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To: JC Jaros who wrote (37955)	11/17/2000 11:58:04 PM
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Sun's Full Moon Is Rising (http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20001117S0014) (11/17/00, 6:28 p.m. ET) By Paula Rooney, CRN Early next month, Sun Microsystems Inc. will deliver its long-awaited Full Moon clustering technology and Sun Management Center 3.0, sources say. On Dec. 5, Sun (stock: SUNW) officials plan to launch a new concept in clustering that extends the current scalability and reliability benefits to management capabilities. Sources say Sun's marketing push for the new platform, developed as part of the Genesys project at the company, is that "customers want to manage the service, not servers." One executive at Sun, Palo Alto, Calif., told CRN in a recent interview that the new clustering and management platform is an infrastructure that will deliver services over the Internet to both customers and ASPs. "With Full Moon, customers can couple multiple Solaris images across multiple systems and have cooperation among these resources. It's a radical departure in the Unix clustering space," said Andy Ingram, vice president of marketing for Sun's Solaris. "We've made a big investment in Sun remote services so we can provide an infrastructure between us and the customer, so we can do clustering and hot patching. The infrastructure will also let you do a kernel patch online," he said. The next generation of clustering -- a clustered file system -- lets Solaris integrate multiple systems together in a tightly coupled single system, Sun officials added. This vastly increases the scalability and failover benefits of the technology. The Full Moon clustering technology and management center are designed for Sun's recently released Solaris 8 operating system and forthcoming UltraSparc III-based servers. Sun's Enterprise 10000 server, which is currently based on the UltraSparc II architecture, is a leading Unix platform for Internet servers. The Full Moon technology was first unveiled in 1997.