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Solaris™ 10

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Innovation matters — increase business efficiency and lower costs < Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to do more with less, roll out new business services faster, fit more servers into the same space, and comply with new regulations, all while their budgets are shrinking and headcount is frozen. Can an really help you address these issues and turn IT into a business advantage? The answer is yes, with the Solaris™ Operating System.

The Solaris OS is the strategic platform for 2. Great price today’s demanding enterprise. It’s the only Solaris 10 support pricing is 20% to 50% open operating system that has delivered lower than equivalent support from other open OS vendors. No-cost end user licensing proven results, running everything from lowers barriers to entry, while overall mission-critical enterprise databases to high efficiency lowers costs of operation. performance Web farms, from large-scale SMP 3. Open source systems to industry-standard systems from The Solaris OS code base is the foundation Highlights HP, IBM, , and Sun. of the OpenSolaris™ open source community (visit .org ). In addition, the The Solaris™ Operating System For customers facing challenging business and Solaris OS includes the leading Web 2.0 meets and exceeds expectations for: technical requirements — such as lowering open source packages, ready to run and • : Optimize resource costs, simplifying system administration, and optimized for the over 1,000 x64 and utilization to deliver predictable SPARC system platforms supported by maintaining high service levels — the Solaris service levels with Solaris Solaris 10. 10 OS is the ideal cross-platform choice. Its Containers innovative, built-in features deliver break - 4. Application compatibility — guaranteed • Networking: Attain near-wirespeed The Solaris OS delivers binary compatibility through virtualization and utilization, high throughput with the open, program- from release to release and source compati - mable Solaris networking stack availability, advanced security, and industry bility between SPARC® and x86 processors; leading performance to meet these stringent • Security: Implement a secure with the Solaris Application Guarantee backing foundation for deploying services requirements — all at a great price. it, it’s something you can count on. And for with Solaris leading-edge security the ultimate in conversion ease, use Solaris 8 features Ten things to know about the Solaris OS and Solaris 9 Containers on Solaris 10, a “Physical to Virtual” way to quickly and 1. Great product • Availability: Increase uptime with easily run your existing application environ - The constant demonstrated innovation Predictive Self Healing ments on the latest SPARC systems. within the Solaris OS pays off by delivering benefits that can save companies time, 5. One Solaris — same features on hundreds hardware costs, power and cooling, while of systems preserving investments in and With a single source code base, the Solaris training. In short: innovation matters, OS runs on x86 and SPARC and - because it saves you money. based systems — and delivers the same features on all platforms. You can develop and optimize applications on the Solaris OS for use on over 1000 system models from leading vendors such as Sun, HP, IBM, and Dell. 2 Solaris™ 10 Operating System sun.com/solaris

