The Sun FireTM T2000 server was named Most Innovative Server in InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Awards [15708], while eWeek selected both the SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun JavaTM Studio Creator 2 as Top Products of 2005 [15709]. In other News, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. plans to offer EDA applications on Solaris 10 OS for SPARCR and x64-based platforms [15701]. A Forrester researcher advises enterprise customers to take a serious look at Sun's open source business model [15694].
Sun executive Stuart Wells shares his views on Sun in the marketplace [15669]. Project Looking Glass creator Kideya Kawahara discusses the project's latest developments [15626]. Sun vice president for identity management Sara Gates offers tips on living profitably with Sarbanes-Oxley [15645].
Recent announcements for Sun's entry-level servers include new configurations and options for the Sun FireTM X4100 and Sun FireTM X4200 servers [15696] and the new Sun FireTM V40z AMD Opteron Model 880 Dual Core X-option [15678].
The Developer section covers several articles involving SunTM Studio tools [15629], iSCSI Multipathing in Solaris 10 OS [15620]; customized boot CD/DVD for SolarisTM OS on x86 platforms [15619]; and tuning the MySQL InnoDB to maximize performance [15618].
With the Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) deadline approaching, Sun is releasing compliant parts for SunTM Racks [15684] and other products like 4 Gb FC SFPs [15686].
In the Services section, find out about the Sun Enterprise Installation Services product line relaunch [15676] and Sun Developer Service Plans for SunTM Studio 11 [15677].
Deemed the "Most Innovative Server" by InfoWorld's 2006 Technology of the Year Awards, the Sun Fire T2000 server was recognized for changing the math for threaded performance and power consumption by the magazine. These annual awards identify significant technologies of the past year that promise to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies.
The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and the Sun Java Studio Creator 2 were named as two of eWeek's Top Products of 2005 since they "...pushed the technology envelope, made it easier to comply with various regulatory mandates and...heeded enterprises' desire for more interoperable solutions...."
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is the first electronic-design-automation (EDA) technology vendor to provide broad support across its product lines for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) on AMD Opteron and UltraSPARC processor-powered Sun Fire clients and servers. Cadence will be supporting both desktop and server applications from their EDA product line for integrated circuits.
John R. Rymer, vice president of application development and infrastructure at Forrester Research told Alex Handy with SD Times that Sun's move to open source its tools and software packages are a good sign for the company and consumers. However, he did have some reservations about how well-received the plan would be in the market base.
Sun has assembled the Sun Discovery Cluster for Life Sciences to help researchers fulfill their need for more powerful compute resources. Built around the Sun Fire X2100 64-bit x86 server, which uses the AMD Opteron processor, this pre-assembled, turnkey solution comes with hardware and software installed and tested by the Sun Customer Ready Systems group.
Sun Sim Datacenter
Create Your Own Datacenter to See How to Save Power, Cooling, Space
The Sun Sim Datacenter is a graphical simulation tool that challenges users to build a high-performing, yet efficient datacenter simply by dragging and dropping racks of servers onto a datacenter floor. Users can simulate a datacenter and see first-hand how Sun's new CoolThreads servers can save power, cooling and space.
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:
94.4: Customers Report Experiences with New Sun Fire Servers
94.3: Sun Fire T2000 Servers Available Free for 60 Days
94.2: Sun Announces Upcoming Solaris 10 1/06 Operating System
Sun executive Stuart Wells, who is driving the Utility Grid Computing initiatives, Managed Services, Sun Financing and the Remanufacturing Program, shared his views on Sun in the marketplace with Rajesh S. Kurup and Leslie D'Monte, especially his plans for realizing a greater market share for Sun's utility computing offerings.
Much of the early development work on Project Looking Glass was accomplished by Hideya Kawahara. Sun has long since taken the project in-house, where work continues on the solution's implementation. John Littler spoke with Kawahara on recent developments which he reported for O'Reilly's LinuxDevCenter.com.
Sara Gates, writing in the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, draws an illuminating analogy between learning to use automobile seat belts and learning to live, profitably, with Sarbanes-Oxley. The Sun vice president for identity management sees promise in the process.
