opentalk | newsbytes: Weekly Newsbytes, Issue 3

Written by opentalk | newsbytes

Monday, 05 February 2007

Welcome to this third edition of opentalk | newsbytes.

This month, if you're interested in seeing Sun's technology in action, we have two very interesting product sessions for you: 'Identity Management in Action' and 'Microsoft Windows & Sun Thin Clients'. As places for these sessions are limited, make sure you register in advance.

SUN EVENTS IN FEBRUARY:

» Sixth Irish OpenSolaris User Group Meeting
Tuesday 20th February (from 6:30pm onwards), Dublin
An opportunity to learn more about using Java-Gnome to develop Java based GNOME applications in OpenSolaris.

» Identity Management In Action (Live Demo)
Tuesday 27th February (morning session), Dublin
Find out how you can improve Security, Compliance, Access and Services while reducing costs.

» Microsoft Windows & Sun Thin Clients (Live Demo)
Wednesday 28th February (morning session), Dublin
Learn how to deliver Windows Application on Sun Thin Clients while significantly saving on desktop and licensing costs.

PODCASTS:

Get an in depth look at the Sun Fire X4500 and X4600 servers and see how these two innovative systems can help ease the complexities of data centre applications.

» Sun Fire X4500 System Walkthrough (16:33)
» Sun Fire X4600 System Walkthrough (17:00)

PROMOTIONS:

» Try It FREE For 60 Days
If you'd like to learn more about the Sun Fire X4500 and X4600 servers, don't forget you can also test-drive these systems free for 60 days. At no cost whatsoever to you. Other systems within Sun's 'Try & Buy Program' include the award-winning Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.

CUSTOMER NEWS:

» Joyent on Sun Coolthreads Servers (3:40)
Joyent Connector is a company that provides small businesses with simple, powerful, web-based software. In this short video, Joyent discusses their experience with Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers and how these 8-core systems gave their company record-breaking performance, while helping them save on energy costs.

» [FINANCE] KeyCorp Selects Sun's Email Retention and Compliance Solution
KeyCorp has selected Sun's Compliance and Content Management Solution to manage its compliance best practices and processes. The solution provides compliance records retention and electronic discovery capabilities for Key's email and instant messaging applications. The company also relies on Sun to provide the platform that powers its mission critical Trade Floor activities. All these applications run exclusively on Sun SPARC-based hardware and the Solaris Operating System.

» [SCIENCE] Sun Powers World-Leading London Centre of Nanotechnology
The newly opened London Centre of Nanotechnology is using the Sun Visualization System software to predictively model the precise manipulation and control of atoms and molecules, which is central to the science of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology can potentially deliver a wide variety of benefits to society, ranging from the design of minute doses of breakthrough drugs, real-time clinical diagnostics to self-assembling bio-structures.

» [EDUCATION] Sun Rays Help Reduce Heat and Noise in Classrooms
The Little Heath School in Reading, England, has opted for Sun Ray Ultra-Thin Clients to achieve a flexible, sustainable and efficient desktop environment for its 1,626 students. Sun Rays produce no noise and minimal heat due to a power consumption of only 4 watts, compared to the 80 watts of an average PC. IT applications are delivered from centrally managed servers, which eliminates space, management time and costs associated with deploying thick-client desktop PCs.

» [EDUCATION] Sun Rays Provide Increased Access for Pupils
Grange Technology College, a specialist community school serving 1,800 students in the Bradford area, has selected Sun's services to increase the availability of ICT to students and staff. The school was able to increase the pupil-to-computer ratio and cut the cost of license upgrades and maintenance by moving to Sun Thin Clients.

PRODUCT NEWS:

» Sun and Mentor Graphics Collaborate to Provide Solaris 10-based EDA Solutions on x64 Platforms
The collaboration is expected to provide optimal solutions for engineering teams developing next-generation system-on-chip and printed circuit board designs, by the end of this calendar year.

» Accenture Announces First Products in Sun-Accenture Innovation Center
Last September, Sun and Accenture announced the creation of an Innovation Centre to leverage Accenture's world-class business process experience and Sun's identity management and SOA technologies. The programme has been well-received by customers and Accenture recently unveiled the first prototype of a product to be released under the initiative: a fully integrated Health Information System powered by Sun Identity Management technology -- roll-out is expected in 2007.

» Customers Speak Out: Sun #1 in Enterprise Tape Libraries
Sun has retained its #1 ranking in enterprise tape libraries for the second straight year, according to the 2006 Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards for tape libraries. The Sun StorageTek tape libraries evaluated in the survey included the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and L700e/L1400 systems.

TECH CORNER:

Check Ask Dr. Root for a step-by-step guide on how to eliminate web page hijacking with Solaris 10.