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Service Level Agreement in the Data Center

April 1, 2002, 12:00am PST

Aside from being able to deliver highly available, reliably performing systems, just being able to deliver your promise is key to success. This is why an effective and efficient Service Level...

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Analyzing Snort Data With the Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE)

October 1, 2005, 12:00am PDT

Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE) searches and processes databases containing security events logged by assorted network monitoring tools such as firewalls and IDS programs. BASE is...

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Introduction to Cloud Computing Architecture

June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing promises to increase the velocity with which applications are deployed, increase innovation, and lower costs, all while increasing business agility. Sun takes an inclusive view of...

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Performance Tuning Siebel on the Sun Platform

March 1, 2005, 12:00am PST

This paper discusses the performance optimization of a complete Siebel enterprise solution on the Sun platform. Solaris OE tuning, Siebel tuning, Oracle database server tuning, Sun Storage tuning...

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AJAX Design Strategies

October 11, 2006, 12:00am PDT

Web applications have entered a new era driven by web site goals such as fast response to user actions and user collaboration in creating and sharing web site content. The popular term attributed...

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Solaris OE Guide for New System Administrators

April 11, 2003, 12:00am PDT

This paper contains the most relevant 20% of technical information reader will need to know when working with Solaris and Sun platforms. It should answer 80% of your Solaris questions. This...

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Data Center Optimization: Three Key Strategies

June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Data center managers face a lot of challenges over the next few years. In many facilities, three pressing problems need to be solved nearly immediately: limited power, increasing cooling demands,...

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Data Center Design Philosophy

March 18, 2003, 12:00am PST

This paper lays the foundation for addressing challenges of data center design, through a presentation of the more important design issues, priorities, and philosophies. This paper covers some...

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Migrating From Microsoft Office to Openoffice.org or Staroffice 9

April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This brief whitepaper is designed to assist IT professionals and system integrators who want to move an organization from Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 to OpenOffice.org (OOo) or StarOffice...

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Best Practices in Information Lifecycle Management Security

April 1, 2006, 12:00am PST

Data security is a critical component of information lifecycle management maturity. This paper describes best practices in securing data through identity management from the perspective of...

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Technical Paper: Java - J2EE Conventions and Guidelines

January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

When a J2EE project is not performing fast enough or some bugs can not be found a code audit is often performed. The first question asked is "Does the company use any Java coding conventions?"...

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Sun StarOffice 8.0 (Windows)

October 3, 2005, 12:00am PDT

StarOffice 8 software is an easy to use office productivity suite with powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. Based on open source technology,...

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Music-Analysis Firm Affords Twice as Much Hardware Through Sun Startup Essentials

January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

MusicMetric helps companies in the music industry make faster, better-informed decisions by uncovering trends between musicians, releases, brands, and events. It needed to support the performance...

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Saint Paul College Saves Nearly 70% With Distributed Sun Solution

January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

Founded in 1910, Minnesota's Saint Paul College is a two-year technical college that offers 40 associate degree programs, 69 occupational and certificate programs, and various transfer programs to...

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Media Company Boosts Security and IT Efficiency With Sun Automated Identity Management Solution

January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

Since it began radio broadcasts in 1951, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) has grown to a network of 28 affiliate television and 34 affiliate radio stations. It needed to integrate disparate...

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The J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1

December 1, 2003, 12:00am PST

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit is a comprehensive set of tools for building MIDP applications. The toolkit can be used standalone, or incorporated into many popular integrated development environments...

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Sun Netra X4250 and X4450 Server Architecture: Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology

September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Today in these environments, IT managers face a formidable task in administering a complex storage and computing infrastructure - one that typically houses many small servers that have been added...

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Reducing the Cost of Compliance: Sun Microsystems Change and Access Control

July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Faced with escalating costs for achieving compliance with industry and government regulations, many organizations are struggling to find better ways to address their compliance requirements. Like...

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Best Practices for Sun Storage 6000 Series and 2500 Series Arrays: VMware Storage VMotion

March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

VMware Storage VMotion, allows the user to perform live online migration of a running VirtualMachine's disks, or disk files from ESX Server's perspective, from internal disk drives on a server,...

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Guide to Deploying Carrier Grade Services Using Open Source Technologies

April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Open source technologies and commodity, carrier-grade hardware can combine to create a highly available, scalable, and responsive infrastructure to deploy next-generation communications services....

