Sun executives offer insight into Sun's current state of affairs with Jonathan Schwartz posting the first video blog in a series outlining Sun's business plan and Sun CFO Mike Lehman detailing the company's financial status in a 12-minute video presentation.

Also speaking out, Scott McNealy explains why open source is anything but "anti-capitalist."

Fortune ranks Sun 5th in the computer industry category of the 2009 \'World\'s Most Admired Companies\'.

Performance benchmarks find the Sun Storage 6780 Array edges over IBM DS 5300 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5440 Servers outperform HP Superdome.

This edition also has information on virtualization and Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series servers, a roadmap toward OpenSSO Enterprise 8.1, expected enhancements to Sun’s identity management offerings around SSO, and using multiple software instances to drive processors to capacity.

Don't forget to see this month's Good News from Sun.

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Sun's plans for its Open Cloud Platform were revealed during the company's CommunityOne East Developer Conference. Sun also announced this week carrier grade Linux has been ported to the UltraSPARC T2.

The Rock server is on schedule to be released this fall, confirms Sun EVP John Fowler.

Jonathan Schwartz tackles Commercial Innovation in his third video blog installment reviewing the company's three major strategic imperatives.

Learn how Sun servers equipped with SSDs improve HPC, Web 2.0, and data center application performance. Sun Flash Analyzer was added to the latest version of Sun StorageTek Workload Analysis Tool (Swat).

The integration of Sun Fire X4500 server and storage components, Greenplum database software, and Force10 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch/routers provides a complete super-capacity data warehouse solution.

The Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System scores high in a recent InfoWorld review.

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Technology adoption is the focus of Jonathan Schwartz's second video blog in his series detailing Sun's three major strategic imperatives.

Solid state drive (SSD) Flash technology is now part of Sun\'s x64 and chip multi-threaded (CMT) servers and blade systems. Fishworks Engineer Adam Leventhal discusses Sun's position on Flash.

2008 fourth quarter results for both the server and storage market are in.

Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos talks cloud computing, virtualization and green IT. Papadopoulos along with Dave Douglas and John Boutelle penned the upcoming Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. Rough cut version available to Sun employees.

Release updates covered include:

• Sun Identity Manager 8.1
• Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 2
• Sun GlassFish Communications Server 1.5
• Portal Pack 3.0
• 2008.11.20.2.0 update to the Sun Storage 7000 Software

Read paper presentation on hardware transactional memory of two pre-production revisions of the multicore "Rock" processor.

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Sun Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.0 is now available with a multitude of new features.

Jonathan Schwartz completes his video blog series explaining how Sun is efficiently connecting technology adoption and commercial opportunity.

The Sun Blade X6240 and Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 servers now offer Flash SSD technology as an option.

ILM Informatique recommends the Sun Storage 7110. Learn how the Sun Unified Storage System 7000 can help determine whether compression is helping or hurting a workload. The MySQL Guide for the 7000 storage systems is accessible online.

Customers taking advantage of Sun's innovations:

• Internet Archive migrates digital library to Sun MD
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University choose Sun Constellation systems to create one of the largest HPC environments
• Blue Sky Studios, Clemson University, Last.fm, Marteleron, Northern Arizona University, and Reliant Security select Sun Fire X64 servers to power deployments.
• OneDoc uses Sun Startup Essentials to realize a credible development and deployment environment

See how Sun's GUI-based virtual datacenter deployment tool works in News Bites that also offers information on SuperNAP datacenter, Project Wonderland, and more.

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