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Mandatory Access Control and the Solaris OS

President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal Bill Vass writes about developments at Sun in the area of enforcing Mandatory Access Control (MAC) with virtualization to confine Internet services with simple security configurations using the Solaris OS. Featured in the blog are the remarks of senior Sun researchers John Weeks and John Totah that explain how, in addition to enforcing MAC provisions, they also layered the MAC protection with what users ordinarily expect from employing all of the other Solaris security features combined with virtualization, eg. zones, and Internet community sponsored configuration guidelines such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks.

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Sun White Paper Provides Feature Overview, Solution’s Marketplace Value 

Learn more about the Sun Java Communications Suite in a Sun white paper focused on relaying to service providers how the communications and collaboration solution can help them build their business. Its capabilities, such as enhanced email indexing and search; interoperability with Mac’s iCal and Mozilla’s Thunderbird/Lightning calendars, Microsoft Outlook, etc.; and native calendar synchronization with mobile devices that support CalDAV, such as Apple’s iPhone, are a few reasons why the Communication Suite is worth investigating.

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Supported on Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000 Servers

There are new higher performance 2.88GHz quad-core SPARC64 VII processor/memory boards (CMU) with a higher throughput memory controller (MAC+) available to order for new Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000-64 servers. The 2.88GHz SPARC64 VII quad-core options can be mixed and matched in the SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers with the current SPARC64 VI (2.28 or 2.4GHz) and SPARC64 VII (2.52GHz) options. Availability of the CMU as field upgrades and on the SPARC Enterprise M8000 and M9000-32 servers are expected to be announced by year’s end.

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