Dec. 10 is the day Oracle will be presenting its case to European Union regulators on why it should be allowed to acquire Sun.
The new Sun VirtualBox 3.1 features the ability to "teleport" a VM from one host to another. Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3.1 is also available, as is Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09.
New Sun OpenStorage products planned for 2010 have been revealed. Sun makes a case for using the Sun Storage 7000 family for consolidating Oracle databases.
Sun's Flash Technologist Michael Cornwell shares how to reap the business value of deploying Flash systems.
Read best practices for securing MySQL on the Web and how to use SSO to succeed in the Web 2.0 era. See Entire Issue
Oracle pledges 10 commitments in regards to maintaining MySQL to reassure European regulators, customers, developers and users of its plans. Also making news, Oracle reports on second quarter and expectations of Sun deal, while Sun discusses its intellectual property cases against Sun Valley Technical Repair and M-Tech Data.
A new fine-grained entitlement enforcement engine and directory proxy server have been added to Sun's Identity Management portfolio. Other recent releases include 2.88GHz quad-core 8 thread SPARC64 VII processors on M8000/M9000 servers and a new beta release of Sun's Java Store with additional features and updates.
Three-part article series introduces new technologies and improvements in the Java EE 6 platform.
Learn about Tadpole's year-end promotion available for rapidly deployable, mobile-rugged computing systems supporting SPARC and x64 environments.
A study finds higher DIMM error rates than commonly supposed. Another compares the performance of storage architectures using Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array versus ones based only on traditional hard disks. See Entire Issue
Although the IT industry is awaiting Oracle's purchase of Sun, the company continues to have a strong market influence.
Interested in learning more about the Oracle Database and Sun technologies? Take a look at a quick start guide to using the database with Sun's Open Storage. Sun Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal has published a paper entitled, "Triple Parity RAID and Beyond."
Sun and Intel's collaboration has brought together ZFS and high performance, flash-based SSDs for innovative capabilities in hybrid storage pools.
MySQL's performance in a virtualization environment based on xVM hypervisor is examined. Learn how to set up a single x86-based system with OpenSolaris, configuring a training and development environment for Solaris 10/Solaris Cluster 3.2 and using VirtualBox. Cost efficiencies of the Sun Ops Center are the subject of a Sun white paper.
Learn how to protect the enterprise from attacks with Mandatory Access Control and the Solaris OS. See Entire Issue
Oracle defended its planned acquisition of Sun before the European Commission, and a company lawyer said he's 'confident' about the company's defense.
Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6 is available now, as is NetBeans IDE 6.8, which provides complete support for Java EE 6 and the newly released Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3.
Also new is the Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 4. Read about this bug fix update release and get information on a beginner's guide that tells how to get started.
SAP and SPEC benchmarks report the new Sun Fire X4640 server is the fastest. An Oracle white paper details Sun's 50,000 user benchmark results on the Oracle BI EE.
A DTrace tutorial explains how to analyze real-world applications. Find out one man's view of the top 10 ZFS features.
Learn about the latest Sun Identity Management Suite Partner Integrations. See Entire Issue
New and upgraded Sun-related technologies recently released include:
Those interested in the Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card should take a look at its Vdbench test results.
Ben Rockwood takes a deep dive into ZFS.
Sun BluePrints offer insight into Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 with MySQL Reference Architecture, Sun Business Ready HPC for Altair RADIOSS: Best Practices for Altair RADIOSS Deployments, Using Sun Ops Center with Sun HPC Software, Linux 2.0, and Sun Systems for Oracle Coherence.
Some recently published white papers on GlassFish cover Hudson, JBoss, WebSpace Server Cloud, as well as others. See Entire Issue
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