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		<title>Why you should avoid placing SSDs in traditional Arrays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun blogger Anatol Studler makes that case in a  recent blog  that you should avoid placing SSDs in traditional arrays.
A traditional array has a controller with a certain fixed amount of compute power and I/O capability. Placing fast SSDs into an array designed for traditional disks is,  &#8220;is quite surprising to me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/09/04/why-you-should-avoid-placing-ssds-in-traditional-arrays/</link>
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		<title>White Paper: Sun Fire X4150, X4250, and X4450 Server Architecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology - White Paper - August 2008      

The Sun white paper &#8220;Sun Fire X4150, X4250 and X4450 Server Architecture: Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology&#8221; explains how Sun, in response to the increasing pressure being applied to IT departments to deliver new services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-sun-fire-x4150-x4250-and-x4450-server-architecture/</link>
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		<title>Sun Tech Days: A Worldwide Developer Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tentative 2008-2009 Schedule

The 2008-2009 Sun Tech Days World Tour will kick off in September in São Paulo, Brazil. The Tech Days Tour will bring educational opportunities to 13 cities. It&#8217;s an opportunity for those who develop in Java, Scripting, MySQL, on OpenSolaris, with NetBeans or RIA&#8217;s. This conference features expert speakers and will provide opportunities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/sun-tech-days-a-worldwide-developer-conference/</link>
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		<title>White Paper: MySQL Enterprise Monitor: Technical Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Tool for Proactive Management of MySQL Database Environments

The 32-page white paper MySQL Enterprise Monitor: A Technical Overview provides a comprehensive functional and technical overview of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the distributed, web-based application that is used to service the comprehensive feature set. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor proactively monitors enterprise MySQL database environments and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-mysql-enterprise-monitor-technical-overview/</link>
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		<title>White Paper: MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for Developers and DBAs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Versatile Tool for Creating and Modifying Corporate Databases


The 14-page White Paper, &#8216;MySQL Workbench: A Data Modeling Guide for Developers and DBAs&#8216;, looks at the various types of data modern businesses need to manage, examines the reasons why a model-driven approach to data management is necessary, and outlines the benefits such an approach provides. It also [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/white-paper-mysql-workbench-a-data-modeling-guide-for-developers-and-dbas/</link>
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		<title>Rock: A SPARC CMT Processor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sun&#8217;s Shailender Chaudhry delivered a presentation at the August 2000 &#8220;Hot Chips&#8221; conference. Slides from the talk, &#8220;Rock: A third Generation 65nm, 16-Core, 32 Thread + 32 Scout-Threads CMT SPARC Processor&#8221; are  available on-line in PDF format.
&#8220;The goals for this high-end commercial microprocessor are high throughput and high single-thread performance, mainframe-class reliability, hardware transactional [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/31/rock-a-sparc-cmt-processor/</link>
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		<title>Eco Innovation in the Datacenter: A Slide Deck by Angis MacDonald</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Angus MacDonald, chief technologist for Sun Microsystems, Australasia, has put together a slide presentation that he calls &#8220;The Future of the Eco-Datacenter,&#8221; which investigates the increasingly pressing conjunction of ecology and economy as it affects the datacenter. He talks about the tension between demand and capacity and ways around these conflicts, such as increasing utilization, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/28/eco-innovation-in-the-datacenter-a-slide-deck-by-angis-macdonald/</link>
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		<title>Fujitsu readies eight-core SPARC64 chip - (Code name Venus)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fujitsu&#8217;s Takumi Maruyama delivered a presentation on Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference in Palo Alto, Calif. According to a report in Computerworld, at the end of that presentation there was a brief discussion of a future eight-core version of the quad-core SPARC64 VII. The eight core chip has a code name of &#8220;Venus&#8221;.  Sun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/28/fujitsu-readies-eight-core-sparc64-chip-venus/</link>
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		<title>Chill-Off! SVLG Data Center Energy Summit: Modular Datacenter Cooling Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Demo Project Tests Datacenter Cooling Technology of 7 Vendors
Dean Nelson blogs about the results of a demonstration project on comparing cooling products for datacenters, the results of which were presented in May 2008 at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Nelson identifies the participants in the demo, who were:

 Liebert
 XD
 APC
 InRow
 Rittal LCP+
 IBM/Vette Cool [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/08/05/chill-off-svlg-data-center-energy-summit-modular-datacenter-cooling-systems/</link>
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		<title>Sun Configuration Diagram Templates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated Sun Configuration Diagram Templates are available. Recent changes include:

2008-06-12 Added T5240.
2007-12-10 Added T5120 &#38; T5220
2008-05-20 Added X4450
2008-01-11 Added X8420 Blade. Added SB8000P
2008-01-23 Added M8000 Slice Config.
2007-09-12 M8000 &#38; M9000 added.
2007-08-12 M4000 &#38; M5000 added.
2008-05-30 Added J4500, Updated SL500
2008-05-21 Added SL3000 Tape Library

More Information
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		<link>http://blogs.systemnews.com/2008/07/27/sun-configuration-diagram-templates/</link>
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