In the three UNIX server segments tracked by IDC, Sun is the leader in
unit shipments worldwide and tied for revenue. This result is based on
IDC's new server taxonomy-volume ($0-$25K), midrange enterprise
($25-$500K) and high-end enterprise (over $500K).
Sun's new Game Technologies Group plans to develop next-generation
technologies to allow game developers to do more with Java
technology. The new group will be headed by Chris Melissinos. The
group will work on developing and delivering Java technology-based
solutions to the video games industry across client and server.
The Sun Wi-Fi System Delivery Architecture from Sun and Bonsai Networks
will enable carriers to deploy cost-effective and ubiquitous public
Wi-Fi access zones that utilize readily available DSL technology.
Service providers can offer their customers and business partners
high-quality support and choices such as a range of pricing plans,
promotions and settlements.
Sun is offering price cuts of up to 25 percent on its Sun Fire V880
server, now equipped with the 1.05 GHz UltraSPARC III Cu processor,
making it 17 percent faster than before. Prices are also reduced by up
to 20 percent on the Sun Fire V480 server line.
The first of two High Performance Computing Consortium (SHPCC) events
will be held June 21-23 in Heidelberg, Germany. A second SHPCC is
scheduled for November 14-16 in Phoenix, AZ, just prior to the 2003
Supercomputer Conference.
In Sun's third annual "Tunathon" program, over 45 ISVs submitted
applications to have them analyzed and tested to optimize and tune
performance. The average performance gain was 31 percent.
Participating ISVs included RSA Security, SAS, i2 Technologies,
BeVocal, Gene-IT, Geospiza, Intersystems, Interwoven, Marketmax,
MSC.Software, TNO, Ubiquity and VIPTone.
Sun ONE Application Server 7 software continues to create new
business opportunities for ISVs by providing the basis for end-to-end
Java Web Services and application development. Many of the
industry's top names are using the solution to enable global
enterprises and enforce the high availability of mission-critical Java
technology applications. (This product was formerly known as
iPlanet Application Server.)
Sun Cluster 3.1 software introduces new features and new
SunPlex system HA agents (such as Samba, BEA and others). Sun
Cluster 3.1 software is the key to building highly available SunPlex
systems. New features include a versioning framework to enable rolling
upgrades, support for the Solaris 8 Operating System (Solaris OS)
and Solaris 9 OS and for Solaris IP Multipathing (IPMP).
Sun is proposing to standardize three Jini (technology) entries under
the Jini Community Decision Process (JDP) in order to match the "Lookup
Attributes" that have been defined for the other two infrastructures
(SLP and LDAP directory). The Jini technology community proposes adding a
Host Class.
EEMA is the leading European professional association in the electronic
marketplace. EEMA hosts conferences to promote the use and advance of
electronic commerce and business communications. EEMA's 16th Annual
Conference will be in Prague, the Czech Republic, on June 17-18, 2003,
with a focus on Web Services. Mark Hapner, Chief Web Services
Strategist, Sun, will discuss Sun and Java technology in Web
Services and participate in a debate on the Java 2 Platform,
Enterprise Edition (J2EE) versus .NET.
The new Sun ONE Identity Management User Group will hold its first
meeting Tuesday, July 8, 2003, in San Francisco. The group is open to
customers of Sun ONE Directory Server and Sun ONE Identity
Server (formerly known as iPlanet Directory Server and iPlanet
Directory Server: Access Management Edition, respectively).
The Catalyst Conference is an annual three-day event that offers two
tracks: One on Directory and Security Strategies and another on Network
and Telecom Strategies. The conference brings together vendors, end
users and analysts/consultants for an end-user-driven agenda with
high-profile speakers from the Burton Group and companies such as
Cisco, Critical Path and IBM Tivoli. Sun will demonstrate its
network and telecom products.
Delphi's Executive Retreat on Building an Agile Enterprise will be held
June 30 and July 1, in San Francisco. The event aims to bring together
some of the top industry minds to focus on building enterprise agility
in business and IT architecture, with an emphasis on reducing total
cost of ownership for IT.
