Cutting power consumption in half is achievable with Sun best practices. Talk about ROI. A Sun datacenter consolidation project is estimated to have slashed over $1 million in energy costs, cut power and space by more than half, and increased compute performance by over 450 percent. Find out how you can achieve similar results with these 10 steps to building an energy efficient datacenter. more>

Observations and insights into the role of CIO after my first year on the job. Managing an IT budget while encouraging creativity. Meeting the competing demands of a diverse user base. The CIO's job isn't easy — but it sure is a lot of fun. more>

Sun Microsystems' Solutions for Virtualization Across the Enterprise. Read this IDC report to learn how Sun is leading the way in virtualization technology. From IT consolidation to business continuity, Sun virtualization solutions play a part in all levels of the datacenter. more>

The new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers and the Sun Blade T6320 server module. are the result of a unified approach to system design that spans Sun's x64 and chip multithreading (CMT) architectures and delivers virtualization capabilities, Web-scale performance, and energy efficiency throughout the product line, enabling Sun to extend our multithreaded leadership from the operating system to the processor to the network. more>

Sun brings High Performance Computing from research and academia to the mainstream enterprise datacenter. more>

New business models need new approaches to information security: IT outsourcing makes information security even more important. Look at the role of identity management with Sun's Leslie Lambert. more>

For the first time, Sun is providing the ability to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 applications within Solaris Containers. This gives customers the ability to leverage the extensive functionality of Solaris while continuing to use their legacy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 applications with no modification necessary. This combination provides the most cost-effective and comprehensive platform for the entire enterprise. more>

Gordon Prieur, project lead for the new Sun Studio 12, discusses what is new in the graphical IDE. more>

Learn about the new Sun Constellation System, an open High Performance Computing system with scalability to 1.7 Petaflops. more>

Learn how an agreement between Sun and Microsoft is creating the interoperability that customers need between Solaris and Windows in the datacenter and in web services. more>

Learn about the role of the CIO in budget and resource constrained IT planning. more>

Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT) provides for interoperability between Java EE and .NET web services in a Service Oriented Architecture. more>

Learn about Sun x64 system Microsoft Windows compatability and support. more>

The World's Fastest Microprocessor. With integrated security, networking, and I/O directly on the processor, Sun’s new 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 CPU is the industry’s first “system on a chip.” more>

IDC: Customers Embrace Sun's Fast-Ramping Sun Fire T1000/T2000 Servers. Find out how Sun customers are relying on UltraSPARC T1 systems for Web and IT infrastructures, business processing, and Web 2.0 in this IDC paper. more>

It’s a file system showdown. Find out how the revolutionary 128-bit ZFS file system in the Solaris 10 Operating System compares to Red Hat and Veritas file managers in this just-published set of benchmark performance reports. more>

File system performance. The Solaris™ 10 06/06 Operating System (OS) introduces a major new data management technology the Solaris ZFS file system. Replacing the traditionally separate file system and volume manager functionality found in most operating environments, Solaris ZFS provides immense capacity and performance coupled with a proven data integrity model and simplified administrative interface. more>

Driving Datacenter Optimization through Virtualization : IT organizations constantly seek technology that can lower the cost and complexity of managing ever-expanding compute environments. Toward this end, enterprises need strategies and tools that help maximize the use of every compute asset and improve operational flexibility. more>

Introduction. This guide is intended to assist you in gaining an understanding of how to easily and effectvely deploy Sun's Logical Domains, or LDoms, technology. It will help you determine how and where to use logical domains to the greatest effect using best practices. more>

From novel business strategy to business as usual. Outsourcing is quickly making the transition from novel....rest of this paragraph from the pdf. more>

Moving a Solaris container. Learn how to move a Solaris 10 Container from one computer to another with this easy Solaris How-To Guide. more>

See the lessons learned in this case study of Sun's outsourcing initiatives. Gain valuable insight from Sun's many years of outsourcing experience. more>

Learn how to use Solaris Logical Domains (LDoms) to provide server virtualization. Save money while increasing server utilization. more>

