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ALSO CALLED:
Sun Solaris,
SunOS
DEFINITION: Solaris is the computer operating system that Sun Microsystems provides for its family of Scalable Processor Architecture-based processors as well as for Intel-based processors. Sun has historically dominated the large UNIX workstation market. As the Internet grew in the early 1990s, Sun's SPARC/Solaris systems became the most widely installed servers for Web sites. Sun emphasizes the system's availability
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Solaris Multimedia
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Switching from Solaris/SPARC to Solaris/ProLiant 9 Things You Should Know
sponsored by Arrow ECS HP Group
PODCAST:
Businesses trying to migrate from SPARC to a more reliable platform often run into a host of obstacles. This podcast discusses the pitfalls of this transition and offers effective migration strategies.
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 25 Sep 2009
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Solaris Evolution Building the Business Case for Transitioning your IT Environment
sponsored by Arrow ECS HP Group
WEBCAST:
This webcast explores methods and best practices for transforming your data center for optimum business alignment. Gain insight into the importance of an IT TCO Baseline and discover how to fund your transformation with the IT Cost Management Intelligence assessment.
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 | Premiered: 16 Sep 2009
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SOLARIS DEFINITION (continued):
(meaning it seldom crashes), its large number of features, and its Internet-oriented design. Sun advertises that its latest version, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, is "the leading UNIX environment" today.Sun emphasizes these features of Solaris:Its availability. Special features make it easy to add new capability or to fix problems without having to restart the system. Because it has evolved through a number of versions, it is "stable" - that is, like IBM's well-known mainframe operating system, MVS, Solaris has exercised and fixed almost any code path that might break. It can be upgraded,
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