I do not want to bombard you with emails, so I am combining some very interesting notices here. Apologies for cross-postings
1. Sun European ERC Opportunity: We are having our high-level, invitation-only European Education and Research Conference (EERC) in Berlin March 24-26. This is a great opportunity for customers in Europe, the Mideast, and Africa to meet with top Sun technologists and Education Management. I have just negotiated a limited number of slots for this event specifically for KESIG and PASIG alias members!
We are keeping attendance to around 100 participants, so we can guarantee a lot of 1-1 interaction, so if you do want to attend I would advise to register quickly. Here is the invitation for your use. I will be there, so please alert me if you register and/or would like to meet at the conference.
https://events-at-sun.com/erc09/
2. Sun Matching Grants: Many of you have ben asking about how Sun can help on your specific projects. I realize some of you don't have consistent contact with local sales representatives. So, here is some information Keith Rajecki has put together on our collaboration-oriented Matching Grant Program. Keith's blog URL will be posted today on the Sun PASIG website (www.sun-pasig.org). You can communicate with Keith and make comments via this site.
http://blogs.sun.com/keithrajecki/entry/innovate_at_half_the_price
3. USC Shoah Foundation Institute Video: Many of you have been very interested in our work with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. We now have a video to accompany the case study. Both will be posted on the Sun PASIG website. But here you go!
Story: http://www.sun.com/customers/storage/usc_shoah.xml
Video: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1640183659?bctid=14044110001
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March 4, 2009 PASIG Email on the Sun/Internet Archive Event on March 25, 2009
Sun is having a very exciting event on March 25. We will be co-sponsoring a tour of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine hosted in a Sun Modular Data Center. This is a very big step as we enter into an era of data-oriented cyberinfrastructures, private and public cloud computing, optimized archival datacenters, and federated repositories. If you cannot be at this event, I will make sure we deliver information on this architecture via webinars and the Sun PASIG in the next couple of months. If you can make the event, Sun representatives from our Open Storage, Open Archiving, Digital Asset Management, and Cloud Computing organizations will be available for meetings.
I hope this is useful!
Art Pasquinelli
Education Market Strategist
http://blogs.sun.com/pal/
www.sun-pasig.org
You're Invited to an Exclusive Event! Tour the Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter — March 25. RSVP here.
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You're Invited to an Exclusive Executive Event!
Tour the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter
On March 25, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the Internet Archive will unveil the Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter — one of the world's largest digital libraries. For the first time, the Wayback Machine will be deployed and managed as a modular datacenter. For years, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has allowed users, with the click of a mouse, to "go back in time" and visit public web sites from 1996 to the present ... and beyond!
We invite you to attend this exclusive executive event.
* Hear how and why the Internet Archive moved from a traditional datacenter filled with standard Linux servers to running Solaris 10 with ZFS on Sun Fire x4500s in a Sun Modular Datacenter
* Come tour the Wayback Machine Sun MD and see the "inside" of the Internet
* Attend our educational breakout sessions on "Open Storage" and "Cloud Computing"
This new Wayback Machine MD architecture offers a unique opportunity to address budgetary, scalability, collaboration, and open storage issues that can occur with large, shared repositories of data. Reserve your spot today — RSVP NOW!
Upcoming Event
Event: Internet Archive Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter Tour
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Time: 9:00 am PDT – 1:30 pm PDT
Location: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Santa Clara Campus
4150 Network Circle
Santa Clara, CA 95054
RSVP: https://events-at-sun.com/internetarchive/
Speakers
Greg Papadopolous
Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development
Lew Tucker
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Sun's Cloud Computing
Brewster Kahle
Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive
David Douglas
Senior Vice President, Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer
Agenda
9:00 am – 10:00 am Registration & Continental Breakfast
10:00 am – 10:45 am General Session with Greg Papadopolous, CTO Sun, David Douglas, SVP Sun Cloud Computing, Lew Tucker, CTO Sun Cloud Computing, and Brewster Kahle, Founder, Internet Archive
11:00 am – 12:00 pm Breakouts (run concurrently):
Open Storage
Cloud Computing
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Box Lunch & Tours of the Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter*
Today, Internet Archive also records content from TV channels worldwide, as well as movies, music, and books, all with storage requirements that are growing exponentially. Deployed in one-tenth the time it takes to build a typical bricks-and-mortar datacenter, the Wayback Machine Sun MD holds up to 2 petabytes of data and services 500 inquiries a second.
Learn how rapid, easy deployment can deliver flexibility and high-density compute capabilities to quickly expand datacenter capacity for your organization while reducing expenses, risk of data loss, and environmental impact.
*Tours of Sun's Santa Clara Global Datacenter are also available.
If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to asksunmd@sun.com.
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February 18, 2009 Update Email to PASIG Members: Mike Keller Whitepaper, Fedora Webinar, Malta Event June 24-26
We had a very successful webinar with the Fedora and DSpace repository leaders today with almost 200 attendees. There were a lot of questions on how to implement cloud computing. We have big opportunities around open storage and cloud computing with the members of these two groups. The architecture they are developing is called Duraspace. The presentation will be posted at http://www.education-webevents.com/. The attendees came jointly from the PASIG membership and also the two communities. We will have telemarketing follow up on these leads.
The next PASIG will be in Malta June 24-26. The dates follow closely after the HPCC meeting in Hamburg, so I hope to use some of our key technical resources who will be in Europe to discuss eResearch data set storage at the PASIG.
Subject:
Important Sun PASIG Announcements
From:
Arthur Pasquinelli <Art.Pasquinelli@Sun.COM>
Date:
Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:51:53 -0800
To:
pasig@sun.com
1. The Next Sun PASIG Meeting
The next Sun PASIG meeting will be June 24-26 in Malta! We will be publishing the logistics details and hotel registration information in the next two weeks.
2. New Digital Library Whitepaper by Michael Keller
Michael Keller of Stanford, who co-founded the Sun PASIG with me, has just published a Sun-sponsored whitepaper, Establishing a Digital Library. This is a great introductory document on the place, purpose, and structure of Digital Libraries. The PDF is posted on the www.sun-pasig.org website under Publications. We want to keep this as a 'living document' and have people comment. Any additions or comments can be posted to my blog; http://blogs.sun.com/pal/.
3. Access to Past PASIG Emails
I have been asked to keep key PASIG emails for reference. I'll utilize my blog to post these; http://blogs.sun.com/pal/.
4. PASIG Webinar Series
We had about 200 participants on a global webinar today with Sandy Payette of Fedora Commons and Michele Kimpton of the DSpace Foundation who were talking about Duraspace. This will be archived. The next Repository webinar of the five scheduled will be March 18:
*All About Fedora *
The letters in Fedora’s name stand for “Flexible, Extensible, Digital Object Repository Architecture,” and also for the idea that it’s core structure provides a robust, integrated, open source repository platform that enables storage, access and durable management of virtually any kind of digital content, “All Ways. Always.” Most developers and repository managers like those terms, but what do they really mean? How do users get started with Fedora? Who else is using it? Where can users get hands-on help with planning and implementation?
Join Thornton Staples, Director of Community Strategy and Outreach, Fedora Commons for a 60 minute overview that explains what Fedora is, and offers advice on the nuts and bolts of getting started.
Date: 3/18/09
Time: 9amPT
Pre-registration is required: http://www.education-webevents.com/