 "Oracle Outlines Release Of Oracle Solaris")
Oracle has announced to increase its investment in the Oracle Solaris operating system and is preparing for the planned availability of Oracle Solaris 11 in 2011 by releasing Solaris 11 Express, to provide customers with access to the latest Solaris 11 technology.
“Oracle Solaris is the number 1 enterprise operating system and customers everywhere know that if their systems must run, they run Solaris. Solaris 10 set the bar for operating system reliability, scalability, and security, and Oracle Solaris 11 is now raising that bar by increasing system availability, delivering the scale and optimisations to run Oracle and enterprise applications faster with greater security and delivering unmatched efficiency through the completely virtualised operating system.” said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems, Oracle.
Oracle Solaris 11 is expected to increase application throughput, improve platform performance, and maximise overall platform reliability and security through joint engineering and integration testing with the Oracle software stack. Through the same engineering disciplines that made Oracle Solaris reliable, Oracle Solaris 11 is expected to reduce planned downtime in impactful ways by being faster and easier to deploy, update and manage:
Virtually eliminate patching and update errors with new dependency-aware packaging tools that are aligned across the entire Oracle hardware and software stack to reduce maintenance overhead. Easily build a custom stack of Oracle Solaris and Oracle Software in a physical or virtual image to enforce enterprise quality and policy standards that speed deployment and ease maintenance. Reduce maintenance windows by eliminating the need for up to 50 percent of system restarts.
Oracle Solaris 11 is being engineered with many new capabilities that are designed to make it ideal for building, deploying and maintaining Cloud systems. Oracle Solaris 11 will be optimised for the scale and performance requirements of immediate and future Cloud-based deployments, allowing customers to:
Reduce costs and increase security by creating self-contained, multi-tier application environments in single instance systems linked by virtual networking.
Increase Oracle Fusion Middleware 11 g and Java-based application performance through jointly engineered improvements, such as memory management and I/O enhancements. Achieve maximum performance and scale for future hardware that will scale to tens of thousands of hardware threads, hundreds of terabytes of system memory, and hundreds of Gigabits of I/O.
Solaris 11 will be powering the newly announced Oracle Exadata X2-2 and X2-8 Database Machines, as well as the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine. Customers invested in Oracle Solaris will find these new offerings very attractive to standardise their operating system and simplify their IT operations.