An important trend in the wireless market is the development of new
IP-based services that can be delivered over traditional wireless
infrastructures. The Wireless Services Suite from Sun
can help improve the availability, scalability and security, as well
as the quality of service delivery architecture.
The Fall 2002 issue of OpenFinance magazine contains articles on the
Sun LX50 server and the access it offers to features such as
SWIFTNet Link on Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE). The
issue also features articles on the SWIFTNet FIX hub, a messaging service
pilot program for the financial services market to improve straight
through processing (STP).
The InsiTech Group, an information technology firm specializing in
business analysis, solution design and distributed applications
development, provides value to its clients by combining its IT
expertise with its patent pending Java technology and XML
development tool called XML
Tunneling Technology (XTT). XTT is a complete distributed application
development and runtime platform that allows for the creation of rich
graphical user interfaces for local/distributed applications, but is as
thin or thinner than an HTML front end.
When the Landrum Company, an $850 million Missouri-based bank holding
company, wanted greater functionality than its existing platform could
provide, they turned to Sun and the Kirchman Corp. for a
cost-effective, open systems solution. Kirchman rehosted Landrum's
existing applications and data to the Solaris Operating Environment
(Solaris OE) version of its Kirchman Bankway software, meeting all of
Landrum's goals and expectations.
Sun has developed two comprehensive certification packages for the
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) middleware platform that speed
up certification and provide it at a more affordable price. One is
designed for intermediate level engineers, the other for advanced
engineers. The price for both increases on February 1, 2003.
In a 24-page white paper, discussion centers on the
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) platform and Web Services, how the Solaris
Operating Environment (Solaris OE) provides an underlying platform that is scalable,
available, manageable and secure, and finally describes the
best-of-breed components and integrated Java technology support available.
The executive brief on N1 covers how Sun N1 can help IT managers keep
their companies competitive. "Just in Time" computing is based on
the Just in Time manufacturing model that lets vendors know exactly
how much product is needed for the next manufacturing run. This reduces
excess inventory. N1 will help reduce the management complexity in the
datacenter caused by the explosion of new applications and server
sprawl.
Sun ONE Calendar Server 5.1.1 (formerly iPlanet Calendar
Server) provides a highly scalable and reliable carrier-grade,
Web-based solution. With an open, modular and standards-based
architecture, the Sun ONE Calendar Server 5.1.1 allows
scheduling, task and resource management. Native support for the Sun
ONE Calendar Server 5.1.1 standards allows users to schedule events in
a format that is easily shared across the Internet.
The demands of enterprise and high-performance computing require highly
reliable and scalable 64-bit systems to power enterprise applications
and next-generation Web Services. UltraSPARC III Cu processors from
Sun are third-generation 64-bit microprocessors design-engineered to make
the Net work.
The Sun Expert3D-Lite Graphics Accelerator is being transitioned
because it has been replaced by new 3-D Graphics Accelerators. These
new devices include the Sun XVR-1000 Graphics Accelerator and the
Sun XVR-500 Graphics Accelerator. The Last Order Date will be
01/03/2003 and Last Ship Date will be 04/04/2003.
The SunSpectrum Instant Upgrade (SIU) support services provide
additional support to customers for their computer hardware when
additional services are not offered by the standard warranty coverage or
because of the mission-critical nature of their IT environment.
Sun has announced a new configuration for the Sun Fire V880 server
at 900 MHz with eight processors, 32 GB of memory and 6 - 73 GB
FC-AL disk drives. This new configuration of the Sun Fire V880 server
provides additional memory at a modest price increment above the
eight-processor, 16-GB configuration.
The Sun BluePrints OnLine program currently features Nathan Wiger
and Roger Blythe's configuration guide for the Sun Fire server. The
authors cover designing the Sun Fire server system's logical server and
offer some useful rules of thumb for system analyis.
The new Sun StorEdge 3300 series arrays combine the power and
availability of enterprise storage systems with the simplicity and
affordability of workgroup arrays. The first member is the Sun
StorEdge 3310 SCSI array. A new second redundant array of
independent disks (RAID) controller is also available.
The Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI array offers enterprise-class
availability, scalability and adaptability to customers with demanding,
fast-growing environments. The Sun StorEdge 3310 array's modular design
simplifies the task of adding storage capacity while enterprise
management features and rugged construction ensure ease of use and
reliability of service.
Customers are now able to trade in selected Sun tape
libraries and those from other vendors and receive value toward
the purchase of a new Sun
StorEdge L25 or Sun StorEdge L100 base tape library and
associated installed drives.
Sun StorEdge 9900 ShadowImage software licensing had been based on
the total usable capacity of the Primary Volumes within a Sun
StorEdge 9980 or Sun StorEdge 9970 system. Now total usable capacity is
the total logical (i.e., emulation formatted) capacity of all the
logical devices in all the array groups in the subsystem. Usable
capacity is not affected by any RAID architecture-specific factors.
