The Sun Storage and Server Groups are merging under a new Systems Team headed by John Fowler. See what this means for each of these groups and for Sun [18724]. Find out which of this year's company milestones Jonathan Schwartz believes are central to Sun's future success [18723].

Get 66 GFLOPS of Sustained Double Precision Matrix Multiply (DGEMM) with ClearSpeed's Advance Accelerator boards, now on Sun's price list [18704].

VERITAS NetBackup 6.5 [18716] is supported on Solaris 10 on Operton-based servers such as the Sun Fire x4600.

Win4Solaris [18691] allows Solaris x86 users to run Windows and Windows apps. The Performance Tools CD 3.0 [18654]is available as a direct download to Solaris

Users of Solaris 8, 9 and 10 OS can use the Sun Connection Update Manager to get the latest updates and patches [18681].

Sun's Chief Operating Platforms Officer gives tantalizing tidbits on Project Indiana [18677]. Learn more about OpenSolaris support for xVM on x86 and x64 systems [18675] and the Zone Manager project [18670].

Take a look at the Sun StorEdge 6920 system's best practices guide to achieve optimal configurations for your specific environment [18697].

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The UltraSPARC T2 servers are breaking all kinds of records. Take a look at the benchmark results on Lotus Domino R6iNotes [18822], SPEComp [18784] and SPECjbb2005 [18783].

Sun's Customer Satisfaction Index earned the company a spot in the top 20 percent of technology support organizations and certification from J.D. Power and Associates [18838].

Sun has outlined its commitment to Lustre and its community, vowing continued support of it as an open source technology and on Linux [18800]. The company also has committed to its channel business, setting a $7 billion goal by 2010 [18755].

John Fowler talks about the newly merged server and storage divisions as well as Niagara 2 [18797], while Andy Bechtolsheim talks about the value of design in a commodities market [18787].

Storage releases include the Sun StorageTek 9985V [18806], additional parts for NetBackup 6.5 [18804], half height drives for Sun StorageTek SL24 and SL48 [18813] and a free download of the latest version of Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager [18830]. Also read about Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Coverston's project on "intelligent storage." [18700]

Another free download is Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.1 [18824], and find out more about the open source projects Lively Kernel [18775] and jVoiceBridge [18739].

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Just released this week:

• The Sun xVM Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 1.0 that allows users to access Windows, UNIX or Linux running in a VM in the datacenter from nearly any type of client device. [18868]
• OpenSolaris Developer Preview (Project Indiana) - the binary distribution of OpenSolaris [18881]
• Sun Message Security Solution for Brightmail Software for Sun Fire T2000 and Sun Fire T5120 Servers [18805]
• Sun StorageTek IBM LTO4 SCSI for SL500 & L180-700-1400 Tape Libraries [18809].

The product roadmap for storage [18854] and open source [18835] solutions were each recently discussed. James Gosling also shared his view on the present and future of open source [18863], while Scott McNealy discussed the advantages of open sourcing technology [18907].

NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2 is ready for download and is now dual-licensed under both GPL2 and CDDL. [18908]. Learn more about FileBench in OpenSolaris [18761] and the new OpenSolaris self-service testing application [18879].

Guess which OS has a lower cost of ownership - Solaris or RHEL? Find out who and why [18878].

Solaris Live Upgrade is the recommended tool to use for upgrading and patching. Discover how it works [18887] as well as the Sun Installation Assistant which easily installs Linux and Windows on Sun x64 servers [18864].

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Now on the market are Sun's second generation of Niagara systems - the UltraSPARC T2-based T5120/T5220 servers and Sun Blade T6320 [18776]. For a detailed system overview of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, see [18798].

Sun also previewed its new virtualization platform, the Sun xVM Infrastructure that consists of the Sun xVM Server and Sun xVM Ops Center, designed for virtualizing and managing the data center [18756]. Find out why together the new Niagara 2 servers and Sun xVM are the "ultimate virtualization combo." [18786]

A two-part profile on Jonathan Schwartz could answer the question of just who that guy with the ponytail is [18765].

Security covers the X font vulnerabilities in the Solaris OS [18781] and the Java SE's fixes and new security response features [18694]. Also find out how laptop security issues can be solved with the Sun Ray thin client [18730].

The latest developments in Project Sun SPOT include SPOTWorld and emulated Sun SPOTs [18741]. The OpenDS Project is two years old. Find out what it's all about and where it's going [18726].

A new release of the Sun ODF plugin for Microsoft Office, version 1.1, is ready for download [18743].

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Sun Ultra 24 Workstation, a single socket (dual or quad core) workstation powered by Intel processors, are now available. Dual core configurations start at $995, with quad core starting at about $1,445 [18869].

Also just released is Solaris 8 Migration Assistant (Project Etude) [18803].

The Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) has recorded two world record price/performance results on the TPC-H benchmark [18823] and the SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers continue to reign in record setting, now beating all other single-chip results published on SPEC CPU2006 [18820]. The UltraSPARC T2 also blew away the competition on the RSA/AES Cryptography Benchmark [18821]. Get a technical perspective on the T2 processor and Solaris OS [18782].

Find out the latest on Scott McNealy since he moved upstairs to the chairman's suite [18840].

Sun recently reviewed its roadmap for JavaFX, Java SE and the still viable Java ME [18847].

In Sun Java System, learn how to deploy the Directory Server as a naming service [18793], install App Server 9.1 in Solaris Zones [18829] and deploy Access Manager 7.1 in less than 10 minutes [18770]. Recovery techniques [18849] and log file rotation strategies [18850] for the Messaging Server also are included.

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