Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz tops the News this week with his blog announcement on a free 60 day trial of Sun FireTM T2000 servers [15647]. OpenSolaris' newest community, Branded Zones, is introduced [15648] as is the new High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance [15616]. Sun's work for the FAA was recently heralded as a model for government integration and moderization projects [15652].
The Features section begins with a look at the UltraSPARCR T1 processor [15606]. A new programming language known as Metaphors is explained by Sun principal architect Victoria Livschitz [15558]. Also, Microsoft's Office Open XML format is scrutinized [15611].
The process of integrating Sun and StorageTek's product lines is examined [15623] in the Storage section that also includes advice on applying Information Lifecycle Management techniques [15597].
The 2005 Campus Computing Survey reveals network and data security are top concerns [15583] for the Education sector. Read how Sun FireTM x64 servers have enabled USC to break the Linpack benchmark [15480]. Learn why Princeton University is a recipient for 100,000 free CPU hours on the Sun Grid [15605].
In Financial Services, read about this industry sector's move toward virtualization [15643]; Sun's role in helping JP Morgan Chase get recognized for a virtualization project [15646]; and Sun's work to provide real-time visibility and reconciliation to Germany's second largest bank [15627].
The Sun Partner Advantage Program's new Industry Advantage Track for ISVs [15614] is covered in this week's edition as are the expected changes for Sun's Channel Program early next year [15584].
Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz is inviting customers to try Sun's Niagara Sun Fire T2000 servers free for 60 days. In his December 18th weblog, Schwartz even promised that some talented respondents may even get to keep their server for free.
OpenSolaris has a new community and application framework known as Branded Zones or BrandZ that will eventually enable users of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) to run Linux applications, Darwin, Mac OS X's underlying operating system and FreeBSD programs, reported Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols with eWeek.
Industry leaders have joined together to form the High-Definition Audio-Video Network Alliance (HANA) whose goal is to create a design guideline for secure high definition audio visual networks that will speed the creation of new, higher quality, easier to use HD products. Founding members include Charter Communications, JVC, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., NBC Universal, Samsung and Sun Microsystems.
Three years ago, the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) contracted with Harris Corporation to fully implement and meet timelines for the FTI; and in turn, Harris selected Sun to deploy an IT system for FTI Network Operations Center. Sun's successful deployment of hardware and software IT solutions for FTI was heralded this past week.
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The 100 most popular articles, based on Web page views by logged in subscribers, were:
Sun Fire T2000 Server with CoolThreads Technology [15515]
"A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels" [15416]
UltraSPARC T1 Processor with CoolThreads Technology [15441]
New Solaris 10 Patch Policy to Begin November 29th [15439]
Sun Releases Solaris Zettabyte File System (ZFS) in OpenSolaris [15460]
Sun Releases 2006 Fiscal First Quarter Results [15377]
Sun Type 7 Keyboard and Optical Scroll Mouse [15501]
Gartner Upgrades Sun's Vendor Rating to "Promising" [15395]
Each week, we determine which articles have been most frequently referenced by logged-in subscribers to provide you with a list of the most popular articles for each of the last three issues. The Web version of this article lists the top 10 articles for each of the last three issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
94.2: Sun Announces Upcoming Solaris 10 1/06 Operating System
94.1: Key Differences Between Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 Servers
93.5: Sun Fire T2000 Server with CoolThreads Technology
The number of independent software vendors (ISVs) joining the Sun Partner Advantage Program has risen significantly since the program's inception in September 2005, Sun reports, so it is adding to this program by launching the nomination-based Sun Partner Advantage Program for ISVs Industry Advantage Track where nominated participants will be promoted to Principal Partner status.
Sun is revamping its channel program with promised upgrades in rebates and discounts for its Strategic Data Center Elite and Storage Elite programs that are to take effect this coming February. Sun also is working on a new campaign to replace its SunFund marketing program.
Oracle is updating its multi-core processor pricing and licensing policy to help customers take advantage of the recent advancements in multi-core processor chips from leading vendors such as AMD, IBM, Intel and Sun. According to Charles Babcock with InformationWeek, Oracle's pricing change favors Sun's UltraSPARC Niagara processors.
BEA Systems, Inc. has set new world performance records with the Sun Fire T2000 servers, the company reported recently. BEA Weblogic Server on the Sun Fire T2000 was 31 percent faster than the performance of a four-way 1.6 GHz competitive server on the dual node SPECjAppServer2004.
