Keeping your services alive and available in the face of a myriad of disasters could prevent millions of dollars in business losses. In the event that your applications, systems or datacenter experiences a catastrophic failure, Solaris Cluster can ensure 24/7 access to all services. And now, the technology supporting that disaster recovery is available via open-source, allowing developers to quickly and regularly target new problems and scenarios.
Hal Stern, Vice President of Global Systems Engineering welcomes Keith White, Director of Availability Engineering to this edition of Innovating@Sun to discuss the details around the open sourcing of Solaris Cluster and how multiple parties within the ecosystem will benefit. Highlights include:
The seeding of open source from the Solaris Cluster product, namely Open High-Availability Cluster, and binary distribution of Solaris Cluster that runs on open Solaris.
A three-phased approach starting with agents, followed by the geographic edition (disaster recovery), and then finally, the core infrastructure.
How open sourcing of Solaris Cluster addresses a need in the system administrator development community.
How an open-source set of tools can stimulate better conversations between application developers and deployers about making products do what they should, when they should.
The release of the testing infrastructure to ensure that what has been developed actually works.
Details of the open license.
Get the how-to guides. Contribute your content back to the community. And rest assured that any HA agent built on top of the open source platform will run on Solaris 3.2, giving you the benefit of an application on a supported distribution.
Links:
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Open High Availability Cluster website
How to contribute
Sun Cluster Blog
Press Release
Furthering the promise of “write once, run anywhere”, Sun's exciting new product family, called JavaFX, is enabling developers to build compelling, rich user interfaces that leverage Java for a wide spectrum of devices.
Sun CTO Bob Brewin joins Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern, on this latest edition of Innovating@Sun to chat about the software technologies driving the evolution of integrated rich clients – namely, clients in a plethora of screen formats from TVs to in-dash car systems to webtops, all leveraging the services and content available on the Internet.
The Java FX family with JavaFX Script allows developers to write in a consistent, standard, declarative scripting language, targeting devices in the same manner, regardless of what platform they’re deploying to. Notable points include:
Capabilities of JavaFX Script and JavaFX Mobile
The place of JavaFX in the content-/driven/ explosion where user-generated content is driving the applications
Packing capabilities into clients that allow for more interesting and useful applications
How a declarative scripting language, specifically targeted at creating Java UIs makes it easier to build content-rich applications
Continuing the trend of code reuse and applying it to UI
How “write once, run anywhere” is achieved as developers write to the same set of APIs at the UI level
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Transcript
JavaFX website
JavaFX Script website
Bob Brewin's Blog Entry
Jerome Dochez's Blog
OpenJFX
Java.net
Chris Oliver Blog
New applications. New devices. Convergence. An explosive network effect. And all of it requiring more security. This phenomenon requires ever-increasing advancements in the area of cryptography to protect information from brute force attacks.
Enter Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC), a stronger, more efficient technology than RSA, which, because of its mathematical foundation, consumes far less processing cycles thereby opening up a world of new opportunities.
Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, Hal Stern, welcomes Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer, Vipul Gupta to discuss why ECC is stronger and more efficient than RSA and how it is being implemented today.
Key elements of the discussion include:
How the use of smaller keys allows for faster computations and savings on resources like memory, bandwidth and energy.
Why ECC is ideal for the next wave of computing devices - wireless sensor devices such as Sun SPOTs
Making sure your ECC implementations communicate with one another
Government agencies looking at ECC as a way of protecting public information
How a new breed of devices will act as both client and server
Mathematically speaking, why ECC is different (and better)
Applying ECC to devices
Get the lowdown on the latest in cryptography technology – listen to the podcast now.
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ECC website
ECC Wikipedia page
Vipul Gupta's profile
