 "Sun Microsystems Delivers Solaris 10 10/08 Release")
Sun Microsystems has announced the latest version of the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) – Solaris 10 10/08. The new version builds on the core strengths of the Solaris 10 OS to help customers maximise asset usage and systems performance, manage data centre complexity, preserve business continuity and reduce costs. Solaris 10 10/08 includes numerous product updates and enhancements, several of which were done through the OpenSolaris community ( www.opensolaris.org ). Solaris 10 10/08 is available now on Sun systems and will be available for download at: http://www.sun.com/solaris .
“Now more than ever, companies are under pressure to do more with less – from deploying new services faster and complying with new regulations, to adding more servers within their same data centre space – all while their budgets are shrinking and headcount is frozen,” said Jim McHugh, vice president of Data Centre marketing at Sun. “With the latest virtualisation enhancements, updates to ZFS file system and Intel system optimisation, Solaris 10 10/08 is an ideal platform to help customers with consolidation and data centre simplification.”
The Solaris 10 10/08 release is the result of the collaboration between Sun engineers and OpenSolaris community members. All the new features Sun is delivering with this release were first delivered into OpenSolaris before being included in the enterprise Solaris 10 10/08 release.
New Features in Solaris 10 10/08
ZFS File System Enhancements: The new version of Solaris ZFS file system offers increased data integrity and fully integrated disaster recovery capabilities. ZFS file system can be used as the sole file system for any class of system, with support for booting and/or for use as a root file system.
Virtualisation and Solaris Containers Updates: Solaris 10’s virtualisation technologies, such as Solaris Containers, have been enhanced with new features to make it even easier for customers to migrate workloads among Solaris systems and reduce the administrative overhead necessary to move a container between unlike system configurations.
Intel architecture optimisation: Sun and Intel continue to collaborate to help ensure Solaris 10 will support Intel’s latest Intel Xeon processor line so customers can benefit from the improved functionality, power efficiency and reliability of systems that contain those CPUs.
Compatibility continues to be a key feature of the Solaris 10 OS. Through the Solaris OS update model, customers can easily upgrade to Solaris 10 10/08 without requiring additional hardware/software upgrades or recertification of existing projects and applications. In addition, Solaris 10 10/08 preserves full compatibility with over 7,000 third-party products and customers’ internally-developed applications.
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