In this week's Sun News, the Sun FireTM E25K server world-record setting performance on the TPC-H SF3000 benchmark [15857] is spotlighted as is the company's part in underwriting StopBadware.org [15829]. Sun pleas for improved energy efficiency in data center web servers [15862] and challenges managers to make fun use of their "extra" data center space [15778].
The Features section covers SunTM Grid Compute Utility's two flavors [15812]; the dual-purpose behind Sun JavaTM Identity Management Suite [15724]; why rumblings of UNIXR's death are premature [15834] and tech sector's expected increase in hirings and wages [15819].
Financial Services reports on this past week's Sun Analyst Summit 2006, which is available in web- and audiocasts [15879]. A new online trading system is getting help from Sun [15806]. Learn what the top strategic IT initiatives are for the banking industry [15781]. Sun infrastructure is helping take Thailand's second largest commercial bank into the future [15855].
The 2006 JavaOneSM Conference call for exhibitors is now open [15814]. A survey indicates JavaTM technology is on the rise with SMB developers [15817]. OSS/J released its web services integration profile [15856]. Plus, read stories on Duke [15818], Project Mustang [15858] and "Get Java" buttons [15859].
In Servers, Sun's UltraSPARCR T1 servers will be featuring virtualization technology [15830]. IDC survey explains why customers are choosing Sun servers [15774]. New ATO CPU/memory boards are available [15853] and last order date for PCI I/O assembly extended [15854].
The Telco section features IEEE's proposed next high-speed Wi-Fi standard [15810]; the latest on Wi-Fi hotspots [15815]; India's telecom and banking markets impact on Sun [15821] and more.
Sun, Google and Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. are underwriting an initiative by Harvard and Oxford universities to identify purveyors of spyware and other malicious software in order to help Internet users determine what programs are safe to download.
Sun's flagship high-end Sun Fire E25K server has set a new data warehousing performance TPC-H SF3000 benchmark result. The Sun Fire E25K system with 108 Sun StorEdge 3510 arrays running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 achieved 105,430.9 QphH@ 3000 GB, US$54.87/QphH@3000 GB on the TPC-H SF3000 benchmark.
Continuing its drive to improve energy efficiency in data center web servers, Sun beseeched the IT industry to work with Energy Star, a government-backed program helping businesses and individuals protect the environment through energy efficiency, during the "Enterprise Servers and Data Centers: Opportunities for Energy Savings" conference held January 30-February 1, 2006, in Calif.
A new board game of sorts is making its way to 2,500 business data center managers in London demonstrating the space-saving characteristics of Sun Fire x64 servers. Entitled, "How Surprisingly Spacious," this board game mailer challenges recipients to imagine what they could do with their data center space if these Sun servers were installed.
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:
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The future of the grid looks bright to Sun executive Stuart Wells, who is driving the Utility Grid Computing initiatives, Managed Services, Sun Financing and the Remanufacturing Program. With two grid offerings in place, Sun is well ahead of both IBM and HP, its rivals in the field.
Sara Gates is VP of Identity Management for Sun Microsystems and, demonstrably, a contrarian thinker. For example, it's her view that cars have brakes, not so they can stop, but so they can go fast. Going fast through automation is what Gates has in mind for Sun's enterprise customers who use the Sun Java Identity Management Suite.
Charles Babcock is nowhere near ready to bury UNIX. With US$2 billion market share, he finds it still a contender in the world of operating systems, though he concedes in his January 24, 2006, InformationWeek Weblog that "the future belongs to Linux."
Employment in the tech sector is looking up, according to Spencer Ante, writing for Business Week online. Ante reports the creation of 125,000 jobs in 2005, as determined by Moody's Economy.com. Mark Zandi, its chief economist, projects the creation of 217,000 in 2006, along with wage increases.
Executive Vice President of Sun's Scalable Systems Group David Yen revealed that virtualization technology called logical domains will be added to the Sun Fire T2000 and Sun Fire T1000 servers later this year, allowing these UltraSPARC T1 servers to run multiple operating systems simultaneously, reported Stephen Shankland with CNET News.com.
In an IDC 2005 U.S. enterprise server vertical market survey, buyers cited 'better value for money' and 'better systems performance' as the key determinants influencing their system investment decisions. Respondents noting Sun as their preferred vendor cited system availability, followed by better system performance and better system functionality as the reasoning behind their decision.
