Sun Webinars

As the economic downturn impacts most IT organizations, hardware upgrades are often more difficult to justify. It's essential that IT professionals understand the entire set of justifications and benefits that come from server upgrades, not just one or two. While there has been a great deal of discussion about the performance and power savings of the new Sun servers powered by the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series (codename: Nehalem), the reality is that there is much more to these new server products.

Agenda:

• Server Upgrades - Are the reasons right?
• A Longer Term View of IT Needs and Infrastructure Changes Argues for Upgrades
• Improvements to the Memory Designs and Architectures Are Key
• Tactical Reasons to Upgrade

Learn how you can deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure with speed, simplicity, and savings. Enterprise collaboration initiatives such as blogs, wikis, and content management applications can be powerful ways to enhance productivity, increase innovation, and improve efficiency within your organization. But with budgets tight during the economic downturn, you have to do more with less.

With Sun ONS Enterprise 2.0 Solution for Oracle, you can:

• Deploy an Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure up to 75% faster than traditional approaches
• Improve communication and collaboration with simple delivery of social media like wikis, blogs, forums, and more
• Get breakaway performance and up to 83% reduction in servers compared to competition
• Save up to 75% in storage, and up to 60% lower real estate and 65% reduced electricity costs
• Up to 55% lower networking costs, and 90% fewer networking cables required
• Advanced, easy-to-use analytics remove bottlenecks and speed performance

In this webinar you will learn how Hadoop on Sun enables you to:

• Scale - Use Hadoop to store and process petabytes of data
• Performance - Maximize parallelism per node, and the results of tests varying the number of nodes
• Virtualization - Create multiple virtual nodes using Solaris Containers
• Reliability - Automatically maintains multiple copies of data and redeploys tasks based on failures
• Deployment options - Run in the "cloud" on Amazon EC2/3 services and in compute farms and high-performance computing (HPC) environments

Speed up application performance, simplify your datacenter and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open Network System for MySQL - integrating and optimizing compute technologies and featuring the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with new flash-ready options.

Join us for this web seminar in which we will cover the following topics:

• New features on Xeon 5500 processors that speed application performance
• Performance benchmarks and energy saving metrics
• How integrated flash technologies help eliminate I/O bottlenecks, and provide up to 65x faster response time
• Running Linux, Windows, VMware and Solaris environments
• Unique Solaris OS performance, power efficiency, reliability and virtualization advantages for running MySQL

At the beginning of database design, databases ran entire workloads on a single server. However, times changed and the need for scalability drove software development toward multiserver scaling. Database administrators can now scale MySQL databases using the same techniques — on an optimized platform that provides massive scaling, lower administrative costs, and datacenter space and energy efficiency. Database scalability and performance are essential to the success of many enterprise environments. While many companies prefer to scale solutions vertically, scaling within the system is difficult — if not impossible — on processors that are not optimized for throughput applications. As work continues on in-processor vertical scalability, the MySQL database community has scaled horizontally to gain increasing levels of database throughput to achieve optimum results. As an attendee at this technical eSeminar, you will learn how to: * Configure, optimize and massively scale MySQL databases; * Implement tips and tricks from the MySQL database community; * Take advantage of chip multithreading and the Solaris OS; * Analyze the testing and benchmarks that support the solution; * Lower administrative costs, improve datacenter space and energy efficiency; Sun's senior engineers will describe the testing that demonstrates single server MySQL database scalability utilizing a combination of intelligent database design, and multithreaded hardware design. Horizontal scaling using the ZFS filesystem, MySQL database sharding techniques, and chip multithreading (CMT) technologies allow for intraserver scaling. In the past, many physical servers were needed to achieve similar throughput results. The techniques used are well known throughout the MySQL database community. The small footprint, and power-efficient scaling methods used are key to understanding the value of intra-system MySQL database design.

Watch this SearchStorage mediacast to learn how you can use open storage and solid state disk (SSD) technology to reduce cost by up to 75%, increase performance and radically simplify the management dynamics of your storage infrastructure. You'll hear Raymond Austin, Group Marketing Manager for Open Storage Products at Sun Microsystems. You'll learn about the newest advances in open storage and SSD and find out about an innovative approach that combines these technologies to deliver:

• Unprecedented speed, scale and cost savings
• Radically simplified storage management
• Innovative new tools to help isolate and resolve issues to minimize impact to your business
• Freedom from vendor lock-in and soaring licensing fees

Virtualizing and scaling MySQL can provide substantial benefits when properly implmented. This session covers:

• MySQL Virtualization Options, Considerations, Recommendations
• Considerations for Scaling MySQL
• Test Results, Financial and Eco Impact

What is Sun's AMP solution? It is a collection of some of the most commonly used open source applications - Apache MySQL and PHP -- all optimized for the Solaris 10 OS. If you are committed to the open AMP stack or want to learn more watch this brief Webcast to find out how the Web applications you know and love can run on a more secure open-source platform and with greater scalability.

Rapid implementation of Web infrastructure is crucial to today's Web business needs. In this brief Net Talk we cover some of the expectations of next-generation Web applications and how Sun's suite of hardware software and services has been tailored to help you meet these expectations quickly and cost effectively.

Depending on your point of reference GlassFish is a community a project and an open source application server. What is it for you? Find out in this brief Webcast as Sun Distinguished Engineer Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart delves into the basics of GlassFish why it is important and how organizations are using GlassFish in their IT environments.