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Sun has been working to position OpenSolaris as a platform for building Open Storage systems. There are 30+ OpenSolaris storage projects with thousands of members.
On April 29th John Fowler hosted an event that more formally announced Sun’s positioning of Open Storage:

Download the latest version of this free, open-source Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for software developers. Release highlights:

Advance JavaScript Editing Support
Improved Performance (Up to 40% faster startup)
Built in Spring Framework Support
Integrated Support for RESTful Web Service Support
New MySQL Support in Database Explorer
Significant Ruby/JRuby Support Enhancements

For more specific information about NetBeans IDE 6.1, see its Release Page, […]

Learn more about Sun virtualization technologies in a webcast with accompanying slide presentation by Hugo Rivero, senior staff engineer in the Partner group at Sun, who discusses problem issues in the data center and how virtualization can resolve many of today’s challenges.
The general problem facing what is termed the traditional data center is that they […]

Prefetch Technologies, a site of reference materials for open source utilities, has outlined what it views as the Top Ten DTrace Scripts:
Number 10: Print Utilization statistics per process
Number 9: File System Flush Activity
Number 8: Seek Sizes
Number 7: Print Overall Paging Activity
Number 6: Getting System Wide errno Information
Number 5: I/O per process
Number 4: I/O Sizes Per […]

Joerg has created an excellent series of tutorials on the “Less Known Features of Solaris“.  The most recent tutorials were on the topic, “Less known Solaris Features: Point-in-time copy with AVS”:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Basics
Part 3: Independent copy
Part 4: Dependent copy
Part 5: Compact dependent copy
Part 6: Preparation of the test environment
Part 7: Starting a […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Partnership Conference is set for May 5-8 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. Sun Federal will be demonstrating some of the company’s advanced technologies for desktop virtualization, security, identity management, etc. at booth 331. Partners expected to join Sun at the booth are Mitel,
BlueSpace and Dynamic […]

04/21/08
Jonathan Schwartz gives a keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo called “What is Sun’s Agenda” talking about open source, Sun and MySQL.

Sun has posted a video of a presentation called, “Rock’s Transactional Memory and How to Exploit It“. (51:49) Bob Cypher and Mark Moir. It provides interesting insights into what Sun is doing:

Chip Multi-threading
Multi-Core chips
Instruction Level Parallelism
Rock’s Hardware Scout
Locks
Transactional Memory (TM)
Rock’s Hardware for TM (HTM)
Best effort HTM
Simulation of Rock’s HTM
Performance improvements anticipated with hardware transactional memory

The Sun health care team in The Netherlands has established the first Sun Modular Datacenter S20 in the health care space. For insight on how this particular datacenter was  actually built visit Joerg Schwarz’s weblog that details the installation in a visual documentation.

The official download release of the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System (Solaris OS) was announced in mid-April, and the physical media kit’s general availability set for release April 28. Now, more details on the version’s new features and enhancements are available.
Larry Wake, group manager of Solaris Software at Sun, reviews the updates […]