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IBM System z10 server will now be supported by Sun’s Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) family of virtual tape, tape libraries, access and capacity tape drives, the Sun StorageTek 9990V and 9985V disk systems, and the Shared Virtual Array (SVA) family of Virtual Disk.
The IBM System z10 server is the company’s newest generation mainframe. Sun already […]

Developers were expected to be able to download GlassFish V2 with the MySQL Community Server 5.0 (5.0.51a) and MySQL JDBC driver 5.1.6 in a software bundle beginning today. This open source bundle will be made available for all the major software platforms including Solaris, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
Other benefits Sun says users can […]

Sun will be heading a research project on microchip interconnectivity funded by the Department of Defense to the tune of $44.29 million. The 5 1/2 year project will begin with $8.1 million provided to Sun Microsystems’ Microelectronics and Laboratories divisions which will be focusing on microchip interconnectivity via on-chip optical networks enabled by Silicon photonics […]

The HA-xVM Server x86-64 webrev, agent and cheat sheet recently were released and are now accessible from the OpenSolaris Project Cluster Agent: OpenSolaris xVM’s Website.
The project’s aim is to provide a failover agent for OpenSolaris x86 Virtual Manager (xVM) guest domains as part of the open-source code base for Solaris Cluster, namely […]

QuickTransit for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on SPARC to Solaris on x86/64 systems has been released, allowing enterprise customers to immediately run many thousands of additional applications.
The Solaris Ready Logo certified solution gives customers, who have opted to deploy the Solaris OS on x86 hardware platforms from Sun, IBM, HP, Dell and others, […]

SAM-QFS code is now part of the OpenSolaris community. The current development source is available as a gzipp’d tarball.
According to the SAM-QFS blog, “some third party components were removed for legal reasons. Therefore, this first posting won’t build unless the missing third party components are added back or coded around. This is a temporary […]

Sun is making it easier, faster and more cost-effective for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to use technology to gain a competitive advantage through a new initiative designed to make buying Sun technology easy and affordable for this market.
Through alliances with Microsoft, Intel and AMD, Sun is able to deliver complete SMB solutions spanning servers, […]

Mitel Inc. and Sun will be releasing a joint solution that combines a Sun Ray thin client with a Mitel IP desk phone to be accessed via a Java-based smart card. The Sun Ray Unified IP Client is expected to ship in May at a cost of less than $500, reported Matt Hamblen with ComputerWorld.
Stephen […]

United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) will be working with Sun and the OpenSolaris community to develop security enhancements to complement the security benefits of the mandatory access controls provided by the Solaris Trusted Extensions feature. The plan is to integrate an additional form of mandatory access control (MAC), based on the Flux Advanced Security […]

Sun plans on building a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) for Apple iPhone and the iTouch with intentions of releasing the JVM after June, enabling Java applications to run on Apple’s popular mobile devices.
Eric Klein, vice president of Java marketing at Sun, said the JVM will be made available for free “as quickly as possible” after […]