The Barack Obama administration is looking to Scott McNealy for advice on open source technologies and products.
Jonathan Schwartz has a new blog entry on OpenStorage.
The long-anticipated results are in and the winners of the Developer.com Product of the Year 2009 have been announced and reported by Rosemarie Graham, who notes that the margins were so decisive this year in all categories that it was not necessary to name runners up, as had been the case in past years. Sun's NetBeans IDE won five out of the 12 categories.
Sun took two prizes in InfoWorld's 2009 Technology of the Year Awards for its Sun Fire X4150 server, which won Best 1U Server, and Sun StorageTek "Honeycomb" that was named Best Fixed Content Archiving Solution. These InfoWorld awards recognize the best hardware and software products evaluated by InfoWorld reviewers during 2008, and includes 40 winners in as many product categories.
Sun is a member of the leaders' quartet in the Burton Group's Provisioning Market RoundUp, reports Paul Walker in a recent blog. The other players are Oracle, IBM and Novell. The research paper is available online.
The new Barack Obama administration has requested Scott McNealy, Sun co-founder and currently chairman of Sun’s Board of Directors and Sun Federal, Inc., prepare a paper on open source technologies and products. McNealy told the BBC the secret to a more secure and cost effective government is through open source and he wants to ensure the government does not get “locked in” to one specific vendor or company.
The cloud relationship model Wayne Horkan developed (replete with graphical representations) is the subject of his guest article on the Sun Startup Essentials site. There are three main players: Cloud Providers; Cloud Adopters/Developers; and Cloud End Users.
"Sun Microsystems is researching ways to make massive supercomputers even faster, including wireless connections between CPU and memory," writes Patrizio with internetnews.com.
One of Sun's solutions includes the Proximity Communications project, which is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project, "the same Defense Department group that gave us the Internet."
Inspired by the example of consumer electronic devices such as cell phones, wireless routers and plasma TVs, Sun's Project Live* [live-star] team, has been working on simplifying the distribution and configuration of software in the datacenter, attempting to bring to that process the simplicity of the built-in firmware that makes consumer electronic devices so easy to use. Live* technology distributes major software components as immutable disk images containing pre-installed, ready-to-run software that users can pick and click to create fully functional software appliances.
Safeway's Paul Rarey sat down with John Barco of Sun Identity Management Buzz TV recently to discuss the business benefits Safeway, a Fortune 100 retailer, has seen from implementing Sun Identity Management solutions. With annual sales of $42.3 billion in 2007 and over 200,000 employees in an extensive network of facilities, the needs for both efficient personnel management and for regulatory compliance were behind Safeway's implementation of Sun Identity Management, Rarey said.
Wanting to back up his own home data, without relying on expensive or potentially unreliable online backup services, the author of this article researched home NAS solutions, and chose an alternative – to build his own ZFS server.
The OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2009 will be held on Monday, February 23rd, 2009, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco. Scheduled one day prior to the FAST 2009 USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, the OpenSolaris Storage Summit is free and all storage community members are welcome to attend.
In his review of Sun VirtualBox 2.1 desktop virtualization software for eWeek.com, Cameron Sturdevant finds an open-source, no-cost solution that ranks favorably with the competition from VMware Workstation and Parallels Desktop products as a viable choice.
The Hardware Certification Test Suite (HCTS) Version 4.2 is the latest release in the Solaris Operating System HCTS Program for x86 systems and components. Version 4.2 includes new features such as support for hard drives with more than one terabyte capacity and support for OpenSolaris. The Solaris HCTS Program enables independent hardware vendors (IHVs), system manufacturers, system integrators, and end users to certify their systems and components for the Solaris OS on x86 and x64 platforms.
Using the Sun Ray 2 series of devices, Rick Vanover has discovered, is a manageable approach to setting up a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Vanover, a systems administrator at Safelite Autoglass, shares his findings in a posting on SearchServerVirtualization.com.
Readers of the Makia Minich's blog at Savannah (the Giraffe Hangout) will already know that the Sun HPC Software Stack, Linux Edition team has announced the release of version 1.2 of the HPC Software Stack. Sun HPC Software, Linux Edition is an integrated open-source software solution for Linux-based HPC clusters running on Sun hardware. It provides a framework of software components to simplify the process of deploying and managing large-scale Linux HPC clusters.
Learn basic and advanced configuration concepts for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series server line in the Sun Blueprints article “Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series Servers Configuration Concepts” by James Hsieh, who provides several sample configurations for Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, and M9000 servers.
