News Bites - Sun Storage 7000 Family, JavaFX, Solaris Trusted Extensions, Oracle Analysis, HPC Symposium
Short News Items of Interest to the Sun User Community
Sun Storage 7000 Family Named to Top 10
The Sun Storage 7000 Family took the number three spot in the top 10 storage stories for 2008 as eWEEK Senior Writer Chris Preimesberger sees it. Analyzing the content and responses for these stories, Preimesberger notes that interest in the Sun Storage 7000 family, which offers the world’s first Open Storage appliances, recorded about 4,000 page views in the first two hours of posting and 34,000 hits by the end of the first 24-hour period.
Top 10 Application Development Products
JavaFX also made a top 10 list. This time it was for eWeek\’s Application Development products for 2008 as Sun’s entry into the RIA (Rich Internet Application) platform space. Darryl Taft quotes Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz as saying JavaFX is “one of the most important technologies to come out of Sun.”
Publications Cover Solaris Trusted Extensions
The Solaris 10’s labeled security feature known as Solaris Trusted Extensions will be taught to university classes adopting the book Operating System Security by Trent Jaeger and Ravi Sandhu. Sun’s Glenn Faden and Christoph Schuba co-authored the piece, which is Chapter 8 in the book and entitled “Case Study: Solaris Trusted Extensions”.
This Sun technology that implements labels to protect data and applications based on their sensitivity level also will be published in Solaris Security Essentials. Review some of this book’s chapters.
Collecting and Analyzing Oracle Performance Data
Glenn Fawcett, Sun senior staff engineer in Sun’s Performance Technologies Group, is offering a slide presentation on beginning Oracle analysis techniques. The 48 slides introduce basic techniques for collecting and analyzing Oracle performance data. He focuses on problem statement, environmental, and basic AWR/Statspack analysis.
Sun Sponsoring HPC Symposium in Ontario
This coming June 14-17, Sun will be sponsoring the High Performance Computing (HPC) Symposium in Kingston, Ontario. The conference is a multidisciplinary one that focuses on research involving HPC and its application. Call for papers is underway. Abstract submissions need to be in by February 6, 2009, and are being solicited on any HPC related topic, including (but not limited to):
- Applications of HPC to any discipline in the physical, life and social sciences, and engineering
- Computer architectures
- Parallel/distributed/vector algorithms
- Grid computing and related tools
- Performance Modeling Evaluation
- Visualization
Acceptance notification is set for March 6, 2009, with the final manuscript due May 1, 2009.