Sun has completed the acquisition of Pirus Networks Inc., a developer
of multi-protocol, multi-vendor intelligent storage platforms for
distributed open-systems environments. Pirus Networks has become a part of
Sun's Network Storage organization, which reports to Mark Canepa,
executive vice president. Pirus Networks'
virtualization technology will be integrated into Sun's existing end-to-end
storage architecture.
At the recent Supercomputing 2002 conference in Baltimore, Sun demonstrated cluster,
enterprise and global grids accessed via Sun ONE Grid Engine
software (formerly Sun Grid Engine) and how the software is
helping to enable HPTC users to
maximize and more efficiently allocate their compute resources. Sun also
demostrated other technologies.
Algorithmics Inc.and Sun Microsystems confirmed they will continue to
work together to help financial services customers with risk-management
solutions and other issues. Sun also is
supporting the Algo Lab initiative, where Algorithmics clients can
access Sun technology.
Sun and Lucent Technologies will expand their
long term strategic alliance to deliver comprehensive, reliable
and scalable business solutions to wireline and wireless service
providers and enterprise customers. They will work
together in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
The Sun Professional Services program introduces the Sun
Cluster Implementation Services (CIS). Made up of six fixed
price/variable scope and duration modules, CIS provides the design,
configuration and testing to ensure that a new Sun Cluster system is
functioning correctly with a customer's applications.
As part of the ongoing effort to provide a Business Ready
Infrastructure, Sun datacenters are now offering Sun Fire Link
interconnect and Capacity On Demand (COD) 2.0, which extend the range
and speed of the Sun Fire 3800 servers through the Sun Fire 15K
servers.
The Sun LX50 server VPN/Firewall appliance -- "Secured by Check Point"
software is inexpensive and easy to manage. It is well suited for
remote offices, corporate offices and Internet
service providers that need advanced Internet security without the
work of developing and deploying a customized solution.
The TMP Company, a small Seattle distribution firm, is reporting saving
$1,000 per employee by switching over from a Microsoft Office/Windows setup
to a Linux system using Sun's StarOffice software. But vice president
Tim Payne also reports that he now has no problems running multiple applications
with the new combination.
The transitioning of the last four-tier licenses for the VERITAS File
System has been announced. This completes the implementation of the
nine-tier license structure for both VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS
File System. The last order date will be February 14, 2003, while the last
ship date is May 16, 2003.
With the release of Sun ONE Mainframe Transaction Processing
software 8.0, Sun ONE Mainframe Batch Manager software 10.0 and
Sun ONE 3270 Pathway 2.0 (formerly known as Sun 3270 Pathway
software), the migration of applications running on IBM and PCM to Sun
systems running the Solaris 8 and 9 Operating Environment (Solaris
OE) can be rehostied with little or no change.
Sun has announced the end-of-life (EOL) for StarOffice 5.2
Application Suite. In May, Sun announced StarOffice 6.0 and
StarSuite 6.0 Office Suite, part of the Sun ONE software
offerings. This announcement removes 12 languages. The last order date
is February 14, 2003, while the last ship date is May 16, 2003.
Members of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured
Information Standards (OASIS) consortium have formed a technical
committee to advance an open, XML-based file format specification for
office applications. The new OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical
Committee brings together representatives throughout the industry
committed to establishing standard data interoperability for office
applications. Their work will be suitable for documents containing
text, spreadsheets, charts and graphs and will retain high-level
information for editing.
Sun has enhanced the industry's first NEBS-certified CompactPCI (cPCI)
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) telecom blade servers with the release
of the Netra CT 410 and 810 cPCI telecom blade servers, the
Netra CP2140 and CP2160 cPCI blades and the Netra High
Availability (HA) Suite Foundation Services (FS) 2.1 software.
The 733-MHz SunPCi IIpro coprocessor card enables Sun workstation
users whose IT departments may have standardized on MS Office to run
these applications natively in a compact form factor, eliminating the
need for a stand-alone PC. SunPCi 2.3.2 software drivers and documentation are now available.
Sun is significantly reducing prices for Sun Blade 2000 systems
based on the 900-MHz UltraSPARC III Cu CPU. Prices are reduced anywhere
from 27 percent to over 30 percent off the systems without the Sun XVR-1000 graphics system configurations. The price cuts reflect lower costs for key components, Sun reported.
Sun has built many features into the Solaris 9 Operating
Environment (Solaris OE) to make it compatible with Linux. However,
users may run into porting issues. Among those covered are
little-endian vs. big-endian approaches, multithreading and C
libraries.
