http://sun.systemnews.com Partners http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/pr-partner/20468 This Gartner Case Study explores how Callidus, which offers sales performance management software, went about taking its applications on-demand, with emphasis on the infrastructure and services required to run in a high-volume production environment with very high utilization rates and uptime. Gartner looks at how Callidus went about choosing an infrastructure and IT services provider to operate its software as a service (SaaS) "backroom." Callidus chose to have Sun Microsystems provision and operate a private IT utility service. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/pr-partner/19603 The Solaris 10 OS comes in for some generous praise in Albert Leigh's weblog on the IBM Redbook entitled "WebSphere Application Server V6.1 on the Solaris 10 Operating System," which covers how to virtualize and manage WAS installation, deployment strategies and scenarios, the advanced features of Solaris 10 (e.g. SMF, Resource Management, Process Rights, Containers and Zones, ZFS, DTrace), and the differences of WAS on Solaris from other platforms. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/pr-partner/20196 3Tera has released the 2.3 Beta version of its AppLogic grid operating system, designed to work with the Solaris 10 OS and with the OpenSolaris operating system as well. The company announces that this release is the first step in delivering a complete web services solution stack based on Sun products and ready for incorporation into the Cloudware architecture. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/pr-partner/20194 EZ systems has announced two new versions of some of their existing software. In a Developer Day conference, eZ developers from around the world met. On this day the new version of eZ Publish, the web content management system, was released. This version, 4.1, has many new back-end support features and new enhanced user experience features. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/pr-partner/20223 The virtualization field has become more crowded with the addition of Microsoft's newly released Hyper-V virtualization server. John Fontana reports for Network World that Microsoft has joined VMware, Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat, Sun and Novell in the virtualization marketplace. Hyper-V is being offered free to users with a Windows Sever 2008 license. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/1/pr-partner/20177 The newest platforms can easily handle large data volumes like video, voice and RFID. Sun’s reliable Solaris OS is the choice platform for running mission-critical computing. Oracle’s leading Database and Applications have made them world leaders. When you put the two companies’ technology together the possibilities are endless. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/2/pr-partner/20161 ASG-Mobius enterprise archiving and records management solutions enable organizations to cost effectively store, use, and dispose of all the digital information in the enterprise. ASG-Mobius solutions manage the entire life-cycle of information -- in any format, from any source -- and guarantee its long-term integrity and availability, both to meet the operational needs of the business and to ensure legal and regulatory compliance. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/2/pr-partner/20162 Create an affordable and easy to manage health information system that ties patient data together electronically Improve patient safety by simplifying the documentation process and moving access to critical information closer to the point of care Facilitate better organization of medical and administrative records Adopt a centralized computing model to minimize acquisition expenses and IT staffing requirements Realize a quick return on investment and low total cost of ownership Take advantage of affordable Sun platforms to ensure the creation of a reliable, scalable, and costeffective health information system View a PDF version of this Solution Brief. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/2/pr-partner/20109 Sun is launching a pilot project for ISVs and startups developing on Apache, MySQL and PHP (AMP) who would like to test and evaluate the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and virtualization. Known as the EZStack offering, this demonstrator will give interested users access to an AMP stack that is up and running on a virtual server. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/2/pr-partner/20137 Fujitsu Siemens Computers will be offering pre-configured Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)-based PRIMERGY systems and related support services direct from its factory for the first time under a new multi-year OEM agreement between itself and Sun. The two companies plan to work together to certify solutions based on the Solaris OS and PRIMERGY hardware.