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Creating a Perfectly Balanced System

In this webinar, you'll find out the design principles of the Sun Fire X4275, how flash technology can multiply IO performance offering significant savings in cost/stream, cost/IOPS and cost/GB as well as savings in energy and space, and how the Sun Fire X4275 is the building block of the powerful Oracle Exadata V2 server recently announced by Oracle.

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ZFS - Changing the Way You Look at Storage

ZFS is a new kind of file storage subsystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability. ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. ZFS also combines, Disks, DRAM and Flash into one storage subsystem easily providing the best overall price performance for storage. Come learn about ZFS and its benefits. See a demo of how easy it is to use and administrate. Hear from a startup on their experience with ZFS.

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Cloud Computing 101

This webinar will focus on the different approaches to cloud computing, its primary technology drivers, how cloud computing changes application delivery, and low to evaluate a cloud computing provider for your startup.

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Serving the Next Billion: JavaFX Rich Internet Experiences

This webinar will focus on how Java and JavaFX bring compelling user experiences across all the screens of your customers' lives. Demos will show how Java's ubiquity and power combined with the visual elegance of JavaFX will make it easier than ever to combine code, graphics and community collaboration. And once your application is complete, learn how the new Java Store will help monetize your effort.

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Creating the Next Killer Mobile App

Today's mobile applications deliver a personalized experience to the user by taking advantage of the mobile context, physical location, touch, accelerometers, and other means of input. This webinar will focus on some of the best practices in architecting the next killer mobile app with Sun's technologies and will also cover how to efficiently design the front end components, as well as how to scale on the server side using REST-style Web Services, Glassfish, and MySQL.

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Tuning your Storage System for Database Workloads

Databases are a key part of any application. The storage subsystem contributes most to performance of the database. In recent days, new storage technologies like Solid State Storage (SSD) and high performance drives are becoming cheaper and more accessible, but it takes a lot of planning to use these technologies in a cost effective way for best price-performance.

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Architecting Your Site for Scale and Availability with the AMP Stack & GlassFish

Learn about a high performance, reliable AMP stack to run your web applications. Specifically, this webinar focus on how the Sun GlassFish Web Stack can provide a low cost enterprise-grade support for popular open source applications such as Apache Web Server, Apache Tomcat, PHP and lighttpd among others, run web applications at a high volume and scale, easily manage updates and security patches to your AMP deployments, and monitor and manage your AMP components.

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Project Darkstar: Putting the Massive in Massive Multiplayer

With the extraordinary growth around the video games industry comes the issue of building truly scalable, "massive multiplayer" solutions that are beyond what the industry deploys today. In this presentation Matt Hosanee will discuss how Sun's Project Darkstar meets many of the biggest challenges facing the development of future online games. Project Darkstar is an open source platform for developing massively multiplayer online games. The ultimate goal is to let the next great idea bubble up from the game development community instead of being suppressed by budget and technical requirements.

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Improving Storage Performance

This 30-minute presentation features Angelo Rajadurai, Sr. Technology Evangelist, discussing how flash-based Unified Storage Systems can improve application performance. Sun high-performance storage use a combination of flash drives and conventional hard disk drives to improve LAMP stack performance by 2x, or more. There is a demo of storage analytics application that enables admins to see graphically, and in fine detail what process, application, or user is loading the storage system. Finally, there is a discussion of how the new storage products can provide a tiered solution for cloud-based storage, lowering costs and increasing performance. Sun Startup Essentials members are eligible for significant discounts on Sun storage solutions.

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Are VCs Investing in Twitter Focused Business Models?

Rollover Description: This report takes a look at the investment activity with startups whose core functionality/capability is centered on Twitter to understand the types of Twitter-related startups being funded, the amounts of funding, the investors backing them, as well as overall trends and implications for such startups going forward.

VCs Investing in iPhone Focused Startups Report

Rollover Description: This report takes a deeper look at these investments with a focus on what startups are receiving money, which investors are supplying funds, the amounts of these investments, as well as other interesting trends/statistics that may have implications for the future in this space and/or be helpful to investors or app developers hoping to understand what has gone on to-date.

The Sun Fire X4540 Storage Server

This paper articulates how the Sun Fire X4540 server is the perfect example of a product based on open technologies and standards, and how Active Circle has created an unlimited file system across several Sun Fire X4540 servers and tiered to one or several Sun StorageTek tape libraries.

Rethink Storage

Learn how the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System combines Flash technology with Solaris ZFS to create solutions that balance low cost and high performance.

Unified Storage Systems Architecture

Read about the architecture of systems that can bring you ten times faster installation than competing systems, and require no special training to configure and use. The world's first open storage appliances, these systems are a radically simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Based on industry-standard components, Sun Storage 7000 Management software, and supported by a passionate community of developers and ISVs, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems are changing storage economics.

Learning GlassFish for Tomcat Users

There is a direct connection between the Web container technology used by developers and the performance and agility of applications. This paper demonstrates that the Web container capabilities provided by GlassFish offer superior extensibility, scalablity, and usability compared to those of Tomcat—without sacrificing performance.