This week Sun adds to its offerings in the HP Away program [12420].
The education conference in Madrid gave Sun an opportunity to showcase
its solutions and how they are being adopted by new customers; see
[12457] and the Education section.
The Publications section focuses on Java technology books.
The Athens Airport is deploying the Sun Java Enterprise System, giving
employees and others access to services via a portal [12352].
Other case studies demostrating successful deployments of Sun
technology can be found in this week's Healthcare section and
Government section.
The SunNetwork Conference 2004 in Shanghai is coming up -- Get your
discounted registration now [12431]. Other events coming up are for
gamers and HTPC.
The Executive Review is included with this week's issue.
Sun is offering an upgrade and trade-in allowance program for customers
upgrading legacy Sun or non-Sun products and systems to new Sun
Fire servers, UltraSPARC processor-based Uniboards and Sun
StorEdge hardware. The promotions reduce cost from 10 to 40 percent.
Sun's HP Away Migration Lease makes it exceptionally easy and
affordable for HP PA-RISC/HP-UX and AlphaServer/Tru64 customers to
migrate to the Sun platform. Now, a limited-time lease offer gives
qualified customers the opportunity to make no payments and pay no
interest for 90 days on their entire Sun Migration solution --
including Sun hardware, software and services -- and to pay
below-market rate financing for 36 months.
Many resources are available on the NC04Q1 site, including a letter
from Scott McNealy, presenting a high-level overview of the
announcements and their business benefits; links to the product pages;
and video and transcripts of keynotes.
Sun is seeing widespread European adoption of computing solutions for
educational institutions. Sun also recently solidified academic
relationships by adding The Ministry of Education Catalonia, Spain and
the SRH Business Academy in Heidelberg, Germany as Centers of
Excellence.
Sun is finding success with the advance of Grid technologies on the
digital campus and at research facilities all over the globe. Academic
institutions are increasingly looking to Sun's N1 Grid computing
solutions to power their computing infrastructures and further advance
the academic research environment.
Grid computing from Sun is helping in more than the Education sector.
Enterprises such as Ford and Motorola are gaining the compute resources
they need by using Sun Grid Engine software.
The SANblade 2340 series from QLogic Corp. now supports the Solaris
9 Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARC Platform Edition) and the
Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition). In addition, QLogic's 2340 family of
single and dual port Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) has been
given Solaris Ready Certification by Sun.
A recent eWEEK.com article highlights the Athens International Airport
and its current beta program with Sun, which has allowed the airport to
begin deploying the Sun Java Enterprise System. The solution is
able to interface with existing applications and allows the airport's
portal server to provide single sign-on.
Sun has released a Sun BluePrints Online article that discusses the
implementation of SQL-like triggers in the Sun Java System Directory
Server (formerly a Sun ONE product). "LDAP Triggers: A Framework
for Sun Java System Directory Server," also offers an example scenario
which demonstrates how the Plug-in API can be used to extend the
server.
Sun Java System Content Delivery Server 2004Q1 is designed to allow
mobile operators to launch and sustain profitable content services. Key
functionality has been added to improve subscriber services,
administration features, offer better integration and improve device
management.
Sun has released version 4.1 of its N1 Service
Provisioning System, which allows customers to automate the complex
application provisioning process to make it quick and reliable,
enabling complex services to be rolled-out in a day or less.
Micro Focus Server Express 4.0 and Application Server for Server
Express 4.0 are now in release. These solutions allow customers wishing
to redeploy applications written in COBOL on mainframes or other
systems onto the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARC
Platform Edition), as well as customers desiring to improve the
performance of applications written in prior versions of COBOL on the
Solaris OS.
The Solaris 8 2/04 Operating System (SPARC Platform Edition) (Solaris OS)
adds additional hardware support for Sun Fire E2900, E4900, E6900,
E20K and E25K servers along with other Sun Fire servers, blade servers
and Sun Blade workstations. Deployment of UltraSPARC IV
processors in existing Sun Fire V1280 15K servers is also featured.
The 2004 Game Developers Conference presents sessions in seven tracks:
Visual Arts, Production, Business & Legal, Game Design, Audio,
Programming and the IGDA track. Doug Twilleager, chief architect of the
Game Technologies Group at Sun, will present a session on professional
Java technology game development techniques.
At the SunHPC 2004 event, sessions will be offered on Sun compilers,
the Sun performance analyzer and the Sun HPC ClusterTools environment
and more. Learn how to get optimal performance out of UltraSPARC III,
IIIi, and III Cu based Sun workstations and servers.
The Sun Fire V240 8 GB standard configuration server comes with
2x1.28 GHz processors and 8 GB memory. Sun Fire V240 has more memory
slots than leading x86 competitors for less money. The Sun Fire
V210 server has a new fan kit X-option to support 1 GB DIMMs, doubling
memory support.
Sun is extending the Next Business Day warranty support for the Sun
Fire V60x servers and the Sun Fire V65x servers from one year
to three years. Sun is also offering two new Sun Hardware Support
Service options to give customers the choice of three coverage/response
combinations.
