News about Solaris and Sun Microsystems

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 Open Storage

Sun has been working to position OpenSolaris as a platform for building Open Storage systems. There are 30+ OpenSolaris storage projects with thousands of members. On April 29th, John Fowler hosted an event that more formally announced Sun’s positioning of Open Storage. Read more.

NetBeans 6.1 Released

Download the latest version of this free, open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for software developers. Release highlights... Read more.

Webcast: Sun Virtualization Technologies

Learn more about Sun virtualization technologies in a webcast with accompanying slide presentation by Hugo Rivero, senior staff engineer in the Partner group at Sun, who discusses problem issues in the data center and how virtualization can resolve many of today's challenges. Read more.

Ten DTrace Scripts Proven Helpful

Prefetch Technologies, a site of reference materials for open source utilities, has outlined what it views as the Top Ten DTrace Scripts. Read more.

Less Known Features of Solaris by Joerg Moellenkamp

Joerg has created an excellent series of tutorials on the "Less Known Features of Solaris". The most recent tutorials were on the topic, "Less known Solaris Features: Point-in-time copy with AVS"... Read more.

Sun Federal to Demo at DISA Partnership Conference

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference is set for May 5-8 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Sun Federal will be demonstrating some of the company's advanced technologies for desktop virtualization, security, identity management, etc. Read more.

Jonathan Schwartz Keynote at MySQL 04/21/08

Jonathan Schwartz gives a keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo called "What is Sun's Agenda" talking about open source, Sun and MySQL. Read more.

Rock’s Transactional Memory

Sun has posted a video of a presentation called, "Rock's Transactional Memory and How to Exploit It". (51:49) Bob Cypher and Mark Moir. It provides interesting insights into what Sun is doing... Read more.

Sun Modular Datacenter Enters Health Care Space

The Sun health care team in The Netherlands has established the first Sun Modular Datacenter S20 in the health care space. For insight on how this particular datacenter was actually built visit Joerg Schwarz's weblog that details the installation in a visual documentation. Read more.

Video Highlights Solaris 10 5/08 Features

The official download release of the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System (Solaris OS) was announced in mid-April, and the physical media kit's general availability set for release April 28. Now, more details on the version's new features and enhancements are available. Larry Wake, group manager of Solaris Software at Sun, reviews the updates. Read more.

Walkthrough to OpenSolaris 2008.05 RC2

Soon, there will be a binary distribution of OpenSolaris which is based on Project Indiana. Joerg Moellenkamp has a blog entry that delivers a brief walk through of OpenSolaris 2008.05 RC 2. Read more.

Sun News Radio on blogtalkradio.com

Russ Castronovo, (Director, Social and New Media, Sun Microsystems), has started a series of on-demand "radio" interviews on blogtalkradio.com. Here are the shows that Russ has produced in April... Read more.

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