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Try Out its Latest Features: Enterprise Manager, Update Center

Sun GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 is now available. New in this release are:

• Web Stack Enterprise Manager that offers users the ability to start, stop and restart web tier components, and allows monitoring statistics of the components in graph form
• support for fully relocatable IPS(5) based Update Center distribution

Sun GlassFish Web Stack is an integrated stack of popular open source web tier infrastructure technologies such as Apache HTTP server, MySQL, memcached, PHP and Ruby On Rails, optimized for Solaris, OpenSolaris and Linux platforms.

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Short Items of Interest on Sun Servers

• Tape Library on Logical Domains on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
• Sun Fire X2270 Cluster Fluent Benchmark Results
• Sun SSD Server Platform Bandwidth and IOPS (Speeds & Feeds)
• The Future for SSD, Flash Technology
• Comparison of Sun Volume Servers Product Line
• Sun x86 SNMP Hardware Monitoring Agent
• Sun Installation Assistant (SIA) 2.2.16.0
• 300GB SAS Disk Drives Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 Servers
• Memcached on Sun X2270

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Blogger Uses Single-socket UltraSPARC T2 Processor

The blog entry “Scaling Memcached: 500,000+ Operations/Second with a Single-Socket UltraSPARC T2″ explores single-instance memcached scalability for a few usage patterns. Blogger Zoran Radovic illustrates how to achieve out-of-the-box (no custom OS rewrites or networking tuning required) performance with 10G networking hardware and one single-socket UltraSPARC T2-based server with 8 cores and 8 threads per core (64 threads on a chip).

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