Sun Studio 12 software is the subject of a few new videos: One SDN video features Don Kretsch, senior director of Developer Tools at Sun, who discusses Sun Studio 12's latest features, new compilers and its new point-and-click IDE, based on NetBeans 5.5.1. See article [18304].

Another video features Gordon Prieur, Sun staff engineer and project lead for Sun Studio IDE, who discusses some features and covers which platform is best for which developers. See [18321]. A quick-start tutorial is also available; see [18306].

Results from a single-threaded Postmark test marked the Solaris ZFS processing over 4,000 transactions per second more than Microsoft. During BenchW testing, Solaris ZFS demonstrated improvement over Microsoft in unindexed and indexed queries. For more details of these tests, see article [18307].

Want to minimize downtime associated with patching? See the white paper that explains setting up Solaris Live Upgrade [18279]. Another white paper this week focuses on installing the Greenplum database on Solaris 10 OS [18287].

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Ever wonder what happened after Sun and Microsoft agreed to get along? The on-demand net talk features the progress of that agreement [18356]. Sun successes with its software strategy are gathered all in one report; see article [18361].

Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is planning to use ZFS in their Lustre filesystem, which is very popular in HPC environments. [18355]

Randy Chalfant, (CTO Marketing, Sun Storage) asserts that 70% of disk space is wasted on average. Take a closer look [18355].

A Try & Buy success story reveals how the Sun Fire T2000 server improved performance of customer service applications at a public utility [18391].

There is an online tool to see how much in power and cooling savings can come your way with the use of a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server or M5000 server [18375]. And there is a blog that can help you assess your disk allocation [18355].

If you have time this summer for some training and are in Monrovia, CA, or planning a vacation with the family nearby, get some Java or Solaris training under your belt and get an iPod Nano; it can be a great gift if you already have one or can get you out of the dog house if someone important is mad at you [18364].

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Did you know that the "Security Target" part of the Common Criteria EAL4+ CC evaluation that IBM and Red Hat are getting tested will not test key features and will reduce the functions available to the user? That assertion comes from Jim Laurent; see article [18346] for a list of features and a comparison to Solaris Trusted Extensions.

The Security section this week also offers some podcast links [18333], SunSolve links regarding vulnerabilities in Solaris OS [18334] and more on Solaris Trusted Extensions [18347].

What elements in Solaris 10 OS make a secure server? See article [18352]. For more on servers we present some benchmarks: article [18308] compares the Sun Blade T6300 with the UltraSPARC T1 to IBM's p570. Another benchmark shows what the GlassFish v1 server can do - see [18354].

Newly available is the JDK 6 update 2 with JRE and more [18336]. Also in the Java section find a tutorial on JavaFX [18353].

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This week, learn more about LDOMs [18376], improving security with Containers [18387] and Migrating to Solaris 10 OS [18401]

Intel is now offering two carrier grade rack mount servers certified to run the Solaris 10 Operating System [18403].

If you are the admin for a Website that uses SSL or TLS, there is a service pack for the Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 (SP8) that contains important security enhancements and bug fixes (see article number [18405].

Benchmark results featured this week highlight the performance of the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 [ 18388]; the Sun Blade T6300 server module on a J2EE mulit-tier benchmark [18402]; and the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server [18390].

Get new hardware and storage software: A new 24.1 inch LCD monitor [18409]; power supply upgrade for Sun Fire servers [18414]; Sun StorageTek 4Gb FC Dual Port ExpressModule HBAs [18410]; Sun StorageTek 9900 HiCommand Protection Manager 4.4 Software packaged for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server [18406]; and Sun StorageTek 9900 Series HiCommand Device Manager 5.7 [18408].

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