If you can use a web-based invoicing and billing solution for businesses and web designers, check out CannyBill and get it at a discount, which enables users to create, send and manage invoices and accept payments online via credit card, as well as to sell your products and services using order forms that your customers can signup to and even link to live API's such as Plesk, Geotrust, Enom, Basecamp and many more.
The Sun Blade X6420 and Sun Constellation placed Sun in the top 10 of the Top500 Supercomputer List, which lists the world’s most powerful supercomputers biannually. Announced at the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference, the Sun Blade X6420 is part of the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center which landed at number 8 on the list by achieving 433.20 teraflop/s on Linpack benchmarks. The Sun Constellation System is part of supercomputer JUROPA, which earned the number 10 spot with 274.8 Tflop/s. JUROPA is installed at the Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) in Germany.
Hardened OpenSolaris 2008.11 on Amazon EC2's cloud computing service is a 32-bit AMI optimized for Amazon EC2's cloud computing environment. The hardening guidance for the OpenSolaris system configuration is based upon the work conducted by Sun and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) which was initially done for the Solaris 10 Operating System.
CTO and Evolved Technologist Editor Dan Woods says the future viability for Solaris is secure with Oracle. "Without an acquisition by Oracle or Cisco, Solaris might have been put on the proverbial shelf," he writes. In a piece hosted on Forbes.com, Woods looks at the advantages of Solaris for business computing and offers some thoughts on Oracle's possible long-term intentions.
"No Fuss, No Muss: Developing Scalable Applications for the Cloud," enabling an easy expansion and contraction of resources as requirements change is a pretty pithy summation of the draw cloud computing has for many users. At least that's how Sun Principal Engineer Ted Leung put things during the session he and Sun Product Line Manager for developer tools Ashwin Rao led at 2009 JavaOne.
A major update to StarOffice/StarSuite has been released. Version 9.1 comes with many new usability improvements especially in the area of graphics rendering, more productivity tools, significant upgrades to StarOffice Base and introduces an Arabic version along with other localization features.
Sun Grid Engine (SGE) 6.2 Update 3 introduces new features and incorporates many bug fixes. Touted as "the evolutionary step of the Sun Grid Engine product towards cloud computing," this new update incorporates the Service Domain Manager (SDM) Cloud Adapter that provides an interface to manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Machine Images (AMI), supporting cloud-only and hybrid (local+cloud) Sun Grid Engine environments.
A new InfiniBand (IB) Quad Data Rate (QDR) switch, new Sun HPC Software Linux Edition 2.0, Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3, and enhancements to the Lustre file system were all part of product announcements Sun made during the 2009 International Supercomputing Conference held June 23-26 in Hamburg. These new products improve and expand the Sun Constellation System, which also set new SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks, Sun reported.
SAS zoning or the SAS domain access configuration feature is part of the recent release of the Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager (CAM) Version 6.4.1. With this feature, users can now control which hosts have access to specific disks inside a Sun Storage Expansion Array. CAM software provides a common way to manage Sun Storage and StorageTek branded storage array devices.
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Now available, the free download of Sun Studio 12 Update 1. This is a major update to the software compiler and tools solution. Sun Studio software provides an advanced suite of tools for the Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux platforms specifically geared towards C, C++ and Fortran developers. It provides parallelizing compilers, debuggers, advanced thread and performance analysis tools and highly-tuned libraries to provide an optimized development environment for the latest multi-core x86 and SPARC-based systems.
Having earlier run memchached performance tests on the Sun Fire X2270 Server running OpenSolaris, Sun Senior Staff Engineer Shanti reports on a similar test involving RHEL5 in a blog entitled "OpenSolaris Beats Linux on Memchached."
BigAdmin's Sys Admin Resources for the OpenSolaris OS
Are you running OpenSolaris or thinking about running it, and wondering what the advantages might be? You can find lots of good links for OpenSolaris here, including resources on getting started, helpful Web sites and communities, relevant BigAdmin tools and applications, documentation and how-to information, plus training and support.
Recovery Solutions for Oracle Databases Using Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
Two updated guides by Sun Systems engineers look at using Oracle technology with Sun open storage systems (AKA "Amber Road"). These two scenarios demonstrate the replication, snapshot, clone, and rollback features on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems:
- Disaster Recovery Solution for Oracle Databases Using Remote Replication
- Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases With Snapshot Feature
New Sun Downloads
Includes Lustre, Sun Fire Servers' Firmware, HPC ClusterTools and More
Have you downloaded the latest updates in Sun software for your Sun solutions? Take a look at the top ten updates made available June 17th through June 23rd. These include Lustre 1.8.0.1; Sun Fire X4540, X2270, X4170, X4270, X4275; Sun Servers Integration 1.0; HPC ClusterTools 8.2; HPC Software, OpenSolaris Developer Edition 1.0; Sun Blade X6275; and Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 1.1.
Those who like to try out the latest technologies should download VirtualBox (VBox) 3.0 Beta 1 that was released early this month. This release is not meant for production environments and intended only for early evaluation and testing purposes. VirtualBox 3.0 Beta 1 is a major update and includes several bug fixes and new features.
A Virtual Machine Template for the GlassFish WebSpace Server is available. The template provides a new method of evaluating and deploying the GlassFish Web Space Server 10 product. "The template is a VM image containing an operating system, application server, database and GlassFish Web Space Server deployed in a headless server profile and lightly pre-configured for immediate evaluation and customization to suit your deployment needs," explains Sun's Gabor Puhalla.
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) delivers a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project OpenESB into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. Version 2.1 is the latest release. Sun does offer commercial support for this new version that offers multiple new features and components and resolves many runtime and design time issues.
This article, "Federating to Google Apps with OpenSSO," explains how to simultaneously control access to in-house applications and those hosted by the Software as a Service (SaaS) provider Google by using OpenSSO. SaaS applications are also sometimes referred to as on-demand software, web-based software, or hosted software. In a SaaS based delivery model, a commercial vendor develops the software, hosts its operations, provides Internet-based access, and supports applications for its end users and customers.
The OpenDS (Open Directory Service) development team announced the immediate availability of OpenDS 2.0.0 Release Candidate (RC) 1 at the 2009 JavaOne Conference. This is the first release candidate for OpenDS 2.0 and offers a number of new features beyond those in OpenDS 1.2.0, which was released in February 2009. The purpose of the Release Candidate is to solicit one last round of testing before the final release.
Some Netra servers have a few new options. The Netra T2000, X4200 M2, X4250, X4450, T5220 and T5440 servers now support the new 300GB 10Krpm 2.5" SAS NEBS drive, offering customers double the storage capacity. Additionally, the Netra T5440 server has a new XATO selection for 1.4GHz, giving customers the option for higher performance with this server.
Virtualization technologies are a popular means to consolidate multiple applications onto a single system for better system utilization. Solaris Cluster provides Solaris Zone Clusters (also called Solaris Containers Clusters), which provide virtual clusters and support the consolidation of multiple cluster applications onto a single cluster. Specifically, "Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Solaris Zone Clusters" by Dr. Ellard Roush and Gia-Khanh Nguyen, both of the Solaris Cluster Group, describes how this can be done.
"Architecting Cost-effective, Scalable Oracle Data Warehouses," a Sun white paper, describes reference configurations and sizing information for Oracle data warehouses on Sun servers for small, medium, and large solutions to meet business intelligence/data warehouse (BIDW) needs.
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