Sun, Hitachi, Ltd., and Hitachi Data Systems have entered into a
far-reaching agreement. Sun has signed a distributor agreement for
certain high-end Hitachi Data Systems products. Sun and Hitachi Data
Systems will also cross-license and distribute each other's storage
software. Both companies will collaborate on the development of storage
software, and the companies will work on expanding integration
capabilities worldwide. In addition, Sun and Hitachi Data Systems will
invest in joint global mission-critical support centers.
Sun has selected Delaware Bioinformatics Institute and Beijing Genomics
Institute as Sun Centers of Excellence. Both sites were chosen
for their leadership in computational biology and their potential to
advance the field through research and partnerships with other
institutions.
Sprint now provides outsourced collaboration solutions using hardware
from Sun and messaging and calendar server software solutions from
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance. The new
collaboration services enhance the value-added web-hosting offerings
available from Sprint E|Solutions.
Sun and Side Effects Software entered an agreement making Side Effects'
Houdini 3D application available on the Solaris Operating
Environment (OE) and UltraSPARC architecture. Houdini is an
award-winning 3D animation software package that includes a
comprehensive set of capabilities for digital content creation.
Houdini is expected to be available in the fall of 2001.
In the recent Executive Perspectives feature, Jonathan Schwartz
compared Microsoft's extended monopoly to a company town, similar to
company towns formed by the mining industry in the 1800's. He presented
an example of basic financial services and then compared the
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) as an alternative for e-commerce.
Sun is rapidly incorporating support for the Common Information Model
(CIM) and Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM) standards throughout
its products, giving customers easy access to the tools they need to
help increase service levels while reducing management costs. WBEM
technologies add interoperability and manageability to the
service-driven architecture by creating a single, extensible CIM for
collecting and sharing data about elements on the network.
Paul Monday, senior software engineer at Imation Corp., illustrates
combining and leveraging the best parts of Jiro technology and the
Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) initiative. Monday introduces
the WBEM client technologies for accessing and manipulating data in a
Common Information Model Object Manager (CIMOM). He also discusses the
need for greater standardization of Jiro technology management facades
and the future of management application programming under a combined
Jiro technology and WBEM development platform.
The new release of Solstice Common Management Information Protocol
(CMIP) is part of the migration of the TMN product suite
(OSI/CMIP/FTAM) to the Solaris 64-bit Operating Environment (OE). In
this 9.0 release, Solstice CMIP will completely support the 64-bit
application mode and operating environment with TLI over TCP/IP and
OSI.
Sun HPC ClusterTools 4 software is the new release following the Sun
HPC ClusterTools 3.1 software. Sun HPC ClusterTools software provides
middleware to facilitate and manage a workload of highly
resource-intensive applications on Sun systems and clusters of these
systems. It also provides a complete software development environment
for analyzing, debugging, and performance monitoring of Message Passing
Interface (MPI) applications on Sun systems and clusters of systems.
This Jini technology customer story features appropria, a software
company engaged in designing, building, and marketing applications
that create an Intelligent Interface between users and corporate
information databases. appropria's Plant~Advantage is the first product
based on the company's innovative Workplace Information Integration
technology. Jini network technology is an integral component of
Plant~Advantage.
Sun's newly released Sun Ray Server Software 1.3 provides
improved management capabilities combined with greater user session
mobility and more flexible network configuration options. Two new
system bundles tailored for the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) market
incorporate these enhancements and are scheduled for release in September 2001.
The enhanced Sun Enterprise 10000 system (Starfire) includes
new 466 MHz UltraSPARC II CPU modules and a host of
other features designed to further increase the system's reliability,
availability, and serviceability (RAS).
Sun introduces new high performance 466/464 MHz/8 MB UltraSPARC-II
CPU modules, building blocks, and base packages for Sun Enterprise
3500-6500 servers. These new CPUs require the latest clockboard,
Flash PROM 3.2.29, and software patches.
Sun ranks at the top of the UNIX storage market for the third year
in a row, confirming that Sun is number one in worldwide revenue of the
consolidated UNIX storage market, according to Gartner Dataquest which
officially released its independent numbers on U.S. information
storage units.
The far-reaching, multi-billion-dollar agreement between Sun, Hitachi
Ltd., and Hitachi Data Systems brings together different strengths and
provides big pay-offs for customers. The new relationship joins the
individual strengths of Sun as a thought leader of the Net Economy and
a vendor with a worldwide network of sales professionals and channel
partners and Hitachi with its reputation for high-quality,
high-performance hardware and global services.
Sun is extending its storage strategy with the new Sun StorEdge 9900
products based on the Hitachi's Lightning 9900 family. These systems
are supported by jointly-staffed, global mission-critical support
centers and include a commitment from Sun, Hitachi, Ltd., and Hitachi
Data Systems to collaborate on future software development.
There are a number of Sun Storage Update announcements, including price
decreases for the 40 GB DLT8000 Flexipack, DLT8 drives, repricing of
Digital Data Storage (DDS) Tape Products, and an extension of the Q4
L1000 Promotion.