Tools currently available for Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE)
middleware migration are Sun ONE Migration Tool for Application
Servers Version 2.0 -- Early Access (formerly known as iPlanet
Migration Tool for Application Servers) and Sun ONE Migration Tool for
Portal Servers Version 1.0 -- Early Access.
Jan Van Bruaene's article "Using the USB Generic Driver (Ugen)
to Access USB Peripherals on Solaris Systems"
provides an example that uses Ugen to access status information about a USB
uninterruptible power supply (UPS). The author covers USB, a simplified UPS
application and binding the Ugen driver to your device.
JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology simplifies the process of
embedding bits of Java programming language code (or scriptlets)
in HTML documents.
Additionally, developers can use the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag
Library (JSTL 1.0) to introduce their own custom tags written in an
HTML-like syntax. Qusay H. Mahmoud's article, "Faster Development with
JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL 1.0)" demonstrates how
to utilize JSTL and assumes hands-on experience with JSP technology.
Sun has created a new Web site specifically for developers for the Sun
Open Net Environment (Sun ONE). The goal of this site is to help
developers learn, innovate, design and deploy software to solve
real-world problems in the workplace, enterprise and industry. The
site will grow over time as code and technical articles are added.
Sun and Extreme Networks Inc. are delivering an innovative, simplified
computing infrastructure to connect users and desktop applications at
Ohlone College in Northern California's East Bay. The solution enables
better performance, enhanced security and
greater uptime based on the Sun Ray Appliance architecture and
Extreme Networks' high performance multi-layer Gigabit Ethernet
switching solutions. The combined solution is expected to help lower
total cost of ownership by up to 30 percent over a PC environment.
Dave Pawson's new book "XSL-FO" explores one method by which
developers and Web designers can convert XML to print. Extensible Style
Language-Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) is a set of tools used to
describe page printouts of XML (including XHTML) documents. Developers who need
to produce printed material from their XML documents can use XSL-FO as a bridge.
The JavaServer Pages (JSP) framework uses a component-based
approach that allows Web developers to easily combine static HTML with
Java programming language components for dynamic features. The new
edition of "JavaServer Pages" by Hans Bergsten shows developers how
they can use the Java technology servlets to create their own effective
Web applications.
The O'Reilly book "BGP" by Iljitsch van Beijnum provides network
administrators with the information they need to know to run Border
Gateway Protocol (BGP) for regular IPv4 routing in all but the very
largest networks. The book covers BGP configuration and operation in
an Internet environment and how to troubleshoot it.
PeekAndPick 2.0, an application for selecting and reading news stories via an
MIDP-compliant device, offers several new features. They include a headline list
with an animated progress indicator and a function that allows pending
network connections to be cancelled.
The interaction of .NET and Java technology is unpredictable at the
moment, Sun Chief Engineer Rob Gingell noted in an interview with Janice J.
Heiss. It will depend on whether developers use the public open source
architecture or allow proprietary needs to dictate the direction of their
work.
The Wireless Java technology Web page provides links to a variety
of code samples that use the MIDP APIs. The samples are organized into
categories such as alerts and timers, event handling and network
connections.
There are two popular architectures for securing network interactions:
Kerberos and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This article considers
the features of both and recommends PKI as the better solution for
network identity applications.
Titan is a collection of programs, each of which either fixes or
tightens one or more potential security problems with a particular
aspect in the setup or configuration of a UNIX system. Titan's
simple modular design makes it easy for anyone who can write a shell
script or program to add to Titan as well as completely understand the
internal workings of the system.
The Access1.sun.com Web site recommends virus scanning software for the
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) 8 (x86 Platform
Edition) from Sophos and F-Secure SSH 3.1.
Kanisa Inc. has enhanced the existing infrastructure of Kanisa 4.0 to
provide a better ROI in three ways. First, by adding both the
Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and Windows platforms.
Secondly, by including Knowledge Extractor, which allows access to a
rich variety of sources regardless of format, location or platform.
Thirdly, Kanisa provides Web Services architecture that is
industry-standard to connect with almost any other system.
Marimba Inc. has released a series of inventory, targeting, packaging
and reporting enhancements to its Server Change Management offerings.
Marimba has also created an alliance with Citrix Systems to provide
support for Terminal Services management capabilities.
NetBotz Inc. has extended its Advanced Device Crawlers software to
support the Sun hardware platform. Advanced Device Crawler, an internal
vitals monitoring package, provides system data such as CPU
temperature, fan speed and power supply status on a cross-platform
basis to aid detection of hardware failures and reduce network
downtime.
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