New Content and Features Available

We've made improvements to My Sun Connection with new content and features. On the home tab, the My Downloads portlet now lists Related Links first, followed by Sun Blogs and Forums. This change helps you to locate important product resources more easily, such as the home page, documentation, and available support options.

The home tab has three new additions, the Sun of Interest, Upcoming Events, and Bookmarks portlets. Use Sun of Interest to read customer testimonials and case studies, and learn about promotions for training, products, and services. Upcoming Events shows technology conferences and field events with Sun participation and sponsorship, such as the International Supercomputer Conference ISC2006.

With Bookmarks, you can easily locate commonly-accessed Sun web sites for training, support, downloads, and more. Better yet, you can add bookmarks to your favorite web sites, and edit or delete the default bookmarks shown.

We've added a Communities tab to feature relevant social networks for developers and system administrators. Here, you can find the most recent news, features / articles, and message of the day from the BigAdmin community for Sun system administrators. You can directly subscribe to this content using RSS, and automatically receive the latest updates in your news reader or Web browser.

You'll also find links to developer communities covering Java technology, security, and more.

We're constantly looking for ways to improve My Sun Connection, and provide you with the most relevant and useful content and features to enable your success using Solaris Enterprise System software. Please let us know if you find these changes helpful, or if anything is missing that would help you do your job.

Posted by lou [New features and updates] ( June 01, 2006 12:23 PM ) Permalink

Site Updates, plus a Sun Eco Connection demo

We've moved the Sun Alerts notifications and Patch Reports RSS feeds off the Fresh Tools tab and into the Service / Support tab.

If you are already subscribed to these feeds no action is necessary -- you'll continue to receive updates.

For those of you who haven't yet subscribed, we've made it easier than ever. Just click on the Services / Support tab after logging in to My Sun Connection, and you'll find the XML links readily available in the SunSolve Patches portlet:

Expect to see more exciting uses of RSS on My Sun Connection in the months to come.

Staying Cool this Summer

A Google engineer recently warned that Power could cost more than servers. It's no joke - spiraling power consumption strains budgets through high energy costs, and stresses data centers with additional cooling requirements. The environmental impact should be considered, too.

Sun is doing a lot to stay ahead of rising energy consumption with innovative products like Sun Fire Servers with CoolThreads Technology, and Sun Ray 2 desktops that sip an amazing 4 watts of power -- that's less than a nightlight!

Another step in the right direction is The Sun Eco Connection, a service that helps manage overall power consumption of Sun systems in a data center environment.

You can easily view heat and power consumption metrics at the component, system, and datacenter level. Here is an example graph showing CPU temperature:

And, another graph plotting power consumption for a power supply:

We've got a demo of The Sun Eco Connection you can check out. Just log in and click the Fresh Tools tab.

Lastly, we've noted sporadic issues logging in to the portal and selecting tabs.
Please Contact Sun if you encounter any problems.

Posted by lou [New features and updates] ( April 29, 2006 06:04 PM ) Permalink