Barclays Global Investors now owns 3.18% of Sun which, according to is trying to Matt Asay, is intent on visiting the same strategy on its competitors in the storage market sector as was applied to Sun's server business.
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According testing for VDI performance and scalability, the Sun Fire X4450 can support 120 virtual machines and the Sun Fire X4600 M2 over 160.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reported Barclays Global Investors has bought enough Sun stock to take a 3.18 percent share in the company. This move followed on the heels of Sun's largest shareholder Southeastern Asset Management's decision to increase its stake in Sun from 21.5 percent to 22.3 percent. These SEC filings were completed during the first full week of February, reported Dawn Kawamoto for CNET News.
As if taking a lesson from the past, when Sun's margins declined in the face of competition from its rivals who offered commodity Linux servers, the company is intent on visiting the same strategy on its competitors in the storage market sector. Matt Asay comments on this phenomenon in a recent column in CNET.
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The personal saga of a conversion from Linux to OpenSolaris is the subject of Dan Anderson's blog in which he walks readers through the details of that particular migration. He settled on the Solaris Express Developer Edition from the install DVD and then, after reboot, changed the/export/home filesystem to a ZFS filesystem pool.
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz sees opportunity in the current economic downturn and believes that Sun is well positioned to meet customers' needs in this market, which he expects will influence IT managers to make increasingly imaginative decisions about their infrastructure, decisions that Sun will be more than happy to assist them to realize. This is according to Computerworld's Patrick Thibodeau, whose interview with Schwartz allows the CEO to expand on the remarks he delivered at the recent quarterly meeting with analysts.
The new Sun Microsystems Federal Solutions receive an inaugural explanation from Mark Perkins, CTO of Sun Microsystems Federal, in a recent blog. Perkins tells his readers that these Sun solutions are built with a solution-based strategy Sun has carefully aligned with its federal customers' mission critical goals and priorities.
In a two-part blog, Melanie writes a "how-to" on "Tinkering with MySQL Cluster, Part 1 - Preparation" and "Part 2 - Getting the Software." The author accomplishes her aim on a single computer for this typically hardware-dependent operation.
From Sun xVM Central comes the most recent word on Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.0 in a post by Stephanie Lewellen. Sun released the Sun Virtual Desktop Access Kit for VMware in early 2007, and will soon be releasing Sun xVM VDI 3.0, which offers a complete Sun stack along with many new features.
The bloggers at the Thin Client and Server Based Computing Group refer readers to a series of performance tests conducted for Sun on the scaling and performance of a VDI setup based on the shared experiences of Sun and VMware users. The references deliver a "measurable" standard baseline starting point. The independent test reports were conducted by LI0NBRIDGE/VeriTest on the Sun Fire X4450 (with 16x Intel Xeon 7400 series processors), the Sun Fire X4450 (with 16x Intel Xeon 7300 series processors), and the Sun Fire X4600 M2 (with 32x AMD Opteron 8356 processors).
Sun ODF Plugin 3.0 is the next version of this add-on for Microsoft Office that allows users to read, edit, and save to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) for a seamless conversion from Microsoft Office documents to and from ODF. The plug-in works with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, and this version adds Office 2007 support and compatibility with ODF 1.2. It is available as a no-charge download from the Sun Download Center.
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (Amber Road) is the star of a brief YouTube video hosted by Sun's Raymond Austin, Group Manager, Sr. Product Management, in which he details the features and benefits of this innovative storage technology.
Offering NAS and IP SAN support as standard features, Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System is the "... storage host with the most...," in the words of Dave Mitchell writing in PCPro. Other features such as unlimited snapshots, integral data compression, iSCSI thin provisioning, virus scanning, support for RAID5 and 6 arrays and ZFS Hybrid storage pools, and even remote replication solidified the position at the top of Mitchell's list for the Sun Storage 7110.
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Sun CTO for cloud computing, Lew Tucker sees the evolution as the result of, first, the client-server, then the Internet, and now the cloud. He told Paul Krill for an interview in Infoworld that he expects IDEs to evolve in parallel, moving to cloud deployments.
Project SocialSite is an open source project building Widgets and Web Services to ease the task of adding social networking features to existing Web sites, including the ability to run OpenSocial Gadgets and have them backed by the same social graph.
With all the capabilities available in Sun Studio compilers and tools, developers would do well to avail themselves of the opportunity to make use of the increased performance and numerous features of these solutions by having a look at the article by Diane Meirowitz on "Translating gcc/g++/gfortran Options to Sun Studio Compiler Options."
This tool helps you see whether you can install the Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris OS on x86/x64 systems. The updated version is designed to detect and run in the default language on your system. The GUI and reports are generated in the corresponding language. The supported languages are English, simplified Chinese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, traditional Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Now the informational web pages have also been translated into Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese.
Sun Ray clients and OpenOffice.org Impress work together impressively in this digital signage solution, combined with one repurposed Microsoft Windows-based workstation. The author writes: "Fortunately, we ended up going with Sun Ray clients, and now we have the beginnings of a very neat little signage setup that is robust, cost-effective, centrally managed, and easy to use."
Roman Ivanov introduces the Sun BluePrints Online piece he wrote with Ritu Kamboj on "Best Practices for Running Oracle Databases in Solaris Containers." The document describes the features Solaris Containers uses with Oracle databases. The authors show how to set up Container and assign resources to it (scheduler, CPU and memory capping), and it also shows which privilege gives you the ability to use Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM) with Oracle. Presented as well is information on how to set up Container so it will have its own IP stack; mounting UFS and ZFS filesystems; devices in Containers; and System V Resource Controls.
The Force10 P-Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet IP Services Platform and the Sun Netra Server are the ideal combination when considering how to deliver IP Services. Recognized as the first to deliver comprehensive deep packet inspection for line-rate 10 GbE applications, the Force10 P-Series 10 GbE inspection appliance uses an innovative, new processing architecture to simultaneously apply millions of rules to each packet. Through the use of an FPGA-based rule engine, the P-Series can also dynamically reprogram hardware rules to deliver predictable performance and total signature flexibility under all traffic conditions.
Sun is offering its open source GlassFish application server and some new by-products as part of a newly named Sun GlassFish Portfolio that offers a flexible subscription-based pricing model based upon varying levels of service and support. Starting at $999 per server, the GlassFish Portfolio includes the GlassFish Application Server, along with the following new components: Web Stack, Web Space Server, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and Enterprise Manager.
Insight on Sun's Java Mobile strategy was recently shared by Sun leaders at January's Java Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days (M3DD) conference. The technologies expected to be top innovators in the mobile space, according to Sun, are JavaFX and Java On Device Portal (ODP). Keeping in line with this, the company announced on February 12th the general availability of JavaFX Mobile and the new JavaFX 1.1 SDK, which runs directly on Java ME to take advantage of its ubiquity, security, and highly capable feature set.
The recent release of Java SE 6 Update 12 provides support for 64 bit browsers, with a 64 bit version of the Java Plug-in and Java Webstart. Update 12 also offers improved application start-up time with JavaFX-based applications and better graphic performance when doing anti-aliased drawing, or non-anti-aliased wide lines. Sun also has a "binary snapshot" release of Java 6, Update 14, which is the first beta of the next functional update of Java 6.
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