Instant Image 3.0
Point-in-time Volume Copy Facility for Solaris Operating Environment (OE)
Sun StorEdge Instant Image software is a point-in-time volume
copy facility for Solaris Operating Environment (OE).
Instant Image creates a volume group containing the original logical
volume (the master), a point-in-time copy of the original (the shadow)
and a volume used to track differences between the other two (the bit
map or scoreboard). Sun StorEdge Instant Image now has enhanced
performance and new features.
Sun HighGround Surveyor SRM 4.0 includes
a special licensing and packaging of the Sun HighGround SRM product
directed towards storage consultants. It automates the discovery of
enterprise-wide storage resources, while collecting key capacity,
utilization, and availability statistics from distributed servers,
disks, partitions, file systems, directories, and users in UNIX,
Microsoft Windows NT/2000, NetApp, Netware, and Linux computing
environments.
The Sun StorEdge N8000 filer is a NAS appliance with excellent
capacity density, performance density, and price/performance for its
class. The minimum storage capacity for the Sun StorEdge N8600 filer
is now one TB, an increase from the original range from a minimum of four TB
to a maximum of ten TB (usable).
Forte Developer 6 update 2 products (formerly known as the Sun
WorkShop Family) deliver a tightly integrated environment designed
to speed software development on the Solaris Operating
Environment (OE). This update provides support for common language
extensions in C and C++, code plus a subset of GDB commands within
dbx, broadened OpenMP support, and interprocedural optimization.
This is a no-cost upgrade for existing Forte Developer 6 customers.
There are a number of downloads and special promotions available from
Sun for developers, including iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise
Edition 6.0, Java Pet Store, and a Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) Technology BluePrints Book.
Sun announced its latest round of Open Gateways grant awards to
several K-12 schools located near Sun facilities in California, Colorado,
and Massachusetts. For each school, Sun contributes over $100,000 in
Sun products and services.
LightSurf Technologies uses Java technologies in many ways,
including in its LightSurf Technology Platform and in the LightSurf
MediaExchange server component. In April 2001, LightSurf announced
the expansion of its technology platform to support Java 2 Platform,
Micro Edition (J2ME) enabled wireless handsets.
The Sun XML Datatypes Library is available for download. The Datatypes
Library is Sun's Java technology implementation of XML Schema Part
2. The Datatypes Library is designed to be used with applications
incorporating XML Schema Part 2. This preview version implements the
proposed recommendation version of the W3C XML Schema Part 2 Datatype.
Key enhancements in Oracle9i provide complete collaborative content
management capabilities delivered in two products--Oracle9i Database
and Oracle9i Application Server. Oracle centralizes the management of
content within a single repository where the content is easily accessed
and managed by any application. Key enhancements include support for
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) data type and file-based network
protocols such as Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Web DAV).
Duane Wessels' 318-page book from O'Reilly, "Web Caching,"
covers the basics of how web caching works as well as topics
ranging from configuring web browsers and servers to monitoring and
fine-tuning cache performance.
virginmoney.com, a UK finance portal, has selected the BEA WebLogic
Server, utilizing Java technology applications, to expand its
online financial services. virginmoney.com chose BEA WebLogic
E-Business Platform and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) because
enterprise applications can be designed, developed, assembled, and
deployed quickly and efficiently. The BEA Professional Services team
is helping the company re-engineer its web site to J2EE by providing
performance testing and architecting services.
The Aspect Contact Server from Aspect Communications
will support the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
through an Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component architecture.
The support will allow businesses to integrate real-time wired or
wireless communications with their existing enterprise
infrastructure and applications that are J2EE platform-compliant.
Verity, Inc., released Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E), advanced portal
infrastructure software for corporate portals and intranets. K2E integrates
into enterprise portals to rapidly search, classify, categorize and
personalize vast amounts of information and data residing in both
internal and external repositories.
Oracle's Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) Wireless will become
the industry's first application server to offer integrated voice
support, designed to enable mainstream developers to create and deploy
applications just once for use with any interface--web, wireless, or
voice. Voice support will also become a key component of other Oracle
software and services.
There is a free evaluation copy of the newest version of kNEWS
Professional v2.2.0 for Lotus Notes and Domino R5 available for
download from Gallatin Technologies, Inc.
Premier
Centralized Two-Factor Authentication Server
CRYPTOAdmin 5.1, a centralized two-factor authentication server, provides
centralized authentication with decentralized administration, regardless
of network infrastructure or user location. This minimizes
management costs while enabling organizations to verify the
identity of any user attempting to access its network.
NetGenesis 5.5 is the e-customer intelligence solution that enables
multi-channel analytic capabilities. Business owners can obtain
an accurate, detailed, and complete understanding of their customers'
behavior across all of the various web site properties they own and
manage with links to other customer touch-points.
Data Connection Limited (DCL) is adding the Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF) protocol and a complete suite of IP Routing products to its
range of carrier-class networking solutions.
The de facto Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
community site, TheServerSide.com, launched the ECperf home page which
will post J2EE server benchmark results as they come in. ECperf is a
vendor-neutral benchmark designed to measure performance and
scalability of J2EE servers such as BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, and
Oracle 9iAS.
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