Oracle has posted the transcription of an interview of Larry Ellison to their web site. In that interview, Larry makes a number of important statements for existing Sun customers, partners, and employees.
He stately clearly that, "we are definitely not going to exit the hardware business. While most hardware businesses are low-margin, companies like Apple and Cisco enjoy very high-margins because they do a good job of designing their hardware and software to work together."
Sun and Intel's Alliance brings great promise to Solaris users by providing enhancements to the operation system on Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series. For enterprises seeking minimal energy cost with maximum performance, this alliance would be worth reviewing.
The recently released book, "Pro OpenSolaris" answers important questions that readers may have since Solaris became Open Source. Learn about where open source has taken this operating system and how it differs from Linux. This book will demonstrate that users can host open source applications and solutions with OpenSolaris.
Download the latest update of Solaris and get enhancements to Solaris Containers, tighter integration with Internet Protocol Security, an upgraded Logical Domains (LDoms), and greater optimization for Intel’s new Xeon 5500 processors, among other improvements. Solaris 10 5/09 is the seventh update of the Sun Unix operating system since it was released in 2005.
The results of a recent benchmarking operation with the DBT2 Benchmark and MySQL Cluster database 7.0 are the subject of Hasham Pathan's blog "MySQL Cluster Database 7: Performance Benchmark."
Having earlier outlined his aims in "My Own Private Cloud-aho -- The Goals", where he related his experience in creating a small cloud in a datacenter architecture based on virtualization with xVM Xen, in a second blog Joe Mocker discusses "My Own Private Cloud-aho -- The Details", which are abundant and thorough.
Sun Java Enterprise System (ES) delivers an integrated enterprise services software system that is designed, developed, and tested to provide a consistent experience to IT and business users. Java ES 6 is the latest release, offering more products, compatibility testing, and interoperability testing than Java ES 5. It also employs the installers of its constituent products instead of a single-host installer for more flexibility in setting up enterprise-level deployments.
The Lustre Storage System, a clustered file system can remove high performance computing I/O bottlenecks created by increasing load. The Lustre Storage System takes front stage of the methods used for traditional CPU performance because of growing computing requirements by HPC clusters.
The two-socket Sun Blade X6270 Server Module can scale compute resources without adding complexity. Leveraging new technologies from Intel such as QuickPath Interconnect, Hyper-Threading, Virtualization Technology, and Turbo Boost, this new blade server delivers intelligent performance that adapts to customers software environments. The Sun Blade X6270 server module is fully supported in both the Sun Blade 6000 and Sun Blade 6048 modular systems, and it runs the Solaris 10 OS, Linux, Windows, or VMware.
The Sun Fire X2270 is an x64 entry-level HPC server that is fast, expandable, and energy-efficient and runs Solaris, Linux, Windows and VMware operating systems. With Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, the Sun Fire X2270 server delivers 32-bit and 64-bit performance in rack-mountable 1RU form factor.
Solaris Cluster 3.1 and 3.2 now supports the Sun Blade X6240 - a two-socket blade server with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and 2:1 (DIMM:core) ratio. Sun Blade X6240 server combined with Solaris Cluster are ideal for mission-critical deployments requiring reliable performance and high service levels.
The first major software update for the Sun Storage 7000 series (2009.Q2.0.0) has been released with new features, technology improvements, bug fixes and added support of virtual machines that should interest users of the Sun Storage 7000 simulator, which also has a new update.
Sun's Unified Storage Systems is the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever, the company reports, with more than 800 customers adopting Sun's OpenStorage family in under five months, across a wide range of deployments, including VMware virtualization, Web MySQL database/rich media and media/entertainment, as well as high-performance computing, education, government, healthcare and telecommunications.
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 134 Issue 5, the top 10 articles were:
Within the Open Source Community, the updated version of the Hardware Activity Reporter (HAR) Version 2.0 is available for download. The original version 1.0 was created in 2001 by the Sun ISV Engineering group for Solaris 8 and has since been enhanced by the developer community.
