On July 9, Sun will be announcing new Open Storage products (no more details available).

On August 1, 2008, Sun will report its fourth quarter fiscal year 2008 financial results at 5:00 a.m. PT / 8:00 a.m. ET.

There is an update this week on the litigation between Sun and NetApp on ZFS.

Gartner issued a positive report on Sun Microsystems.

A new GlassFish and MySQL offering, which starts at $65k/year, can save some customers as much as $1m/year.

Intel and Sun announced, with Reuters Market Data System 6.0.3 (RMDS), a benchmark of a million+ messages per second at a record-breaking low latency on a gigabit Ethernet link.

Adam Leventhal, asks in an important ACM article, "Can Flash Memory Become the Foundation for a New Tier in the Storage Hierarchy?".

Two articles summarize new content in the OpenSolaris and BigAdmin sites.

Sun's modular approach to datacenter design and an updated BluePrint.

In this week's HPC section, learn about Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage and Sun's Linux HPC software stack.

There's an article on migrating Solaris 8 and 9 systems to Solaris 10 Containers and a story from Dennis Clarke on his experience at Blastwave of such a migration.

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Sun has enhanced the "M series servers" - the Sun Enterprise M4000. M500, M8000 and M9000 with quad-core SPARC64 VII 2.52 GHz CPUs.

Now available with quad core AMD CPUs - Sun Blade x8440, Sun Fire X4100, and X4200, M2 rack server. The four-socket Sun Blade X6450 with quad-core Intel Xeon 7000 series supports up to 192 GB.

Learn more about Sun's new JBODs and Open Storage.

Sun is looking to Photonics to Optimize Interconnects in future systems. ADM is an OpenSolaris project to add SAM-QFS like functionality to ZFS.

See what's new at Blastwave and Bigadmin.

In HPC section, learn about the deployment of the TACC Ranger system and the OpenSolaris Cryptographic framework.

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Sun announced final results for fiscal year 2008. Sun marketing has Good News to share.

Use Wine to run Windows adds under on Solaris/x86.

Check out the preview release of JavaFX.

Learn more about the enhanced M Series servers with a NetTalk with Tom Atwood and a white paper on Availability.

In the HPC section, see and hear about the Lustre Roadmap and storage solutions for HPC.

In Storage, learn how tape fits into a D2D2T environment in a Clipper white paper and how HDS storage systems can be best used with Oracle 10g ASM.

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This week Sun made several additions to its storage portfolio with the J4000 storage family, SAS controller and an enhanced "thumper", the Sun Fire x4540. Customers are testing the waters of Open Storage with some success.

Learn about possible futures for collaborative work environments - Project Wonderland.

Ashlee Vance claims to have a scoop on the next generation of Niagara 3 chips.

Sun xVM Chief Architect Mike Wookey talks about the evolution of virtualization at Sun in an interview with virtual Strategy Magazine.

Chris Wood, Sun's CTO for Data Storage Management Practice, shares some ideas about the role of tape in current enterprise settings. The T9840D tape drive [] provides great backwards compatibility. The new Sun StorageTek 1U Autoloader with LTO3 and LTO 4 provides 12.8TB of capacity in a small form factor.

Sun has announced a Dual 4Gb FC Dual GbE ExpressModule HBA for the Sun Blade 6000 and 8000 servers and 8 Gb/s FC switches

Read more about Glassfish and reducing TCO with Open Source applications.

Vote for you favorite Open Source Project.

The Sun Fire x4600 now scales to 32 cores and 256 GB of memory with 8 quad-core AMD CPUs.

Other topics this week: MySQL books[20246] [20247], OpenSolaris on Amazon S3, Hands-on ZFS, NetBeans IDE.

For HPC news, learn about HPC and NASA and Sun's European HPC efforts.

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Sun announced preliminary results for its fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2008. Full results will be announced on Friday August 1st.

The Sun Enterprise M9000, powered by the new quad-core 2.52GHz SPARC64 VII processors delivered 2.023 TFLOPS on the Linpack HPC benchmark.

Sun has been choose to provide the technology platform to NBC Universal for its web site during coverage of the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Sun is offering an Enterprise LAMP Stack for Solaris and Linux.

StarOffice 9 Beta is available.

New white papers: Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, AND M9000 Server Architecture: Flexible, Mainframe-Class Compute Power and System and Resource Management

Learn about OpenSolaris and NUMA architecture in a video and about a white paper from Sun: - Pathways to Open Scale Computing.

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