Now get next business day service with the Sun Fire V480 servers and Sun Fire V880 servers at no additional cost. This warranty update applies to future
customers as well as current ones possessing a valid warranty. This
change will not affect SunSpectrum support contracts.
Since Sun started the Sun Studio 8 Early Access Program in November
of 2003, various components of the Compiler Collection product have
been integrated with the NetBeans IDE. The new software focuses on
features available through a GUI. All command-line interface (CLI)
tools such as compilers and the debugger are included as well.
Sun offers developers many tools, from Sun Studio 8 software to
Sun Java Studio Creator (formerly Project Rave). This article provides new names that Sun is rebranding these software and development tools to.
Sun played an active role at the recent Worldwide
Education and Research Conference in Madrid, where more than 400 leading figures
in education convened to discuss key areas in education, including
primary and secondary education, grid computing, Java technology,
knowledge enterprise, digital campus and HPTC.
Receive training credit with the purchase of any new members of the Sun
Fire systems family, including the Sun Fire E2900, E4900, E6900,
E20K or E25K servers. This promotion offers three learning packages to suit customers' individual needs and ensure optimization of these purchases.
Last week Sun convened its Lifelong Learning Forum in
Madrid, drawing 40 delegates from the ministries of education in 25
countries around the world. The forum coincided with the Worldwide
Education and Research Conference (WWERC) also held in Madrid. Sun
hoped to establish open dialogue among attendees that would lay the
foundation for the future of the Lifelong Learning effort.
Learn how to enhance the Sun Fire 15K/12K servers system
availability with the System Management Services (SMS) 1.4. The Sun BluePrints OnLine document, "Sun Fire 15K/12K Auto Diagnosis and Recovery," outlines the software's new features with examples and figures describing the diagnostic processes.
A recent article on the Sun BigAdmin Web site discusses the use of Live
Upgrade when used in conjunction with JumpStart and Web Start Flash to
keep downtime to a minimum for system maintenance and upgrades. The
article, "Rapid Patching and Upgrading with Solaris Live Upgrade
Software," is authored by Amy Rich.
Solaris Zones Software
System Administration Guide Describes How to Configure, Install and Administer Zones
Sun is devoting a section of its Web site to Solaris Zones, which provide a secure, flexible, scalable and
lightweight isolation primitive for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). Included among the
many links on the site is the "System Administration Guide: Solaris
Containers, Resource Management, and Zones" document, which describes
how to configure, install and administer Zones.
Which third-party applications and products are most important for your
business to run on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS)?
Sun offers an online form so you can tell Sun what applications are
relevant to your needs.
"Java for Programmers" is a new Prentice-Hall title by Douglas Lyon,
written for experienced Java technology programmers and designed to
convey a clear and concise presentation of all programming aspects of
the Java programming language.
In the third edition of his popular book "Java Examples in a Nutshell,"
David Flanagan has added coverage of regular expressions (new to the
core Java API), updated Java technology internationalization information, and
included extensive coverage of the new Java technology GUI features. Flanagan also
includes numerous code examples to demonstrate the full range of what
developers can accomplish with Java technology.
Author Jason Weiss has written "Java Cryptography Extensions: Practical
Guide for Programmers" to make the tool (and the Java programming
language) easier to use for the developer. Weiss avoids discussion of
mathematical algorithms and focuses instead on providing insight into the
tools that enable a developer to go to work immediately on writing Java
technology programs.
Kenneth Barclay and John Savage address a readership interested in
object oriented analysis and design, object oriented modeling,
Java technology programming and modeling with Unified Modeling
Language (UML) in their new book "Object-Oriented Design with UML and
Java."
The Security Management Index Survey provides participants with a
comparison of the security management
practices of others in the same industry and peer group. The data is
also being collected to better identify trends in security management
as a continuing and strategic business function.
Sun Managed Security Services
Reducing the Costs, Complexity and Risks Associated with Highly Secure Network Environment Management
Sun Managed Security Services (SMSS) are designed to unite the
technologies, products, processes and services used to reduce the
costs, complexity and risks associated with the management of a highly
secure network environment.
The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is making the
Security Scenarios Working Group Draft available for public review. The
Security Scenarios document was developed by the WS-I Basic Security
Profile Working Group and serves to identify security challenges and
threats in building interoperable Web Services. It also offers
countermeasures for these risks.
Sun's Reference Architecture, Secure Network Access Platform (SNAP) for
Government, is designed for government customers and integrators that
must access multiple security compartments (or levels).
Approximately 60 countries comprise the coalition effort in the Persian
Gulf. Coalition interoperability and security is of extreme importance
and a primary challenge faced by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Command (SPAWAR). Recently, the Sun Infrastructure Solution for
Secure Network Access Platforms was introduced and met with commanding
approval.
Governments around the world are seriously evaluating open source
software and encouraging government leaders to incorporate more of it
within their IT environments. This new shift has industry watchers
wondering about the future of UNIX systems.
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