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Sun Solutions for the Public Sector: Maximizing the Value of Stimulus Fund Investments

April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

With the establishment of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), vital funds are being allocated to state and local governments - particularly in the areas of municipal,...

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Early Experience With a Commercial Hardware Transactional Memory Implementation

March 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT

The author reports on their experience with the Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) feature of two pre-production revisions of a new commercial multicore processor. The author's experience...

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Strategies for Solving the Datacenter Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch

February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

Driven by the need to continually deploy new applications and support a larger number of internal and external customers, IT organizations everywhere are finding themselves in a space, power, and...

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MySQL 5.1 Database Deployment Over CIFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the procedure to deploy MySQL database infrastructure over CIFS protocol. This example uses a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and a Sun Fire server running Microsoft...

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Deploying Oracle Databases Using NFS on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

May 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports NFS v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols and comes with a comprehensive set of data service features that can provide unlimited snapshots,...

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Backup and Recovery for Oracle Databases With Snapshot Feature of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Sun Storage 7000 Series Unified Storage System has comprehensive data protection features that provide instant snapshots, cloning, rollback, and remote replication. These features can make...

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Sizing Study for Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite on Sun Platforms

June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper describes a sizing study of Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) Suite on a Sun platform, including tests conducted with application tools from Pentaho. The purpose is to...

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Sun Storage J4400 Array as Disk Storage for Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL Database

April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper discusses how to quickly configure and deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL databases with the Sun Storage J4400 array. MySQL software has become the world's most popular open...

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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System as Storage Target for Symantec Enterprise Vault

June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper describes how to quickly configure and deploy the Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System (also referred to as "Appliance") for Symantec Enterprise Vault and how to set up a File System...

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Deploying Oracle Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System supports NFS v3, NFS v4, iSCSI, and CIFS protocols and comes with a comprehensive set of data service features which provide unlimited snapshots,...

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Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

The Internet SCSI (iSCSI) protocol allows a client system (initiator) to send SCSI commands to targets on a remote server over an existing IP network infrastructure, thus providing a low cost...

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Using ZFS Snapshots With Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL on OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

The objective of this paper is to show how to deploy Zmanda Recovery Manager 3.0 for MySQL on the OpenSolaris 2008.11 OS and how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using the ZFS file system....

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Virus Scanning on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System With Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite

April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper describes the installation of the Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Suite (IWSS) software on Microsoft Windows and on the Solaris Operating System. The IWSS software is used as a virus...

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Multithreaded Application Acceleration With Chip Multithreading (CMT), MultiCore/Multithread UltraSPARC Processors: UltraSPARC Processor Applications

August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

The proliferation of billions of devices - ranging from 3G cell phones to netbook computers - means consumers increasingly demand instantaneous access to information, whether the latest news story...

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Flow Control in Output Buffered Switch With Input Groups

May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT

The paper has recently proposed a novel architecture called Output Buffered Switch with Input Groups (OBIG) together with a scheduler called Parallel Wrapped Wave Front Arbiter with Fast Scheduler...

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Achieving Privacy in a Federated Identity Management System

March 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Federated identity management allows a user to efficiently authenticate and use identity information from data distributed across multiple domains. The sharing of data across domains blurs...

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Migrating to IPv6 on the Solaris OS

March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

The biggest difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is addressing, because IPv6 uses 128 bits for addressing compared to IPv4, which uses 32 bits. IPv6 can be used to specify 2 128 (about 3.4 x 10 38)...

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Server Virtualization and MySQL: Your Options

October 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Virtualization technology has now gone main stream, and its footprint within IT infrastructures continues to accelerate. If one is responsible for MySQL within the enterprise one needs a firm...

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Easing the Space, Power, and Cooling Crunch With Green Internet Datacenter Re-Design

January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

Most large corporations, including communication carriers, are evaluating how to be environmentally friendly as a good public-relations gesture as well as a business choice that is essential to...

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Building a Low Latency Infrastructure for Electronic Trading

February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

As the global financial markets continue to shift towards electronic trading, the speed at which trading is able to take place establishes the winners and the losers among participants in the...

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Java Development Kit (64-Bit) 7 Update 4 (Windows)

April 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT

The Java Development Kit contains the software and tools that you need to compile, debug, and run applets and applications that you've written using the Java programming language. JDK has as its...

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Java Development Kit 7 Update 4 (Windows)

April 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT

Java Development Kit contains the software and tools that you need to compile, debug, and run applets and applications that you've written using the Java programming language. JDK has as its...

