Oracle bolsters former Sun Unix platform

From InfoWorld: Oracle detailed on Wednesday upgrades to the Solaris Unix OS it inherited from Sun Microsystems, offering improvements in such areas as virtualization.

The company announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3, and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. Oracle emphasized that Solaris is designed to leverage large memory and multi-core processor/thread systems as well as offer high performance, security, and scalability.

"Oracle Solaris provides the proven, enterprise-class reliability, security, and performance customers need for their most mission-critical and essential applications," said John Fowler, executive vice president of Systems and a holdover from Sun, in a statement released by the company. Sun was acquired by Oracle early this year.

Solaris 10 9/10 features networking and performance enhancements, virtualization, updates to Solaris ZFS (Zettabyte File System) and capabilities to leverage the latest SPARC and x86 processors, Oracle said. Also featured are fixes and hardware support in an "easy-to-install manner," preserving compatibility with more than 11,000 third-party products and customer applications, Oracle said.

Version 10 9/10 offers networking and database optimizations for Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters). Also, Solaris Containers now provide enhanced P2V (Physical to Virtual) capabilities, for moving from existing Oracle Solaris 10 physical systems to virtual containers.

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