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Solaris™ 10 Operating

System: Platform Choice Run the same OS across SPARC®, x64, and platforms. < The Solaris™ 10 Operating System (OS) offers wide-ranging platform support, which means it runs in a variety of roles and application areas across your IT organization. In the , the Solaris 10 OS delivers robust, around-the-clock support for leading enterprise infrastructure applications. It serves as a highly scalable platform for Web services, providing an ideal foundation for the Sun ™ Enterprise System, and open source Web 2.0 technologies. On the desktop, along with the fully integrated Sun , the Solaris 10 OS enables power users and developers to take advantage of advanced features and value-added office productivity and developer tools.

Single source code base Comprehensive device support When it comes to different platforms, Solaris Significant engineering investment continues is Solaris. Whether the Solaris 10 OS is run on in developing device and peripheral support SPARC® - or x86-based systems, it for the fabric within the data center. These Highlights provides the same features and functionality. devices include high-speed networking (to 10-Gb From update to update the Solaris 10 OS per second), and SCSI storage Ideal platform for open source and provides support for all of its key features support, and InfiniBand connectivity. Solaris enterprise infrastructure applications, on both platforms simultaneously, including updates now provide new frameworks and Web services, and developers Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), , drivers for Serial ATA (SATA) and PCI Express • Feature and API parity for the ZFS and the optimized TCP/IP stack. devices, plus continuous improvements in Solaris™ OS on SPARC®, x64, and network driver performance. Support for x86 processor-based systems Familiar tools enterprise storage also continues to grow with • Support for a wide range of Sun™ Many popular open source packages — such expanded RAID and iSCSI capabilities. Where and third-party servers, worksta- tions, laptops, and peripheral as Samba, BIND, the “AMP” stack, GNU Solaris is used on laptop and desktop PCs, devices Collection (GCC), Webmin, IP Filter, and Secure developers and system administrators can Shell (SSH) — are fully supported as part of benefit from a stream of improvements which • End-to-end optimization for x86 platforms — from kernel and the Solaris 10 OS. This means that system deliver 3D graphics, USB 2.0, Firewire, and libraries to Java™ Virtual Machine administrators have a familiar tool set avail- wireless networking. and developer tools able, pretested, and integrated with their • Integrated, fully supported, open . Cost-effective licensing and support source packages — Samba, Apache, The Solaris business model comprises entitle- GCC, Webmin, IP Filter, PostgreSQL Enterprise applications ment (at no cost) and a competitively priced Top-tier application providers have embraced range of service offerings covering everything the x64 platform, leveraging years of experience from single systems to large IT installations. with the 64-bit SPARC platform to deliver a Sun support pricing is typically lower than growing range of enterprise applications. In that of other open operating systems. addition to key infrastructure applications from partners such as Oracle, Symantec, and BEA, thousands of developers are developing products that provide rich solution sets for key markets such as finance, HPC, and communications. 2 Solaris™ 10 Operating System: Platform Choice sun.com/solaris

Deployment flexibility The x64 advantage The modular architecture of the Solaris 10 OS Sun is shipping the industry’s broadest line Learn More allows drivers to be loaded dynamically, with of x64 systems, powered by the AMD ™ To find out if Solaris is supported on your no need to rebuild the kernel. The kernel itself or ® ® processors. These systems offer x64/x86 system, visit the hardware compati- supports single-processor and multiprocessor top performance, scalability, power efficiency, bility list at sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. environments and is, for the most part, self- manageability, and longevity benefits and tuning. These features make it easy to define a are available preinstalled with the Solaris OS For additional information, please see single, optimized, security-hardened OS image to address high performance computing, sun.com/solaris/features. for volume deployments. This design efficiency consolidation, and web infrastructure works equally well, whether you are manufac- applications. turing embedded systems or provisioning a compute farm. This means the Solaris OS is Performance well-suited for use in demanding environments The Solaris 10 OS outperforms the competition such as telecommunication, network security, on customer applications, as well as industry- and health care, as well as offering an ideal standard benchmarks on both SPARC and x64 Investment protection platform for deployment in enterprise infrastruc- processor-based platforms. Without changing By choosing the Solaris 10 OS, customers can tures. Also, in addition to providing a great your existing Solaris applications, you can imme- deploy and manage a single operating system platform for , Solaris also runs very diately benefit from a turbocharged TCP/IP across an enterprise — on the desktop by well as a guest OS under third party . stack, radically improved kernel, advanced leveraging the Java Desktop System and Sun tracing technology, and special optimizations Ray™ based VDI solutions, and then across the The SPARC advantage for allocation and CMT. Additionally, entire spectrum of x86 systems to large SPARC Sun continues to innovate around the open the Solaris OS has benefited by almost 20 years systems running hundreds of cores. SPARC architecture with UltraSPARC® T2 based of multiprocessor tuning and optimizations, products delivering new levels of performance and today offers near-linear scalability from Because Solaris 10 provides compatibility at the for throughput-oriented workloads that are single-CPU platforms to systems with hundreds source-code level, applications can easily be typical of commercial applications, while funda- of cores. deployed across both architectures. Customers mentally changing data center economics in can reprovision existing Windows or terms of space and compute efficiency per Watt. Linux servers with the Solaris 10 OS, protecting The features of Solaris 10, coupled with Chip existing hardware investments and often gaining Multithreading (CMT) architecture, provide better throughput and performance. Just as Sun significant opportunities to consolidate Web- has already demonstrated with the SPARC plat- tier and ERP applications in the data center. form, the Solaris OS offers a risk-free growth path to 64-bit computing, with guaranteed compatibility for existing 32-bit, x86-based applications.

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