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Alternative to OpenSolaris released

A new alternative to OpenSolaris has been launched
Oracle releases Solaris 9/10 update with virtualisation enhancements

Solaris gets enhancements to virtualisation capabilities, performance, security, and scalability.
Oracle details Sparc road map

Oracle has sketched out a five-year road map for Sun's Sparc-based servers, hoping to reassure customers about the future of the platform and reverse a pattern of declining sales.
Sun, Fujitsu speed up Sparc server

Sun and Fujitsu upgraded their Sparc Enterprise M3000 server, equipping it with newer hardware to deliver faster performance, the companies said on Tuesday.
Sun set to reveal 'commercial' Open Solaris

Open Solaris is now enterprise ready according to a Sun executive. The latest version of the open source operating system will include support for the Sparc processor and a new type of support contract, making it closer to the commercial version of Solaris.
Sun updates Solaris with Nehalem

In the last major release before its acquisition by Oracle, Sun Microsystems made available version 10 05/09 of its venerable Solaris server operating system.
3Tera adds Windows support to cloud platform

3Tera has added Windows support to its cloud-computing platform AppLogic. The latest version of the software, 2.4, will be the first commercial release that supports Windows, said 3Tera CEO Barry Lynn
Fujitsu strikes with 8-core Sparc64 chip

Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, boosting the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems.
Sun and Fujitsu ramp up Sparc server performance

Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Computer Systems have updated their jointly developed family of Sparc Enterprise Servers with a new quad-core processor.
Sun shines first rays on OpenSolaris

Sun and the OpenSolaris community have jointly launched the first official version of the open-source OpenSolaris operating system.

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Storage in the cloud

Clusters of mega-data centres using millions of servers and disk drives do not use traditional SAN, NAS and DAS storage. Instead intelligent file systems and fail-safe storage hardware is being developed to store petabytes of data safely.
Sun server/storage exec: Virtualisation has customers confused

Sun's servers and storage chief says users are confused about vitrtualisation but more is coming. Sun is focussing on more energy-efficient products and bringing out new disk-based storage products.
The next best thing to OS X

It is no small source of consternation to those of us who have grown attached to OS X that systems that would run it best - primarily, those with processors created by AMD - will never do so unless Intel fails to deliver on some promise made to Steve Jobs.
Virtualisation: the next big mess?

Virtualisation offers immense opportunities for cost savings -- with proper up-front analysis and planning. However, few have considered the potential pitfalls of large scale adoption.
Sun bites back at Novell

Sun's Solaris group manager Larry Wake provides a comprehensive rebuttal of points against Solaris made by Novell's Adrian Keward
VMware reveals new product features

We unearth the feature set from the next version of Workstation, aimed at test and development environments, more about ACE 2.0, and heard about the future of virtualisation.
Sun's Thumper - the anti-consolidation...

Are Thumper's benefits worth fragmenting a consistent traditional enterprise infrastructure architecture which separates server and storage?
ZFS - the future of file systems?

Sun's ZFS has some startling differences from current file systems. The business case for it as opposed to the engineering smarts behind it is less clear.
Fabric 7: Servers of a different cloth

There's a new kid on the block with servers specialising in high speed interconnects - and it aims to upset IBM, HP and Sun.
Q&A: Sun's open source strategy

Sun's Simon Phipps talked about Sun's upcoming open source strategy and about what he called the incorrect view that Sun isn't fully committed to open source software.

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