Flash solid state disks (SSD) will be integrated in Sun storage systems and servers with products hitting the market during the second half of 2008. Sun also announced this week the creation of an Emerging Market sales territory with leadership and organizational updates.

Sun technology goes head-to-head in the following comparisons:

• Sun Fire X4150 vs. Dell 2950
• Sun Fire X4440 vs. HP DL585 G5 and IBM p570
• xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2
• Solaris OS vs. Linux

Find out what Virtual Federation is, as well as Fedlets, and their relationship to the Sun Federated Access Manager.

Sun's Ian Murdock shares his views on the monetizing of open source software.

In Partner news, Themis is building a blade server based on Sun's UltraSPARC T2 processors. Greenplum Database on the Sun Data Warehouse Appliance have helped Reliance Communications shrink its turnaround time by 80 percent. Learn more about SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Accelerator on Sun.

Also see Partner articles on Greenplum (data warehouse appliances) and Actuate (information management, performance management, and reporting).

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High Performance Computing (HPC) headlines this week's edition.

Sun's showing at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2008 produced new HPC solutions, including the Sun Blade X6450 Server Module and Sun Datacenter Switch 3x24, among others.

The HPC section offers links to two webcasts on Sun ISC presentations: Delivering HPC Innovation and Open Storage. A separate Sun webcast covers Solaris HPC Developer Tools. Read why Sun HPC infrastructure was selected by the High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory and learn more about the open sourcing of Sun Cluster core.

MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition 6.3 was announced this week. Learn more about backing up and restoring MySQL databases in a Developer article. Plus, the second edition of MySQL in a Nutshell is now available.

Get tips on upgrading to Logical Domains (LDoms) 1.0.3 and where to find the API specification for LDoms and the UltraSPARC Hypervisor.

A BluePrint and Sun Doc on Sun xVM Hypervisor also are discussed this week.

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Jonathan Schwartz is quite excited about Sun solid state disks (SSD). Find out why he believes Flash, ZFS and Sun\'s system innovation will revolutionize datacenters.

The IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Tracker for the first quarter of 2008 shows Sun outgrew the total disk storage systems market in revenue. Learn more about open storage adoption in a Sun white paper and how Sun\'s open storage solutions are challenging the competition.

Reviews on OpenSolaris 2008.05 from a Solaris Administrator and ArsTechnica identify its strengths and weaknesses. Tech tips for the OS explain how to install Sun Studio or GNU developer tools and create a USB rescue stick for it and Linux.

Recent releases in the Sun Java product family:

• CAPS 6
• Identity Manager 8
• Portal Server 7.2.

Sun CoolThreads servers received excellence awards from eWeek and ServerWatch.

Also see Partner articles on ASG-Mobius (enterprise archiving and records management) and Creative Healthcare (affordable and robust health information systems).

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This week's news covers the selection of Sun's high performance computing technologies to support the Center for Computer Applications in Aerospace Science and Engineering (C²A²S²E) and Sao Paulo University's Computer Capacity Integration (GridUNESP) compute cluster.

Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 Early Access 2 is now available for download.

Sun also has released a statement of support for middleware products on a variety of system virtualization technologies

Other articles covering virtualization: Sun CTO Mike Wookey on xVM and virtualization, using virtualization to improve scalability and system performance and AnandTech's review of Sun Fire X4450 server claims it is one of a few truly readied for virtualization.

Learn more about the Sun Fire X4450 and its wattage consumption along with new configuration releases for the Sun Fire X4150 and X2200.

The COmmon Multiprotocol SCSI TARget, also known as COMSTAR is detailed in OpenSolaris as is a video series on optimizing the OS and the Intel Xeon processors.

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