Archive for October, 2008
Sun Microsystems Launches Social Networks to Connect Global Education Communities
Educonnection.org and OSUM Provide Great Platforms For Knowledge Sharing and Community Building.
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Sun/Fujitsu Offer A Server They Call “The Mainframe For The Rest Of Us”
The long-standing Sun-Fujitsu partnership as given rise to another server, in this case a rack-mounted quad-core 2.52 gigahertz SPARC64 VII machine running Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system. Touted as an entry-level unit, it is “entry-level” mostly from the perspective of an enterprise running big-iron Solaris servers, which wants an entry-level unit for development or for multi-tier application deployments.
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Sun is a software company, new top shareholder says
The investment company that announced Wednesday it has taken a 21 percent stake in Sun Microsystems believes the market doesn’t get one important thing about the workstation and server vendor: It’s a software company.
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Bechtolsheim still chief architect, says ‘boss’
When we woke up this morning, we were confronted with a flurry of stories about Andy Bechtolsheim leaving Sun to become chairman and chief development officer at a startup called Arista Networks. This seemed liked bad news for Sun, but the company would like you to know it isn’t entirely true.
Andy - and like Elvis, we probably should just call him by his first name - has left the Sun building. But he expects to be back about once a week to help Sun out on a part-time basis.
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Sun Unveils First Storage Blade; Delivers Extreme Datacenter Efficiency with Three New Server Blades
New Storage Blade Provides Industry-Leading Storage Scalability and Performance; New CMT Blade Sets Four World Records on Enterprise and HPC Benchmarks; Netra ATCA Blade Delivers Higher Levels of Performance for Service Providers.
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Sun claims super-skinny JavaFX milestone
The leaves might be falling, and the first installment of Sun Microsystems’ JavaFX might still not be here, but the company has delivered what it’s calling a “milestone” for its rich internet application (RIA) platform and runtime.
Sun has released Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10, a version of Java SE that features a re-written plug-in architecture so web applets can run on the desktop.
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Sun Microsystems Announces Suite Of Professional Services For Three Phases Of Datacenter Management: Strategy, Design And Build
Sun announced a comprehensive suite of professional services intended to help customers strategize, design and build datacenters optimized for energy, space, and cost efficiency. Continuing Sun’s broad eco leadership, Sun consultants can now retrofit existing datacenters to meet minimum power and efficiency needs, or develop new modular datacenter design concepts that can maximize space utilization, increase power and minimize operating costs, based on customers’ specific business needs. To learn more about Sun’s full suite of datacenter strategy, design and build professional services, please visit: www.sun.com/DatacenterDesign/
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Sun Servers Demonstrate Enterprise And HPC Performance Leadership
Sun Leads Development Efforts on New SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008 Benchmarks, Sets Bar with Solaris-Powered Results on Prominent Benchmarks.
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Eclipse spruces Mobile Tools for Java
The Eclipse Foundation - the open source integrated development environment (IDE) project - wants more mobile platform developers to get involved in expanding Eclipse into mobile application development. With the launch today of a revamped version of the Mobile Tools for Java (MTJ), Eclipse said it wanted to establish a new development standard for mobile platforms and hoped to attract wider participation.
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Sun Microsystems Recognized by US EPA for Surpassing Aggressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goal
Sun’s Workplace Innovation Initiatives and Energy Efficient Technologies and Services Lower Carbon Footprint Significantly for Company and Its Customers.
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Sun and Fujitsu hint at Sparc futures
As part of the launch of the Sparc T5440 midrange server this week in San Francisco, top brass from both Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu spent some time assuring customers that the companies’ chip and systems partnership going strong and that both were working away on Sparc processors that would end up in future systems.
The details, however, were vague, and for many, they didn’t inspire the kind of confidence that a three-year roadmap with lots of details would have. But you get what they give in IT. That’s how you know you are the customer and not the vendor.
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ZFS snapshot visualization in GNOME
Time slider is enabled by default on OpenSolaris so as soon as your machine is running snapshots of your directories will be taken automatically. You can fine tune time-slider’s behavior via System -> Administration -> time slider setup.
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