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The Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is a best practice blueprint based on proven Oracle high-availability technologies and recommendations. Learn how to optimize an MAA cofiguration in an Oracle White Paper that explains how to transition an Oracle E-Business Suite application to an MAA configuration on the Solaris Operating System
The white paper describes how to […]

Find out how to optimize OpenSolaris on Intel Xeon processors in a video clip series hosted by Software Engineering Manager David Stewart, who is part of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel.
So far, Stewart has three video clips posted on YouTube, each of which run a little over five minutes:
Episode 1: “Why Intel and […]

A new Internet radio program from Sun called “Innovation Insider” will be featuring discussions with industry innovators on a variety of topics. This coming Friday, June 13th, Sun Chief Gaming Officer Chris Melissinos will be talking about current trends in PC gaming and answer questions from listeners during the show hosted on blogtalkradio.com.
Tune in between […]

Jeff Cheeney, community manager for OpenSolaris Storage, discusses Sun’s new open storage initiative with Amit Vashi, Qlogic vice president, and his company’s role in OpenSolaris Storage Community from a vendor’s perspective.
This podcast is part of an ongoing series. Any suggestions for future guests are welcomed.

Sun Senior Director of Open Storage and Networking Graham Lovell discusses the company’s intent to offer solid state, flash technology storage devices for enterprises in an interview on Sun News. Recorded June 4th, the piece runs 15 minutes.
Listen now.

Learn how a typical Oracle DSS operation can be optimized with CMT-based servers, in an installment of Glenn Fawcett’s Throughput Computing Series.
He details the simple step of specifying parallelism in “Create as Select” and “Insert into as Select” operations, which automatically will single thread the tasks unless directed otherwise.
As an example, Fawcett demonstrates: “I created […]

Flash solid state disks (SSD) will be integrated in Sun storage systems and servers, giving customers three times better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of traditional spinning disk offerings, Sun says.
“Flash SSD is the most exciting innovation to happen to system and storage design in over a decade. By mid-2009, it will be in […]

All PCIe and PCI-X cards are now supported by Sun Blades thanks to Magma’s ExpressModule that passes PCIe signals from Sun Blades to Magma’s expansion box holding the cards. Magma’s expansion boxes are 1U to 4U and hold x4 to x16 cards in all form factors. Price start at $1900.
“Our blades can be used for […]

Energy efficiency is becoming more and more relevant to IT decision-makers as its impact on the customer’s bottom-line is realized. Sun has been cognizant of this aspect of its solutions, and has been detailing measured watts on its UltraSPARC products for a few years (2008: UltraSPARC T2+; 2007: UltraSPARC T2; 2005: UltraSPARC T1 and T2000 […]

SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator is an appliance-like solution designed to leverage the hardware design of Intel Xeon processors, and Sun offers this solution on the Sun Blade 6000 family with the Intel Xeon processor-based server modules, Sun StorageTek 6140 arrays, a shared file system and Fibre Channel (FC) and networking switches.
Co-developed by SAP and Intel, […]