All existing UltraSPARC III and UltraSPARC IV CPU/memory boards are available as assemble-to-order (ATO) options on the Sun Fire E2900 server. Customers can now factory integrate any UltraSPARC III, UltraSPARC IV or UltraSPARC IV+ CPU/memory board onto a new Sun Fire E2900 server.
The end of life (EOL) for the Sun Fire midrange server PCI I/O Assembly announced in the summer of 2005 is still in effect; however, the last order date for assembly part number 4050A for the Sun Fire E4900 and Sun Fire E6900 servers has been extended to March 26, 2006.
Registration and call for exhibitors for the 2006 JavaOne Conference scheduled for May 16-19 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco is now open. The 2006 Conference will encompass hundreds of in-depth technical sessions, hands-on labs, Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs), industry panels, advanced how-to's, technical case studies, tutorials and more.
An Evans Data Corporation's Small-Medium Businesses (SMB) Development Survey recently revealed that the use of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) has jumped by 50 percent in the last six months with nearly 40 percent of SMB developers using Java EE and another 13 percent indicating they will be using it within 2 years.
The OSS (Operations Support Systems) through Java (OSS/J) Initiative has made available a web services integration profile for its Trouble Ticket API (JSR 91). OSS/J-enabled web services will allow service providers to make OSS services available to customers and business partners without major investments in client software and custom communications software.
Nominations for the 2006 Duke's Choice Awards are now being accepted for the best and most innovative uses of Java technology with a submission deadline of March 15, 2006. The primary judging criterion for this prestigious award is innovation and places small developers on an equal footing with multi-national giants.
Win one of five Ultra 20 workstations from Sun when you find a bug in the version to version compatibility of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) in its upcoming release 6, also known as Mustang. From now to March 31, 2006, software developers acknowledging a "regression" in Mustang from earlier versions are eligible to win.
A new "Get Java" Button program is being launched for third parties to show their support for Java technology and help their customers access the tools necessary to run their Java technology-based applications. With a "Get Java" button on a web site, third parties are offering customers and web site users easy access to the Java runtime environment (JRE).
The preliminary arguments have finally concluded over the WiFi standard now called 802.11n, reports Kevin McLaughlin for CRN. An IEEE task group put an end to the dispute by agreeing on a proposal for the new standard at a recent meeting in Hawaii.
Wi-Fi spots worldwide now exceed 100,000 reports Matt Hamblen, writing for ComputerWorld. The U.S. is in the lead with over 37.000 hot spots, although Seoul, South Korea is the city with the most hot spots. A survey found some 8,000 hot spots were available free, while the remaining 92,000 plus charge a fee.
The Indian telecom and banking markets interest Sun Microsystems, according to K.P. Unnikrishnan, director of marketing for the company in India. A recent story in the Economic Times noted that Sun's share of the core banking solutions market was 67 percent.
The expected growth of VoIP is predicted by IDC to cause a correspondingly high growth rate in the semiconductor industry. The figures forecast a semiconductor market growing to over US$2.4 billion in 2009, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of 38.9 percent for the period 2004-2009. There are some cautions, however.
IDC has issued its predictions for the top ten trends in the Asia/Pacific telecommunications market. Sandra Ng, VP for Asia/Pacific Communications, Peripherals and Services Research characterized the coming year as one in which, "Shifting business models and strategies are the key themes...."
Listen to Sun executives highlight the company's 2006 priorities, long-term strategy and vision by tuning in to on-demand replays of sessions held during the annual Sun Analyst Summit which took place January 31 - February 2 in San Francisco. Keynotes from Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy, President and COO Jonathan Schwartz and others are available.
Geojit Financial Services, India's leading financial services company and operator of India's first online trading system, will be launching a new, enhanced online trading system called Mercury Online that was developed by deploying Sun's mid-range datacenter servers based on UltraSPARC IV processors in a high availability configuration running on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun Cluster.
IDC company Financial Insights has released its annual report identifying the Top 10 IT initiatives that will have key strategic importance for banking organizations worldwide in 2006, and announced the availability of a U.S. banking IT spending guide that provides five-year spending forecasts with specific data related to banks' and credit unions' allocation of their IT dollars.
Thailand's second largest commercial bank, Krung Thai Bank (KTB), has chosen network infrastructure from Sun to power Fidelity Information Services Profile software, a real-time core system that now handles its 13 million customer accounts. KTB's implementation is among the largest installations of real-time implementations running on a single vendor platform, namely Sun's Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS).
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