Sun Blade 6000 Systems Datacenter Costs - Learn how Sun Blade 6000 servers can improve flexibility while decreasing datacenter costs. more>

Sun Sparc Enterprise SMP Enterprise Class Server - Learn about the reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features in the new Sun SPARC Enterprise SMP servers. more>

Information Technology IT Business Strategic Plan: Look for secure network services to begin replacing internal enterprise applications. more>

Software Digital Logic Integrated Circuit Design Fundamentals: Learn how Sun Distinguished Engineer Steve Rubin invented a method of designing integrated circuits that he thinks is a "no brainer". more>

Looking for ways to create exciting, dynamic Web content? JavaFX can help you deliver visually compelling applications, such as maps, mashups, video, audio, and pictures that you can standardize across cell phones, TVs, and more more>

Learn how to empower your workforce with new mobility and flexibility. Sun's Open Work Practice can help customers and partners implement work-from-anywhere best practices. more>

What's next? With a nod to Sun's 25th anniversary, CIO Bob Worrall offers fascinating insights into changes reshaping IT and previews JavaOne 2007 in this exclusive Sun Inner Circle audio download. more>

Secure Web Services Client NetBeans Internet Privacy and Security: Learn how to secure Web services communications using NetBeans IDE 5.5, Sun Java System Access Manager, and Java development tools. more>

New Technologies for AJAX and Web App Dev. Get tech tips into using the Project Phobos lightweight Web application framework to build applications with JavaScript, AJAX, and the Java EE stack. more>

How-To Tips on Building Web 2.0 Apps with AJAX. Web 2.0 developers, get step-by-step guidance on building applications with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) with this Java Pet Store 2.0 application article and demo. more>

Network.com: $1/CPU-hr. Sun’s new Network.com delivers a massively powerful compute grid infrastructure and access to more than 20 high-performance computing (HPC) applications. With pay-per-use pricing at $1/CPU-hour, this unique service can change how research is conducted. more>

Consumer-Driven IT. In a world of increasingly mobile and connected consumers, enterprises must adapt by offering employees greater flexibility in how and where they work. CTO of Sun IT John Dutra explains in this guest column. more>

New UltraSPARC T2 CPU doubles threads from 32 to 64. Meet the forthcoming 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 CPU. With twice as many threads as the chip in Sun Fire CoolThreads servers, it raises the bar for energy efficiency and massive throughput. Get a preview of Sun's next processor, and insights into which of Sun's three server lineups is right for your application areas. more>

Building an SOA? Get this technical how-to paper on ways that Sun's Java Composite Application Platform Suite can help streamline development and orchestrate services across systems. more>

Bye Bye Network Bottlenecks. Sun's new Project Neptune attacks the network bottleneck problem with the industry's first multithreaded 10 Gigabit Ethernet technology for massive performance acceleration. more>

Organizations are turning to new ways to improve datacenter performance while lowering power consumption, space, and cost. With surveys showing that datacenter energy efficiency is increasingly an IT priority, organizations are looking for new ways to improve datacenter performance while reducing power consumption, space, and costs. more>

Reducing expenses by turning down the heat and cultivating green datacenters. Rising energy costs have put datacenter power consumption on IT's front burner. Take a look at how you can transition to eco-responsible computing — and reduce your energy costs. more>

When "good enough" is no longer good enough. The open source Solaris 10 OS has emerged as a compelling alternative for IT organizations skeptical over the long-term benefits and cost-effectiveness of Linux. Sun EVP for Software Rich Green takes a look at advanced Solaris OS features that have fueled more than seven million licenses — and ways you can smoothly move up from Linux. more>

NetBeans IDE 5.5 delivers the best of open source and Java technology. The new NetBeans IDE 5.5 opens up a world of possibilities for rapid and efficient cross-platform application development. Packed with the feature-rich fruits of seven years of open source development, it's no wonder InfoWorld named NetBeans the Best Java IDE Innovator for 2007. more>

What I Learned During My First 100 Days. When I assumed the job as CIO, my first priority was to understand the critical issues facing our organization, so I traveled to a number of different Sun locations, gathering ideas, thoughts, and issues from hundreds of IT employees as well as Sun executives across the company. I also wanted to understand how our IT organization compared to other organizations so I spent quite a bit of time speaking to customers and participating in industry events. more>

