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Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology
White Papers The Solaris Zones feature in the Solaris Operating System is a partitioning technology used to virtualize operating system services and provide an isolated and secure environment for hosting and running applications.
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Qualification Best Practices for Application Support in Non-Global Zones
White Papers Solaris Containers technology offers a virtualized runtime environment that has established limits for an application's consumption of system resources, such as CPUs. Solaris Zones partitioning technology is used to virtualize operating system...
[September 22, 2006, 1:00]
Spotlight on Solaris Zones Feature
White Papers A new and interesting feature in the Solaris 10 Operating System (which first appeared in Software Express for Solaris 6/04) is Solaris Containers technology, a way to virtualize system resources and use multiple software partitions with one...
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Dell Helps Solaris Health Systems Delivery Quality Healthcare With Complete Technology Solutions
White Papers To help provide safe, high quality patient care, Solaris Health System needs technology hardware, software and services that work together as a seamless, complete solution. As a result Solaris Health System can rely on a seamless solution provided...
[June 18, 2008, 1:01]
Sun slices servers with software
News The zones technology could be a compelling reason for customers to embrace Solaris on x86 processors, because it brings a useful but hard-to-get feature to Intel servers. The software technology, called "zones," is scheduled to arrive in Solaris 10...
[October 16, 2003, 16:15]
Understanding the Basics About Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 OS
White Papers This paper aims to identify the basics of Solaris Containers in the Solaris 10 Operating System so that Sun's developers, system administrators, ISVs, partners and customers will know how to address common tasks related to this technology.
[November 1, 2006, 0:00]
Interesting write up - disagree with a few points
Talkback It's the industries delay in adapting new technology.nix, particularly Solaris has been operating at 64bit for close to 10 years. My users operate on Windows, Linux, and Solaris. I'm not sure I agree with Windows desktop as holding back technology.
[November 27, 2007, 19:43]
Solaris 10 heads for launch pad
News Sun Microsystems has given a sneak peek into the next version of its Unix operating system, Solaris 10, which will include a partitioning technology that the company says is a big improvement over the logical partitions used on mainframes.
[February 16, 2004, 13:10]
OpenSSH patches second specialised flaw
News The flaw appears in an open-source implementation of the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAMs), a technology adopted by Sun Solaris, Linux and BSD systems to let system administrators easily change the way users log into computers.
[September 24, 2003, 15:25]
Energy Efficiency Strategies: Sun Server Virtualization Technology
White Papers Solaris Containers is an excellent virtualization technology when a number of applications can run on the same OS instance. The two server virtualization technologies discussed in this paper - Solaris Containers and Logical Domains - are of...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Solaris 9 update speeds up networks
News At the extreme end, it costs $400,000 to upgrade a 128-processor Solaris system such as Fujitsu Technology Solutions' Primepower 2000 or 2500. Sun Microsystems has released the first update of Solaris 9, its new version of the Unix operating system...
[October 11, 2002, 9:27]
Solaris and Sparc gain virtualisation focus
News This calendar year, on the T2000 and T1000, we will introduce our first generation of virtualisation to bring people beyond the container technology Solaris 10 already offers," Yen said in a meeting with reporters and analysts at Sun's offices in...
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
IBM brings 64-bit Java to AIX
News IBM plans to make 64-bit Java technology available on its AIX 5L Unix operating system in early July, a move that it claims puts AIX ahead of Sun's Solaris and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX operating systems.
[June 7, 2001, 10:34]
Sun servers get new virtualisation option
News Customers using the technology will require the 11/06 update to Solaris 10, due in November, and either new hardware due in January or a firmware update to existing Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers, said Pradeep Parmar, product manager of business...
[October 17, 2006, 9:35]
Fujitsu to unveil 128-CPU server
News But because its servers run Sun's Solaris operating system, Fujitsu Technology's market overlaps with Sun's, the top Unix-server seller. Fujitsu Technology said in a statement that Sun's Solaris Hardware Partners Group has tested and fully...
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
Sun focus may lead Tadpole into calmer waters
News Always best known for its ruggedised mobile PCs, Tadpole plans to cancel all Intel-based products and concentrate on units based on Sun's Sparc processor and running the Solaris flavour of Unix. Only a fraction of Solaris appications actually run...
[February 11, 1998, 16:28]
Sun christens its power-saving processor
Talkback With technology like this, there is no need for a multiple blade servers - now a virtual blade gets a dedicated thread in a Solaris 10 container. There has not been the possibility to truly consolidate a single data center down to fewer servers...
[November 16, 2005, 23:27]
Sun woos pundits with fresh technology
News Yen said Sun is better positioned to accommodate a technology such as Niagara because Solaris can manage the schedules of more than 200 threads today -- the number a top-end Sun Fire 15K server accommodates with the new UltraSparc IV.
[February 25, 2003, 7:33]
What Torvalds really thinks of Solaris
News What do you think of what Sun is doing with Solaris 10 -- technology improvements, open source, and the move to x86 chips? When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that...
[December 21, 2004, 14:20]
Sun kicks off JavaOne with OpenSolaris
Blog Amid much debate over the commercial end of open-source technology and the potential for ‘closed code extensions’ for customers that are prepared to pay for them, Sun is no doubt releasing this open-source version of Solaris with an eye on the...
[May 6, 2008, 1:47]