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Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (64-Bit) 7 Update 4 (Windows)

April 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (64-Bit) provides the libraries, the Java Virtual Machine, and other components to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language. In...

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Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7 Update 4 (Windows)

April 30, 2012, 12:00am PDT

The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) provides the libraries, the Java Virtual Machine, and other components to run applets and applications written in the Java programming language. In addition, two...

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The Managed Desktop Factory Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software as a Service

May 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT

IT organizations are constantly provisioning office workplaces to make services and applications available to users. Doing so requires state-of-the-art IT environments that are: adding and...

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Optimizing the Desktop Using Sun XVM Virtualbox

December 14, 2008, 12:00am PST

Often users must access applications in Operating System (OS) environments other than the native OS on their personal laptop or desktop system. Companies that undertake migration initiatives to...

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Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 3

March 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Building on Sun's vision that "The Network is the Computer", the open architecture of Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Software 3 enables organizations to leverage a broad selection of...

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Java SE Development Kit 7 (Windows)

December 12, 2007, 12:00am PST

Java SE Development Kit (JDK) is the next Java platform by Sun Microsystems. JDK7 and JDK6 source snapshots under the JRL license are now available through subversion repository. jdk.researcher or...

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StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview 1 (Windows)

February 27, 2007, 12:00am PST

The StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology Preview is a plug-in for Microsoft Word 2003 that allows users of Microsoft Word 2003 to read, edit and save import to the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This...

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Java EE 5 SDK Update 2 (Windows)

January 2, 2007, 12:00am PST

As the industries first compatible implementation of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 specification, the Java EE 5 SDK provides the foundation for delivering enterprise-class...

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NetBeans Mobility Pack 5 (Windows)

March 13, 2006, 12:00am PST

This free plug-in to the NetBeans IDE is a feature-rich solution for Java ME application development. Visual design tools, end-to-end application creation wizards and solutions for device...

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Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 Last release, Update 22 (Windows)

February 7, 2006, 12:00am PST

Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) software is the premier platform for rapidly developing and deploying secure, portable applications that run on server and desktop systems. J2SE 5.0 is a...

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Sun Storage Port Controller 5.10.4.0 (Windows)

July 23, 2004, 12:00am PDT

Sun Storage Port Controller: Sun's innovative storage solutions help simplify IT environments so organizations of all sizes can increase efficiency and utilization, lower costs, improve...

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Sun StarOffice 8.0 (Windows)

October 3, 2005, 12:00am PDT

StarOffice 8 software is an easy to use office productivity suite with powerful word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database capabilities. Based on open source technology,...

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Sun JFC (Swing) 1.1.1 (Mac)

August 6, 1999, 12:00am PDT

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Modular Architecture for Business and Mission Critical Applications and High Performance Computing

February 19, 2008, 12:00am PST

The emerging Participation Age is marked by radically increasing individual connectedness, and participation in a wide range of networked global communities. With ever-increasing demands from...

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CA and Sun - The Power of Two : CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions

November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Virtualization is a wave sweeping through the world of corporate computing today. Many enterprises are nearing full capacity as far as availability of physical space and power in their data...

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CrossBow: Solaris Network Virtualization & Resource Control

March 7, 2008, 12:00am PST

It makes some sense to explain the relationship between the technology (Network Virtualization and Resource Control) and the project name (CrossBow). It is believed that Crossbow was invented in...

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Use Of Green Computing In Disaster Risk Reduction

August 9, 2008, 12:00am PDT

The purpose of this paper is to show how innovative technology can provide this risk reduction in an eco-friendly fashion by applying both identity management techniques so that claims are...

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Crossbow: From Hardware Virtualized NICs to Virtualized Networks

August 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper describes a new architecture for achieving net-work virtualization using Virtual NICs (VNICs) as the building blocks. The VNICs can be associated with dedicated and independent hardware...

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Take Your Business to a Higher Level: Sun Cloud-Computing Technology Scales Your Infrastructure to Take Advantage of New Business Opportunities

March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

In many ways, cloud computing is simply a metaphor for the Internet, the increasing movement of compute and data resources onto the Web. But there's a difference: cloud computing represents a new...

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Sun Logical Domains Technology Primer

September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

In today's economic climate, being able to do more with less takes on new meaning. Escalating time to market concerns and other business pressures force organizations to act quickly, with...