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 with enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors is a compact 4U form factor with up to 32 cores and 256GB of memory to tackle resource-intensive data processing tasks. This server scales server virtualization and database applications while simplifying server infrastructure and reducing on-going power consumption, operating and support costs.
The new Server/Controller Module Kit for X4540 is part of the upgrade path for Solaris ZFS/X4500 customers, enabling current X4500 owners to upgrade to the Sun Fire X4540 with Solaris and ZFS. This is a module that inserts into the X4500 to upgrade it into X4540 under Solaris ZFS. This upgrade is only for customers using Solaris ZFS/X4500 systems.
The Sun BluePrints Online title "Configuring Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on Sun Fire x64 Servers" by Pierre Reynes of Sun Systems Technical Marketing shows the steps necessary to install and configure Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on a Sun Fire x64 server with a Sun Storage J4000 series array for external storage.
With Windows 7 beta now available, many users are curious about how it looks and performs. A step-by-step procedure for having a look at the solution using VirtualBox on a Mac, and which is amply illustrated with numerous screen shots, has been provided on Fat Bloke's Weblog.
Disaster recovery (DR) and its relation to storage practices is the subject of the Taneja Group paper "Combining Storage Capacity Optimization and Replication to Optimize Disaster Recovery Capabilities," which considers virtual tape libraries (VTLs), storage capacity optimization (SCO), and replication in terms of automated disaster recovery solutions.
Will Open Source Storage prove to be the life ring that Sun can depend on to pull it out of the doldrums, wonders Drew Robb in a recent post on Enterprise Storage Forum. He cites the opinions of stock analysts and Sun executives in support of a mildly optimistic assessment.
Jonathan Schwartz likens traditional storage technology to the marketing model at work in one of two bookstores in his neighborhood. This store shelves its titles alphabetically, making them all equally easy to find but giving them none of the close-to-the-register placement employed by the other, more successful store in town, the store whose marketing model shares some features of flash technology. Flash technology, Schwartz writes in a recent blog, is what makes all the difference in Sun's new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.
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 131 Issue 2, the top 10 articles were:
Sun SPOTs Patch release "represents a significant step towards full epidemic deployment." "Epidemic code deployment is a more efficient mechanism," said Vipul Gupta in his weblog, "that lets code propagate from SPOT to SPOT." The current method of deployment of the same code to multiple SPOTs is one-at-a- time.
The best SPECmail2008 benchmark to date has been set by the Sun Fire X4540 server. SPECmail2008 is an industry standard client server benchmark designed to measure a system's ability to act as a mail server compliant with the Internet standards Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Internet Mail Application Protocol, Version 4 (IMAP4). Modeling business user behavior, this benchmark simulates a real world workload experienced by enterprise-based email services.
Did you know that it is possible (and has been since March 2007) to scale LDAP write operations using the data distribution capability in the Sun Directory Proxy Server? Mark Craig of Sun's Directory Integration Team has all the details in his blog "About Scaling LDAP Write Operations."
Trujillo in his blog provides the advantages of using Solaris and OpenSolaris over Linux, Solaris versus Red Hat, database and application server features, and reference links.
"I've been hearing a lot of great things about the key features in Solaris 10 so I wanted to share some information I recently received."
Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) provides a framework to simplify and extend the JumpStart functionality provided within the Solaris Operating System. JET version 4.6 is a bug fix release and is expected to be part of the next xVM OpsCenter. Some of JET’s key features for use on SPARC or x86-based Jumpstart servers includes installing Solaris onto either SPARC or x86/x64 based clients, deploying Flash archives, utilizing multiple boot methods, and much more.
Project SailFin, otherwise known as GlassFish Communications Server (GlassFish CS) is based on robust and scalable SIP servlets technology on top of a deployment-quality, Java EE-based GlassFish. The goal is to achieve JSR 289 compatibility, adding high-availability and clustering features, and integrating with existing GlassFish services.
Developers wanting to learn Java and related technologies should visit Sun Java Technology Architect Sang Shin's Web site of online tutorials. Offered as a free service, these tutorials are put together well, easy to follow, and ideal for students and professionals looking to learn Java, Ajax, Web Services, and Java EE, among other related technologies.
Given the relative lack of skin-aware controls in the new JavaFX API, Simon Morris set out to write a step-by-step guide to creating own style-aware JavaFX control, including an external stylesheet that can transform the look of the component without need for recompilation of the JavaFX Script code. He reports the results in the blog JavaFX in Style.
Filling in the gap in the literature on the subject, the Sun BluePrints Online article details the security benefits enabled by Solaris Zones and sparse root zone configurations are specifically. The capabilities fostered by this functionality provide a strong foundation upon which organizations can build virtualization strategies and deploy network services.
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