Thinking beyond one-size-fits-all virtualization. Virtualization comes in many forms and flavors, and each can dramatically increase datacenter utilization while saving resources. But which approach is right for which system? Find out as we survey the latest on virtual machines, OS virtualization, virtualized storage, and more. more>

Inside open source Java. What does Sun's monumental decision to open Java technology mean for developers, CXOs, and the open source community? Get the bottom line from Sun Software CTO Bob Brewin. more>

Articles of Latest New Technology: Sun Labs has developed many of the technologies that have shaped Sun's product portfolio and reputation for thought leadership — including Java technology, UltraSPARC processors, Sun Cluster high-availability software, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), Netra carrier-grade servers — the list goes on. more>

Enterprise Security Insights. Sun CIO Bob Worrall and Sun Chief Information Security Officer Mark Connelly discuss the ermerging threats to enterprise security and how Sun responds. In case you missed the announcement last month, I'm Bob Worrall, the new CIO of Sun Microsystems and the new executive sponsor of the Sun Inner Circle newsletter. Over the coming months I hope to use my letter in this forum to offer insights into Sun's technology vision, as well as share my commentary on the latest industry developments. more>

Innovating @ Sun. Tune into this video podcast to hear a lively discussion with CEO Jonathan Schwartz and CTO Greg Papadopoulos about the value of general purpose operating systems, OS commoditization and R&D, OS IP, and much more. more>

Consolidate and Conquer: Solaris Containers Online Demo. View a series of demonstration videos to learn how to safely consolidate applications by creating Containers in the Solaris 10 OS and allocating resources accordingly. more>

Why You Should Build Software on the Solaris OS. Discover why you should make the Solaris 10 OS your primary development and deployment platform, and get technical insights into how to develop software on the Solaris platform. more>

History of Encryption and Computer Disk Encryption Security Software: Sun's Whitfield Diffie on ECC and Solaris 10 OS security Whitfield Diffie was the first to show how public key cryptography could be used by people who had no prior knowledge of each other to communicate securely. Diffie is now Chief Security Officer at Sun. Sun Inner Circle met with Diffie to learn about Sun's vision of the future of information security. more>

Secure SOA. Want to narrow the gap between IT development and business processes? Big advancements in SOA platform and identity management technology can help you get there fast. more>

Business Management Process Software Solution: Discussion of the evolution of the information technology stack covering chip multithreading, multiple cores, virtualization, grid technology, and more. more>

Whitepaper. The Solaris Cryptographic Framework provides cryptographic services to users and applications through commands, a user-level programming interface, a kernel programming interface, and user-level and kernel-level frameworks. The Solaris Cryptographic Framework provides these cryptographic services to applications and kernel modules in a manner seamless to the end user, and brings direct cryptographic services, like encryption and decryption for files, to the end user. more>

Securing the Web with Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is emerging as an attractive public-key cryptosystem for mobile/wireless environments. Compared to traditional cryptosystems like RSA, ECC offers equivalent security with smaller key sizes, which results in faster computations, lower power consumption, as well as memory and bandwidth savings. This is especially useful for mobile devices which are typically limited in terms of their CPU, power and network connectivity. Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) has recently been endorsed by the US government. more>

Solaris ZFS Tutorial: This online demo shows how to set up and administer Solaris ZFS file systems, create snapshots, and perform data disaster recovery. more>

Software as a Service Tutorial SaaS Market ERP Servers: In this letter, I plan to turn my attention to software as a service (SaaS) — an exciting delivery model for software. In the most basic terms, SaaS involves delivering and receiving software as bytes over the Internet instead of buying and installing software locally as bits. Given the recent hoopla over SaaS, it is no exaggeration to say that it has been a big hit in many areas. Many consumers use SaaS every day with services like Google, Yahoo!, and eBay, but now those services and many others in the ERP space are moving into the enterprise. In case there are still any SaaS doubters, let's take a moment to examine some of the numbers. more>