The World Economic Forum will hold an Extraordinary Annual Meeting in
Jordan from June 21-23. Focusing on the theme of "Visions for a Shared
Future," the conference will bring together more than 1,000 business,
political, religious, academic and other leaders to discuss issues like
transatlantic relations, the future of the Middle East and the
improvement of global economic performance.
This year's Black Hat USA Briefings and Training conference will be
held July 28-29, in Las Vegas. The event assembles a group of security
professionals to candidly discuss the security problems facing
organizations with large networks and mixed operating systems, as well
as solutions to these problems.
This section reviews the top Sun articles and topics of the past month
such as the low-cost computing announcement and the Sun and Oracle
expanded relationship. Servers featured significantly with the new Sun
Fire v60x servers and Sun Fire v65x servers and deals on other
servers. There are updates to storage software and trade-in
opportunities on certain Sun StorEdge products. Catch up with the
news from the Jini technology community, how Sun technology is
being used in markets such as manufacturing, and what to look for at
the JavaOne Conference.
As part of Sun's documentation of its Solaris Operating System
(Solaris OS), "What's New in the Solaris 9 4/03 Operating Environment"
summarizes the new features of the Solaris 9 9/02 OS Update release,
the Solaris 9 12/02 OS Update release and the Solaris 9 4/03 Update
release.
In the Sun BluePrints article, "An Architecture for Creating and
Managing Integrated Software Stacks," author John S. Howard, Sun
Engineering, discusses the challenging and time-consuming tasks data
center managers face when creating and managing complex, integrated
system software stacks. The document also provides an architecture for
software stack creation and management.
The Sun BluePrints article, "Sun Cluster 3.0 Series: Guide to
Installation -- Part 2," reviews the Sun Cluster 3.0 concepts and
components important to the successful installation and construction of a
cluster. The documentation outlines how to properly install the cluster
software onto each node, then configure the disks.
The new Sun BluePrints article "Integrating the Secure Shell
Software," is actually the fifth chapter of Jason Reid's book, "Secure
Shell in the Enterprise." The document discusses integrating Secure
Shell into various environments, including replacing rsh(1) with ssh(1)
in scripts, using proxies to bridge disparate networks, limiting
privileges with RBAC and protecting legacy TCP-based applications.
A recent article on the Java technology Web site, written by John
Zukowski, outlines some of
the changes available in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
(J2SE) 1.4.2 release. While one significant change is the
inclusion of the Windows Installer, arguably the most important change
is the addition of over 2,700 bug fixes.
Java Logging APIs, introduced in package java.util.logging, produce
log reports suitable for analysis by end users, system administrators,
field service engineers and software development teams. The main goal of
the logging APIs is to support maintaining and servicing software at
customer sites.
A Web Services for Java Technology Programmers course is available
to teach students how to develop new Web services from from existing
Java technology components, expose legacy applications as Web Services
or work with a combination of both new and legacy components.
Sun and Siemens Mobile Acceleration (smac) share a common "Developer
Startup Initiative." Together the companies foster wireless application
startups who have yet to enter the market. By offering these companies
capital, consultant coaching and access to Research and Development
facilities, the initiative is able to accelerate startups' time to
market entrance.
An operating unit of SunGard, Brut LLC, and Sun Microsystems have
agreed to a deal that will provide a multi-million dollar upgrade to
BRUT's Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)-based
infrastructure. The upgrade includes installation of Sun Fire V880
enterprise servers running the Solaris OS, which will help provide
improvements to BRUT's speed, scalability, security and reliability.
LG Card Company, South Korea's largest credit card company, recently
turned to Sun for help with its increasingly difficult to manage IT
environment. Through its Sun Managed Services offering and some
critical hardware deployments, Sun was able to address LG Card's
Current IT issues as well as provision the company for the future.
GemStone Systems and Sun will team up to provide eBucks.com, an online
banking system in South Africa and a division of FirstRand Bank, with
an integrated technology solution that will simplify their architecture
and manage data across hardware and software systems, while lowering TCO.
