Sun's Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Reference Architecture, based on
products from Sun and Sybase Inc., has recently developed the largest
data warehouse on record. This system managed large amounts of data
efficiently, compressing input data to 30 to 80 percent of its original
size.
Sun and the U.S. Army Intelligence Center (USAIC) have created a unique
education program and re-enlistment incentive to provide soldiers who have
marketable technology skills with hands-on experience in network
architectures and Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE)
platform-based technologies. The Sun Microsystems/Army System
Administrator Fellows Internship
Program includes IT training and teaching.
Forte for Java 3.0 integrated development environment (IDE) was
named "Best Java IDE" at the JavaWorld Editors' Choice awards ceremony
on March 25th. Vendors, readers and JavaWorld publication authors and editors nominated more
than 200 tools and technologies in ten categories. An eight-judge panel
of JavaWorld publication writers selected one
winner and two finalists in each category.
FT.com has chosen Sun Enterprise Servers, Solaris 8 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) and Oracle as the means to integrate its legacy
system that links the Web site to the Financial Times.
PeopleSoft selected Sun to be the platform of choice for the
implementation of its own software, PeopleSoft CRM. Utilizing 15 Sun
Fire Servers running the Solaris 8 OE,
Sun Cluster 3.0 Software and Sun Remote Services,
this enterprise-wide solution was completed in less than 100 days and
was immediately embraced by over 2,000 sales and marketing personnel as
the way to manage their customer relationships. Now, all customer
information is accessible anywhere, any time, over the Web from a
single repository.
General Dynamics C4 Systems selected Sun as Top Strategic Supply
Partner for 2001. General Dynamics and Sun will deliver
rugged UltraComputing Program systems that will
meet stringent military specifications for advanced battlefield
automation applications.
Sun OC48 Packet Over Sonet Adapter device provides LAN and WAN/MAN networking
to Sun Fire Servers at up to 2.4 Gbps line speed with self-healing
failover and restoration, increasing network reliabilty. It supports
Spatial Reuse Protocol (SRP) and Point-To-Point Protocol (PPP),
lowering cost of ownership. It offers plug and play operations via
topology discovery for easy configuration in SRP.
Select Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 Servers are being transitioned.
This marks Phase One of the Sun Enterprise 3500-6500 Server product line
EOL. The following configurations will be transitioning at this time:
all Logoless systems; select Skinless systems; all Danish
configurations; all Sun Enterprise 4503-R and Sun Enterprise
4503-RR1 Master Reseller configurations; all Sun Enterprise
4503-RR2 systems; all Sun Enterprise 5503 and Sun Enterprise 6503
Master Reseller configurations; all ISV and COD configurations.
The family of High Availability (HA) Service Packs for the Sun Fire
15K Server includes the core set of integrated services and
methodologies recommended to help provide optimum levels of
availability throughout the application life cycle. With HA Service
Packs, customers will be better equipped to address availability issues
before they impact business operations. Three variations of HA Service
Packs will now be available for the Sun Fire 15K Server.
Tai Fook Securities, one of Hong Kong's largest dealers, is replacing
100 Intel-based servers running Microsoft software with a Sun
Enterprise 10000 Server, running applications written in Java
programming language, an Oracle database and BEA's WebLogic Web Server.
There is an Education Promotion on two 900 MHz Sun Fire 280R Server
configurations. The promotion will end
September 30, 2002. The intended audience for this promotion is
worldwide education and research institutions.
Sun is making a donation to the Ministry of Education of the
People's Republic of China that will make StarOffice 6.0 Software
(branded
StarSuite in Asian markets) an office suite of choice in schools
throughout that nation.
Campus Pipeline Inc. is sponsoring a series of free, half-day seminars
that will explore how existing campus systems can be combined with new
technologies and applications to further digital campus initiatives.
Sun has chosen the University of Wisconsin System's dot.edu department,
housed at the Milwaukee campus, as a Sun Center of Excellence in
e-learning. dot.edu (Digital Online Technology.Educational Design
Utility) is an e-learning infrastructure provider for educational
institutions both inside and outside the state of Wisconsin, including
K-12, university, technical and community colleges.
There are two new courses from Sun Education and US Training: iPlanet
Infrastructure Products for Sun ONE and
Solaris OE Network Intrusion
Detection. These courses are available in various cities and dates for
April, May, June and July.
Jon Byous reported on the JavaOne Conference keynote of March 28
which featured discussions about Java technology and the future.
