Solaris 11.1 Improves Performance for Oracle Workloads
New Solaris features will help to enable Oracle's cloud database.
Tags: Oracle, Cloud, Solaris, Oracle Database, Solaris 11, cloud database
New Solaris features will help to enable Oracle's cloud database.
At last week's Oracle OpenWorld, the OEM offered a glimpse at upcoming changes for Solaris 11 and the Oracle Enterprise Kernel for Linux.
Oracle claims the top spot for Unix with Solaris and reveals it has its eye on the Linux top spot for its homegrown Linux distro, Oracle Enterprise Linux. Red Hat and HP express a mix of consternation and amusement. But is that the right reaction?
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Oracle, Solaris, Unix server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, server os
Promises to double application performance on Sparc systems every two years.
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Oracle, Sun, Solaris, server hardware, HPC
Oracle is investing in Sun's Unix and will use technologies from openSolaris as part of the next-generation release.
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Oracle, Solaris, Unix server, OS, OpenSolaris
The Unix server world was abuzz last week with IBM kicking off the public beta of AIX 7, and HP launching a no holds barred offense to persuade former Sun customers to abandon SPARC/Solaris environments in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on ProLiant servers.
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IBM, Solaris, HP, Unix server, AIX
Oracle's change tempo picks up as it changes the licensing rules for Solaris. OpenSolaris' open-source software song remains the same, however.
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Oracle, Solaris, OpenSolaris, open-source software
OS Roundup: Are we heading back to an era where the OS is
once again tied to the hardware? Seems unlikely in this age of commodity x86
servers, yet increasingly, ISVs and OEMs are limiting what can run where.
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Windows, x86 servers, Solaris, OS, Mac OS X
OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on Solaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
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Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Linux server, OS
Ellison outlines Oracle's open source direction now that the Sun acquisition has closed.
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Linux, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Solaris
Virtually Speaking: With Oracle's acquisition of Sun complete, will it be lights out for VirtualBox and other Sun virtualization technology?
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Oracle, virtualization, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, virtualbox
Whenever an OS adds a killer feature, it's time to sit up and strike a pose. OpenSolaris' Time Slider is a prime example. The graphical tool provides a window into the OS's powerful snapshot feature.
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open source, Sun, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, open solaris
OS Roundup: From Java to Solaris, Sun brings myriad good technology to the table, technology that Oracle will likely exploit and monetize.
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Java, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, OpenSolaris
Wondering what the next version of Solaris might look like? OpenSolaris offers some hints.
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virtualization, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Storage
OS Roundup: Desktop Linux deployments now exceed 1 percent. With Windows 7 on the horizon, will it continue to expand, or will the OS hit the wall because it just isn't Windows?
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Windows, Windows 7, Solaris, desktop linux, Mac OS X