Scott McNealy, Sun chairman and CEO, is bullish on the Participation Age, which he claims, "...allows for value to be created through networked human beings who share, interact, and solve problems." Through a variety of means, Sun plays a worldwide role in fostering this community.
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance laws are set to go into effect July 1, 2006, as defined by the European Union. To give Sun customers as much advance notice as possible, the company has announced a number of RoHS product numbers that will replace current Sun Racks and associated parts.
Fibre Channel switch manufacturers may be interested in Sun's December release of RoHS-compliant 4 Gb Fibre Channel SFPs for use on all Sun price-listed fibre channel switches. Offering higher productivity through higher transfer rates, the 4 Gbit/sec data transfer speed provides improved performance and productivity as well as better response time.
Sun StorageTek Enterprise Class 4 Gb Fibre Channel (FC) PCI-X and PCI-E host bus adapters (HBAs) are now available for Sun customers. These new 4 Gb FC HBAs address Sun customers' need for 4 Gb FC HBAs for Sun servers that support the PCI-X and PCI-E interfaces, like the new Sun Fire X2100 and Sun Fire T2000 servers.
The latest new spare parts from Sun include products for the Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers, among others. Sun backs their spare parts with a one year warranty and the company notes that all design improvements have been incorporated by Sun engineering and verified by extensive factory testing to minimize compatibility problems.
A new 20.1-inch LCD flat monitor from Sun is now available for customers with space, weight or power concerns. This recently released monitor features high resolution support of 1600 x 1200, a contrast ratio of 700:1 and 16ms response time. Its high resolution and refresh rates provides maximum picture quality.
New Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers' configurations and options based on the AMD Opteron SE model 285, 2.6 GHz, dual core processor (120w) give customers enough power to run the fastest single- and dual-core processors. These Sun Fire servers offer more computing resources with less power consumption.
A new Sun Fire V40z server has been released with the highest speed dual-core 880 AMD Opteron 90nm E-stepping processor and DDR1/400 MHz memory. This new standard configuration for the Sun Fire V40z is designed for enterprise class deployments, especially those applications
that require high performance systems or large memory capabilities.
Customers have until March 10, 2006, to place their orders for any configurations of the Sun Fire V100 servers and Sun Fire V120 servers, which are reaching their end of life (EOL). The last ship date for these servers is set for June 9, 2006, with an end of service life of June 9, 2011.
A promotional package for developers is offering everything needed to develop applications - the hardware, software and support - for three low annual payments. This special promotional package features a Sun Fire X2100 (choice of configuration), a perpetual license to developer tool software and a three year SunSpectrum Silver support contract.
Sun announced in December that it is relaunching its Sun Enterprise Installation Services (EIS) to simplify pricing and establish global consistency. New EIS part numbers will be used worldwide in discount category E and will fit Sun's simplified pricing and discounting architecture.
A new Sun Developer Service Plan has been released for Sun Studio 11 that is ideal for enterprise developers. This comprehensive subscription offering includes software updates, Sun's service support plans (S3P, formerly known as S4), per incident developer support for help with "programming how to's" and educational credits.
Luojia Chen offers guidance on "MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS" by providing help in defining tuning parameters and in tuning them in one's own environment. Chen observes that both the performance and scalability of MySQL are enhanced by tuning the solution's storage engines for specific workloads running on Sun systems.
In the course of instructing users interested in "Creating a Customized Boot CD/DVD for the Solaris Operating System for X86 Platforms," John Cecere and Dana Fagerstrom make clear the distinction between both the hard disk and the CD boot processes in this Sun BluePrints OnLine paper.
Aaron Dailey and Scott Tracy's Sun BluePrints OnLine paper introduces readers to a technique that increases both storage availability through failover protection and scalability and throughput through link aggregation. iSCSI multipathing, the authors show, can be approached in several ways, and they describe the approaches supported by the Solaris OS.
Developers in search of a comprehensive guide to "Sun Studio Tools for Parallel Programming in Multi-Core Environments" will find a number of useful references that address the aspects of making the most of chip multithreading. This collection of references reflects the broad adoption of parallel computing and the increasing use of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
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