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SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has just awarded Sun the SWIFTReady Label in the category of Financial Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) for the 10th consecutive year, recognizing Sun's flagship SOA product, Java CAPS. This is no small accomplishment as SWIFT has been raising the bar every year and asking EAI vendors to further adopt the SWIFT standards in an effort to help SWIFT participants achieve better straight-through processing (STP) rates over the SWIFT network.

The SWIFT certification is great news for Sun and for all of our financial services customers, who have seen high-throughput EAI become more and more critical in the SWIFT world. For example, over the years, SWIFT has asked financial institutions to adopt new ISO standards and new security mechanisms. Customers, who are early adopters of financial EAI for SWIFT, have been able to benefit faster from automated adoption of new SWIFTSolutions.

Sun's Java CAPS solution being deployed by SWIFT customers allows out-of-the-box support for real-time interactive message exchange and file transfer — validating data flows in business transactions between back-office applications and SWIFT interfaces deployed at financial institutions and corporations. For banks, fund managers, service bureaus and other SWIFT participants, Java CAPS lowers the barriers to automate financial transactions over the SWIFT network. It dramatically lowers the cost of achieving the benefits of new SWIFTSolutions, such as: SEPA, SCORE, Investment Funds, Cash Management, Exceptions and Investigations and Proxy Voting.

With SWIFT’s announcement of the Alliance Lite and Alliance Integrator projects, it’s raising the bar for Financial EAI once more. Sun is actively working on aligning Java CAPS with SWIFT’s Integrator solution once it will be available to the market.

For more information on Sun's SOA products and the new Java CAPS 6, go here.

For more information on Sun's solutions for the financial services industry, go here.

Sun Managed Operations Achieves ISO 27001 Certification Globally

In February, Sun announced that Sun’s Managed Operations site in the Americas received the prestigious ISO 27001 certification. And now, both Europe and Asia have received their certifications in the Lithgow, Scotland and the Chennai, India offices. This now completes the worldwide process and makes Sun globally compliant as a supplier of secure business protections and standards. These key awards provide a response to security concerns often expressed by Managed Operations customer prospects, making Sun Managed Operations an even more compelling Services solution

ISO 27001 is the internationally recognized Informational Security Management System (ISMS) standard for protecting an organization's information--and that of its customers. ISO 27001:

   * Is the only internationally accepted Security Standard
   * Demonstrates and ensures security best practices, due diligence,
     due care
   * Provides a management approach to business protection including
     risk, governance and compliance

About 4,000 organizations internationally are ISO 27001 certified. More than half are located in Japan and a quarter in Europe. Only about 70 U.S. certifications have been awarded which is indicative of the distinction of the ISO security certification. Among the esteemed organizations which are ISO security certified across the globe are the US Federal Reserve Bank, Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the United Nations.

For more information about the ISO 27001 certification and Sun Managed Operations, please visit http://www.sun.com/service/managedservices/index.jsp

This one is for all the fans of Sun's directory server technology! Sun is announcing the general availability of the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0, the world's first commercially available pure Java-based directory server that is based on the technologies developed in the OpenDS community. Sun OpenDS Standard Edition brings to market in one product a standalone and embeddable LDAP v3 compliant directory that is easy to install, use, manage, and extend with a new architecture designed to provide great performance and scalability.

For example, Sun OpenDS SE is capable of running in very low-memory environments, so that all essential directory components can be functional on edge devices, such as: cell phones or PDAs, in addition to scaling to hundreds of millions of entries per instance on appropriately-sized hardware, making effective use of multi-CPU, multi-core machines. Adding in replication capabilities enables the directory server to achieve even higher levels of scalability and fault tolerance for the more demanding deployments.

Main features include:
1) Intuitive administration:
- Easy graphical installation tool that gets your server configured, up and running in less than 3 minutes!
- A nice graphical status panel
- A rich command line tool to perform all online administrative tasks both interactively or scripted
- Multi-master replication (4-way MMR)
- Enhanced LDAP extended operations and controls

2) Security
- Advanced security and password policies in addition to advanced backup and restore capabilities

What's in it for you?
- Simplicity & Compliance: A simple and easy to use LDAP compliant directory server, the LDAPv3 server passes all of the compliance, interoperability and security tests suites.
- Interoperability: Sun OpenDS SE 1.0 implements most of the standard and experimental LDAP extensions defined in the IETF as RFCs or Internet-Drafts, so you'll get maximum interoperability with LDAP client applications.
- Open Source: OpenDS SE is based on open source technology and Sun offers enterprise-level support and indemnification.
- Small Footprint: With only a 16MB installed footprint, the Sun OpenDS Standard Edition 1.0 is an embeddable directory, making it an efficient solution for any Web 2.0 developers, OEMs, ISVs, and SMBs that over time will need to address larger-scale deployment requirements.

To download the latest OpenDS SE 1.0, visit http://wikis.sun.com/display/sunopends

To find more information about Sun's identity management suite, visit http://www.sun.com/identity

The Sun Studio Express 07/08 release is now available. The Sun Studio Express program provides preview builds of C/C++/Fortran Compilers and tools, this latest release contains support for OpenMP 3.0 APIs which offers developers a more general approach to multi-threaded programming with task queuing. This release also integrates with Sun HPC Cluster Tools and provides support for performance analysis of MPI applications. Based on the NetBeans 6.1 IDE, developing parallel applications for the multi-core era has never been easier!

Download your free copy of Sun Studio here.

In addition, check out Kuldip Oberoi and Josh Simons' blogs to find out more information about Sun Studio.