From fork-admin@xent.com Fri Sep 20 16:15:31 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 901F216F03 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:15:30 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:15:30 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8KE7pC08317 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:07:52 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D8602940C3; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:04:06 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2B829409C for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from endeavors.com ([66.126.120.174]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H2Q004RHPVH35@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for fork@xent.com; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Alan Bolcer Subject: Sun To: FoRK Reply-To: gbolcer@endeavors.com Message-Id: <3D8B2931.B8321588@endeavors.com> Organization: Endeavors Technology, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; IRIX 6.5 IP32) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en, pdf Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 06:57:05 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NOSPAM_INC,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_XM, X_ACCEPT_LANG version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: Well, it looks like Sun are going ahead with their ubiquitous computing plans without Mithril. Greg Reuters Market News Sun Micro Outlines Roadmap for Managing Networks Friday September 20, 5:00 am ET By Peter Henderson SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc. on Thursday said it would create in a few years a network environment that will be as straightforward to handle as a single machine, a strategy it calls N1. It laid out a road map for a new layer of intelligent software and systems that will meld unwieldy networks into easy-to-use systems, a goal similar to those of most rivals making computers which manage networks. EMC Corp. announced this week software aimed at allowing users to manage storage resources as a pool. Hewlett-Packard Co has a Utility Data Center, designed for broader management. International Business Machines Corp's project eLiza is working to make computers "self-healing" when systems break. "Applications still have to run zeroes and ones on some computing engine but the whole idea behind N1 is you stop thinking about that. You don't think about what box it is running on," Sun Vice President Steve MacKay, head of the N1 program, said in an interview on the sidelines of a Sun user conference. Many industry executives see computer power eventually being sold like power or water, as a utility that can be turned on or off, in whatever volume one wants whenever needed. For that to happen computers must be tied together seamlessly, rather than cobbling them together with tenuous links, as most networks do today, experts say. There are still major barriers, though, such as communications standards for machines from different vendors to interoperate closely. Sun promised to deliver a "virtualization engine" that would let administrators look at their entire network as a pool by the end of the year. Network administrators today often have no automatic system to report what is in the network. "It'll tell you what you have and how it is laid out," promised MacKay The second stage, beginning in 2003, would allow users to identify a service, such as online banking, and allocate resources for them with a few clicks, Sun said. Finally, in 2004, Sun's software should allow networks to change uses of resources on the fly in response to changing needs, such as a bank assuring quicker online response time for priority users, the company said.