6. Designed to run securely all the time 10. Designed for performance Solaris 10 technologies The leading-edge security features in the The Solaris 10 OS has set over 244 price With the Solaris OS, you get compelling new Solaris 10 OS help you reduce the risk of performance records since its release, features that your applications can take advan - intrusions, secure your applications and unleashing even more power from existing tage of immediately with few, if any, changes. data, assign the minimum set of privileges applications. Download the latest Sun™ and roles needed by users and applications, Studio and developer tools to Binary and source compatibility with previous and control access to data based on its bring even greater performance to your releases also helps make it easier to move to sensitivity label. Solaris 10 has been inde - applications. Solaris 10 from earlier releases of Solaris. pendently evaluated at EAL4+ at three Protection Profiles, one of the highest For business, industry, and developers DTrace levels of Common Criteria certifications. The Solaris 10 OS offers the technology, flexi - System administrators, integrators, and devel - 7. Designed for observability bility , and versatility you need to get down to opers can use the dynamic instrumentation and Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) technology business immediately, whether you’re a small tracing capabilities in the Solaris OS to see what’s makes it fast and easy to identify perform - really going on in the system. Solaris DTrace ance bottlenecks, especially on production developer, a large enterprise, or anything in systems. System administrators can use between. can be safely used on production systems — this to troubleshoot even the most difficult without modifying applications. It is a powerful problems in minutes instead of days; devel - OpenSolaris participation and OS release tool that gives a comprehensive view of the opers can use it to optimize applications, More than an open source project, OpenSolaris entire system, from kernel to application, even with significant performance gains possible is also a community, a Web site for collabora - those running in a ™ . This — real-world use has yielded increases up level of insight reduces the time for diagnosing to 50 times previous performance. tion — and now provides a supported, leading edge release every six months. The OpenSolaris problems from days and weeks to minutes and 8. Designed for virtualization release is available at opensolaris.com, and hours and ultimately reduces the time to fix Solaris 10 has powerful virtualization those problems. features built in at no additional charge. Solaris source code, downloads, developer With , you can maintain tools, mailing lists, user groups, and events are a one application per virtual deploy - all available at opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris Solaris Containers ment model while consolidating dozens or technology features a single source base for Solaris Containers is an OS-level virtualization even hundreds of applications onto one SPARC and x86 platforms. It includes the key technology built into the Solaris 10 OS. Using server and OS instance. Share hardware innovations delivered in the Solaris 10 OS, as flexible, software-defined boundaries to isolate resources while maintaining predictable software applications and services, this break - service levels; increase utilization rates, cut well as providing access to new technologies system and licensing costs while gaining as they’re being developed. The OpenSolaris through approach allows multiple private the ability to quickly provision and move project and release provide a low-risk option execution environments to be created within workloads from system to system. Logical for evaluating emerging OS technologies, plus a single instance of the Solaris OS. Each envi - Domains and -based paravirtualization an excellent opportunity to participate in ronment has its own identity, including a support add even more virtualization shaping the direction of the Solaris OS. discrete network stack, separate from the flexibility. underlying hardware, so it behaves as if it’s 9. Designed for high availability Development tools running on its own system — making consoli - Predictive Self Healing is a key feature in Developers need integrated, ready-to-use tools dation simple, safe, and secure. the Solaris 10 OS that helps you increase system and service availability. It automati - that are compatible with all the environments cally detects, diagnoses, and isolates system in which they must deploy applications. With By dynamically controlling application and and software faults before they cause that in mind, Sun includes popular software resource priorities, businesses can define and downtime. And it spans the full range from tools from the free and open source world and achieve predictable service levels. System diagnosis to recovery on SPARC, AMD complements them with access to key Sun administrators can easily meet changing ™ and Athlon, and ® ® developer technologies like the Sun Studio requirements by quickly provisioning new and Core Duo processor-based systems. compilers and tools and unique Solaris 10 Solaris Containers or moving them from system utilities such as DTrace. to system or disk to disk within the same system as capacity or configuration needs change. 3 Solaris™ 10 Operating System sun.com/solaris

