Sun Unveils Upgrade Of Thin-Client Platform
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Sun Microsystems Inc. on Monday unveiled an upgrade of its thin-client platform, which enables access to corporate applications and data through broadband-enabled home and satellite offices.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems is sprucing up its Solaris 10 operating system with security and virtualization improvements. Today's release of Solaris 10 11/06 is intended to make Solaris the most secure OS in existence, said Tom Goguen, Sun vice president of Solaris marketing. Next year, Sun will incorporate the open Xen hypervisor, for virtualization of an OS, into Solaris 10, Goguen said during a press briefing at Sun offices in San Francisco. The new release of Solaris is undergoing governmental Common Criteria Certification based on EAL (Evaluation Assurance Level) 4+ with three Protection Profiles. EAL is a global specification accepted by governments around the world, Goguen said. Featured in the new version of Solaris are trusted extensions, including multilevel security, for attaching a security profile or tag to every object dealt with by the OS, Goguen explained. With this level of security, the OS, for example, could permit someone viewing top secret and secret documents to cut and paste from the top secret to the secret document, but prevent the converse of this. Also featured in the 11/06 release is a "secure by default" capability. "Out of the box, everything is designed to be locked down," said Goguen. Sun's security enhancements are featured in both the commercial and open source variants of Solaris. The open source release is under the jurisdiction of opensolaris.org. The new release also boasts Solaris Containers virtualization technology that provides secure containers for running applications within the OS. The Containers software has been made more mobile, enabling the cloning of a container and the capability to move it to other systems or have it run on an array of systems. With Containers, a user might take a container running a Web server and clone it across multiple machines for more throughput. The Xen hypervisor technology due in the first half of next year will enable virtualization at the OS level. Among the perceived benefits include server consolidation, with users able to manage and use fewer servers. Improved utilization is enabled, Goguen said. "The dirty little secret in the x64 world is these systems are only running at about 10 percent utilization," Goguen said. The hypervisor would run under the control of Solaris, with OS capabilities such as DTrace, for analyzing OS and application behaviors, extended to it. Xen already is available with open source Solaris and will be commercially supported and available for commercial Solaris. Sun with its Solaris enhancements is not looking to upstage Linux in the open source community but does seek to battle commercial distributions of Linux, Goguen said. Sun also is vying with other commercial Unix platforms such as IBM AIX and HP's HP-UX, Sun officials noted. Although Sun in November released the Java programming language under the open source GNU General Public License version 2, the company still is pondering whether GPL is the right route for Solaris. Sun may offer Solaris under GPL 3 when that is finalized. GPL 3 addresses aspects such as the capability to combine software not based on the GPL. Solaris currently is offered under Sun's CDDL (Common Development and Distribution License), which is a Mozilla-style license offering more leeway in combining of code, according to Goguen. By releasing Solaris in an open source fashion, the company recognizes that technologies such as DTrace could be ported to new environments. In 2007, Sun also plans to make major plays to gain the business of so-called Web 2.0 startup companies, Sun officials said. These are being defined by Sun as companies using technology as an advantage for their businesses and who leverage the Web in a more read-write, interactive fashion as opposed to a read-only format. Additionally, Sun will make a stronger play into the X86 leveraging reseller channels, Goguen said.
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Turns desktops into thin clients Sun Microsystems upgraded the Solaris 10 operating system today, most notably enabling its OS to run Linux and its applications on x86 systems.â¦
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Sun is moving to a two-tier development environment in which corporate customers can get the commercial version of Solaris and developers can access the binary version.
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Sun Microsystems is going to unveil its newest version of Solaris operating system. In. Sun Microsystems is going to unveil its newest version of Solaris operating system.
