Sun has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pirus Networks,
Inc. Pirus Networks provides multi-protocol, multi-vendor intelligent
storage networking for distributed open systems environments. This
acquisition will enable Sun to deliver one of the critical data
services components of the N1 architecture and strategy.
Sun has been honored by the American Foundation of the Blind (AFB) with
the 2002 Helen Keller Achievement Award for success in driving advanced
computer accessibility support. Sun is being honored for its most
recent accessibility innovation -- the contribution of an accessibility
framework to the comprehensive and intuitive desktop user environment
provided in GNOME 2.0.
The City of Oakland has migrated its financial applications and data to
the Sun platform, helping the City achieve its goals of rapidly
improving accuracy and speed of payroll processing while reducing total
cost of ownership for its payroll processing system. As a result, the
City has cut payroll processing time nearly in half and reduced the
department's total cost of ownership by 30 percent.
The Sun Professional Services program completed the migration in
just 68 days for Transamerica Life Canada from a mainframe to the Sun
Fire 6800 server using the Sun mainframe rehosting solutions.
The migration is expected to save Transamerica Life Canada more than 50
percent per year in mainframe system operations expenses and produce a
return on investment within six months.
Sun and Computer Sciences Corporation have formed a global alliance to
define and implement new technology and business solutions for CSC's
global outsourcing clients, including jointly delivered support
services, based on Sun's UNIX workstations, midrange and enterprise
servers and software.
General Electric has deployed end-to-end technology from Sun to lower
operating costs while securely delivering personalized content to more
than 250,000 employees, contractors and consultants worldwide. The
InsideGE.com employee portal enables users to customize their portals
to deliver the most important and relevant information to them.
Sun Microsystems and Infosys Technologies, Ltd., have announced a
global strategic alliance to jointly market a powerful new generation
technology platform to address end-to-end enterprise banking and
transaction intensive network computing requirements in the global
banking industry.
The State of New Jersey has chosen the Sun ONE Portal Server
(formerly iPlanet Portal Server) for its e-government initiative.
The "My New Jersey" portal targets four broad user communities --
citizens, government officials, business owners and employees -- and
allows the state to deliver pertinent information and services while
decreasing operating costs by more than $200,000 a year and improving
end-user experience.
To provide customers greater choice in deploying or streamlining a
network identity infrastructure, Sun is working with five security
partners to help integrate their solutions with the Sun ONE
Platform for Network Identity. As part of the joint sales and marketing
agreements, the following software providers have teamed with Sun to
deliver pre-tested solutions that provide greater choice and lower
risk: Banyan Systems France, Business Layers, Entrust, Passlogix and
Persistent.
At the recent SunNetwork 2002 Conference, Sun and BEA
announced a new joint support center for BEA and Sun customers.
The Joint Support Center for the joint technologies will provide
convenient one-call service initiation,
specialized programs specifically focused on supporting BEA on
Sun integrated application infrastructure and more.
Sun Microsystems Inc. and IFS have announced a comprehensive global
strategic alliance to further expand their worldwide sales, marketing
and support as well as collaborative engineering activities related to
the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The joint
offering is based on the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) for
scalability, availability and seamless integration.
The London International Financial Futures and
Options Exchange (LIFFE) transformed itself from face-to-face trading
to becoming an electronic exchange with the help of Sun technology.
Adaptive Manufacturing is a new competitive strategy centered around
virtual product coalitions, where groups of business partners assemble
to produce, deliver and support a product throughout its life cycle.
The 13-page white paper, "The Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise: New
Directions in Manufacturing" explores the future for durable goods
manufacturers, and the critical technology role that Sun can play to
support the transition.
Last year Virginmoney.com (an e-broker business) and Virgin Direct (a
personal finance business), merged to form Virgin Money Personal
Financial Service (Virgin Money). Virgin Money
turned to consultants from Sun Services, who finished the full
migration in 13 hours, almost half the time allocated.
The 30-page white paper, "Computing at the Edge," discusses the
trends associated with edge computing as well as platforms, management,
security and specific examples of customers using Sun technology to
implement effective edge computing strategies.
Sun advisors can assist users to align IT infrastructure with business
goals, optimize team structure and skills levels while improving workforce
productivity and implement IT talent management.
