Openomics: innovation drives value

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based standard, developed by the OASIS consortium, for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information. SPML came in response to the need of unifying and automating the management of user accounts and rights inside a corporation. Indeed, with the multiplication of IT systems --logistics, accounting, customer management, human resources, you name it-- inside the companies we work for, the old (manual) ways of dealing with users --Dear Admin, please create account for new employee... Dear Admin, please give me access right for the folder/document... who doesn't remember writing one of these emails?-- could not keep up, responsible for too much incorrect data, leading to information leaks and productivity loss.

Today in its version 2.0 --version 1.0 had limited number of operations, limited scheme for user information and simpler using/integrating--, SPML has enabled the software industry to develop interoperable solutions of identity management, for the various IT systems themself to communicate and propagate changes in user information and rights. Examples of commercial solutions that are SPML-compliant include Sun Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Manager. We believe that it is essential that Enterprise Resource Management (ERM) applications today support advanced identity management operations beyond single sign-on --on that topic, check out this OpenSSO integration work.

Based in Moscow, 1C is a leading Russian software vendor, with 1M+ customers for their ERM software suite 1C:Enterprise and 18.7% market share in the Russia ERM market --making it the top #2 vendor in 2008 per a recent IDC study. 1C is particularly known as the maker of the most popular enterprise accounting system 1C:Accounting sold in the CIS region; about every company in Russia runs a copy of that software, I have been told. With such a large installed base, 1C has evolved to become the center of a large ecosystem and network of 5000+ partner integrators, resellers and software vendors. Some of which being Sun Microsystems partners as well…

This large international System Integrator, where today's proofpoint was carried out, had been using and loving Java as a software language for the comfort of development and maintenance. When the request to build some kind of a system and network management application, involving intensive LAN communication, came from a classified customer, the partner knew the non-deterministic nature of Java SE (though Java 5 and 6 made big improvements in predictability) would not fit the bill. Indeed, the Java Virtual Machine stops application threads for garbage collection and other maintenance tasks so it is not possible to guarantee bounded pauses, especially when the maximal latency allowed for serving requests in this project was in order of tens of millisecond (for worst case scenarios).

That said, Java, as a runtime, can take many forms. Expressive Java FX for rich clients, lightweight Java ME for mobile device, transactional Java EE for enterprise services and real-time Java RTS for deterministic applications. Our partner had no previous experience with Java Real Time but the motivation to stay on Java was so strong that they engaged in a proof-of-concept to evaluate Java RTS 2.1 on Solaris 10. With the support of Sun and our ISV Engineering team…

"Thanks to Sun technology, we are continuing to bring innovative identity management solutions to market and driving growth."
Hervé Prot, CEO, Symeos

Specialized in Web services security, Symeos provides online identity management, federated authentication services and single sign-on technologies for customers across multiple industries, including banking and finance. With the support of Sun, Symeos has developed a new scalable identity management product called EGO to support the more than 10 million expected users.

Read the whole story at http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/symeos.xml  to learn how the combinaison of Sun systems, storage and software reduced the Symeos development cost by 60%, delivered a 99.999% infrastructure availability and improved Web application server performance by 92%. Symeos is a member of the Sun Startup Essentials program.

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Oracle OpenWorld 2009

Come check out new Oracle-on-Sun performance proofpoints at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld conference, Oct 11-15, Moscone Center, San Francisco.

Agenda and registration details at http://www.oracle.com/openworld/.

For already published performance benchmarks, visit the blog of our sister organization, Sun's Strategic Applications Engineering.

Adapted from this (French) Sun Startup Essentials blog piece.

Planet Work is a Paris-based web hoster that has been operating for about 10 years now. For some time, they had been looking at virtualization technologies with the goal of offering a very competitive --low price, high availability-- entry-point hosting solution. As a member of the Sun Startup Essentials program, Planet Work worked over the past year with a local engineer in our team to evaluate what Solaris had to offer in the virtualization space. They were not disappointed.

Read on to learn how Planet Work could deploy a new iServer Solaris offering, targeted at startup developers, with a low entry-price of 19€ per month, automated ZFS-based backup service and a low cost of operation.