System News posts items of interest for Sun users on a regular basis on the System News For Sun Users blog. Some of those items will become detailed articles in this newsletter. Here's a quick recap of posts for the last week:

Sun's Enterprise Class Data Storage Solutions Support New IBM System z10 Server

IBM System z10 server will now be supported by Sun's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) family of virtual tape, tape libraries, access and capacity tape drives, the Sun StorageTek 9990V and 9985V disk systems, and the Shared Virtual Array (SVA) family of Virtual Disk. Read more.

GlassFish & MySQL Software Bundle

Developers were expected to be able to download GlassFish V2 with the MySQL Community Server 5.0 (5.0.51a) and MySQL JDBC driver 5.1.6 in a software bundle beginning today. This open source bundle will be made available for all the major software platforms including Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Read more.

Sun Wins $44.29 Million DoD Research Contract

Sun will be heading a research project on microchip interconnectivity funded by the Department of Defense to the tune of $44.29 million. The 5 1/2 year project will begin with $8.1 million provided to Sun Microsystems’ Microelectronics and Laboratories divisions which will be focusing on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics and proximity communication. Read more.

HA xVM Agent Available for Download

The HA-xVM Server x86-64 webrev, agent and cheat sheet recently were released and are now accessible from the OpenSolaris Project Cluster Agent: OpenSolaris xVM's Website. Read more.

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