Advantages of N1
Virtualization of Data Center Resources into a Single System
N1 is the vision, architecture and products for making entire data
centers appear as one system. N1 takes the first "systems"
approach to data center design by building an integrated system from
the network, compute and storage elements in the data center necessary
to deliver a complete business service such as e-banking.
According to Jon Byous and David Land, the keynote speeches delivered at
the recent SunNetwork 2002 Conference and Pavilion echoed some
familiar themes: The Network is the Computer, and choice, innovation
and value as hallmarks of the Sun corporate vision.
The new Sun System Support Qualification Service brings previously
owned systems up to Sun standards for performance, reliability,
serviceability and availability. The service also makes your system
eligible for the SunSpectrum program support for
end-to-end top-quality coverage.
XCube is a new project on the Jini technology Web page that is
focused on developing a
network-centric approach to an office suite implementation. Using
Jini technology can bring all available services to the knowledge
of the user. JavaSpaces technology can be utilized to hide the
specifics of the network layout to the user.
The goal of the Davis project is to define a security architecture for
Jini technology. An early release, Overture v0.5, is currently
available for download. The Davis project will ultimately result in a
Jini Technology Starter Kit release from Sun, following the Alewife
release.
Configuration and Service Tracker version 1.5.1AMS (CST) is a
lightweight (low system impact) Web-enabled application that provides
continuous tracking of a monitored system's state and configuration
changes. The data resides locally on the customer's environment and, in
conjunction with the Availability Management System (AMS), CST will
provide data back to Sun, to allow for system availability reporting.
TPS SNA Primary is a product Sun is reselling which allows Sun servers
to emulate PU4/5 (1) node types in a Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
network environment. This product will not carry the Sun brand name and
can only be sold to customers of the Sun Mainframe Transaction
Processing software and/or Sun Mainframe Batch Manager software.
VERITAS Volume Manager Software version 3.5 has been released, offering
a new nine-tier licensing structure and numerous enhancements including
support for JumpStart software and Solaris Live Upgrade
software, improvements to tunable parameters, a simplified upgrade
procedure and a new GUI. The previous four-tier licenses are being
transitioned as part of this announcement. In addition, VERITAS Volume
Manager, version 3.1.1, for the Sun StorEdge T3 array is being
transitioned.
There are now four new Sun Management Center 3.0 software, Enterprise
Suite upgrade offerings. The upgrades support all Sun systems based on
SPARC, T3 and A5X00 storage and the following operating systems:
Agent: Solaris OE 2.5.1, 6, 7, 8 and 9
Server Layer: Solaris 6, 7, 8 and 9
Console: Solaris 6, 7, 8 and 9 plus Microsoft Windows 95, 98 and NT
With the repricing of the Solaris 8 Operating Environment (Solaris
OE), new licenses for the Intel Platform
Edition are needed. As the
English only media kits are a subset of the mulitlingual media kits,
they are being transitioned to continue to support the marketing part
number reduction.
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) Delegated Administrator 1.2
patch 1 for Messaging (formerly iPlanet Delegated Administrator
1.2) is the latest patch release for the delegated administration
component of Sun ONE Messaging Server (formerly iPlanet
Messaging Server). Sun ONE Delegated Administrator for Messaging is
being distributed as a separate package rather than as a bundled
component of Sun ONE Messaging Server. It includes localized versions
of various languages.
Macromedia DevCon 2002 is the premier conference for developers and
designers using Macromedia products. This year, Macromedia has combined
past UCON and DevCon events for one incredible conference -- Macromedia
DevCon 2002. So whether you've attended one of these events in the past
or not, you won't want to miss DevCon 2002. This year's event is set for
October 27 - 30 at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin in Lake Buena
Vista, Florida.
Two upcoming seminars offered in California are the Performance and
Capacity Planning seminar in October and the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition seminar in November.
The next HPC meeting will be held November 15 - 17, in Baltimore,
Maryland in conjunction with the IEEE SC2002 conference. The HPC
Consortium is a Sun Global Education and Research worldwide customer
forum which meets to research and discuss high-end scientific and
engineering computing issues and trends.
The next HPC meeting will be held November 15 - 17, in Baltimore,
Maryland in conjunction with the IEEE SC2002 conference. The HPC
Consortium is a Sun Global Education and Research worldwide customer
forum which meets to research and discuss high-end scientific and
engineering computing issues and trends.