Expressing strikingly similar opinions on the virtues of "dumb code," four Java developers interviewed by Janice J. Heiss in her "Developer Insight Series, Part 1" discuss the importance of not striving for elegance but simplicity instead. Another five experts offer their views in "The Developer Insight Series, Part 2: Code Talk."
The Sun Fire X4275 Server, powered by 2 Quad-core 2.93 GHz Intel Nehalem X5570 processors and using only 12 internal disks (SAS 300GB 15K RPM), achieved a QphH@1000GB of 23,365 with a price performance of $2.41 in tests running the Sybase IQ Database. Reported by BM Seer, this is the best price performance among all non-clustered server results at TPC-H 1000GB.
Another record, set this time by the Sun Blade X6270 with a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570 processor for SPECfp2006: 50.4., was enhanced even further by the optimization technologies introduced in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler, reports John L. Henning in his blog "Sun Studio Trounces Intel Compiler on Intel Chip."
The China Innovation Program for Students (CHIPS) is a student development program providing mentoring and training on open source technologies. Sponsored by Sun and the Ministry of Education of China, CHIPS will invite technology students from 10 Chinese universities to leverage Sun's portfolio of open source, virtual and collaborative technology solutions to build an online virtual collaboration site. Divided into teams, the best one will be flown to Sun's corporate headquarters for a one week hosted stay where they will meet with Sun technologists for additional mentoring programs.
This paper describes the installation of the Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) for use as a virus scan engine for a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System, in conjunction with the VSCAN service. Content on storage volumes can be protected against malware threats using the VSCAN service if the content is published using the CIFS or NFS Version 4 protocol.
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can be used to share NFS and iSCSI file systems with Pentaho Business Intelligence and MySQL database servers deployed on Sun SPARC and x86 servers running the Solaris 10 OS. (Pentaho BI suite is an open source BI product that provides reporting, data analysis, dashboards, data mining capabilities, and data integration.)
The authors of this Sun BluePrints Online paper, "Deploying Web 2.0 Applications on Sun Servers and the OpenSolaris Operating System," address the need for a means to respond to the mounting pressure for highly scalable and flexible solutions for hosting applications and suggest open source as the answer.
"Necessity is the mother of technological innovation" -- a much cited axiom -- is demonstrated once again as Jignesh K. Shah writes about his creation of an OVF image less than 270MB in size that users can employ to work with the OpenSolaris kernel in VirtualBox 2.2. In fact, he writes in his blog, it can be used to install the rest of the OpenSolaris Desktop to get to the default full blown installation of OpenSolaris 2008.11.
Before attempting to setup virtual machines on your own, check out this beginner's guide that walks users through the installation of VirtualBox, a free open source virtual application. In the article by Kevin Purdy, he suggested that anyone who wants to use a separate operating system (OS) might want to consider setting up a virtualization system.
The IDC white paper "Virtualizing the Infrastructure with Sun x86 Blades" by Jed Scaramella and Jean S. Bozman examines the ongoing customer requirements for server platforms and the concomitant upward pressure on power and cooling costs as datacenters become increasingly crowded with computer systems.
VirtualBox 2.2.2 is available as a maintenance release. It comes less than a month after major release VirtualBox 2.2 and fixes 31 reported bugs. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also open source.
From the viewpoint of the James Gosling, Sun Microsystems VP and Fellow, users can take home a few golden nuggets about the Cloud, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Java in the question and answer session prepared by Jason Stamper, Editor of Computer Business Review (CBR).
The Algorithmics Risk Analysis "Algo" application, which is financial simulation software, runs great on the Sun Fire X4270, according to Sun Blogger, Jeffrey Taylor. He explained that Solaris users can use such features as TurboBoost and HyperThreading, which help to create an ideal environment for the Algo software.
Oracle has certified the Oracle Database 10g on Solaris SPARC using ZFS and announced support for Solaris 10 x64 as the certified E-Business Suite platform for the database tier.
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