Oracle adds more cloud finesse to Solaris
October 4, 2012
Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Joab Jackson.
Further emphasizing Larry Ellison’s fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file system and SDN (software defined networking) features.
Solaris 11.1, the first update in almost a year, includes over 300 new features and performance improvements. Oracle announced the new edition at its Oracle OpenWorld conference, being held this week in San Francisco…
Solaris is Oracle’s Unix operating system for essential enterprise operations, and — along with Hewlett Packard’s HP-UX and IBM’s AIX — one of the few viable non-Linux Unix variants on the market. Oracle acquired Solaris in its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Oracle deploys the OS for the company’s SPARC T-Series server line, and the OS powers a number of Oracle packaged systems, including the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. Last year’s release of Solaris 11 introduced a number of new features that would make Solaris more suitable for hosting cloud deployments, and this update continues this work…
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