Sun announcements this week include the decision to open source its entire digital rights management technologies, known as "Project DReaM" [14977]; the launch of its Java Teaching Innovations Portal designed to offer secondary and higher education students and teachers JavaTM technology-based curriculum [14976]; new Database Packs offering Oracle Database 10g on Sun FireTM x64 servers [14984]; and Gartner's report that Sun is the leading UNIXR platform server vendor in both revenue and unit shipments [14986].
The Sun Grid has proven it can cut transaction time from days to less than one hour with CDO2 [14985]. Sun's partner program will be offering new incentives for its members [14950]. And, Dygra Films upgraded to Sun systems and improved its 3D animation process by 50 percent [14979].
In Features, read about Project Honeycomb's transfer to the Network Storage Group [14847] and Sun's latest application switch - the N2000 Series [14911].
New storage announcements include ATO configurations for the Sun StorEdgeTM 5310 NAS Appliance [14971]; Sun StorEdgeTM 9900 Series HiCommand Protection Manager 4.1 [14887]; Sun StorEdgeTM L8500 Pass Thru Port [14972]; Sun StorEdgeTM PCI Single Channel Ultra320 Low Profile SCSI HBA [14883]; and Sun StorEdgeTM 6130 Array's five-drive controller tray configurations [14970].
Learn how SunSM Services is driving IT as a service [14955]. Two Service products have been updated - the SunTM Update Connection Services, System Edition [14969] and SunSM i-Runbook Service part numbers [14968].
The SysAdmin's section covers a white paper on the IP Multimedia Subsystem [14949]; a technical brief on COTS-based telecom infrastructures [14891]; and best practices for Oracle database in SolarisTM Containers [14861].
In FOSS, Build 20 of OpenSolaris is available for download [14975]. Sun has joined seven other vendors in SAML 2.0 interoperability certification [14954]. The Open Group created a certification program to validate the interoperability skills of IT architects [14948]. IT managers considering open source might want to read an O'Reilly publication entitled, "Open Source for the Enterprise" [14910]. An identity theft lexicon is in the works to help standardized regulations [14940] and the Open Source Development Labs' new Patent Commons Project hopes to assist developers with patent infringement [14918].
Sun will be releasing its entire digital rights management (DRM) technologies, known as "Project DReaM," from its internal Sun Labs program under the OSI-approved Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz made the announcement during the Progress and Freedom Foundation Aspen Summit held August 21-28, in Colorado.
The Java Teaching Innovations Portal launched by Sun this week is designed to offer secondary and higher education students and teachers Java technology-based curriculum in order to expand knowledge of the Java programming language. Plans are to have this innovative curriculum be integrated into technology education programs.
Sun and Oracle have announced Database Packs that offer pre-configured infrastructure solutions to help customers with rapid and successful deployments. These configurations are aimed at providing cost-effective, high performance and enterprise-level reliability at price points for the small- and medium-sized business.
According to 2Q05 Worldwide Server Database by Gartner Dataquest, a leading provider of research and analysis about the global information technology industry, Sun leads the UNIX platform server vendor category in revenue and unit shipments worldwide. Sun also reclaimed the number three position for all operating system server revenue.
The Sun Grid has proven it can reduce the time required to run complex financial risk simulations from days to less than one hour. These results were reported following a recent trial deployment of financial services software from CDO2 on the Sun Grid Compute Utility.
Sun is making some significant changes to its channel program by aligning it with the company's new U.S. growth strategies, according to Bill Cate, director of Sun's U.S. iForce Program Office as reported by Karen D. Schwartz with the Channel Insider. Strategies include giving partners incentives to sell, among others.
The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) has won over Spanish film production company Dygra Films, which has replaced its Intel processor-based platform running Windows with Sun's latest UNIX release. According to Dygra Films, its 3D animation process, including production and procedures, has improved 50 percent.
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Dick Sillman and his group at Sun Labs have just transferred a project called Honeycomb to the Network Storage Group, where it is expected to create some buzz and start bringing in revenue by year's end. He explains how Honeycomb deals with component failure and guards against data loss.
Josh Weiss, general manager of Sun's networking and switching technologies group, explained the virtues of the Sun Secure Application Switch - N2000 Series in Sun's Inner Circle Newsletter for August 2005. Weiss attributes its superior performance to a reliance on custom-built hardware rather than software running on a microprocessor.
The Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliances now has ATO configurations offering customers the choice of ordering this product fully rack mounted and cabled. The Sun StorEdge 5310 NAS Appliance supports UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows clients, simplifying file sharing among disparate platforms.
Taking advantage of the Sun StorEdge 9985 and Sun StorEdge 9990 storage system replication technologies, Sun has developed the Sun StorEdge 9900 Series HiCommand Protection Manager 4.1 that enables "disk-to-disk" based rapid backup and recovery operation for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft NT File System (NTFS).
Sun has released the Sun StorEdge L8500 Pass Thru Port Mechanism that allows multiple Sun StorEdge L8500 tape libraries to be interconnected and operated as a single library. Consolidating multiple libraries into a solution that presents as one library to a host provides customers with the ability to grow without disruption.
The Sun StorEdge PCI Single Channel Ultra320 Low Profile SCSI host bus adapter (HBA) is designed to provide data throughput up to 320 MB/s with support for one channel. Released in July, this adapter attaches SCSI Sun StorEdge devices to Sun server platforms at a high throughput rate with a low profile SCSI HBA.
To shorten lead time and simply the ordering process, Sun has released the Sun StorEdge 6130 array with five-drive depopulated controller tray configurations that offer a single marketing part number per drive type. The following fibre channel drive types available are: 73GB 10,000-rpm, 73GB 15,000-rpm, 146GB 10,000-rpm, 146GB 15,000-rpm and 300GB 10,000-rpm.
Delivering IT as a service is the technical strategy of Sun Services, whose goal is to transform customer data centers from places to services, says Dan Berg, vice president and CTO of Sun Services. By using innovative technology and solid engineering, the company's service resources are aimed at offering improved value and experience.
The new Sun Update Connection services, System Edition is designed to deliver the latest fixes and updates of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to customers via notifications and intelligent updating. Customers can opt between two different service levels, namely the single-system local or multiple-system remote update management.
The Sun i-Runbook service is a customizable, web-based central repository of streamlined technical information based on Sun preferred practices that can help customers manage their data center operations more effectively. Just this month, Sun has announced new Sun Managed Services part numbers to simplify ordering the Sun i-Runbook Service for customers.
Build 20 of OpenSolaris is now available for download, including the source for IP and related modules, particularly the IPSec code. First-time downloaders are cautioned to install Solaris Express - Community Release Build 16 or later before installing OpenSolaris. This is recommended whether it is an initial install or an upgrade to Build 16.
Eight vendors, among them Sun, have passed the Liberty Alliance Project's Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 interoperability testing. Darryl K. Taft reports in eWeek that the other vendors include the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Ericsson, Novel Inc., Oracle Corp., Reactivity, Symlabs Inc. and Trustgenix Inc.
The Open Group, a software vendor consortium, has established a program that assesses the skills of IT architects -- both individuals and organizations -- toward accreditation and vendor-neutral certification. David Rubenstein reports this development for SD Times, where he cites the attributes measured. Sun is a member of The Open Group governing board.
Authors Dan Woods and Gautam Guliani take the middle road in their book "Open Source for the Enterprise," in that they neither tout open source as the long-sought panacea for IT departments struggling with shrinking budgets nor spread a wet blanket of pessimism over open source as some writers on the subject have felt bound to do.
Ever since the Liberty Alliance Project established ID-Theft SIG, an identity theft special interest group, in April 2005, it has been at work on a lexicon of terms designed to define exactly what identity theft is and is not, reports China Martens for IDG News Service.
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) recently announced the creation of a Patent Commons Project described as a one-stop location for the developer community by OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen. Developers who need to avoid patent infringement in their open source work will find this project a great benefit.
The days of the circuit-based traditional call model are numbered, and a successor technology - IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) - is more than ready to assume the role with such new features as "interactive, multimedia-enabled, Internet Protocol (IP) based sessions capable of incorporating any device, on any access network, from anywhere, at any time."
Market pressures are such that Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) can no longer rely on in-house solutions to meet the needs of their telecom customers. Instead they are turning increasingly to commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. The Sun Microsystems telecommunications line can spare NEPs the labor of developing the fault management heuristic code typically missing in COTS components.
A best practices document hosted on the Sun Web site examines the process of running a non-RAC Oracle database in a non-global Solaris Container (or local container) and explains the detailed process of creating non-global Solaris Containers appropriate for deploying an Oracle database.
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