The Micro Focus Server Express 2.2 and Micro Focus Application Server
for Server Express 2.2 allow companies to redeploy mainframe-based
COBOL systems to SPARC platforms, as well as to develop new
COBOL applications and maintain them on Sun systems. The Micro Focus
products create an integrated programming environment for developing
and deploying client/server object COBOL and procedural 32- and
64-bit COBOL applications on SPARC systems.
Sun offers an XML training curriculum that can help you expand your
knowledge of XML technology and develop specific skills for applying
XML in your environment. Courses currently available cover XML for
managers, how HTML and SGML relate to XML and more.
Sun donated 180 desktop Sun Ray appliances, Sun Enterprise 420R hardware and
two Sun Fire 220R servers to the Lab School of Washington, an internationally recognized institution
known for its innovative programs for children and adults with learning
disabilities.
The System Administrators Guild (SAGE) Web site is a community-driven forum
for news, views, membership information help and more about the
profession. Some of the current topics on the site cover certification,
finding a job and hiring a sysadmin.
Erik Vanden Meersch presents a methodology for
discussing availability requirements for Information Technology
systems. This methodology focuses on the interaction between system
vendors and customers at the early stage of a project and defines the
minimum information that should be exchanged to design an architecture
that will satisfy the availability requirements of the future owner of
the system.
The shift toward a Services on Demand model moves the burden of
administering the computing infrastructure from the end user and their
PCs to the organizations providing the services, increasing the cost of
management in environments with already limited IT budgets and staff.
Using the Solaris Operating Environment (Solaris OE) system
management solutions to administer and meet
these needs is the topic of the white paper, Managing More With Less.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) released
SPECjAppServer2002, a new benchmark that measures the performance of
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 1.3 application
servers connected to a database server.
Ticker Technologies (TTI) announced a new release of its
Internet-based Stock Charts
software to include futures traded on the NYMEX and COMEX exchanges.
TTI currently offers a Stock Charts package covering indices and stocks
traded on all U.S. and Canadian exchanges. The new package includes
energy futures such as crude oil, unleaded gasoline and natural gas, as
well as metals futures.
Nuance Voice Platform, which is scheduled for general release in Q1 of
2003, has been designed as the ideal foundation upon which speech
applications can be developed and deployed. It is an open,
standards-based software platform that is optimized for speech, thus
enabling the benefits of speech to be maximized.
enPortal 4.0, a secure network management portal from Edge
Technologies, allows organizations to integrate and share information
between disparate data sources and then securely present information
through a customizable, Web-based portal. Its XML-driven, Java
technology-based portal platform secures, consolidates and integrates
real-time interactive applications through a single, Web-based
dashboard.
CERT has reported a bug in the zlib compression library.
Sun's implementations of the Java runtime environment
include zlib and are affected. This bug may allow malicious code
to corrupt memory and possibly crash the Java runtime environment (JRE).
CERT has reported a bug in the zlib compression library.
Sun's implementations of the Java runtime environment
include zlib and are affected. This bug may allow malicious code
to corrupt memory and possibly crash the Java runtime environment (JRE).
Sun has announced an end-of-life transition for Sun ONE Studio 4
(formerly Forte for Java) software. The recently announced Sun ONE
Studio 4 update 1 will serve as the free upgrade path for existing Sun
ONE Studio 4 software users. The last order date is February 14, 2003, with the
last ship date slated for May 16, 2003.
inteRAD's build-IT extends the Sun ONE Studio 4 IDE and simplifies
the development process, delivering additional productivity gains and
dramatically reducing software maintenance and associated costs.
inteRAD's build-IT enables the development of Java technology
applications through the use of an intuitive, visual, drag-and-drop
environment.
Service provider United Messaging chose the Sun ONE Messaging
Server (formerly iPlanet Messaging Server) and Sun ONE
Directory Server (formerly iPlanet Directory Server) for the
enterprise-class messaging services they provide for business customers
around the world.
PsiNaptic, the first company to implement stand-alone Jini
technology for embedded processors, has announced the availability of
JMatos for the OSGi platform. JMatos, PsiNaptic's small-footprint
implementation of Jini technology, brings adaptive networking
capabilities to industrial controls devices, automotive telematics
units, home gateway and automation, and other embedded devices using
the OSGi platform.
The Sleuth9 Security System version 3.0 is a network attack mitigation
and intrusion prevention solution that instantly detects and
automatically prevents cyber attacks from entering or leaving a
network. The latest release includes new security features and
functionality designed to stop sophisticated, blended cyber attacks
including DoS, DDoS, Port Scans, trojan horses, propagating worms and
viruses.
Apache Design Solutions, provider of physical design integrity
solutions for system-on-chip (SoC) designs, has released NSPICE, a new
analog circuit simulator targeted for system integrators and designers
of chips, boards, connectors and backplanes for the high-speed,
multi-gigabit communications, networking and graphics markets.
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