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  03 March, 2008 - 09 March, 2008 Issue 1
Weekly Summary:

Sun's revenue growth in total disk storage systems rose 16.1 percent in 2007's fourth quarter when compared to 2006, reports IDC [19597]. Sun's new Governance, Risk and Compliance strategy is expected to release new products and services over the next 12 months [19585].

Two key Python developers have join the Sun team [19577].

VMware Infrastructure product suite will now be available on Sun x64 servers with full support from Sun under an OEM agreement [19534]. Find out why Sun decided to resell virtualization technology [19555].

Virtualization's breakeven point [19483] is examined in the Sys Admin section that also covers five significant advantages virtualization brings to enterprises [19431].

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  17 March, 2008 - 23 March, 2008 Issue 3
Weekly Summary:

New solutions, products and open source releases covered in this week's edition include:

  • Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Software 2.0 [19631]
  • NetBeans 6.1 IDE Beta [19671]
  • SAM-QFS Code is Open Sourced [19678]
  • Filebench 1.1.1 [19580]
  • Sun Ray Unified IP Client [19672]
  • MySQL Products and Services Offerings [19640]
  • Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL Version 2.1 [19688]
  • Sun Management Center 4.0 Version 3 [19662]
  • Sun Streaming Software v1.10 [19641]
  • New Initiative for SMBs [19675]

Other articles of interest:

In the Software section, find out how to install VirtualBox on Solaris 10 OS [19649], learn more about Solaris and AMP [19589] and Jim Laurent suggests several tools that can help readers get started using DTrace [19595].

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  10 March, 2008 - 16 March, 2008 Issue 2
Weekly Summary:

The Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center officially opened this week along with the release of the Sun Infrastructure solution for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 [19643].

In other recent announcements, the company reportedly plans on introducing software and hardware to create virtual Windows and Linux PCs [19626], and UltraSPARC T2+ processors are set for official release this April [19604].

Recent Java news includes releases fixing critical security flaws [19605] and plans to build a JVM for Apple iPhone, iTouch [19628].

Learn more about the Sun StorageTek Crypto Key Management System 2.0 [19510] and how to implement governance, risk and compliance initiatives [19588].

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  24 March, 2008 - 30 March, 2008 Issue 4
Weekly Summary:

Sun announced this week that it will be working on a $44.29 million research contract for the DoD to develop supercomputers through interconnecting chips with light [19701].

Open source technologies are being recognized as ideal solutions by federal agencies. The U.S. Navy recently announced it will be acquiring only open source technologies and standards [19669]. Sun Federal is working to educate federal government decision makers about Sun's open source approach [19630].

Jonathan Schwartz also took some time to explain Sun's giveaway approach to business [19664].

Looking for ways to implement MySQL? See how to create web apps in 30 minutes [19647] and get a step-by-step approach to optimizing MySQL server on Sun x64 servers and storage [19670].

Also get some quick tips on setting up the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 2.0 [19685].

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