Sun is offering a significant new skills management solution for
enterprise learning, centered around its new Sun Enterprise
Learning Platform, combining state-of-the-art learning
technologies with expert consulting services and broad content
capabilities to support Enterprise Talent Management.
Sun, Oracle and NMS Communications will deliver wireless
voice-enabled applications for the recently introduced NMS HearSay,
which provides customized voice-driven
services such as voice-activated dialing, Personal Information
Management (calendar, email, address book), personalized voice
portals, short message services, unified messaging, chat and
conferencing.
Sun and public broadcaster WGBH Boston will
develop the first end-to-end reference architecture for a
comprehensive digital asset management system using the Sun Open
Net Environment (Sun ONE) framework. WGBH saw the opportunity to
consolidate editorial content onto digital media as a means of
maximizing its value. Digital content can then be used for a variety of
purposes, including distance learning, constituent relationship
management and multi-channel distribution to other stations or through
the Web community.
Sun ONE empowers next-generation
network solutions in media and entertainment. Public broadcaster WGBH
Boston, Williams Communications, operator of the largest
next-generation fiber-optic network in the U.S., and Agari Mediaware
Inc., a federated services software provider, are among the first to
lay the foundation for the next-generation distributed computing
models, such as Web services, in media and entertainment.
Sun and Vuico announced the availability of Java technology-based
wireless infrastructure solutions for creating, assembling and
deploying Web services. Vuico provides mobile Java technology-based
applications with transparent access to Web services through NTT
Software's BLUEGRID software, which leverage the Sun ONE
architecture.
Sun and Sony Electronics are teaming up to offer integrated next
generation AV/IT solutions, including video-on-demand and streaming
media solutions, for cable companies (MSO's), telcos and broadcasters.
The new Forte for Java 4, Mobile Edition Software is a compact
IDE optimized for developers building applications targeting the
Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) for Java
technology-enabled mobile devices that can be deployed as Web
services. It is optimized for MIDP/CLDC
development and is based on the NetBeans Tools Platform.
The Solstice Enterprise Manager 4.1 Software White Paper provides a
technical overview of Solstice
Enterprise Manager (Solstice EM) 4.1 Software and summarizes the
Solstice EM Software functionality and architecture. It also describes
how the software provides a very powerful and flexible environment and
platform for implementing and deploying optimal network management
solutions for today's evolving telecommunications and Internet Service
Provider networks (wireless and wireline).
The Sun ONE Architecture Guide offers a
technical overview of the components and functionality available for
developing and deploying Services on Demand. In conjunction with the
Sun ONE Starter Kit, this guide will enable IT architects to
evaluate the technology used by the Sun ONE platform. Web service
developers will understand the Java programming language API's,
Java platforms and application development tools. Independent Software
Vendors will better understand how to develop Sun ONE platform
components as emerging industry standards mature.
The Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000 board is a PCI bus-based SSL
accelerator
board using the Solaris OE version
8. The co-processor solution off-loads SSL functions and supports the
iPlanet Web Server versions 4.1 SP9 and 6.0 SP1, as well as Apache
1.3.12 and OpenSSL 0.9.6b servers. The PCI board can support up to
4,000 ops/sec SSL RSA encryption and up to 495 mbps 3DES bulk data
encryption per board. It is suitable for e-commerce applications using
SSL encryption via PKCS#11 interface and OpenSSL.
The 21-inch flat display premium color monitor from Sun has been repriced
and the last order date has been extended. Sun provides high
performance monitors that are ideal for demanding graphics and CAD/CAM
professional audiences.
There is an updated technical white paper on the Sun Blade 1000
and 2000 Workstation Architecture. The 88-page PDF provides and overview
of the system, its graphics and software.
Sun is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its highly successful
Sun Fire 3800-6800 Midframe Server line, featuring
UltraSPARC III processors and the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE). Offering mainframe-class features at midrange
price points, the Sun Fire 3800-6800 Servers have
achieved worldwide market momentum in the past year.
The Sun Fire 12K Server is built with the Uniboard, the scalable
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and the UltraSPARC
III Cu processors that provide binary compatibility across generations
and products. The Sun Fire 12K Server is massively scalable and fully
upgradable to a Sun Fire 15K Server on the fly. The Solaris OE
allows users to pick applications from many ISVs, making
the server unequaled for technical computing and data-intensive
applications.
Sun lowered the U.S. list prices on its Sun Fire 3800-15K family of
UltraSPARC III processor-based midframe and high-end servers.
