The United States Marine Corps has selected the Sun Identity Management Suite and
Sun has purchased
Q-layer, a firm whose technology simplifies cloud management and allows users to quickly provision and deploy applications. Learn more about Sun and cloud computing from Dave Douglas.
See how better
SAP performs on Solaris (with unicode) over Linux (non-unicode), on very similar hardware
and how much Siebel CRM users can save by upgrading to the T5440.
We all work hard to create data, but what's your policy when it come time to
destroy data?
Learn about Solaris and security in the upcoming book "Solaris Security Essentials".
A new release of LDoms, 1.1, is now available.
Read about the security advantages that stem from the fine-grained resource management capabilities of Solaris Zones.
The Sun Identity Management Suite is the solution of choice for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) to protect over 400,000 Marines in classified and unclassified networks. The Sun Suite, which includes Sun's Identity Manager, Role Manager, OpenSSO Enterprise, and Directory Server Enterprise Edition, will provide role-based access to a variety of business and mission systems to enable data sharing and collaboration in a trusted environment.
Sun's new Cloud Computing Business Unit just added more technological options for its customers with the purchase of cloud computing company Q-layer for an undisclosed amount. Q-layer technology simplifies cloud management and allows users to quickly provision and deploy applications, a key component in Sun's strategy to enable building public and private clouds.
Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 19 items and three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: MySQL, Sun Startup Essential program, Sun Fire Servers, Sun Blade Modular Systems, Sun Secure Global Desktop Software, Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, Solaris 10, Sun StorageTek Arrays and Modular Library Systems
Leading Market Conversations: Open Storage, Cloud Computing, JavaFX, Disk Storage Systems Sales, Magic Quadrant for Web Access Management, Sun's Strategies and Innovation, Asia's Top Tech Index, Financial Performance
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: MySQL 5.1, OpenSolaris 2008.11, JavaFX, Sun xVM VirtualBox, OpenOffice.org 3.0
A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
By accessing the web logs, we have determined that the following
list of about 900 articles were the most popular with subscribers
and web site visitors in 2008.
We have grouped the articles by topic to give you a view of what
were the most important news articles for 2008. That a topic had
enough popular articles to be included in this of topics is in itself
significant.
Part 1 of 3
Sun Microsystems, Sun/NetApp Litigation, Jonathan Schwartz, Servers, Blade Servers, Intel Servers, AMD Servers, SPARC CMT, SPARC64 Servers, Green, Datacenter, Storage, Tape and VTL, ZFS, Open Storage
Open Source, HPC, Lustre, Inifniband, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, OpenSolaris Project, MySQL, Data Warehouse, Solaris Cluster, Netra, DTrace, Security, OpenSSO, Java FX
With offices in 20 countries and more than 7,500 employees worldwide, Clifford Chance, one of the world's largest law firms, faced the challenge of improving support for business-critical applications while also reducing IT complexity, consolidating data centers and making a more efficient use of space and energy. Implementing high-performance servers using Sun's multithreaded processors proved to be the technology that achieved these ends.
Masood Mortazavi shares his personal story and his views on technology, its influence on people, and reflects on the following: Sun founder Bill Joy "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"; Hubert Dreyfus, What Computers Still Can't Do, On the Internet; and Thomas Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think About Technology and Culture.
Dr. Oliver Diedrich, writing for Heise Open Source Forum, discusses the subject of using OpenSolaris as a file server. Both a very fast SMB/CIFS server and the modern functionality of the ZFS file system make OpenSolaris a good choice when setting up a LAN file server, he contends. For a relatively modest cost, Diedrich asserts, one can build a storage system that promises more data safety and especially a much higher performance than a simple network hard disk using OpenSolaris.
This FAQ defines common questions that users may have for the installation of OpenSolaris.
The how-to topics covered include virtual box, driver device utility, installation guide, VMWare, disk, partitions, bare metal, boot manager, Linux, Mac installations, installation blogs, user guides, and documentation.
Charlie Boyle, Director of Solaris Marketing, Sun Microsystems provides the latest updates on the new datacenter and storage components of OpenSolaris 2008.11. Boyle discusses the innovative feature, Time Slider; the new repository packages introduced; developments in desktop experience; wireless networking support; and suspend/resume capabilities.
The Sun Weblog "Patch Corner" reports a stricter Solaris patch entitlement implementation will be going into effect to ensure it matches the Solaris patch entitlement policy. Under the new entitlement implementation, 18% of Solaris OS patches will remain available without a support contract, while the remainder will require a valid support contract in order to access them. The new implementation will roll out in phases, starting the second full week of January.
Busy database administrators (DBA) using MySQL may be interested in two recent offerings - the Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL Enterprise and ZRM for MySQL Cluster. ZRM for MySQL offers DBAs an easy-to-use, flexible, and robust backup and recovery solution. ZRM for MySQL Enterprise is the backup and recovery solution for business-critical databases, while ZRM for MySQL Cluster is designed for the demands of MySQL Cluster CGE.
Mark Matthews is one of the architects of the MySQL Query Analyzer and, therefore, a logical choice as an interview subject on that aspect of the MySQL solution.
