Sun and Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) have extended their agreements for two
years, and will continue collaborating on hardware, software and services to
provide improved integration and ease of management in complex
environments. They will collaborate on marketing, sales support,
services and joint customer support centers.
At the recent Hot Chips conference, Sun released the details of its new 64-bit processor designed for
blade and thin rack-mount Web and Application servers. The Gemini chip
is Sun's first generation CMT (Chip Multi-threading)
UltraSPARC processor and is capable of running dual threads.
Sun will participate in the new Healthcare Users Group Alliance Program
recently formed by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems
Society (HIMSS). Sun has created Sun Solutions for Healthcare:
Information, Networking, Education (SunSHINE). SunSHINE will be lead by
volunteers and work under the guidance of the HIMSS board. It will
operate similarly to a HIMSS special interest group (SIG).
Sun announced significantly expanded hardware support for the
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) (x86 Platform Edition),
adding 100 new third-party systems and 100 new components to its
Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). Sun also introduced a hardware
certification test suite (HCTS) and promotion program.
Sun and Check Point Software Technologies have integrated a secure
solution to protect the privacy of business communications over the
Internet and secure critical network resources against unauthorized
access: The Sun VPN Firewall Appliance -- "Secured by Check Point" on
the Sun Fire V60x server. There will be a launch for the appliance
in Singapore on September 17, 2003.
By deploying Oracle's E-business Suite on Solaris Operating System
(Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform Edition), Oracle Corporation Singapore and Sun
Microsystems Singapore are gaining customers in the mid-market
segment. The solution offers customers access to a complete set of
business applications on a choice of Sun's secure, reliable and
scalable systems.
Raytheon Company and other network systems experts plan to work with
the U.S. Air Force's MILSATCOM Joint Program Office (MJPO) to expand
the military's network capability. Sun will provide computing
technology along with IP technology from Cisco Systems for testing and
validating new communications architectures.
Sun and Fujitsu Australia Limited will collaborate to deliver a
pre-configured VoIP IP Centrex telephony solution to the Australian and
New Zealand markets using BroadSoft's BroadWorks application.
Utility services from Sun and its partners can help companies address
the problem of under-utilization with system products and operating
system software that come ready for network-scale and the utility
services business model. Utility services offer a pay-for-use
infrastructure that enables you to pay for only the computer power and
storage capacity that you use. Utility services are comprised of three
interrelated components: pay-for-use pricing, multi-source service
delivery options and a dynamic, service-oriented network
infrastructure.
The benefits of smart card technology are becoming increasingly
apparent in the face of shrinking IT budgets and rising security
threats. Sun Ray Thin Clients are designed to provide mobility with
security, flexibility and ease of administration. A recent Sun article
examines the benefits of adopting this solution.
Clark Masters, Executive Vice President, Enterprise System Products at
Sun looks at three specific areas where IT managers are being called on
to achieve substantive change in the data center: Making IT faster to
deploy, more agile and more secure. Masters lists ten rules to building
a resilient data center in today's uncertain environment.
Sun is offering a course for the follow-on release to Sun
Management Center 3.0 software. The Systems Management Using Sun
Management Center 3.5 course (#ES-419) aims to describe the solution's
new GUI installation, deployment of Sun Management Center software
agents using JumpStart software and much more.
A recent Sun document examines the transition from Microsoft Office to
StarOffice, and discusses how to make the switch as smooth as
possible. It looks at the differences between the two applications, discusses a
migration strategy and encourages the preparation of a roadmap for the migration itself.
The StarOffice 6.0 Software User Guide is a comprehensive
educational tool for using the Sun application. The chapter titled,
"Creating Text Documents with StarOffice Writer," discusses the
application's word processing module. The chapter begins with basic
instructions, progressing to more sophisticated functions. The chapter
ends with an explanation of some of the templates and sample documents
supplied within the module.
SpeechTEK 2003 is an event designed to exclusively cover speech
products, applications and solutions. It tries to provide attendees
with educational experience from every point of view and aims to cover
all applications of speech technology in the global marketplace.
SpeechTEK will be held September 29 through October 2, in New York
City.
The Unicode Consortium plans to focus on the recent additions to
Unicode 4.0 at the 24th Internationalization and Unicode Conference,
held September 3-5, in Atlanta, Georgia. The event aims to provide an
in-depth, revamped tutorial that covers Unicode 4.0.
Six technical training and business development LISA Workshops are
scheduled to be held covering: Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) Applications; Project Management; I18n & L10n Testing;
Automating Localization Workflow; Unicode and Asian Character Sets and
Defining Globalization Requirements. The workshops will be held
September 12th, in Waltham, Massachusetts, and September 17th and 18th in
Boston's Back-Bay.
As the University of Houston's High Performance Computing (HPC) needs
grew, they turned to Sun to replace their IBM SP2 and other vendor
servers. They chose a Sun StorEdge Open SAN architecture built on
Sun Fire servers clustered with high-speed switches from Myricom. Sun
deployed the servers within 30 days of delivery.
Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) is a viable approach for
education institutions to create a seamless foundation to meet existing
and emerging requirements. Learn about the value Grid Computing can bring institutions, and take advantage of soon-to-expire discounts.
New features added to the fourth edition of the "Solaris Operating
Environment Administrator's Guide" include the new Solaris Flash Install technology and Solaris Live Upgrade software installation features, Secure Shell network commands and more.
Snort is an increasingly popular Intrusion Detection System (ISD).
Corporate IT departments are taking notice of its low maintenance costs
and powerful security features. "Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection," by
Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, James C. Foster and Jeffrey Posluns is the
first book dealing with the Snort IDS.
O'Reilly has combined its bestselling LAMP books all on one CD: The
Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0, presents over 3,600 pages
of easily searchable information on Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl/PHP/Python
(LAMP). The CD also includes content from the O'Reilly Network.
If you are looking for a way to better protect your data center, the
iForce Perimeter Security Solution provides multi-layer Internet
security to protect vital business information networks from today's
threats. The solution can co-exist with current security mechanisms. It
checks for known vulnerabilities, detects intruders or viruses and
responds and tracks down the source of the attack.
Since Web Services expose the internal workflows, business processes
and architectures of applications, securing Web Services is paramount.
A white paper by Shivaram Mysore, Software Architect at Sun's Java
Software Division, explains the basic concepts of building in Web
Services security and provides a detailed table listing the
requirements to protect data.
The Sun Fire Link interconnect, as part of a distributed computer
system, must be protected against attacks. The recent Sun
BluePrints document, "Building Secure Sun Fire Link
Interconnect Networks Using Sun Fire 15K and Sun Fire 12K
Servers," by Joe Higgins and Steven Spadaccini of the Enterprise Server
Products Group and High End Software at Sun, presents how to install and
deploy the Sun Fire Link interconnect so it can be securely managed and
operated.
The latest version of Linktivity's Web collaboration software
application, WebDemo 3.0, is offered in three versions: WebDemo
Express, WebDemo Professional and WebDemo Enterprise. New features
include a redesigned user and command module interface, application
sharing and an updated co-browse functionality to enhance collaboration
and training.
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