Solaris 10 10/09 is now available. See what's new in the Sun OS. Other new announcements: Sun Role Manager 5.0 and Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0. Also get some insight into the MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 release, and information on the Sun Datacenter Infiniband Switch 72 and JDK 7.

Find out more about shadow migration available in the Sun Storage 7000 2009.Q3 software release. Learn how to use the features of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System with VMware ESX Server.

If you have ever wondered about the validity of benchmark findings, take a look at a nine-year study reviewing file system and storage benchmarking. See results from a string searching benchmark on the Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers.

Best practices on tuning Sun Grid Engine software for extreme scalability are available in a Sun white paper.

Reduce downtime on updates of Solaris with Solaris Live Upgrade and Update Attach.

The Sun Oracle Database Machine (Exadata Version 2) is not the only solution from Sun and Oracle. There are at least three others.

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The European Union and Oracle met for negotiations over the company’s acquisition of Sun, as the Santa Clara, Calif. company filed with the SEC notification of upcoming job cuts.

Learn how to apply the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array as storage for database indexes to accelerate application performance in a Sun BluePrints and white paper.

Another recent white paper introduces the Cloud Data Management Interface as well as the Open Cloud Computing Interface and how to use the two for a cloud computing infrastructure.

IDC reports Sun earned the most in tape storage automation revenue for the first half of 2009. The latest features in version 8.0 of the Sun StorageTek Automated Cartridge Systems Library Software (ACSLS) are reported.

Questions regarding security and Logical Domains are answered.

Oracle VM 2.2 - server virtualization software - supports the Xen hypervisor and provides performance enhancements for Intel Xeon processor 5500 series as well as six-core AMD Opteron processors.

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Headlines abound from Oracle OpenWorld 2009. Of interest:

• Keynotes from Sun co-founder Scott McNealy and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison
• Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array
• Sun Storage 6180 Array
• Sun GlassFish Communications Server 2.0
• New world record TPC-C benchmark result with Oracle on Sun
• Oracle on Sun reach near-linear scalability on SAP SD benchmark

Former CEO of MySQL Marten Mickos appeals to European Union to approve Oracle's acquistion of Sun in a letter. Anyone running or considering running MySQL Server on VMware Infrastructure should read a best practices and performance guide.

VirtualBox 3.0.8 is a maintenance release with many performance and stability improvements.

Fujitsu joined Sun in announcing the new quad-core SPARC64 VII processors. Sun also is working closely with Verizon Wireless to help foster the recently launched Verizon Developer Community (VDC).

Did you know that latency does matter when there is a SAN between servers and storage?

SNIA has published a Work-in-Progress draft version of the Cloud Data Management Interface, defining the functional interface for applications.

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Proxy materials for Sun's 2009 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, set for December 17, are available for viewing online or via printed copy.

Learn how UltraSPARC IIIi/Solaris 8 users can protect existing investments while considering new architectures to ensure continuity of operations and support.

New 2.88GHz quad-core SPARC64 VII processor/memory boards are being offered on some Sun SPARC Enterprise servers. The Sun Partner Advantage Program also has new development hardware offerings.

An article series covers the use of OpenSSO WSS Agent for web services security. Recently, the most critical web application security vulnerabilities have been identified by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).

A three-part tutorial on setting up Solaris Zones within an instance of OpenSolaris 2009.06 in the Amazon Cloud EC2 is complete. Other article providing helpful tips include how to hotdesk with Sun Display Access Client and takeover and failback operations in the Sun Storage 7000 series.

Get more information on CalDAV, now supported in Sun Java Communications Suite 7, along with suggestions on installing the Sun software.

New features delivered by Oracle and Sun's Flash Cache technology improves database performance of the Sun Storage F5100.

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