Upcoming conferences include the Belgian Java Technology Users Group
Conference event
on November 13-14, BioITWorld Conference & Expo in San Diego on November
12-14, the LISA '0 in Philadelphia, PA, on November 3-8, OracleWorld, on
November 10 - 14, ApacheCon USA 2002 on November 18 to 21 2002 in Las
Vegas, and CARDIS '02 in San Jose, CA, November 20-22, 2002.
Sun has announced the latest additions to its existing line of Sun
Remanufactured products, as well as repricing of selected servers,
workstations and X-options and
the transition of selected servers and storage products.
Sun Microsystems has introduced a new CPU/Memory board (Uniboard)
configuration with the new high performance 1.05 GHz/8 MB UltraSPARC
III Cu (UltraSPARC III Cu 1.05 GHz) processors for the Sun Fire
3800, 4800, 4810, 6800, 12K and 15K servers. These new copper based
processors further enhance the Sun Fire server family capabilities,
providing increased performance and RAS features. The New Uniboards
are shared across the product line, increasing vertical scalability.
Sun Microsystems is introducing a new 1.015 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu
CPU, offering a CPU greater than 1 GHz on the Sun Fire 280R server
for the first time. Sun is also offering pre-installed Solaris 8
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) on 1.015 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu Sun
Fire 280R server systems.
The Sun Fire V100 server is the next generation entry-level,
uni-processor, rack-optimized server from Sun. A new Sun Fire V100
server configuration is being introduced. This 256 MB system uses the
UltraSPARC IIi 64-bit processor and comes with a single 40
GB disk drive and it doubles L2 cache to 512 KB. The new configuration
also offers 550 MHz and 650 MHz processor choices. A Sun Customer Ready
Systems program (CRS) option is also being introduced for this system.
The Sun Customer Ready Systems Program (Sun CRS) is now including an
additional configuration to its program: the Sun Fire V120 server.
This server is the next generation of the Netra T1 AC200 server.
The Sun CRS program combines Sun and complementary third party hardware
and software products into complete solutions. Configurations are built
to the customer's order in Sun factories and shipped as a complete
system(s) ready to deploy.
IDC analysts Mark Melenovsky and Jean Bozman discuss the entry-level
server market (also called the volume server market) and how the Sun
Fire V480 server is succeeding in the 4-way server market. The IDC
report provides background on the market, 4-way IA32 servers and
4-way RISC-based servers, and how Sun is differentiating its products.
Customers looking to improve their TCO, raise their levels of
availability and implement business continuance policies will find the
following new products particularly interesting. The Sun StorEdge
9900 DLM v3 for AIX software enables path failover and load balancing.
The Sun StorEdge 9900 DB Divider software and UPS connection kit
are now available for the Sun StorEdge 9980 and 9970 systems. For
customers seeking a lower entry point into the latest segment of the
Sun StorEdge 9900 series, there is the Sun StorEdge 9970 Entry
Level Disk Adapter.
Assemble to order configurations are now available on the Sun
StorEdge 2 Gb PCI Single Fibre Channel Network Adapter and the Sun
StorEdge 2 Gb PCI Dual Fibre Channel Network Adapter cards to be
used in a SAN environment or directly attached to storage devices.
The analyst report by John Webster addresses High
Performance Computing (HPC) and how Sun's HPC solutions solve today's
problems of dealing with large data sets such as those in life sciences
research. Webster covers the advances in the HPC segment, bottlenecks when
processing large amounts of data, and how the Sun HPC storage area
network (SAN) solution augments data availability and solves compute
pipeline challenges.
Eric Armstrong of Sun has written a white paper titled "Code Fast, Run
Fast with XML Data Binding," providing background information on schemas
and giving a conceptual overview of the data binding process. He also
provides an overview of the other major XML-processing mechanisms, SAX
and DOM, for an understanding of where data binding fits in the XML
landscape.
The Sun Global Application Developer Corner is a collection of
information and resources to help developers globalize their
applications. Resource material, sample code, testing tools and useful
links provide information for developers to learn more about software
globalization. New and useful resources are added on a quarterly
basis. One of the new items this quarter is a section on support for
Unicode in the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE).
Danese Cooper, manager of the Sun Open Source Programs Office, shared
her thoughts on developments in the open source community with Janice
J. Heiss in a recent interview that sheds considerable light on the
agreement Sun reached with the Apache Software Foundation and members of
the Java Community Process (JCP) program on the use of Java
technology specifications.
