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Why to consider Oracle 11

Posted by damienwells on March 15, 2012

Oracle Blog Post: By Marius Scholtz

Oracle Solaris 11 from Acardia - the first Cloud OS

Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider. Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Sun and other vendors

Today, Oracle Solaris 11 delivers advanced features that have been in development for more than five years in an easy-to-use, production-ready package, allowing you to immediately deploy new applications. The operating system adds network virtualization and resource management to complete, built-in virtualization capabilities to provide the highest performance virtualization environment with the lowest overhead.

On his Oracle blog, Marius Scholtz poses questions including:

What are the compelling reasons to move or upgrade to Solaris 11?
What does a CTO want from an Operating System (OS)?
Assuming an OS should be safe, secure, easy to upgrade, have lots of application support, clear roadmap, easy to manage, fast, good and cheap, does Solaris 11 actually offer these features?

His answers comprise a series of hyperlinks which taken together provide a compelling business case for the use of Oracle Solaris 11; from ROI and longevity to security and the reduction of downtime. To read the full post, please click through to Marius Scholtz’s blog on the Oracle website. For more details about the benefits of Oracle Solaris 11, please click the Operating Systems page on the Acardia website.