Customers can save up to 41 percent when purchasing a Sun Fire 3800,
4800, 4810, 6800 or 15K Server
with the new price reductions. Sun is also offering U.S. customers
the chance to trade in
three qualified competitive servers and receive up to 30 percent off
the purchase price of a new Sun Fire Midframe 3800, 4800, 4810 or 6800
Server.
The Bioinformatics Center of the Institute for Chemical Research
(ICR) at Kyoto University chose the Sun
Fire 15K Server as the network server for KEGG (Kyoto Encyclopedia
of Genes and Genomes).
Sun is an active member of the Storage Networking Industry Association
(SNIA). Sun is working with this standards-setting body to define and
establish open standards. The Common Information Model (CIM) has
been adopted by SNIA as an open standard. As a result, Sun continues to
develop implementations of a CIM prototype for SANs.
Companies that need to access Very Large Databases (VLDB) in real time
are deploying the Enterprise Data Warehouse Reference Architecture. The
architecture defines a technical solution for creating a very large
data warehouse based on Sun Enterprise Servers, Sun StorEdge
Storage Systems and disk arrays, the
Solaris 8 OE and Sybase Adaptive Server IQ Multiplex software.
The white paper by Stevan Arbona of Spanning Tree Inc., "Storage
Resource Management: A Practitioner's Approach," discusses best
practices for managing the enterprise storage organization and its
cost. It focuses on the positive impact that SRM can have on
controlling costs by increasing operational efficiency within
enterprise storage infrastructures.
Sun and Sony Electronics have been collaborating on a high-performance
media management and backup approach to provide fast access to data
from mass storage systems. The solution has been designed for use with
high-resolution video and media archival projects, digital content
management and large-scale IT projects.
One session at the 2002 JavaOne Developer Conference was "Mac OS
X and Java Technology Overview," which was reported on by Steve
Meloan. According to Meloan, the session covered the latest
cutting-edge features of the Mac operating system (OS) directed toward
the Java technology developer community. The session presenter was Ted
Goldstein, vice president of developer technologies at Apple Computer.
"What Time Is It?", a client-based Java technology-based application
challenge held at the recent JavaOne Conference, illustrated both
the ease of Java technology development on the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D
PDA and end-to-end Java technology-driven Web Services. Like practiced
developers, the winning team of Thomas Rassmann, vice president of
product development at NetIDEAS Inc., and Jon Langlois, lead software
engineer for NetIDEAS Inc., typically divided the task in two.
The Hackathon Contest held at the recent JavaOne Conference gave
developers a free hand to create Java programming language
application designs on the Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D. There were five
categories: Best Game, won by Steve Fagerhaug; Best Productivity
Application, won by Michael Cortez; Best User Interface Design, won by
Rueyfarm Wang; Most Useless but Really Cool Anyway Application, won by
Patrick Chan and Most Visionary Application, won by Pat Adams, Kris
Latham and Demitrius Nelon.
The JavaOne Conference session "Building High Performance
Multiplayer Internet Games With Java Technology" highlighted
Java technologies specifically for online gaming and the challenges
such as the need for sufficient bandwidth, security and client management.
Dana Nourie reported on the session and also covered the topics of
user interface issues, multithreading and socket channels.
The Java Developer Connection Program presents two chapters available online
from the book, "Professional J2EE EAI" by Matjaz Juric with Ramesh
Nagappan, Rick Leander, and S. Jeelani Basha from Wrox Press.
NetApp DAFS Database Accelerator from Sybase and Network Appliance
Inc. is the first Direct Access File System (DAFS)-enabled storage
solution to be ready for
integration with Sybase database environments. It enhances application
performance to deliver faster access to enterprise data, while
significantly reducing management complexity in mission-critical
database deployments.
BroadVision Multi-Touchpoint Services adds mobile and non-PC device
support to BroadVision's enterprise self-service applications.
BroadVision applications can interact with and present content to a
wide variety of mobile devices, including WAP devices and PDAs
(including Palm and Pocket PC devices) and kiosks, ATMs and
point-of-sale terminals.
ImageGear Medical Imaging Toolkit from AccuSoft is being used by the
Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide key imaging-related
capabilities. With ImageGear technology physicians have an integrated view of a
patient's complete medical record. Consulting physicians can access the
image and text data, regardless of where they are physically located.
SIPware Services suite from Pactolus Communication Software
is now available on the Red Hat Linux operating system for
Intel-based hardware. Pactolus provides
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)-based services solutions for
converged networks. Pactolus
products also support Solaris
OE (SPARC Platform Edition), Windows XP, Windows 2000
and Windows NT operating systems.
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