Taking part in the discussion were John Gage of Sun; Paul Saffo,
director of the Institute of the Future; Alfred Chuang, CEO of BEA;
Adam Bosworth of BEA; Ernie Cormier, Bob Ewald and Ragu Rau of Nextel.
Topics included mobile computing, Nextel's use of Java technology and
the challenge of developing methods of establishing end-to-end identity
and trust for Web services applications.
More than 35 companies demonstrated NetBeans and Forte for
Java Software products and integrations that are "Built on
NetBeans" technology at the JavaOne Conference. Third-party
products range from wireless device emulation software to Web services
infrastructure products. This article is a continuation from an article
last week about some of the companies, listed alphabetically.
At the recent JavaOne Conference, the Java Foundation Classes
(JFC) and Swing Technology API team from Sun presented two technical
sessions that showed developers how to build several striking client
applications using the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
(J2SE). Thomas Ulrich reported on the technical sessions. The two
sessions were "Rich Java Technology-Based Clients for Web Services,
The Sequel" and "How to Build an Awesome Swing Client."
James Gosling, vice president
and fellow at Sun, known as the "father" of the Java programming
language, answered questions submitted by members of the Java Developer
Connection (JDC) Program.
One of the features at the recent JavaOne Conference was a panel
discussion on the challenges and solutions in the application of
Java technology to mobile devices. In his report on the panel, Ed
Ort noted that small footprints, low price points and reduced screen
sizes all make the task of providing Java technology on mobile devices
challenging.
Reporting on the JavaOne Conference session "High-Performance GUIs
with the Java Foundation Classes (JFC) API," Dana Nourie notes that GUI
programs written using the Java programming language have a
reputation for rendering slowly or incorrectly. Nourie says developers
can resolve these problems with coding techniques, however, by proper
use of threads and the new
the J2SE 1.4 platform acceleration capabilities.
The new Java Specification Request (JSR #168) will be the
industry's first portal API standard. Eighteen companies, including
BroadVision, Plumtree and Vignette will collaborate with Sun on the
specification that will enable interoperability between Portlets and
Portals. This specification will define a set of APIs for Portal
computing, addressing the areas of aggregation, personalization,
presentation and security.
Paul Teeter's technical article "What Does the Script bsmconv Do?" from
the Solaris Developer Connection Web page covers the Basic Security
Module (BSM) that is built-in to the
Solaris OE. It secures a Solaris OE system by physically limiting what a
user can do and monitoring what a user does once logged in to the
machine.
Alex Noordergraaf discusses the system service processors (SSPs) of the
Sun Enterprise 10000 Server in his Sun BluePrints
article "Securing the Sun Enterprise 10000 System Service
Processors." Noordergraaf describes a secure Sun Enterprise 10000
Server configuration that is fully Sun supported. He provides tips,
instructions and guidance for creating a more secure Sun Enterprise
10000 Server system.
DK1.1 from Celoxica Limited is the next version of their
Handel-C-to-hardware design suite. DK1.1 includes new features for
system-level HW/SW co-design, co-simulation support for ARM and PowerPC
embedded processors, improved synthesis, enhanced area and delay
analysis, improved VHDL output, Verilog output, 100 times faster
simulation/a and support for Actel, Altera Excalibur and Xilinx Virtex
II Pro devices.
Emulex Corp.'s LightPulse 2 Gb/s LP9002DC dual channel Fibre Channel
HBA has achieved the Solaris Ready Program Certification from Sun. With
this designation, Emulex adds its dual channel PCI HBA to its product
line that has received the Solaris Ready Program qualification for cPCI, PCI
and SBus Fibre Channel HBAs, including the 2 Gb/s LP9002L and LP9002C,
LP8000 and SBus-based LP8000S HBAs.
BindView Corporation's Enterprise Security Solution is the first
solution to be certified to assess the security configuration of IT
infrastructures based on the Center for Internet Security's (CIS)
benchmarks. As the first solution certified by the CIS, the Enterprise
Security Solution now provides BindView customers with customized
queries that evaluate Microsoft and UNIX environments against the
CIS standards.
AppShield 4.0, the next generation of Sanctum's patented application
security firewall, is based on a positive security model that provides
a failsafe defense against application-level breaches. Through its
patented Dynamic Policy Recognition Engine (DPRE) technology, AppShield
automatically and intelligently identifies the legitimate requests made
of an e-business site and permits only those actions to take place.
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