There have been many questions raised recently about which of Sun's products will have a life after Oracle. Some of these questions are answered in the post "The Oracle VM Product Line Welcomes Sun!" by Adam Hawley, who writes, "We are tremendously excited to combine our portfolios and work side-by-side with our extremely talented Sun brethren to advance the state-of-the art in virtualization."
Exactly how does one go about deploying a large number of zones on an M8000 Enterprise Server, especially given that twelve separate links would be needed for the different networks and twice that number for IPMP. In the course of answering this question for a customer, Steffen Weiberle came up with a number of suggestions in his blog "Solaris 10 Zones and Networking -- Common Considerations."
With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world's largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle's support didn't start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
"Greening Your Data Center: The Real Deal," an article on eWeek.com by Matthew Sarrel, reports on the interesting current phenomenon in IT, the "greening" of the data center. Striving after ever bigger market share is only part of the motive in this game, Sarrel writes. The other elements involve being able to offer customers both reduced carbon footprints and reduced IT costs as well.
Are the advances in Intel processor design edging SPARC processors out of the marketplace, asks Karim Berrah in a recent blog entitled "SPARC or Intel?" He offers some points of comparison that result in a necessarily ambiguous conclusion, as each processor has advantages in its favor, according to him.
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