Challenges with Open Source Project Management and Project Governance: Opening Up with Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer. With 20 years of experience in software development, Simon Phipps has helped guide Sun's open source strategy, including the OpenSolaris project. Now, as chief open source officer at Sun, Phipps has been given the weighty task of deciding how to open source all of Sun's software. Inner Circle recently sat down with Phipps to discuss open source licenses, working with communities of developers, and how governance of open source projects is critical to success. more>

Web 2.0 Consulting and Dynamic Web 2.0 Tutorial: One opportunity that's before us is Web 2.0. In case you missed it, the World Wide Web commemorated its 15th anniversary last month, on August 6. On that date in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at the CERN nuclear physics laboratory in Switzerland, posted the world's first public Web page, and helped to trigger the technological juggernaut that would change the world. Now it's all about Web 2.0, and a second generation of rich, dynamic Web services built on secure open standards that enable sharing, participation, and collaboration while delivering the extreme performance and massive throughput demanded by global proliferation of the Internet. more>

Data Center Model Blade Server Markets Explained: The Sun Blade 8000 Modular System is poised to bring blade efficiencies to new applications. It is no secret that the blade server market has witnessed dramatic growth. As businesses struggle to increase processing power within existing data center space, blades have witnessed a growing share of server markets — especially in the Web and light-application tiers. Aside from the anecdotal evidence, IDC estimates that blade servers will grow at a cumulative rate of 42.7 percent between 2006 and 2010 — achieving a 25 percent share of the entire market by that time frame. Still, despite the impressive figures, today's blades are largely relegated to niche applications within the data center. Due to design compromises that curtail processing power, I/O throughput, and on-board memory, blades are currently limited in deployment options and best suited for the Web and light-application tiers. With the introduction of revolutionary new modular technology, Sun has broken through this barrier into areas previously dominated by rackmount servers, including heavy application and database serving. more>

Free and Open Source Software License Management: About this Series. This free and open source series of papers provides straightforward explanations of open source topics. The intention of the series is to simply explain complicated subjects like licenses, patents, and business models in easy-to-understand points. These papers present an overview of Sun’s perspective on the topics. The framework for this and future papers is based on the “Zen of Open Source�?, a keynote delivered by Simon Phipps, Sun's Chief Open Source Officer. more>

Sample Business Continuity Plan Disaster Recovery Documentation: Disasters happen, even more so today than ever before. Before the turn of the century, organizations focused on preventing and avoiding environmental disasters such as fires or floods. And, much like businesses and people acquire insurance policies against the chance of fire and other disasters on capital assets such as buildings and automobiles, IT departments typically implement some kind of insurance in the form of redundancy to help applications recover from disasters. However, in the 21st century, disasters have expanded to include terrorist attacks, strings of hurricanes, extensive power grid failures, network threats such as worms and hackers, and business events such as mergers and acquisitions — forcing IT managers to change their focus from avoiding a possible disaster to recovering from an inevitable one. And these days, every minute it takes to recover can cost the business or organization in terms of lost sales and customers. Sun Java™ Availability Suite can help by enabling application and data access continuity across unlimited distance. Learn about disaster recovery and business continuity. more>

Online Data Storage Data Mining Knowledge Management: Adding identity intelligence to information lifecycle management. It's Bill Vass back with another letter. I turn my attention to information lifecycle management (ILM). In a word: storage. Back in my days as technical director at the Department of Defense — and while I held development and operations jobs here at Sun and other companies — storage received prominent attention. For large-scale application developers, optimizing storage for access and update speeds is always important, as is configuring the storage environment for availability. more>

Business Merger and Acquisition Software Integration Plan: It happens all the time. A large healthcare provider acquires a new hospital and is faced with the daunting task of integrating the hospital subsystems with its corporate systems. Or, a mature technology company realizes it needs to integrate a legacy system to unlock its hidden data or functionality. These are but a couple of examples of the challenges posed by systems integration. Learn about the challenges and issues of business mergers and acquisitions including legacy system integration and software integration. more>

