Sun is being recognized for climbing into the number one spot in the worldwide UNIXR server market [16480] as well as earning a TSANet 2006 Champion Award [16483] and a Network Computing Award for its Sun Ray Server Software [16378].
Information on Sun Management Center 3.6.1 [16473] is in this week's Software section. Plus, learn to minimize memory usage in a Solaris OS application with large memory requirements [16419], and more.
In Servers, read about DigiTar's experience with Sun's CoolThreads Try and Buy program [16450]; SPEC's research into energy metrics for servers [16465]; the new RoHS compliant Sun Fire X4600 [16468]; Sun Fire V40z with four GB DDR1/400 DIMMS [16471]; and a last order date extension for the Netra 440 1.6 GHz systems [16470].
The SysAdmin's section features a Solaris ZFS Administrative Guide [16356]; CoolThreads Selection Tool [16352]; a resource page for Sun documentation and information [16375]; testing the Sun Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture [16283]; and a Sun Desktop Manager tutorial [16353].
Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz discusses plans for the channel [16452] in the Partners section.
Customers with specified HP, IBM or Dell servers are eligible for 15 percent off the list price of configurations of the Sun Fire T2000 Server when trading in one of these competitor products. The Sun Fire T2000 Server is a fast as well as space and energy efficient server ideal for web-tier and app-tier environments.
According to Sun, 70 percent of the top 1000 US firms cite lack of properly trained employees as their number one barrier to growth. With that in mind, Sun is offering 25 percent off select Sun training courses when customers purchase a Sun Fire T2000 Server. Sun training allows customers to capitalize on their investments in Sun technologies.
Customers with specified Itanium-based workstation have the opportunity to trade-up to an eligible Sun Ultra 40 workstation and receive 20 percent for their trade-in allowance from now until June 30, 2006. With this limited time trade-up promotion, customers get double the trade-in allowance.
Sun has gained more shares in the worldwide server market, establishing itself as the number one UNIX platform server vendor in the world for both revenue and unit shipments, reports Gartner Dataquest's 1QCY2006 Worldwide Servers Quarterly Statistics Database.
Seven members of the Technical Support Alliance Network or TSANet have been been presented with TSANet 2006 awards in recognition of their contributions in the area of multivendor support. Winners include Sun Microsystems, Intel, Oracle, Dell, Microsoft, Red Hat and HP.
Network Computing recognized Sun Ray Server Software 3.1 for its "great design, smooth integration and exceptional enhancement" with its Well-Connected Award for Best Design, Innovation or Enhancement in the Network Infrastructure category. Network Computing's Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world use and integration.
Sun Vice President and CTO Hal Stern expects the company to continue looking into investing in Israel's technological talent. Stern, along with other Sun executives, visited Israel in May in recognition of Sun's 10th anniversary of engineering activity at its facilities in Herzliya, and to meet with the Aduva management team, who are now being integrated into Sun.
Sun CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz is looking to boost the company's partnering efforts. He identified IT vendors and hosted service providers as rich sources for Sun product sales and increasingly important players in the channel.
The Sun Java System Identity Management Suite is being teamed with SAP's Virsa Access Enforcer to help businesses maintain automated continuous compliance with both external government regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, and internal corporate security policies.
Support for mySAP Business Suite applications and the SAP NetWeaver platform will be extended for the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) to run on the x64 platform. The complete SAP business solutions applications stack will run on the Solaris 10 OS on the x64 platform.
Sun and mobile communications company Orange will be combining their resources in Java Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME) application development to deliver a Best Practice Design Guidelines document intended to help developers and the community create applications that require fewer versions to run on more handsets.
Communications provider Bell Canada has selected a joint Sun-Nominum solution to build a next-generation services infrastructure that is designed to give the company unmatched Domain Name System (DNS) performance and resiliency - ultimately providing a foundation for quick deployment of new IP services to customers.
