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Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available.  Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights.  

 

Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available.  Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights.  

Yesterday, the EPA published its new Energy Star for Servers spec . Yes, it's the same Energy Star first introduced in 1992 and used on all sorts of consumer products like kitchen appliances, lighting and home electronics. We're ecstatic that energy-efficiency is finally becoming a more transparent piece of the tech sector.

Customers now have a baseline against which to accurately measure and compare the energy-efficiency of servers on the market. In the long run, the Spec will enable customers to reduce their energy consumption and overall carbon footprint. And that's a good thing.

Listen to our own energy-efficiency guru Subodh Bapat, vice president of energy efficiency and Distinguished Engineer at Sun, talk about the Spec and what it means to Sun and our customers on Sun's Blog Talk Radio with host Chhandomay Mandal.

While still in its infancy, the Spec's first draft (Tier 1 it's called) focuses solely on idle power consumption – which is a great place to start but not exactly comprehensive. Let's put it this way: Measuring just idle power consumption is akin to trying to measure the most efficient car based on the gas it burns at a red light vs MPG on the highway.

So what happens now? Look for Sun to announce Energy Star compliant servers in the coming months. Then check out the next rev of the Spec (Tier 2) due out in October 2010. Sun has been actively involved with the EPA in developing and providing feedback on the spec and will continue to do so. We (and most other vendors) hope that the next rev will include performance per watt benchmarking, as well as take into account some of the energy saving innovations for which Sun is known - like multicore chips.

Our work with the EPA's Energy Star program is just one of the many ways Sun supports sustainability internally and externally.

Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available.  Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights.  

 

Sun recently expanded its portfolio of solutions developed for mid-sized companies with the introduction of an Open Archive solution that pairs the Sun Storage 7110 and 7210 Unified Storage Systems and ultra-scalable Sun Fire X4140 and Sun Fire X4240 servers with industry-leading Symantec Enterprise Vault 8 software. The resulting Open Archive solution for mid-sized companies delivers tested and optimized storage and server configurations that make it easy for customers to very simply archive many different types of data, such as files/records, email, instant messaging and sharepoint content while ensuring data integrity. By using 4x less power and 1/2 the footprint, the Sun Open Archive Solution can significantly reduce storage costs, minimizing management complexity and increasing storage ROI.

Other major highlights:

- Lowers total storage costs by up to 90%*

- Reduces the amount of production and backup storage needed by up to 80%

- Simplifies deployment, administration and management

- Greatly improves your ability to search and discover archived information

For more information check out the Sun and Symantec Open Archive solution for mid-sized companies datasheet or visit http://www.sun.com/smb/archive.

* “Digital Archive Solution from Sun Protects United Kingdom’s Video Heritage,” British Board of Film Classification Customer Snapshot, Sun Microsystems, sun.com/customers/servers/bbfc.xml.

David Simmons, Director of Sun's mid-market business, discussed the Open Archive Solution with Sun News Radio host Chhandomay Mandal. Listen to the short segment below for the highlights.

Interoperability between applications in heterogeneous technology environments is essential to successful collaboration. Sun and Microsoft are taking interoperability to a new level by utilizing the SAML federation standard in both the Sun OpenSSO Enterprise federation solution and the forthcoming Microsoft “Geneva” Server federation solution.

As part of these efforts, Sun and Microsoft have created a new whitepaper: "Microsoft "Geneva" Server and Sun OpenSSO - Enabling Unprecedented Collaboration Across Heterogeneous IT Environments" available for download here.

Sun's Chief Identity Management Officer, Daniel Raskin, posted his blog entry on OpenSSO & "Geneva" here. 

Microsoft released their "Geneva" beta 2  this week and offers some commentary on interoperability over on their Forefront blog. 

The OpenSolaris team is getting ready for the 2009 CommunityOne conference, June 1-3, 2009, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and planning a whole series of sessions, events and activities. You can see the full listing here.

Some highlights include:

General session keynotes - On June 1 at 9am pacific, John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems, and Dave Douglas, senior vice president of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer of Sun will open the 2009 CommunityOne conference.

OpenSolaris Technical and Deep Dive Sessions - OpenSolaris content will be featured as part of the general Operating Systems/Platform track. There will also be two OpenSolaris software specific tracks, one for developers and one for system administrators. On Tuesday, June 2, developers and systems administrators can also participate in OpenSolaris deep-dive sessions.

For those who can not attend CommunityOne in person, the opening general session keynotes and the OpenSolaris technical sessions will also be available online.

OpenSolaris Install Lounge - Located in Booth #322 on the Pavilion floor, the Install Lounge will consist of three areas: an OpenSolaris Install Fest area, RockBand 2 area and the “Apps of Steel” showcase area, which will highlight the winners of the Apps of Steel Challenge. Toshiba will also be participating in the OpenSolaris Install Lounge to showcase the Toshiba Tecra M10 and Portégé R600 laptops that come with OpenSolaris software pre-installed.

OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud Party - The evening of June 1is also the OpenSolaris and Sun Cloud party, from 7-9 p.m. at the Moscone Center in Hall A.

For overall information about the 2009 CommunityOne conference, visit: http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone, view updates on Twitter or join the CommunityOne Facebook group.

Weekly news recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available.  Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights.

Head over to Channel Sun to check out some of the video entries coming in for the 2009 JavaOne "Dude, Where's My Pass" contest.

Don't forget - Deadline for submission is: May 12, 2009 at 11:59 P.M. (PT)

Full contest details, rules, regulations, etc are available here.

Good news from the Sun identity management team attending the European Identity Conference (EIC) in Munich this week.

At the European Identity Award ceremony, OpenSSO Fedlet won “Best Innovation” in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC).

The European Identity Award recognizes outstanding projects as well as innovations and additional developments of standards and are presented by the analyst firm Kuppinger Cole.

Congratulations to the OpenSSO team!

Weekly Sun News recap from Chhandomay Mandal and Maijaliisa Burkert is now available. Listen to the short segment below to get all the highlights.

Join the community of JavaOne conference supporters through our new Affiliate Program.

Here's an opportunity to earn money to promote the 2009 JavaOne conference and recommend it to your friends & industry contacts.

We make it easy by providing all the tools you need for promoting the JavaOne through your Web site and/or blog.

To join the program, contact: javaone_marketing@eventreg.com to obtain your priority code.

For every attendee who uses your priority code when registering, we’ll pay you $20 (USD).



**Rules and Regulations**
Participants in the Affiliate Program are not eligible for the JavaOne Conference Refer a Friend Program. The maximum number of attendees using your code that you can be credited for is 25. The program applies to Conference, Conference Plus and All Access passes. Payments will be calculated according to the number of fully paid attendees - cancellations will not be credited – and will be made by check after the event.