Over the next two years the First National Bank of Omaha plans to issue
100,000 Visa smart cards to its customers to offer
protection against card fraud and provide a range of personal data management applications. The smart cards will be provided by Oberthur Card
Systems.
According to the authors of "Sun Open Net Environment in
e-Government," a Sun white paper, government must respond to the
increasing demand for improved online services for diverse audiences
while providing security, privacy, service provisioning and systems
management. Achieving these ends is made easier by employment of the
Sun ONE architecture and platform.
Using the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) as the infrastructure for
the state enterprise portal, the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA)
has brought about the automation of the driver's license renewal process in
the state's Department of Motor Vehicle Safety (DMVS) office.
My New Jersey is an e-government portal built on the Sun ONE Portal
Server (formerly iPlanet Portal Server) that gives New Jersey
residents single-sign-on access to the services they require, such as
renewing a vehicle registration, getting a fishing license, filing
taxes online, searching a jobs database or getting step-by-step
instruction on how to start a business.
When the New York City Department of Finance (DOF), City Registers
Office faced the formidable challenge of automating its system of
personal property records, managers turned to BearingPoint, FileNet and
Sun Microsystems for solutions. The Office had been storing more than
60 million images of property documents for New York City's four
counties on a 20-year-old mainframe and microfilm system (including
handwritten ledgers).
VERITAS Software Corporation has relased a new, enhanced version of
VERITAS Bare Metal Restore, software designed to automate the rapid
recovery of heterogeneous server environments. Bare Metal Restore
software cuts recovery time by automating system and software
configuration processes. The new version 4.6 includes "dissimilar
system restore," which can restore a crashed Windows system to hardware
completely different from that on which it was originally installed.
VERITAS Bare Metal Restore automates and streamlines the server
recovery process, making it unnecessary to manually reinstall operating
systems or configure hardware. Complete restoration of a server can be
done with a single command in a fraction of the time without
extensive training or tedious administration. Server restores will
be faster, easier and more successful, getting your business back
online as soon as possible.
For the third year in a row, VERITAS Software Corp. has been placed in
the "leaders" quadrant in the most recent Gartner Magic Quadrant
reports of the enterprise backup and SAN management software markets.
VERITAS products that have led to the high ranking include VERITAS
NetBackup software, VERITAS Global Data Manager and VERITAS SANPoint
Control.
Streamline and centralize the archiving of distaster recovery tapes
with VERITAS NetBackup Vault. VERITAS NetBackup Vault is an integrated
option for VERITAS NetBackup DataCenter. Some of the key features of
VERITAS NetBackup Vault are its ability to perform inline tape
duplication during the backup. Initial backups can then be stored, or
staged, on a disk storage device and automatically duplicated to
tape storage devices following the backup.
Given the increasing size and widespread adoption of the Oracle
enterprise database, manual backup and recovery procedures are becoming
less and less suitable as a database management tool. VERITAS Software
has worked closely with Oracle Corporation to develop a highly scalable
and reliable array of online backup and recovery solutions for Oracle
databases.
SunRAMP is a recently completed, global consolidation project
undertaken by Sun. The project resulted in the consolidation of more
than 100 servers dispersed across 55 countries and 60 Oracle Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) applications down to a single server running a
single instance of Oracle applications.
Calling on the services of Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Verio,
TradingSports created the world's first person-to-person (P2P) sports
betting exchange that allows gamblers worldwide to place bets with one
another online through either local bookmakers or sports Web sites.
A number of companies worldwide have found the solution to lowering IT
infrastructure TCO and improving performance in system consolidation
with Sun solutions.
Sendmail Advanced Anti-Spam Filter enables enterprises to define and
block spam and other unwanted messages according to their specific
preferences and needs. This filter is part of Sendmail Mailstream
Manager. In addition to blocking spam, enterprises can use the Filter's
rule sets and full-text analysis to take a policy-based approach to
email content management.
Insightful Miner 3, the predictive analysis solution, supports Windows and Solaris Operating System
(Solaris OS) servers. It also adds several new features that
facilitate how data analysts build and deploy predictive models that
increase product performance and efficiency of critical business
processes.
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