Weta Digital, the New Zealand-based special effects company behind such memorable movie magic as Avatar, Lord of the Rings, and King Kong -- uses Sun's MySQL Enterprise database subscription to help power its operations.
More information on Weta's data center is available here: http://bit.ly/83Ua1t
[Avatar image is courtesy of the Official Avatar Movie Photostream on Flickr. Oh, and Flickr uses MySQL too: http://bit.ly/7t83PJ]
Our VirtualBox team got some very exciting news this week - InfoWorld named Sun VirtualBox 3.1 on their "2010 Technology of the Year" list.
The VirtualBox listing is here (on page 3 of the article).
When I spoke with Andy Hall (senior product manager for VirtualBox) about the award yesterday, he was most impressed by the inclusion of VirtualBox among the other technologies on the list. You can see his blog post here.
Congratulations to the VirtualBox team!
The Sun Identity Management team has just posted a new customer success story.
Express Scripts, a Fortune 500 pharmacy benefits management company, is using Sun's Identity Management Portfolio for a centralized identity management solution that automates provisioning for more than 100 systems based on an employee’s job function or operational role. The solution has accelerated provisioning by up to 64% and created a centralized identity directory that maps multiple corporate identities across disparate systems that are each associated with a single employee.
"With Sun Identity Manager and Sun Role Manager, we have
significantly improved our operational efficiency and cut costs. We
have reduced provisioning from about 14 days down to 5 days. In
addition, there are about 1,000 fewer help desk calls per month."
— Matthew Modica, Senior Manager of IT Security, Express Scripts
You can also read more identity customer success stories here.
Today, Sun is announcing the immediate availability of GlassFish ESB 2.2.
In case you're not familiar with this product, GlassFish ESB provides a lightweight, modular architecture that enables agile SOA-based service development, deployment and testing.
The Healthcare Pack extends the functionality and features of GlassFish ESB to healthcare organizations who are focusing on improving the exchange of electronic health care information. It includes the HL7 Binding Component, Sun Master Index, and support for PIX/PDQ profile.
The Platinum Pack extends the base ESB with some additional components including the Worklist Manager Service Engine, the COBOL Copybook Encoder, the BPEL Monitor and a new Event Management API on top of existing Intelligent Event Processor SE.
All in all, some great capabilities have been added to an already outstanding integration/SOA platform.
Interested in more info? You can download the bits, see more on sun.com, visit the community, view a demo to explore core features of GlassFish ESB or attend a training course.
On the customer front -- Sun will design a SOA solution architecture based on Sun's Java(TM) Composite Application Platform Suite (CAPS) and provide expert implementation services for TechniScan, Inc., a medical device company engaged in the development and commercialization of an automated breast ultrasound imaging system. Using Sun's Java CAPS, TechniScan should be able to bring its SVARA Ultrasound technology to market faster – potentially improving the way breast cancer is diagnosed and treated.
Here's a link to the release: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2010-01/sunflash.20100106.1.xml
For more information on Sun Java CAPS, go to http://www.sun.com/software/javaenterprisesystem/javacaps/index.jsp.
Over on Daniel's blog he's put up a post with replay information for some recent multimedia segments on OpenSSO.
As you may recall Sun announced OpenSSO Express 9 earlier this month and one of the key features of the release is a new fine-grained authorization capability.
For the latest edition of the Identity Buzz Podcast, Daniel and Jamie Nelson (director of engineering for OpenSSO) sat down with Redmonk analyst, Coté to talk about fine-grained authorization and the latest release of OpenSSO Express (apparently punk rock kittens were also discussed). You can listen here.
Daniel and Jamie also conducted a webinar, which highlights fine-grained authorization, as well as other features of the product.
The Call-for-Papers is out now for next year's MySQL Conference & Expo. The submission deadline is January 27, 2010.
Presented by O'Reilly Media, the show will be held April 12-15, 2010 in Santa Clara, California. Sun Microsystems is a founding sponsor. More info at http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2010/
GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile integration platform for service oriented composite application development. Sun's ESB experts have just released an in-depth 42 page whitepaper titled “GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) - High Availability and Clustering”
This whitepaper goes beyond just describing how to implement an ESB in a development
environment. Instead it covers how to move the ESB into mission-critical, high volume production and provides insight from experts who have successfully delivered real-world,
high performance middleware infrastructures.
First, the whitepaper gives an analysis of the key criteria needed to architect a
highly available GlassFish ESB
solution. Topics include: defining
acceptable levels of downtime, degrees of allowable latency, divisions
between semi-static and time-critical data and options for
recovery. All of these requirements must be considered together to
arrive at a solution. In addition, the whitepaper provides an examination of architecture
and implementation considerations, which could affect not only the initial
implementation, but future iterations as well.
Following this initial analysis, the whitepaper details a reference
architecture for a typical deployment solution. The solution is based on a real-world
scenario for a Web-based application to manage a customer’s
business processes. The solution needs to accept requests via Web
services-based interfaces, manage corresponding business processes,
handle faults correct, integrate with existing backend systems and requires asynchronous message
correlation.
Expand your knowledge by diving-in to the GlassFish
ESB - High Availability and Clustering whitepaper now!
While yesterday was all about Enterprise Java, today, I'd like to announce that Sun has released a new version of the Java Store and Java Warehouse.
This release includes a number of new features such as: account
creation in the client, the ability for developers outside of the US to preview applications using the Java Store view, improved integration with PayPal and numerous smaller features, performance enhancements and bug fixes.
We are also opening up the Java Warehouse to 6 new countries:
- Israel
- Belgium
- Germany
- Poland
-Taiwan
-S. Korea
The Java Warehouse is now open in 14 countries.
For more details on the latest release, check out the new 5 minute introductory video.
Terrence also has a good post on the new release
over on his blog - highlighting some new applications that are
available. And over on the Sun Developer Network, you can watch a 3-part Deep Dive video on the Java Store and Java Warehouse, featuring Bernard Traversat, director of engineering.
Oriental Insurance Corporation Limited (OICL) has launched its new web portal based on Sun's Java CAPS, MySQL and Portal Server products.
Based in India, OICL wanted to integrate its 26 regional offices and more than 900 operating offices across the country with a unified portal that catered to its customers and agents.
Because their legacy application infrastructure core did not support web services, OICL is using Sun software infrastructure technologies to create a web services layer to expose their core insurance services and SOA enable their application infrastructure.
OICL's new web portal facilitates transactions and claims management for 8,000 customers, agents and third party agencies by providing secure Web-based access to legacy insurance applications. In addition, OICL uses Sun SPARC based Solaris systems to run all of the software from end-to-end.
