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  02 February, 2009 - 08 February, 2009 Issue 1
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See Sun executives present at the quarterly Sun Analyst Summit and read the Good News from Sun Marketing.

Sun has expanded its storage lineup with the Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 Modular Arrays.

SAM-FS can be used to provides backup and Business Continuity in one package.

Learn about running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Sun x64 Rack Servers and Blades.

Read eWeek's take on OpenSolaris 2008.11 taking aim at Linux. Solaris 10 5/08 has passed the Common Criteria Process and there is a new release of Solaris Cluster 3.2 -- Version 3.2 1/09.

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  16 February, 2009 - 22 February, 2009 Issue 3
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Sun shipped its 100,000,000th JavaFX runtime making it the fastest growing RIA platform, Sun says. Schwartz comments on the milestone and marketplace. Find out more about how the competition for space in the RIA arena is heating up with the release of JavaFX.

The first open source storage encryption key management protocol has been released by Sun. Read an examination of the open source storage market.

Get guidelines for optimizing the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems for Oracle databases, and learn how to run SysBench for Oracle benchmarks.

Sun Distinguished Engineer Harriet Coverston presents "Sun QFS and Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM)" in an on-demand webinar.

Organizations creating applications on and for Sun's line of Linux servers and clusters can now easily troubleshoot a variety of common issues by using the ReplayEngine product from TotalView Technologies.

Members of LinuxQuestions.org have named VirtualBox and MySQL as their favorites for virtualization and databases.

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  09 February, 2009 - 15 February, 2009 Issue 2
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Barclays Global Investors now owns 3.18% of Sun which, according to is trying to Matt Asay, is intent on visiting the same strategy on its competitors in the storage market sector as was applied to Sun's server business.

Learn how Allinea Software offers leading-edge development tools for Multicore, HPC and large-scale parallel computing.

According testing for VDI performance and scalability, the Sun Fire X4450 can support 120 virtual machines and the Sun Fire X4600 M2 over 160.

Jonathan Schwartz told NetworkWorld that he sees opportunity in the current economic downturn and believes that Sun is well positioned to meet customers' needs in this market.

Learn about Sun Microsystems Federal Solutions from Mark Perkins, CTO of Sun Microsystems Federal.

Read a blueprint that describes the best practices for running Oracle in Solaris containers.

Discover how the Force10 P-Series 10 Gigabit Ethernet IP Services Platform and the Sun Netra Server are the ideal combination when considering how to deliver IP Services.

This week Sun also announced the Sun GlassFish Portfolio and JavaFX Mobile.

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  23 February, 2009 - 01 March, 2009 Issue 4
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Sun and HP have expanded their OEM and support agreement making Sun a strategic HP ProLiant OS distribution partner with Solaris part of the key operating environments for the HP ProLiant platform.

Get up to 50% performance gains on the new MD Nastran port on Solaris.

Did you know you can consolidate up to 128 servers on one Sun CoolThreads system using Sun\'s Logical Domains (LDoms) or that ZFS is a great tool to protect your data against data rot and ultimately data loss?

If you missed the second OpenSolaris Storage Summit, you can still watch video stream replays of the presentations, including Mike Shapiro's talk that offered a road map for the next year or so on Sun's Open Storage solutions.

Mobile platforms covered in this edition include articles on JavaFX Mobile (a Sun Developer article and an interview with Sun Client Software VP Jeet Kaul) and GlassFish Mobility Platform 1.1.

Learn more about the Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3 software by taking a look at a blog series that explores multiple facets of the open source virtualization software.

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