Sun is upping the industry ante. The company continues breaking world
records. Most recently setting a TPC benchmark record with two Sun
FireTM V440 servers in a clustered configuration running Sybase IQ
Multiplex 12.5 [13067].
Plus, the recent appointment of John Fowler as executive vice president
for Network Systems is set to strengthen Sun's position in the industry
standard network computing infrastructure market [13068].
Focus also is on fulfilling the long-term agreement propositions
outlined with Microsoft to increase interoperability in heterogeneous
environments [13055].
Government
Sun-Microsoft alliance will benefit many industries, government
particularly, with interoperability between systems and other products
[13054].
Hardware
Offerings on remanufactured and EOL products [13024], new SunTM Rack cabinet
[13023], Sun FireTM, Sun BladeTM, Sun RayTM spare parts [13025] and zero
pricing on Sun FireTM E4900 Server Rack Mount [13027].
Software
The latest on the SunTM Cluster 3.1 Software for x86 Systems [13035] and
SunTM Management Center 3.5, Update 1 [13015].
Elizabeth Montalbano from CRN recently sat down to speak with Sun CEO
Scott McNealy about the company's plans for expansion in the face of a
tough environment and about how it can make the best use of its partners.
McNealy commented on the increased business Sun is sending to
partners and how both parties can work to make the best of the
situation.
A Sun-based solution was chosen by Al Yousuf L.L.C., a diversified
private sector business located in the United Arab Emirates, to migrate
its existing data center in preparation for future expansion
initiatives that will require an increase in IT capacity. Sun hardware,
software, enterprise SAN storage, networking and training services were
selected based on the return-of-investment.
Remora Technologies is one of the first system integrators offering a
range of locally supported Solaris and Linux Notebooks in
Australia. Supported by Tadpole Computers Inc., these systems include
SPARC-based Solaris Notebooks and Intel-based Linux Notebooks.
Sun has set a new benchmark record with two Sun Fire V440 servers
in a clustered configuration running Sybase IQ Multiplex 12.5. It also
used Sun StorEdge arrays and the Solaris 9 Operating System
(Solaris OS) to establish the best price performance and lowest total
cost of ownership (TCO) for 8-way systems.
John Fowler, Sun's newly appointed executive VP for Network Systems, is
charged with leading his newly created group to strengthen the
company's position in the industry standard network computing
infrastructure market.
The recently signed agreement between Sun and Microsoft formally ends
years of litigation and promises to enable the customers of both
companies to reduce risk, lower costs and achieve faster time to market
by combining server products from multiple vendors in an interoperable,
heterogeneous environment.
The pre-integrated Sun Fire Starter Cluster for Bioinformatics is
an entry-level solution designed for the specific computational needs
of small healthcare organizations. A 4 node (8 CPU) x86 cluster of Sun
Fire V60x servers and Sun Fire V65x servers in a 19-inch rack, this
solution requires only standard electrical power outlets without
climate-controlled conditions
Sun and SunGard Availability Services, an operating group of SunGard,
have collaborated to create Sun Disaster Recovery Managed Services, a
resource for small- and medium-sized companies needing to restore
mission-critical data and operations in a variety of disaster
scenarios.
If you have an interest in getting to know the architects behind the
various facets of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS),
there is an opportunity to make their acquaintance on Sun Software
Express for Solaris.
Co-evolution is the key to responding to the needs of developers,
according to Paul Pangaro. This model taken from biology requires
interaction in the form of conversations between Sun and developers
themselves, Janice J. Heiss discovered, in her interview with Sun's
Senior Director and Distinguished Market Strategist of Developer
Marketing.
This executive brief white paper identifies the hidden costs of
traditional middleware and discusses how increased flexibility, design
simplicity and lower costs are attainable when a systematic approach to
infrastructure software is taken. A revolutionary business model,
namely the Sun Java Enterprise System, is the conclusive method and
the paper sets out to explain why.
Sun's Web-based training courses are designed for technical support
professionals, system administrators and end users to learn all about
the Sun Java Desktop System. From features to functions,
installation and basic system administration are all covered in this
group of training courses taught in an online training format.
Sun clarifies the last support/service availability date for its Sun
Java System Portal Server 3.0, Mobile Access Pack, Personalized
Knowledge Pack, which is August 13, 2009. Further, Sun states that the
first year of the policy is bug and patch support; years 2-5 are phone
support or commercially reasonable effort. Sun changes levels and
features of support as changes occur in the company's EOSL support
policy.
