Sun will have a major "OpenStorage" launch on Monday November 10th. This issue includes the monthly good news from Sun marketing.

Sun and IBM launched ODF Toolkit Union to provide developers with an easy-to-use API for reading, writing and manipulating ODF documents.

Read about a white paper from Force10 Networks which provides guidance in designing consolidated, virtualized, and SOA-enabled data centers based on the ultra high port-density 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch/router products.

There are several performance related stories in this issue: 2-chip World Record SPECjbb2005, Top Multi-JVM Performance for 2-Socket AMD Opteron, and SPEC OMP2001 Sun Blade T6340 Server Module 2-Chip World Record.

Learn about Solaris 10 10/08 and how people take advantage of Solaris features: Minimizing Downtime in SAP Environments with Solaris 10 OS, Zebra, Zamboni, Zen and the art of ZFS.

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Jonathan Schwartz appears in a brief video to address some of the market concerns about Sun. Four Sun executives expanded on Jonathan's themes at the Sun Analyst Series (videos and slides are available on-line). Anyone who expresses an opinion on the future of Sun without familiarity of the content of the talk at the Analysts conference by Peter Ryan is simply unqualified to do so.

Jonathan also blogged last week and talked about Java, Microsoft and MySQL and how "it likely makes Microsoft one of Sun's largest customers." Sun had wins in HPC and with Wikimedia Foundation and released StarOffice 9.

There's more information about OpenStorage:

• Sun Storage 7000 Management Software Videos
• White Paper: Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems
• Presskit
• Success with OpenSolaris + ZFS + MySQL in Production

There is also news about GlassFish, MySQL, OpenSolaris, NetBeans, SPARC and enterprise servers.

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Sun announced its Open Storage Appliances, the Sun Storage 7000 Family and we have a lots of articles on that topic:

• Replay of Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Launch
• Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools With Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System
• Sun Microsystems Extends World\'s First Open Storage Platform
• An Economic Approach to Maximizing Data Availability - by Mike Shapiro
• Innovating@Sun Radio, Episode with Host Hal Stern
• Fishworks: Now it can be told

This week, Jonathan Schwartz's blog is called, "The dot.com Bubble? There Was a Bright Side."

Jonathan made some tough choices to, "align Sun's business with the global economic climate". Those choices include a re-org and a reduction of approximately 5,000 to 6,000 employees.

Sun and Intel talk about Virtualization for the Next-Generation Data Center with Intel Xeon processor 7400 series-based Sun Servers running Sun xVM Server and xVM Ops Center.

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See Peter Ryan's talk from the Sun Analyst Summit and learn why he is "optimistic and positive about the future". Read Jonathan's latest blog and learn about Sun's new Data Protection Services offering.

Eight presentations, 266 slides in total, from a November 2008 Solaris/Developer Days event have been posted online.

Learn more about OpenSolaris 11.08, ZFS compression, Enterprise Flash Technology, GlassFish Enterprise Server and Designing an Adaptive Security Architecture.

Read about the Highlights for Sun at Supercomputing 2008, The Complete Buyer’s Guide For Identity Management, and why it's not s easy to replace high-end UNIX with Linux.

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