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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 Reports
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Why Migrating to HP from SPARC and Other Legacy Systems Can Transform Your Mission-Critical Environment
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:
By transitioning to HP from a Sun SPARC Solaris environment now, you can reap the benefits of a stable, reliable IT environment while reducing costs. Investing in industry-standard architectures today will ensure a smooth transition to next-generation systems.
Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 03 Mar 2010
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Enterprise Grid Solutions from Sun and Oracle: Taking IT to a Higher Level
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
PRODUCT LITERATURE:
If you're already running your business on an enterprise grid—good. And if you're running on Sun and Oracle—even better. But if you want to maximize the advantages of your grid, it's time to upgrade to the latest generation of enterprise grid computing products from Sun and Oracle.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 16 Nov 2009
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Deploying Oracle® Real Application Clusters on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This quick start guide shows how to configure the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and hosts on the Solaris™ Operating System for Oracle RAC infrastructure deployment.
Posted: 16 Nov 2009 | Published: 25 May 2009
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Your Solaris Alternative
sponsored by Red Hat and HP
WHITE PAPER:
This whitepaper will review some key features and benefits of both Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We will also explain why Red Hat Enterprise Linux is an ideal solution for enterprises that are facing Sun and SPARC's uncertain future, whether you are considering launching a new IT production environment or migrating a legacy environment...
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Moving From Solaris To Red Hat Enterprise Linux
sponsored by Red Hat and HP
WHITE PAPER:
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a standards-based UNIX®-like operating system that provides a development environment similar to SunTM SolarisTM. This paper looks to highlight some of the major differences between Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help application developers port their code.
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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The Solaris Operating System - Optimized For The Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
WHITE PAPER:
This document is intended as a quick reference guide for developers and system administrators that want to optimize the Solaris OS on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series platform.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | Published: 24 Apr 2009
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Performance and Scalability Benchmark: Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
The Oracle Communications BRM application suite is a Tier 1, convergent billing framework that is architected for leading service providers. This white paper describes the performance and scalability results of Oracle Communications BRM 7.3.1 from the recent benchmark conducted at Sun Solutions Center in Paris and France.
Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
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Jumping on the Cloud-Wagon? AppZero's Virtual Application Appliance Approach
sponsored by AppZero
WHITE PAPER:
This paper explains the attributes of AppZero's VAA approach to server-side application virtualization and conveys various advantages in the cloud environment.
Posted: 04 Mar 2009 | Published: 04 Mar 2009
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Solaris 10 Operating System Innovation Matters-Increase Business Efficiency and Lower Costs
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
The Solaris OS is the strategic platform for today's demanding enterprise and is the only open operating system that has delivered proven results, running everything from mission-critical enterprise databases to high performance Web farms.
Posted: 02 Dec 2008 | Published: 27 Nov 2008
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Sun Desktop Virtualization Solution
sponsored by VMware and Sun Microsystems
WHITE PAPER:
In this document learn about reference architecture and a sample implementation from Sun Desktop Virtualization Solutions. This reference architecture is an overview of the key components required to deploy the solution into your enterprise infrastructure
Posted: 29 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Apr 2006
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The Business Benefits of Virtualization and Consolidation
sponsored by VMware and Sun Microsystems
WHITE PAPER:
Virtualization and consolidation can improve the data center status quo and provide organizations with a new set of choices to increase flexibility, reduce costs and attack the space, power and cooling crunch head-on.
Posted: 29 Mar 2007 | Published: 01 Oct 2006
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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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