Sun has been selected as a service-oriented architecture partner for insurance system provider AdminServer. Computer Business Review reported that the AdminServer suite is seeking to be certified on the Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) and run on the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) as part of this partnership.
Sun Weblogger Meik Langwald is disseminating information on the latest Sun Management Center download, version 3.6.1, that comes with bug fixes, enhancements and new features. Langwald points out his favorites and offers readers links to other resources relevant to this product and its update.
Greg Nakhimovsky's Sun Developer Network article explains how a Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) application with large memory requirements can effectively create a subprocess without unduly running out of memory or creating a deadlock.
Learn more about the features of OpenSolaris from resources by Brendan Gregg. Some of the features covered include Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART), the DTrace analysis tool, gcc, kernel, Kstat, zones and more.
Sun's StarOffice 8 was awarded Smart Computing's "Smart Choice" for offering the enterprise marketplace a worthy competitor to Microsoft's Office Suite. In a recent article, Smart Computing profiled alternative office suites, including StarOffice 8, that offer budget-minded home and small-office computer users a wide range of features at a modest price.
The Solaris OS Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) contains systems and peripherals which are compatible with the UNIX operating system. Currently, there are 545 x64/x86 systems and 636 components listed. Any user or hardware vendor can submit items they have tested to the HCL, and now under a special Sun promotion, receive multiple wardrobe prizes once a component or system has been approved.
The sub-headline on Sun's CoolThreads Try-and-Buy Application Resources must have caught the eye of Thomas Rampelberg and Jason J.W. Williams, director of development and COO/CTO, respectively, of DigiTar: "5X the Performance using 1/5 Pin 1/4 the Space." No wonder Rampelberg and Williams read on. Little wonder, too, that they adopted the Sun Fire T2000 server at DigiTar.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has formed the SPEC Power-Performance Committee, which is charged with developing standard methods and metrics for comparing energy use by server-class computers. The non-profit SPEC includes among its members such businesses as AMD, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
The Sun Fire V40z server now has a 4GB DDR1/400 DIMM available for upgrades of the system. This new DIMM can provide maximum memory configurations of up to 64 GB. General availability date for this component is May 29, 2006.
Sun has announced a second last-order-date extension for the Netra 440 non-RoHS 1.6 GHz system, previously extended to June 1, 2006. The new last order date is now June 30, 2006, allowing customers further time to transition to the Netra 440 RoHS system.
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 four issues. The top articles for the three most recent issues were:
99.4: Sun Desktop Manager 1.0 Installation & Configuration Guide [16394]
99.3: Guide to Managing Solaris ZFS in Solaris 10 Containers [16355]
99.2: Sun Fire T2000 Server's Database Performance [16372]
Users seeking to set up and manage Solaris ZFS will find all the help they need in the new "Solaris ZFS Administration Guide." The guide, which is intended for users experienced in using the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) or another UNIX version, provides information for both SPARC and x86-based systems.
The CoolThreads Selection Tool (cooltst) is a predictive tool that assesses the impact of certain processes on the Sun Fire T2000 and Sun Fire T1000 servers, warning of instances when migrating a system's workload may be inadvisable. Robert Lane and Zenon Fortuna discuss cooltst in their Sun BigAdmin article "CoolThreads Selection Tool."
The OpenSolaris Web site is hosting a web page of hotlinked System Administration Documentation, which may be handy to have bookmarked. The following is a list of the topics found on that page and a link directly to this resource site.
Neeraj Gupta discusses the Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA), a new series of specifications targeted at requirements for the next generation of carrier grade communications equipment, in his paper "Enabling High Performance HLR Solutions." The author demonstrates how ATCA solutions provide a high performance platform that addresses some of the key issues faced by Home Location Register (HLR) operators.
Willem van Schaik's tutorial demonstrates how to set up a simple Sun Desktop Manager configuration based on the Sun Java Enterprise System Directory Server, version 5.2. The pdf and an example LDIF file are both downloadable from the Sun BigAdmin Web site.
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