4 10/08 (code name Aker), (SRSS 4.1) which was released in October 2008 in OpenSolaris 2008.11. The ultimate goal for this recipe is seamless, official support of SRSS 4.1 for OpenSolaris.
Listen to Ruud van der Pas, senior staff engineer for Sun Developer Tools, as he discusses HPC Development Solutions, Sun Studio and Sun HPC ClusterTools in a recent Webinar.
SC08, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, wrapped up a record-setting event on Friday, Nov. 21, following the recognition of achievements by a number of attendees. Among the honors presented during the conference was the award for Best Paper given to Hans Eberle, Robert Drost, Nils Gura, David Hopkins and Wladek Olesinski (Sun Microsystems) and Pedro J. Garcia, José Flich and José Duato (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) for their research on "High-Radix Crossbar Switches Enabled by Proximity Communication."
Sun brings more than 20 years of systems expertise and innovative
thinking to their line of servers. Sun’s servers provide the performance, scalability, energy efficiency,
and cost effectiveness that help meet the business needs in HPC,
virtualization, and eco or energy efficiency. With Sun’s complete
family of servers -- Sun Blade servers, Netra servers, and entry-level,
mid-range, and high-end servers -- a truly flexible IT ecosystem is a
reality. Sun offers a get a choice of processors -- SPARC, UltraSPARC,
AMD Opteron, or Intel Xeon -- and operating systems -- Solaris,
Linux, or Windows. When you build your datacenter on a solid
foundation of Sun servers, you can expect maximum ROI and
minimum TCO.
A compact, comprehensive guide to Sun's servers is now available.
Sun has introduced the enterprise-class Sun Blade X6240 Server Module, which the company describes as a two-socket system designed for four-socket workloads. With this system, based on enhanced quad-core AMD Opteron processors, it is possible to consolidate IT infrastructures or Web service farms at up to half the cost of competing blade servers. And because these blades scale easily, supporting the broadest range of configurations and applications, they provide flexibility that protects customer investments and supports their future business growth. What's more, the Sun Blade X62430 Server Module can provide major savings in cooling and power.
Sun StorageTek 9900 Software Suite helps users to protect their data and make it highly available and easy to manage. The suite enables a broad range of enterprise functionality, including virtualization, dynamic provisioning, resource allocation, data lifecycle management, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus software features tape stacking, which allows the VTL user to consolidate multiple virtual tape volumes in one physical tape cartridge. The StorageTek software helps to solve the problem of shrinking backup window due to too much data this is increasing daily.
Marc Hamilton, vice president of Americas Systems Practice at Sun, blogs on the changes that are in the wings as a result of the introduction of flash technology to uses in computer memory. He notes how the traditional 3-tier cache/main memory/disk model has been subjected to demands for increasing performance by the introduction of cache memory to chips themselves.
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 130 Issue 4, the top 10 articles were:
Sun Data Protection Services Data Erasure (SDPS-DE) provides an on-site offering delivered by Sun-badged technicians that erases sensitive customer data from the hard disk drives installed in Servers and Arrays. The erasure technology conforms to DOD 5220-22M standards, ensuring non-recoverability of erased data including erasure of locked/hidden sectors such as remapped, DCO, HPA sectors.
Sun Rapid Solutions is a set of three new services designed to help customers cut costs and increase datacenter efficiency. These solutions are prearchitected and preconfigured products that can be deployed quickly and cost effectively. The solution set includes Sun Identity Provisioning, Sun Managed Virtual Desktop, and Sun Compute Cluster.
Part 1 of Ed Ort and Carol McDonald's article on GlassFish and MySQL [20849] described the advantages of using GlassFish with MySQL. Now, Part 2 takes the subject further, as the authors show how to develop a create, read, update, delete (CRUD) web application that uses GlassFish and MySQL. The application uses the Java Persistence API implemented in GlassFish to manage data persistence.
Looking for ways to cut your IT budget for 2009? John Perez blogs on the possibility of cutting costs by shifting from legacy enterprise applications to solutions from the world of open source.
Simon Morris has written "JavaFX in Action," a book which is described as a hands-on tutorial that introduces and explores JavaFX through numerous bite-sized projects. Through its Manning Early Access Program (MEAP), the publisher, Manning Publications, is making the book available to readers chapter by chapter, online, as each is completed.
The new publication "NetBeans Ruby and Rails IDE with JRuby", an officially endorsed NetBeans project book, is written by Chris Kutler and Brian Leonard for Ruby and Rails programmers who want to take advantage of the NetBeans IDE to facilitate their Ruby and/or Rails web application development.
This document, "Designing an Adaptive Security Architecture," by Joel Weise, Sun Global Systems Engineering Security Office, gives enlightenment in the area of handling security threats that can reduce the functionality, performance, availability, and integrity of IT systems. It treats these systemic qualities as critical, which are typically established into Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Sun Java Mobile Communications 1 enables over-the-air (OTA) synchronization support for multiple mobile devices with calendar and contact data stored on Sun Java Communication Suite servers. It supports SyncML based bi-directional synchronization for a variety of mobile devices and real-time access to data stored on Sun Communication Suite servers. Subscriptions are available at Standard and Premium levels.
One of Spain's leading savings banks, Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, or Caja Madrid, has implemented the Sun Open Suite for SWIFT solution platform to serve its approximately 2,000 banking offices and more than 4,600 supermarket locations throughout Spain. Both Sun and implementation partner Grupo Acotel collaborated in assisting Caja Madrid to consolidate its bank-to-bank message flows with the SWIFT suite.
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