Sun News this week reports on Sun's acquisition of Aduva [16158]; Sun's new state-of-the-art development and technology center in Prague [16157]; venture capitalists and entrepreneurs test drive of the company's latest technologies [16179]; and an on-demand Sun Net Talk focuses on service oriented architecture [16148].
Find out how Sun's CIO works his IT budget [16096] in Features, which also covers federated identity and internet business practices [16144]; Sun's "One Touch" supply chain [16150]; and interviews with the specification lead for JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition (JavaTM EE) 5 [16136] and staff engineer on Sun's web technologies and standards team Arun Gupta [16108].
Read about Sun's work to integrate storage and identity management software [16152]; SolarisTM 10 Operating System's (Solaris OS) support of SAS software [16176]; an upgraded Sun Compliance and Content Management solution with new functionality for Lotus Notes [16149]; and more.
JavaTM technology section has information on the new versions of the JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition (JavaTM SE) [16177]; Sun's new mobile Java Web site [16134]; Ask the Experts' topic: JavaTM Web Start [16067]; and the early access release of SunTM Game Server [16142].
In Security, learn how to free up CPU cycles with the UtraSPARCR T1 processor [16146]; SolarisTM Fingerprint Database [16147]; and how to secure common web servers [16135].
Promotions highlighted this week include a 60-day free trial of Sun FireTM T2000 Servers [16156]; a double value offer with Sun Fire[TM} UltraSPARCR IV servers [16155]; 80 percent off Sun JavaTM System Portal Server [16133]; and 15 percent trade-in allowance for Sun StorEdgeTM NAS Systems [16163].
Sun now owns Aduva, a provider of heterogeneous knowledge and analysis capabilities and technology for managing software update needs and compliance risk in the enterprise. Completing the acquisition the company initially announced it was seeking in February, Sun will be making Aduva's multi-platform services available to customers in fiscal year 2007.
Sun recently opened a new state-of-the-art development and technology center in the Czech Republic. The new Prague facility currently employs 200 developers and this number is expected to at least double by 2008, reported CzechInvest. Sun anticipates it will invest a total of $21.5 million in training, compensation and technology at the new center over the next two years.
Do you want to learn the latest on SOA trends, architectural strategies and the benefits a service oriented architecture (SOA) can deliver to IT architects, developers and businesses? Then, tune in to the Sun Net Talk on Demand "Service Oriented Architecture: Shift to Success" where you can hear Sun experts discuss the company's pragmatic SOA approach.
Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz played host to a variety of Silicon Valley venture capitalists for a discussion on the technologies and business models enabling massive online participation and the resulting wealth creation. In attendance at the April 3rd event were venture firms Diamondhead Ventures, Hummer Winblad, Sierra Ventures and others, which joined entrepreneurs and start-ups including Reactivity, among others.
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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Bill Vass, Sun's CIO, spends quite a bit less than his direct competition on the company's internal IT. Eric Lai spoke with Vass for ComputerWorld and discovered that Vass plans to spend only about two percent of Sun's expected revenue for the year on IT. “For an IT company, my budget is really lean,” Vass told Lai.
Rajeev Angal, product architect for Sun Java System Access Manager and Federation Manager, recently discussed the subject of federated identity with Sun Inner Circle, arguing that enterprises cannot any longer afford to use silo applications and outlining best practices for federated identity services and the Sun and Microsoft collaboration on creating a single sign-on solution for federated identity.
"Simplicity is very complicated," Eugene McCabe, Sun's executive vice president for worldwide operations, told Robert Malone of Forbes.com. McCabe was explaining the Sun "One Touch" supply chain, which has cut logistics costs at the company by 20 percent in the last six quarters.
Sun Distinguished Engineer Bill Shannon is the specification lead for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), Version 5. Janice J. Heiss interviewed Shannon for the Sun Developer Network to get an update on this new release.
A staff engineer on Sun's web technologies and standards team, Arun Gupta is currently the co-specification lead on Java Specification Request 261 (Java APIs for XML Web Services Addressing) and represents Sun in the W3C WS-Addressing Working Group. He shared some of his experiences with Janice J. Heiss in a Sun Developer Network article.
Sun is innovating, again. The company is working toward integrating its data storage and identity management software, specifically the Sun StorEdge SAM-FS software and the identity management technology Sun acquired with the purchase of Waveset Technologies in late 2003, said Mark Canepa, executive vice president of Sun’s Data Management Group.
Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) running on x64 servers will soon have SAS' data integration, business intelligence and analytic intelligence software ported to the UNIX platform. This new support will benefit customers wanting to use SAS data mining and data integration products in a grid architecture.
An upgraded Sun Compliance and Content Management Solution will include a new AXS-One Compliance Platform that adds a new functionality for Lotus Notes. Benefits include processing improvements that enable Lotus Domino users to continue to reduce infrastructure and backup costs with greater reliability and efficiency, as well as mitigate corporate e-mail liability and enable e-discovery.
If you are interested in downloading the Solaris Containers for Linux Applications functionality, BrandZ DVD 35 for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) for x86 platforms is available now from the Sun Download Center. Based on Solaris Express build 35, this download includes all of the modifications added by the BrandZ project.
Solaris Containers is being leveraged by UGS Corp. to consolidate its servers in a virtualized environment in order to increase efficiency and flexibility as well as reduce its operational costs. As part of the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Solaris Containers are a key component of UGS Corp.'s IT virtualization strategy.
Two new editions of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) have been released. One is a reduced-footprint build that uses less than 25 megabytes (MB) of storage, and the second is a fully supported custom port for PowerPC users. Sun also announced a new tuning and benchmarking service for optimizing performance of Java SE for embedded deployments.
Sun has launched a new Java mobile web site that provides mobile Java technology-based applications for purchase and download, along with information for consumers about Java technology and the Java brand. Mobile.java.com can be accessed by over 250 wireless carriers worldwide via a web browser on any Java Powered mobile device (cell phone, PDA, etc.).
Beginning April 10, visitors to Sun's Ask the Experts Web site can submit questions to learn more about Java Web Start - the technology designed to make it easy for users to access and work with robust Java applications. Members of the Java deployment team in Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) will be answering questions through April 14.
An early access release of the Sun Game Server has been made available to the developer community. This is the first technology delivered from Sun's "Project Darkstar," which is a research effort aimed at simplifying the process of developing multi-player online games that can be deployed on a massive scale and made available to players using virtually any client device.
Ning Sun and Pallab Bhattacharya's Sun BluePrints OnLine article "Using the Cryptographic Accelerator of the UltraSPARC T1 Processor" discusses how this feature can be used to provide cryptographic services for both kernel-level and user-level consumers, as well as several software encryption modules.
The difficulty of knowing whether any of the files distributed with the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) have been altered over time lies chiefly in the ability to establish a baseline reading against which later integrity checks can be made. "The Solaris Fingerprint Database" shows how this tool can demonstrate the integrity of a Solaris OS file.
How-to guide, "Solaris 10 Security: Eliminating Web Page Hijacking," instructs system administrators in the use of Solaris Containers to secure common web servers. The guide concludes with a sample configuration that allows web content to be securely maintained by content owners while simultaneously enabling the web server to run with minimal privileges in a secured container of its own.
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