Openomics: innovation drives value

ISV Engineering is hosting the 5th Israel OpenSolaris User Group Meeting in the Sun Israel Development Center (SIDC) on November 25th, 2009. Join us for drinks and pizza as well!

YOU'RE INVITED 5th Israel OpenSolaris User Group Meeting Date : Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 Time : 18:00 Location :  Sun Microsystems Ackerstein Tower A 8th floor 9 Hamenofim, Herzliya Pituach Israel Agenda : Project Crossbow Overview of new release Solaris 10 10/09 OpenSolaris 2010.03 preview Group discussion Parking : at Ackerstein building. Bring parking ticket with you to stamp it.

To register, please RSVP to iosug@grigale.com or leave a note on the LinkedIn IOSUG Group.

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Did you ever have a performance problem and not know where to start looking? Well, who didn't? In such a situation, it is important to perform a proper monitoring of the system and resist the immediate urge to blame the processing power --the storage subsystem is often overlooked. Now that I spoiled the suspense giving away the answer, give me 5 minutes to illustrate this with a typical example. Why typical? Because this is a case I meet quite often with startup companies who rightly concentrate on their core business and not on their IT infrastructure --that's what we are here for.

One of our partners, Squid Solutions, recently reported a performance problem with an Oracle database; they had engaged our team as part of the Sun Startup Essentials support program. Squid Solutions makes a software called Nautilus that performs intensive analytics on database systems, whatever their kind or size. They call Nautilus an SQL Knowledge Engine because it models data and business knowledge, and then automatically generates SQL code to execute the data processing tasks. Nautilus is sold as a service performed by Squid's engineers as Customer Intelligence projects.

So, Squid Solutions had purchased a brand-new Sun Fire X2250 server --quad-core Intel Xeon with 4 GB of RAM, running Solaris 10--, and was experiencing poor performance --much lower than their old system of previous generation-- when executing a read-n-write intensive workload on the database. When I first got on the server, something jumped right to my eyes…

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Come join the local ISV Engineering team for a special session on Java FX.

YOU'RE INVITED Technology Transfer Day Date : Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 Time : 09:30 - 13:00 Location :  Sun Microsystems Ackerstein Tower A 8th floor 9 Hamenofim, Herzliya Pituach Israel Agenda : JavaFX: The New Platform For Rich Internet Applications - Simon Ritter, Sun Microsystems JavaFX: Creating a Smooth User Experience for Mobiles - Roy Ben Hayun, Sun Microsystems Parking : at Ackerstein building. Bring parking ticket with you to stamp it.

To register, please RSVP to isve-toi-israel@sun.com.

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Users of icalds: Sun Calender Server 7, released last week as part of Sun Java Communications Suite 7, brings native support for CalDAV (as defined in RFC 4791) and iCal extensions (as defined in RFC2445bis). The icalds script should thus no longer be needed to access your calendars on a Sun Calendar Server once your company or provider upgrades to release 7. I am interested to hear from people that are going through the migration. Is iCal support matching expectations?

Come join the local ISV Engineering team for a special session on Java Real Time System for time-critical applications, with guest Greg Bollella, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems.

YOU'RE INVITED Technology Transfer Day Date : Thursday, October 15th, 2009 Time : 09:00 - 12:00 Location :  Sun Microsystems Ackerstein Tower A 8th floor 9 Hamenofim, Herzeliya Israel Agenda : JSR-1 : Real Time Java, Sun's implementation of the specifications and how they provide predictability and determinism to application developed on top of them - Dr. Greg Bollella Case study : Java RTS application observability and troubleshooting with DTrace - Amit Hurvitz Parking : at Ackerstein building. Bring parking ticket with you to stamp it.

To register, please RSVP to jrts-isr-event@sun.com.

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