AXS-One Inc.'s partnership with Sun StorageTek has helped lead the high-performance records compliance management software solutions provider in winning over the 16th largest bank holding company in the U.S. - North Fork Bancorp. AXS-One will be providing a comprehensive information lifecycle management, records compliance and legal discovery solution to North Fork Bank.
Enterprises trying to meet a rising volume of customer and partner interactions on the web have routinely added more servers at the edge and middle tiers of the typical three-tier architecture. This approach has been ineffective in a number of ways. Now, customers have the UltraSPARC T1 processor as the ideal solution.
Victoria Livschitz is a principal architect at Sun and an adjunct staff member at Sun Labs. She is, as well, expert in next-generation programming languages that address the issue of counterintuitiveness in modern programming paradigms. Janice J. Heiss interviewed Livschitz on this subject and the language that she calls Metaphors.
While Microsoft professes enthusiasm for the pending acceptance of its Office Open XML Formats as a standard, there are plenty of skeptics who question exactly what they have in mind up in Redmond, Wash. as some critical elements are being withheld from the deal.
Few people have as complete a sense as James Gosling of just how ready for migration the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE 5.0) is. He and Java SE Chief Engineer Mark Reinhold recently shared their views with Janice J. Heiss. Gosling, in particular, deems the version eminently ready for use.
Among the many things Randy Kerns is responsible for as vice president for strategy and planning in the Sun Microsystems Data Management Group is integration of the StorageTek product line into the overall Sun price list. Lucas Mearian of Computerworld spoke with Kerns about developments involving Sun and its recent acquisition.
W.H. Inmon discusses strategies for effective database management and cost reduction in his Sun White Paper "Managing the Lifecycle of Data," where he considers methods for hierarchical organization of data that expedite the searching process and allocate expenditures for data storage according to their frequency of use.
Sun is repricing its average hardware configurations for the Sun StorEdge 3320 SCSI Array by an average of 10-15 percent. At the same time, Sun is announcing the pending retirement from its price list of the Sun StorEdge 3310 SCSI Array, the Sun StorEdge 3120 SCSI Array 36 GB 15K rpm drive configurations and 36 GB 15K rpm SCSI disk drives.
Three recent white papers provide perspectives on NAS storage consolidation as it involves web serving, home directories and disaster recovery. Each is considered in brief in this article.
The 2005 Campus Computing Report revealed that half (50.7 percent) of participating institutions experienced hacks or attacks on their campus networks in the past academic year, two-fifths (41.2 percent) suffered major spyware infestations during the 2004/05 academic year, while one-third (35.2 percent) experienced major virus infestations at their institutions.
The University of Southern California (USC) Center for High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) recent purchase of 360 dual-core Sun Fire V20z x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers has increased the HPCC system's total number of compute nodes from 1,716 to 1,830. USC selected these servers for their advanced cooling capabilities, smaller form factor, energy efficiency and price/performance.
Sun has awarded Princeton University a Sun Grid Grant, which entitles the institution to 100,000 hours of central processing units (CPUs) on the Sun Grid Compute Utility that will be available for Princeton to use as needed, without reservation or intervention from Sun.
Dartmouth College's Department of Computer Science will be working with Sun to add security features to the OpenSolaris project. Experts in Dartmouth's Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Laboratory will work to develop a Certificate Authority that can be delivered through the OpenSolaris OS development process, and they will explore integration of OpenSolaris OS with trusted computing technology.
Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) recently called in Sun to help the organization build a unified infrastructure and a centralized web portal. Argonne is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers and harbors a complex IT environment, including a large mix of UNIX and Linux systems that run on IBM, SGI, HP and Sun platforms.
Sun and Punjab National Bank Institute of Information Technology (PNBIIT) announced plans to create a Java Center of Excellence and Solaris Center of Excellence on PNBIIT's Lucknow, India campus. With this announcement, PNBIIT becomes India's first Authorized Sun Education Center.
Virtualization is becoming the next big thing in the financial services sector as more and more financial institutions realize the benefits of reducing their IT environments through consolidating into a single infrastructure. Michael Grebb with Bank Technology News recently covered this growing trend.
JP Morgan Chase has won the M.A. Partners Technology Initiative of the Year in the American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAS) for its Credit Derivatives Infrastructure Refresh (CDIR), which utilizes Sun Fire servers and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS). JP Morgan Chase and Sun worked together in designing this system.
HVB Americas is the New York branch of the second largest bank in Germany. When the financial institution was looking to manage trade lifecycle process across all systems, regardless of their integration with straight through processing (STP) platform, and understand trade process cycle times and be alerted when SLA was breached, it turned to Sun.
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