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The Sun BluePrints Guide to Solaris Containers: Virtualization in the Solaris Operating System

October 11, 2006, 12:00am PDT

In recent years, the nature of computing has changed in fundamental ways. The explosive growth of corporate intranets and the Internet has created new and challenging demands. As the number of...

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CA Management Software and Sun Virtualization Solutions

November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST

Virtualization is a wave sweeping through the world of corporate computing today. Many enterprises are nearing full capacity as far as availability of physical space and power in their data...

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Cloudstone: Multi-Platform, Multi-Language Benchmark and Measurement Tools for Web 2.0

October 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Web 2.0 applications place new and different demands on servers compared to their Web 1.0 counterparts. Simultaneously, the definitive arrival of pay-as-you-go "Cloud computing" and the...

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Exploiting Java-ILP on a Simultaneous Multi-Trace Instruction Issue (SMTI) Processor

January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST

The available Instruction Level Parallelism in Java bytecode (Java-ILP) is not readily exploitable using traditional in-order or out-of-order issue mechanisms due to dependencies involving stack...

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Mobile Ajax for Java ME Technology

August 14, 2007, 12:00am PDT

There are many Sun Microsystems technologies that use Ajax [Ajax], and more than one way to use Ajax on mobile platforms. For example, applications written using the Java Platform, Enterprise...

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Invoking Java Code With JSP Scripting Elements

August 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT

This chapter discusses the "Classic" approach to invoking Java code from within JSP pages. This approach works in both JSP 1 i.e., JSP 1.2 and earlier and JSP 2. This paper discusses the JSP...

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The Java Web Services Tutorial

June 14, 2005, 12:00am PDT

The Java Web Services Tutorial is a guide to developing Web applications with the Java Web Services Developer Pack (Java WSDP). The Java WSDP is an all-in-one download containing key technologies...

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Building Customer Trust in Cloud Computing With Transparent Security

November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Potential users of cloud services often fear that cloud providers' governance is not yet mature enough to consistently and reliably protect their data. As the trend toward cloud-based services...

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Open Source & Cloud Computing: On-Demand, Innovative It on a Massive Scale

June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

While more and more start-ups are taking advantage of the cost-savings and agility that cloud computing provides, enterprises are now exploring how they could leverage an external cloud, build an...

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The Solaris OS and Intel Nehalem-EX the Solaris Operating System with the Next Generation Intel Xeon Processor, for the Expandable Server Segment

September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

This paper offers a high-level overview of enterprise capabilities of the Solaris Operating System (OS), and how it enables users to utilize the new features of the next generation Intel Xeon...

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The Java Card 3 Platform

August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Java Card technology enables smart cards and other devices with very limited memory to run small applications that employ Java technology. It provides smart-card manufacturers with a secure and...

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Sun Fire X4450 and Sun Fire X4150 Servers Synapse Mobile Networks Equipment Identity Register (EIR) System Intel Multi-Core Processors

February 4, 2008, 12:00am PST

Synapse's Equipment Identification Register (EIR) is a standardized node within a GSM network that is responsible for barring stolen or malfunctioning devices. The basic functionality of the EIR...

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Fast Backups in Virtual Environments

May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT

Server virtualization is a new computing model that is transforming the world's data centers. The economics are compelling - by using VMware infrastructure to virtualize servers and consolidate...

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Web Services Security in SUN Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6

December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST

Enterprises across the globe are using Web services technologies to realize Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the name suggests, SOA is a solution architecture revolving around services....

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Take Your Business to a Higher Level

March 1, 2009, 12:00am PST

In many ways, cloud computing is simply a metaphor for the Internet, the increasing movement of compute and data resources onto the Web. But there's a difference: cloud computing represents a new...

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The Sun Ultra 24 Workstation: Best-in-Class Components, Performance, and Flexibility

April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

Timely product innovation and quality are essential in today's competitive marketplaces, and productivity for key innovators has never been more important. With so much riding on effective, safe,...

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How to Upgrade and Patch With Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade

May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT

This white paper demonstrates the use of Oracle Solaris Live Upgrade, a powerful tool for managing change, risk, and system availability on Oracle Solaris systems. This white paper will cover: An...

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Role Management: The Key to Cost-Effective Compliance and Provisioning

May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT

A robust IAM solution that provides capabilities for provisioning, auditing, and role management is paramount to helping companies achieve regulatory compliance at a reasonable cost. The...

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