Ashwin Rao, a Staff Engineer at Sun, has written an overview of the
Siemens Mobility Toolkit, a tool to develop and test applications
specifically targeted for the Siemens M50, a handset device based on
the popular SL45i phone. The phone utilizes the Java 2 Platform,
Micro Edition (J2ME).
Java Telephony API (JTAPI) is a standard telephony API for the Java
platform. It gives Java technology access to a full range of telephony
facilites. It is designed to simplify telephony development. It
supports call control, media stream management, physical phone control,
and switch-specific communication. The extensible API is designed to
scale for use in a range of domains.
Coming in the wake of Java Pet Store demo software and .NET Pet
Shop from Microsoft, Macromedia has just released Pet Market 1.2, which
demonstrates how Macromedia's family of development products can give
developers using Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)
technology another great option for quick development of sites that
deliver results.
The physicians of the Women's Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California,
are pioneering the use of wireless handheld devices to help
the center manage patient data, insurance claims and schedules. In the
past year the Women's Cancer Center has gone from a method of filing
claims based on paper and fax to one that is 100 percent electronic
and the results are impressive.
Clients can come in many sizes, ranging from wireless mobile devices
and PDAs, all the way up to the desktop. The functionality supported by
clients can vary as well. Simple clients deliver only Web pages. More
sophisticated clients, known as rich clients, can deliver services with
multimedia content: sampled audio, synthetic tones, MIDI and video.
Rich clients can be built on the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition
(J2ME) or Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE); they
can even be built on platforms that do not support Java technology.
The Java Community Process (JCP) program has approved the
Java 2
Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) Personal Profile specification,
which will be made available to the Java technology community at
the second annual JavaOne Developer Conference in Japan. The
profile (JSR 62) was approved by the JCP program J2ME Executive Committee,
including Ericcson, IBM, Insignia, Philips, RIM, Texas Instruments and
Zucotto.
Sun previewed the latest version of Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) at the JavaOne Conference
in Japan. J2EE v 1.4 technology boosts multiplatform computing with
the integration of Web Services support, making the Java platform
the only architecture capable of giving developers the ability to
deploy production-ready Web Services across heterogeneous
environments.
The Java platform is adding new technologies that support enhanced
messaging, graphics, video, audio and security features for mobile
devices. These new technologies will bring increased functionality,
more robust applications and a better user experience to future
generations of cell phones, digital assistants and other mobile
devices.
Recent CERT Alerts from the CERT Coordination Center (updated September
24, 2002) include Apache/mod_ssl Worm; Buffer Overflows in Multiple DNS
Resolver Libraries; Buffer Overflow in CDE ToolTalk; Integer Overflow
In XDR Library; Trojan Horse OpenSSH Distribution; Multiple
Vulnerabilities In OpenSSL; Multiple Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SQL
Server; Vulnerability in PHP and W32/Frethem Malicious Code.
Web-related security risks have been a challenge for business leaders
and IT professionals worldwide. Storing data where it is accessible to
cyberspace users makes online information prey to snoopers and
malevolent hackers. Because of its security-engineered architecture,
Sun ONE Web Server (formerly iPlanet Web Server) provides an
integratable and secure environment.
"Extending Authentication in the Solaris 9 OE Using PAM: Part I" in
the September 2002 issue of Sun BluePrints OnLine offers a
technical overview of how the Solaris 9 OE Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) implementation of PAM works, and demonstrates the
straightforward way in which it can be configured to accommodate
site-specific security policy requirements. The author also examines the
PAM architecture and components.
TeamQuest's integration of its Performance software with Solaris 9
Resource Manager software works to reduce the complexity and cost of
managing multiple servers and system administrators. TeamQuest
Performance software includes a workload characterization capability
that enables real-time monitoring and historical analysis of resources
controlled by Solaris 9 Resource Manager software.
Citrix Secure Gateway (CSG) now supports the Solaris Operating
Environment (Solaris OE). CSG works seamlessly with Solaris OE
(SPARC Platform Edition) to extend secure, simple application access
to remote employees, customers and suppliers regardless of location,
device or network connection.
GNP, a developer of system framework architectures for the embedded
control and communications market, has released additions to its series
of pre-configured CompactPCI (cPCI) platforms designed for powerful
voice- and data-network infrastructure applications. The Media Gateway
and Signaling Gateway platforms come with all hardware and system
software required for developing and deploying embedded control and
telecommunications systems for the wireless and wireline markets.
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