Characteristics and Advantages of Thin Client Server Based Networks: Achieving Server/Desktop Flexibility Using server-based computing to drive interoperability in heterogeneous IT environments.For as long as there have been servers and clients, there has been debate about how much power should be granted to each constituent. On one hand, server proponents argue that manageability and security can be improved by taking power from the desktop and granting it to the network. Meanwhile, client advocates protest that some applications require local horsepower and certain users need to access applications when disconnected from the network. And they point out that most enterprises require a mix of operating systems and computing devices — all of which may stymie efforts to move entirely to a server-based environment. more>

Datacenter Consolidation and Data Center Planning: Meeting the Web Tier Challenge. It would be an understatement to say that Bill Pilarski and Ken Pepple know a thing or two about data center consolidation. As data center practice manager at Sun, Pilarski manages a team of technical and sales development resources that provide data center optimization and consolidation solutions to Sun customers. Pepple co-authored a book on consolidation, Consolidation in the Data Center: Simplifying IT Environments to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership. more>

Unix Server Consolidation Data Center Best Practices: Learn unix server consolidation and tier 1 web tier consolidation data center best practices. more>

Solaris 10 Container Virtualization Primer: One of the key breakthrough technologies in Solaris 10, Solaris Container has the ability to promote server consolidation, as well as improve application availability and manageability. In this interview, Inner Circle plays 20-plus questions with Sun virtualization experts Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Jeff Victor, and Chien-Hua Yen to more fully understand the potential, capabilities, and limitations of Solaris Containers and Solaris Zones. more>

Enterprise Software Data Center Best Practices: Learn about a stack of technologies that can help enterprises reduce data center costs, improve hardware utilization, and increase application availability and performance. more>

Server Document Management Data Center Stop server sprawl. While 2005 might be seen as the year virtualization arrived in prime time, old and new variations of virtualization indicate even greater things ahead. Learn how server virtualization can help you get a handle on your server document management, mass data storage, and other server storage and management data center issues. more>

Server Virtualization and Server Asset Management: Learn how server virtualization can help with your storage asset management, application server management, and other containment technology issues. more>

The New x64 Industry Standard Servers from Sun. When Sun announced that it had built a new line of industry standard 64-bit servers from the ground up, the news marked a significant turning point for Sun, as well as a new industry benchmark for server performance. more>

Enterprise Open Source Software Data Center Solution: Bill Vass on Open Source. With almost 10 years of open source experience under my belt, I have no doubt that open source software is ready for prime time across the enterprise today. Learn more from Bill Vass about using open source software solutions like Solaris OS in your enterprise or data center solution design. more>

Sun Application Monitoring Software Tool: Introduction to Dtrace. Dtrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing facility that is built into Solaris and can be used by administrators and developers to examine the behavior of both user programs and of the operating system itself. With Dtrace you can explore your system to understand how it works, track down performance problems across many layers of software, or locate the cause of aberrant behavior. It is safe to use on production systems and does not require restarting either the system or applications. Learn more about Sun’s advanced operating system and application monitoring software. more>

Small Business Web Applications AJAX Form Processing: AJAX in Action. AJAX and Sun Java Studio Creator team up to let you easily enrich your Web applications with desktop-like dynamic interactivity. Get tools, tips, and analysis on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, aka AJAX - and put it to work to make your Web apps shine. Learn more about using the AJAX Web site development tool for processing web form pages including form auto-completion, form validation, and form data refreshing. more>

x64 Applications Computer Benchmark Test: By Bill Vass. I've been talking to a few CIOs at other companies and there seems to be some confusion about the server strategy here at Sun. I'm not quite sure why, but for some reason there seems to be the mistaken belief that Sun's three different lines of servers - based on three different processor architectures - compete with each other. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Learn more about selecting the right Sun server based on your server needs such as high computer benchmark test performance, technology standards support, server performance monitoring and x64 applications software support. more>

Solaris 10 Disk Suite Companion Disk Sun Freeware: Freeware. Sun is working to ensure that the strength of the Solaris Operating System is complemented by a collection of popular, freely available software. This freeware includes utilities, productivity tools, and development tools. Users can now more conveniently leverage the technologies shared on the Internet. Learn more about Sun’s freeware offering in the Solaris disk suite. more>