OpenSSO Enterprise - Solaris 10 10/08 - Sun/Netapp Litigation - Good News from Sun - COMSTAR - Energy-Efficient Datacenters: The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) - Sun Ultra 24 - Podcast: HPC and Business Innovation - White Paper: System and Resource Management

Infinite Archive System (IAS) - pNFS - Parallel Network File System - A Lab on Your Laptop (VirtualBox) - OpenOffice.org 3.0 - Growing Green databases with Oracle on the UltraSPARC CMT processor

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The big news this week was the launch of the quad-socket SPARC Enterprise T5440 server. Sun supported its performance claims with a number of benchmarks: SAP-SD (4 socket), world record Siebel performance, world record SPECjAppServer2004 performance, and the SPEC OMPL2001 4-Chip World Record .

Allan Packer posted a detailed review of the various Sun blogs that cover various aspects of the T5440.

There is a new OpenSolaris newsletter and some insights as to why Solaris is so successful.

For storage news, see Ben Rockwood on Trends in the Storage Industry and Storage Tech Tips, Videos, and Resources for Sys Admins.

Other topics this week:

Sun Role Manager 4.1, Sun Web Stack, Computerworld revire of the X4150, Sun Netra Carrier-Grade Solutions, Sun OpenSSO Enterprise, More on Proximity Communications, Ruby.

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This week Sun launched the M3000, a single socket server, powered by a quad-core SPARC64 VII processor and Solaris 10. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers have scored a number of new wins.

Sun announced results for Q1 of FY09 and Jonathan Schwartz has posted a blog with his analysis of those results and the outlook for Sun.

The latest release of Solatis 10, ("update 6"), Solaris 10 10/08, is now available for download, as is the Sun Ray Software 4 10/08.

Enhancements to the Sun Blade 6000 line incude the Sun T6340 module, the Sun Blade 6000 Disk Module and the Sun Blade 6000 Multi-Fabric Network Express Module (NEM+).

In the storage section, we feature two excellent videos - Mike Shapiro on Open Storage and Andy Bechtolsheim on the Solid State Storage Revolution.

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OpenOffice.org Community Innovation Program Awards - Next Sun Launch Event: Oct 13 - BBC Backstage Interview with Jonathan Schwartz - VMware Workstation 6.5 vs. Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 - Sun and Open Source: The Payoff Is in View

Review: SPARC Enterprise T5140/T5240 and Virtualization - Sun Fire X4600 M2 Enhancements - Sun Blade X6450 Server Module with Intel Xeon 4-Core and 6-Core Processors - 6,000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007 - 20,000 Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange 2007 - LDOMS I/O Best Practices - Network Availability With Logical Domains

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Sun will be formally announcing its earning for FYQ1 on Thursday but has announced that it expects to post a loss and revenues of about $3B. Southeastern Asset Management has purchased additional shares of Sun to brings its ownership to to 21%.

Sun announced a Disk Blade two new server blades for the Sun Blade for the SB 6000 and an ATCA blade server, with two quad-core Xeon processors. The new T6340 server module, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, earned 4 new world performance records..

The new T5440 is discussed in several articles this week:

• Architecture of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440
• SPECjbb2005 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 World Record Multi-JVM 4-Chip
• Networking on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Test Shows 30+ Gps Possible

There's a major update to Java, Java SE 6 Update 10 , and a new podcast.

We have a couple of provocative articles this week: Is the Linux community afraid of Opensolaris? and Goodbye to Physical Fibre Channel .

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