Sun Cluster 3.1 4/04 software on Sun's x86-based servers is an
economical way to host small databases, servers for Web, file and
print, and business-critical applications. Clustering features
available on SPARC, such as load-balancing, failover, and scalable services, are now also available for Sun x86-based servers.
Sun Management Center 3.5 Update 1 is available for download and will
be accessible through media kits on June 11, 2004. This latest release
comes with new hardware support, bug fixes and other enhancements. The
N1 Grid Console Container Manager 1.0 is an available add-on.
A variety of Web-based practice exams and practice questions for the
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) are endorsed by Sun. These Sun-supported exams include material for network, security and system administrators for both the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 OS.
To meet customer needs, Sun continues updating its hardware offerings
with remanufactured Sun Fire and Sun Enterprise system
configurations, price decreases on Sun Fire, Sun StorEdge and
Ultra products, as well as end-of-line (EOL) announcements on some
of these families' products.
The Sun Rack 1000-38 cabinet has a total of 1000 mm in depth, comes
with 38 usable rack units (RUs) and offers a preinstallment option of
the existing Sun zero RU Power Distribution System (PDS).
The s400 (UltraSPARC IV) CPU uniboard without memory is one of the
hardware spare parts Sun is currently offering. This offer is perfect
for system administrators and support engineers working with OEMs or
companies performing self-maintenance on Sun systems. This offer is also ideal for organizations where on-site spares are required.
To simplify the ordering and sales process along with ensured pricing
commonality between flexible configurations and fixed configurations of
the Sun Fire E4900, Sun is offering zero pricing for the factory
rack mount kit, field rack mount kit and factory deskside kit.
This article is a calendar of upcoming events, with links to the articles about them. Click on the article numbers in the calendar to get more details about the event and how to register.
Sun is a sponsor of the TERENA Networking Conference 2004. The event
will be held in Rhodes, Greece, between June 7th and 10th. A variety of
sessions will be held throughout on topics such as Last Mile, Threat
Handling, Grid and many more. Many related meetings and events will be
held throughout the week of the conference.
uPortals is the topic of discussion for the tenth semiannual Java Architectures Special Interest Group (JA-SIG) conference in Denver. JA-SIG is an independent organization promoting the use of Java technologies and architectures within the higher education community. Tracks for this
conference include implementations, open applications, technical
strategies and more.
Reportedly the largest educational technology exhibit in the world,
the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) is scheduled for
June 20-23, 2004, in New Orleans. Learn, exchange and survey the field
of educational technology with hands-on workshops and presentations
given in lecture, interactive and discussion style formats.
"Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" is geared towards those developers
who enjoy writing software, except for the database code. The book
explains how Hibernate can be used to automate persistence; the
author writes natural Java programming language objects and some
configuration files, and Hibernate automates all of the interaction
between the objects and the database.
Robert Brewin, Sun's chief architect for corporate developer tools,
including Sun Java Studio Creator, and Craig McClanahan, a a senior
staff engineer at Sun, have written a primer for users of the Sun
Java Studio Creator application development tool. The piece covers
everything from components to exception handling.
Sun recently released a best practices guide for the Sun Java
System Directory Server (formerly Sun ONE Directory Server). The
article focuses on development and design guidelines for applications
with respect to the Directory Server. The article was created by the
Sun Java System Identity Server Adoption Team at Market Development
Engineering at Sun.
The ARC Group has come up with some mixed findings on the adoption of
Java technology in the mobile applications market. These include
increasing revenues in the relatively short term, contrasted with the possibility of a declining number of users.
David Dice, Alex Garthwaite and Derek White have devised a method for
reducing the cost of committing memory to local-allocation buffers
(LABs), which increases in scalability considerations as the number of
threads exceeds the number of processors. They report their work in
the paper, "Supporting Per-processor Local-allocation Buffers Using
Multi-processor Restartable Critical Sections."
Big things are in the works for the Java programming language,
according to James Gosling. The introduction of metadata, generics,
typesafe enum and autoboxing of primitive types are just a few of the
changes users can expect.
The Sun-Microsoft alliance is expected to benefit many industries,
particularly governmental agencies, with the promise of
interoperability between their systems and other products. Cooperative
solutions will mean more simplified software integrations and less
compatibility limitations, resulting in compliance with recent
congressional mandates requiring sound, integrated information systems
architecture.
An advanced logistics platform of software and hardware will be
delivered in a joint project by Sun and IFS Defense to Aerospace and
Defense (A&D) organizations. This joint solution offers IFS
applications running on the Sun Java Enterprise System and the
Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
Identity management and open, interoperable, decentralized standards
are goals that the Liberty Alliance Project is working toward. This
white paper outlines benefits the government will procure if these
standards are implemented.
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