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At its Network Computing &#39;04Q4 launch today, Sun Microsystems, Inc.  launched the much anticipated Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), addressing the enormous waste of resources forced upon customers
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(InfoWorld) - Sun Microsystems onÂ Wednesday announced new additions to its server and workstation lines with the Sun Fire And Sun Ultra, the company said in a statement. The company debuted Sun Netra blade servers and claimed a nearly 20 percent performance improvement for its Sun Fire workgroup servers. They will use Sun's own UltraSPARC IIIi processors and Solaris OS. Sun said its new Ultra 25 Workstation sports a 300 percent increase in performance, and comes pre-installed with Solaris 10 OS, Sun Studio, Sun Java Studio Creator, and Sun Java Studio Enterprise. The company also said its Sun Fire T1000 system now featured 23 percent higher availability and up to 300 percent higher performance for disk operations. Sun said it will also announce "soon" new Sun Fire systems based on the Rev F version of Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. today is expected to unveil the much-awaited âfreeâ version of its Operating System, Solaris 10, which the company is betting on to help neutralize the open-source threat and increase profitability.
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Anyone who registers with Sun will be able to use Solaris for free on servers with x86 processors.
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As hardware gets more powerful, Sun expects the desktop version of Java to gradually replace the stripped-down mobile version. Will it un-fragment Java for gadgets?
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All roads lead to Java Sun Microsystems is expected to release an updated version of Java, featuring integrated support for scripting languages and providing a migration path to enterprise Java, today.â¦
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Sun Microsystems plans to unveil on Monday the latest version of its flagship Solaris operating system. It also intends to offer a free version of the program to
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The latest version of the server includes built-in virtualization technology.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. plans later this month to unveil its first ever content switch: a load-balancing and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) acceleration switch based on the Nauticus N2000 products that the Santa Clara, California, company acquired in January of this year.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. is taking a page from Microsoft Corp.&#39;s security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop.
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(InfoWorld) - Sun is taking a page from Microsoft's security group and changing the way it updates Java for the desktop. On Tuesday, Sun announced that it will start providing advance notification of its Java SE (Standard Edition) security updates and that it will also scrap its controversial practice of staggering the release of Java patches. Instead, it will release updates for all supported Java SE platforms simultaneously. Sun Spokeswoman Jacki Decoster said that the changes were designed to make it easier for enterprises to patch all of their Java systems at once. But Sun's new system also happens to remedy what some had called a serious security risk. In July,Â eEye Digital Security CTO Marc Maiffret blasted Sun for waiting months between the release of some versions of its desktop Java. In January, Maiffret's company had discovered a serious bug in the Java Network Launching Protocol, which is used to run Java programs over the Web. But Sun made its fix for the problem available to developers several weeks beforeÂ it pushed out the update to the Java community at large. Though this practice gave attackers a chance to reverse-engineer Sun's security fixes and use them against some of Sun's 800 million desktop users, surprisingly, the Java platform has only rarely been targeted, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations with nCircle Network Security. "It's still the number-one platform for IT enterprise development in-house. But we haven't seen a whole lot of attacks against it." Besides staggering developer and end-user releases, Sun would also wait before releasing updates to users of older versions of Java. Previously, it was standard practice for Sun to fix older versions of Java, such as J2SE 5.0 and J2SE 1.4, weeks or even months after it had patched the latest Java SE 6 software. That will all change under the new system, which will offer simultaneous developer and end-user releases for these three versions of Java. However, users of J2SE 1.3 will have to wait until next year before their software is updated at the same time as the rest of the platform, Decoster said. She could not say whether Sun planned to offer this type of synchronized release for its embedded or server-based Java platforms, Java ME (Micro Edition) and Java EE (Enterprise Edition). Sun's advance notifications will not be released according to a pre-set schedule, as is the case with Microsoft and Oracle, but they will come out within a week of the actual security patches, Decoster said. Customers can receive the advance notifications via e-mail or read about them on Sun's security blog , she added.
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Sun Microsystems on Tuesday unveiled Version 7 of the companyâs enterprise development tool suite, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, and previewed a JVM that will support 64-bit AMD Opteron processors.