Version 1.1 of Logical Domains (LDoms), Sun's server hardware virtualization and partitioning technology for CoolThreads servers, is now available. Some of its features include warm and cold migration, Virtual I/O Dynamic Reconfiguration, Network NIU Hybrid I/O, Network VLAN Support for Virtual Network Interface and Virtual Switch, and Network Virtual I/O Performance Enhancement, to name a few.
CommunityOne is a conference sponsored by Sun Microsystems focused on open source innovation and implementation. It brings together developers, technologists and students for technical education and exchange. Two conferences are planned in 2009: CommunityOne East in New York, March 18-19, 2009, at the Marriott Marquis (Broadway and W46th St.), followed by CommunityOne West in San Francisco, June 1-2, 2009, Moscone Center (Howard St. between Third St. and Fourth St.) The deadline for submittal of proposed talks and sessions has been extended to January 15, 2009.
Sun's highly dense Sun Fire X4140, X4240 and X4440 servers with enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver increased performance by up to 30% -- and up to 35% power savings at idle. This enables enterprises to excel in HPC, improve consolidation, and increase ROI.
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 5, the top 10 articles were:
OpenSolaris News Bites - NTFS and FAT32 Partitions, SRSS 4.1, Open Source Software Optimization, Third Party I/O Technologies, Microsoft Remote Desktop and VNC Client, Get Xine Multimedia Player [21090]
For 2009, cloud computing will be a much talked about service. It is on the cutting-edge in incorporating the latest technologies and satisfying many of today's environmental concerns. Sun is a pioneer in cloud computing. Its cloud computing services include cloud assessments and architecture guides and Sun's open source products, such as MySQL, xVM, and open storage, are the foundation of some of the largest clouds on the Internet today.
OpenSSO Enterprise, a set of reusable, standardized services that provide applications with identity management, enables users to employ Identity as a Service in their environments. Typically based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA), Identity as a Service is system of discrete functional components of identity management. It is derived from the traditional set of functionally overlapping applications such as authentication, authorization, work flow, policy management, attribute management, provisioning, and password management.
Janice J. Heiss has conducted a roundup of sorts in which she interviewed 11 of the top Java developers, each of whom has advice to offer aspiring students of the development art. She provides a helpful tag line for each subject's contribution that acts as an index to the feature.
With the release of JavaFX 1.0 and NetBeans 6.5 in December, many developers are eagerly experimenting with these new technologies. Novice users may want to walk through a couple of tutorials that demonstrate how to create a JavaFX application that uses NetBeans IDE 6.5. One guides readers through the steps of using the IDE to prepare a JavaFX application for execution and deployment outside of the IDE. A second demonstrates how to create a simple calculator application.
Sun Engineer Brendan Gregg on the Fishworks team offers some useful clarifications concerning the stated results of IOPS testing in his blog "A quarter million NFS IOPS." He includes screenshots from Analytics that show sustained NFS read ops/sec from DRAM. Starting with NFSv3 and then provides explanations.
The two-tier SAP-SD standard application benchmark provides results for whether SAP on Solaris x64 performs better or worse than on Linux or Windows.
Benchmarks are performed by HP using SAP ERP 6.0 (2005) non-Unicode with Oracle 10g RDBMS and by Sun using SAP ERP 6.0 (2005) Unicode with MaxDB 7.6 RDBMS.
Paul Milo, group manager, Oracle Sun Market Development, has a persuasive marketing message for users thinking about upgrading their legacy CRM solutions and the savings that such a move can deliver. For example, he points out that there is potentially a 1900% ROI in reduced operating costs for users who upgrade legacy CRM solutions, such as Siebel 6 or Siebel 7, to Oracle's Siebel 8 CRM Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) running on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server, which can provide savings of as much as $5 million over five years and lower energy usage by up to 90%.
In a Sun Inner Circle interview Sun Data Strategy and Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy looks at data destruction policy in the data center. Having an effective data retention policy in place is critical for today's enterprise.
The Sun Storage Fibre Channel (FC) Switch Model 5802 offers 8Gb FC, providing more bandwidth for SAN while also extending the life of existing SAN infrastructure since it is backwards compatible with 4Gb and 2Gb devices and optics. The stacking technology used for this switch allows it to scale from 8 to 120 FC device ports and connect up to 6 FC switches into a single manageable switch stack.
Sun has announced the Brocade Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) software, which simplifies infrastructure management with the performance and scalability required for the majority of the world's data centers. With DCFM, all Brocade products, whether based on the Fabric Operating System (FOS) or the M-EOS operating system (McData EFCM), can be managed with less cost and complexity. DCFM is available as two different products: DCFM Professional and DCFM Enterprise.
In his Sun BluePrints Online paper "Security Advantages of Solaris Zones Software," Dr. Christoph Schuba discusses the security advantages that stem from the fine-grained resource management capabilities of Solaris Zones, explaining zone technology and providing detailed examples for configuration and exploration.
Valerie Anne Fenwich blogs on her collaboration in writing portions of "Solaris Security Essentials," edited by Sharon Veach and scheduled for publication in mid-May 2009.
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