Containers can be patched in parallel, • Solaris Fault Manager continuously monitors Security increasing speed by up to 300% on systems data relating to hardware and software Security is more than a mix of technologies; with multiple containers configured. This errors. It automatically and silently detects it’s an ongoing discipline. Sun understands also raises the bar on the number of contain - and diagnoses the underlying problem and this and continues its 20-year commitment to ers that can be realistically run on a system. can automatically take the faulty component enhancing security in the Solaris OS. Solaris Containers also offer the ability to emulate offline on SPARC, Intel Xeon, and AMD Opteron User and Rights Management plus other environments, prior Solaris releases, processor based systems. Easy-to-understand Solaris Containers enable the secure hosting such as Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, as well as diagnostic messages link to articles in Sun’s of hundreds of applications and multiple support for applications. knowledge base to help clearly guide admin - cus tomers on the same system. Administrators istrators through corrective tasks requiring can use features such as Secure by Default to In addition to Solaris Containers, Sun also human intervention. minimize and harden the Solaris OS even more. offers Logical Domains (LDoms), a hardware • Solaris Service Manager (SMF) creates a Additionally, Solaris Trusted Extensions provides partitioning technology that allows multiple standardized control mechanism for applica - true multi-level security for the first time in a instances of the Solaris OS to run on a single tion services by turning them into first-class commercial-grade OS, running all your existing Sun CoolThreads™ server. objects that administrators can observe and applications and supported on over 1,000 manage in a uniform way. These services different system models. Solaris ZFS can automatically be restarted if they’re • Verify your system’s integrity by employing The Solaris ZFS is designed from the accidentally terminated by an administrator, Solaris Secure Execution and file verification ground up to deliver a general-purpose file fail as the result of a software programming features system that spans from the desktop to the error, or interrupted by an underlying • Reduce risk by granting only the privileges datacenter. Anyone who has ever lost important hardware problem. needed for users and processes files, run out of space on a partition, spent • Simplify administration and increase privacy weekends adding new storage to servers, tried Performance and performance by using the standards- to grow or shrink a file system, or experienced Optimizing performance and efficiency in based Solaris Cryptographic Framework data corruption knows the limitations of tradi - Solaris 10 is the result of many factors: under - • Secure your system using dynamic service tional file systems and volume managers. Solaris ly ing technologies, system configuration and profiles, including a built-in, reduced-exposure ZFS addresses these challenges efficiently and utilization, tools, applications, and system network services profile with minimal manual intervention. tuning. An enhanced networking stack mini - • Control access to data based on its sensitivity mizes latency and offers improved network level by using the labeled security technology Predictive Self Healing performance for most applications out of in Solaris Trusted Extensions Predictive Self Healing is an innovative capability the box. in the Solaris 10 OS that automatically diagnoses, Networking isolates, and helps you recover from many With DTrace, you can delve deeply into today’s Exponential growth in Web connectivity, services, hardware and application faults. As a result, complex systems when troubleshooting systemic and applications is generating a critical need business-critical applications and essential problems or diagnosing performance bottlenecks for increased network performance. With the system services can continue uninterrupted in — in real time and on the fly. Additional built- Solaris 10 OS, Sun meets current and future the event of software failures, major hardware in technologies that help deliver increased networking challenges by significantly improving component failures, and even software config - application performance include: network performance without requiring changes uration problems. • High-performance networking stack to existing applications. The Solaris 10 OS speeds • Filesystem performance application performance via the Network Layer • Tools and libraries 7 Cache and enhanced TCP/IP and UDP/IP • Multiple page-size support (MPSS) performance. The latest networking techno- • placement optimization (MPO) lo gies, such as 10-Gigabit and hardware off-loading, are all supported out of the box. 4 Solaris™ 10 Operating System sun.com/solaris

Additionally, the Solaris 10 OS supports current Protocol (SOAP); Web Services Description IPv6 specifications, high availability, streaming, Language (WSDL); and eXtensible Markup Learn More and Voice over IP (VoIP) networking through Language (XML). To learn more about the Solaris OS, extended routing and protocol support — • Source and binary compatibility for Linux visit sun.com/solaris . meeting the carrier-grade needs of a growing applications and with customer base. Windows systems To give it a try, visit sun.com/solaris/get . • Includes Perl, PHP, and other widely used Free Web-based training is available at Platform choice scripting languages sun.com/solaris/freetraining . The Solaris 10 OS is optimized for Sun and third- • Includes Apache, Samba, sendmail, IP Filter, party systems running 64-bit SPARC, AMD, and BIND, and other popular open source software To make the move to Solaris, see Intel processors. This makes it possible to • Supports Java application development sun.com/solaris/move . create horizontally and vertically scaled infra - and deployment with the Java Platform, structures and offers the flexibility to easily add Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java compute resources. The OS runs on hardware Platform, Standard Edition (Java ) ranging from laptops and single-board • Includes authentication support for LDAP- to datacenter and grid installations, while serving based directory servers and Kerberos-based applications ranging from military command- infrastructures and-control systems to telecommunications switch gear and stock trading.

Interoperability The Solaris 10 OS provides interoperability from the desktop to the datacenter across a range of hardware systems, operating platforms, and technologies, making it the ideal platform for today’s heterogeneous compute environments. Not only does it interoperate with both Linux and , it also supports popular open source applications and open standards such as Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI); Simple Object Access

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