Anyone interested in the Sun-Oracle merger should take an hour and a half to watch the replay of former Motorola and Sun executive Ed Zander's interview of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, which took place September 21 before a gathering of industry dignitaries at the Churchill Club in San Jose, Calif. Ellison discusses his plans for Oracle and the various Sun technologies soon to be acquired when, or if, the European Union approves the buyout.
Despite this Sun paper's relative brevity, "Kickstart Your Transition to the Cloud" presents users new to the cloud with much of the information necessary to assess an enterprise's operations and the compatibility of those operations with the features of cloud computing. As the paper notes, the prevailing centralized, hierarchical business operational model is being supplanted by the rapid response, distributed model that is cloud computing.
New updates in Sun Java Communications Suite 7 include:
New Calendar Server that supports the CalDAV standard
Real-time indexing and search of email content
State-of-the-art AJAX Web 2.0 client experience
Mobile messaging: wireless "push" email
Mobile synchronization of calendar/contacts
Rich assortment of clients available
The Sun Java Communications Suite is a communications and collaboration solution. It delivers email, calendaring, and real-time collaboration functionality while providing an extensible, standards-based development platform, with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability.
Sun CTO of Cloud Computing Lew Tucker will be presenting "Cloud Computing 101" on Wednesday, October 7th, 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT / 19:00 Central Europe. This one-hour, free webinar will attempt to answer what types of problems cloud computing solves and how this type of computing can benefit startups and developers.
Andy Bechtolsheim's new firm, Arista Networks, is well positioned to capitalize on the burgeoning demand for 10GbE ethernet products that HPC users find essential to their operations. He told The Register's Timothy Prickett Morgan that "it is possible for some 25 percent of all servers in the installed base to have 10GbE ports by the year 2011." Said Bechtolsheim, "It is easier to forecast 10GE ports than revenues. This is one of the few areas in IT with predictable growth."
Writing in ZDNet Asia, Alan Stevens describes the 2U Sun Fire X4270 and Sun Fire X4275 servers. He notes that they are essentially the same machines, with exactly the same chassis, identical motherboards, processor and memory options. The only real difference is in the storage: the X4270 has sixteen 2.5in. hot-swap drive bays, whereas the X4275 offers twelve 3.5in. drive bays and a choice of drives in capacities up to 2TB per spindle. A review of the Sun Fire X4170 in eWeek also voices praise for this member of the family.
A Sun-sponsored IT director's guide asserts consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and utilizing virtualization techniques will give enterprises increased efficiency, performance and flexibility while lowering costs. In twelve pages, this guide entitled "Reducing Costs by Improving Server Performance" offers what it states is proof that consolidation works, and focuses on Sun servers with CoolThreads technology and Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers as solutions that can bring these claims to reality.
The abundantly illustrated BigAdmin article "Microsoft Windows Integration on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System" by Ryan H. Pratt is an implementation guide that discusses using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System in a Microsoft Windows environment. The writer assumes readers have knowledge of Microsoft Windows Server environments and an initially configured Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System.
Sun StorageTek 2500 arrays now offer 600GB 15K SAS drives for better performance and higher density while requiring no increase in air-conditioning and power requirements. Qualifying arrays include the Sun StorageTek 2540, 2530, and 2510. Sun reports these configurations using 600GB 15Krpm 3Gb/s SAS drives can help solve costly IT problems such as lengthy back-up and restore windows, challenges around massive growth in static content, and more.
Sun announced the Sun StorageTek Library Attach E-Fulfillment for Windows Client v1.4.2, which provides the capability to download Library Attach client software and offers an alternative method for customers to order the software. Sun StorageTek Library Attach (LibAttach) software expands the manageability of ACS Library Software (ACSLS) to Windows-based clients, offering customers a more flexible solution for managing Sun StorageTek tape libraries in an open-systems environment.
The Sun white paper "Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems: Architected for Open, Simple, and Scalable Enterprise Storage" details the key architectural aspects of Sun's Open Storage family of products. The paper covers ZFS technology and its relation to Hybrid Storage Pools, Enterprise Solid State Storage Devices, and DTrace Analytics. It also highlights some of the main features of the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, and 7410 Unified Storage Systems. Readers will be introduced to the Sun Storage 7000 Storage Software, which is a full complement of storage software and is included with the system at no additional cost.
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As reported on earlier, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server running OpenSolaris 2009.06 source code and the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software (version 1.6.0_14 Performance Release), posted a single-chip world record on the SPECjbb2005. An entry on the BestPerf blog takes a closer look at these results and points out the significance of this single chip world record, which resulted in 231464 SPECjbb2005 bops and 28933 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
Joomla! Deployment Guide for Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems"
This guide is for installing and configuring the open source Joomla! Content Management System with Sun's Unified Storage systems. The scenario uses Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (version 2009.Q2). The Sun servers in this setup run the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release and PHP, MySQL, and Apache web server from pkg.opensolaris.org.
Updated and Expanded: Sun System Software Stacks
On BigAdmin, find out which software is preinstalled and supported on Sun's servers running on the SPARC platform. For example, see which versions of Solaris, System Firmware, Sun Management Center, LDoms Manager, Sun Studio, GCC, and Sun Java Enterprise System could come with a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server.
The Sun Storage 7000 series 2009.Q3 software release officially announced on September 22, provides a new iSCSI software stack via the Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target or COMSTAR framework, a new dataset Synchronous write bias property or logbias, and many other features. Focusing on the aforementioned features, a Sun blog by Roch Bourbonnais explores each of these two, detailing the ins and outs and why they are significant to performance.
Sun Ops Center combines discovery, provisioning, updating, monitoring, and management of physical and virtual systems. This latest release extends lifecycle management capabilities across the full range of Sun’s x86 and SPARC servers, virtual technologies including Solaris Zones and Logical Domains, and heterogeneous server and operating systems environments. The lifecycle management features involve asset management, automated provisioning, intelligent patching, centralized management and comprehensive monitoring.
"Oracle SQL Recipes" by Darl Kuhn, Grant Allen, and Bob Bryla offers its readers tested and working examples of SQL that have been used to solve common problems faced by developers and database administrators on a daily basis. The book covers a vast variety of SQL solutions; covering topics such as common query patterns, XML, large objects, tuning, and troubleshooting.
The Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 is a 36-port Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand leaf switch enabling users to bind Sun Blade and Sun Fire servers and storage systems into a 36-node cluster. This multi-purpose switch can act as a self-contained fabric solution for smaller InfiniBand clusters or as a building block for hierarchical fabric topologies supporting larger clusters of Sun Blade or Sun Fire servers and storage systems.
If you'd like to have your Mac desktop run like a big iron mainframe, it's now possible through the magic of virtualization to approximate just that. In a Macworld UK article, Richard Leon both extols the virtues of Sun's open-source VirtualBox and takes readers, step-by-step through the process of installing and running the solution.
Author of "Beginning Java SE 6 Platform: From Novice to Professional" among other books, Jeff Friesen (known as JavaJeff to his fans), had a conversation with Reviews Interactive during which he shared his views of JavaFX and details of his work developing JavaFX software on the Windows XP SP3 platform.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control Release 5 makes patch management easier for database administrators (DBAs). With a brand-new interface and architecture, this release streamlines and automates many day-to-day DBA tasks and facilitates database patching, the latter of which Porus Homi Havewala discusses in a proof-of-concept article.
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