Berlin-based myToys.de is a retail company that sells merchandise for children and their families. Distributing its goods online, in stores, and through a mail-order catalog, the company initially relied on Linux for most of its computing systems. In time, the IT environment at myToys.de became heterogeneous and support became an issue. To increase system security and receive technical support, myToys.de replaced its Web site and order-processing system from multiple manufacturers with a new infrastructure based on Sun SPARC Enterprise servers, StorageTek storage systems, software, and technical support services.
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The Sun BluePrints article "Tuning Symantec Brightmail Antispam on Sun Servers with Coolthreads Technology" provides background information on SBAS software and CoolThreads technology-powered servers, the configurations used for performance measurements, the challenges presented by benchmarking anti-spam software, and the actual steps used to tune the hardware/software combination to achieve the reported performance levels.
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Logical Domains (LDoms) provides built-in virtualization capabilities for Sun's CoolThreads Servers. Recently released Version 2.1 provides support for:
CPU power management
jumbo frames
configuring domain dependencies
autorecovery of configurations
export of same backend multiple times
physical-to-virtual migration tool and
configuration assistant tools.
Other features and multiple bug fixes also have been implemented. LDoms 1.2 software is supported on the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release, Solaris 10 05/09 and earlier Solaris 10 patched versions.
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Disagreement over the interpretation of power consumption figures on datacenter cooling continues throughout the industry, and BM Seer's latest blog duly notes the controversy. Seer writes, "Real measured watts on a variety of workloads with real-sized memory configurations is critical to truly inform customers." His post includes figures on the UltraSPARC T1 and T2-based servers, as well as Xeon-based and Opteron-based servers.
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By accessing the web logs, we have determined that the following
list of about 900 articles were the most popular with subscribers
and web site visitors in 2008.
We have grouped the articles by topic to give you a view of what
were the most important news articles for 2008. That a topic had
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significant.
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Sun Microsystems, Sun/NetApp Litigation, Jonathan Schwartz, Servers, Blade Servers, Intel Servers, AMD Servers, SPARC CMT, SPARC64 Servers, Green, Datacenter, Storage, Tape and VTL, ZFS, Open Storage
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