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Organizations like to focus on the mission-critical applications that allow them to win competitive battles, and rightly so. Applications are key. But so is the foundation beneath those applications. This report explores the dramatic effects that an operating system can have on an organization's profitability, revenue generation, market share, and security, and discusses how corporate strategy can be impacted by decisions made in the data center.
The trend of acquiring operating system software for "free" has put a premium on analyzing and understanding the other portions of a larger technology solution, namely the services that organizations will invariably need to purchase to support their deployments. Learn the important quantitative and qualitative differences between support offerings from today's leading open source operating system providers.
The research showed significant reductions in enterprise data center costs, including: administrative costs, maintenance and support, and environmental/operational costs. On average, the ROI was 127% over five years for servers already upgraded, and a potential for an additional 335% ROI if the upgrade was completed for all servers.
The Solaris 10 OS provides a 20% cost-of-ownership advantage over Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, according to a new cost-of-ownership study conducted by the
Crimson Consulting Group. The study evaluated the costs of acquisition as well
as long-term support, administration and operations.
Presents how Solaris Containers can be utilized to consolidate several
RMDS servers into a fewer number of CMT or multi-core multiprocessor
systems.
Presents security features of the Solaris 10 OS and related Sun technologies, and describes how they can be used by organizations in complying with the PCI DSS.
Explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and
the Veritas File System through a series of tests using the Filebench benchmarking framework which reproduces the I/O patterns of applications, as well as the popular IOzone benchmark which tests specific I/O patterns.
Explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and the ext3 file system through a series of benchmarks based on use cases derived from common scenarios, as well as the IOzone File System Benchmark (IOzone benchmark) which tests specific I/O patterns.
Explores the performance characteristics and differences of Solaris ZFS and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NTFS file system through a series of publicly available benchmarks, including BenchW, Postmark, and others.
This document details best practices for upgrading to the Solaris 10 Operating System.
This document describes how IBM WebSphere Application Server
(WAS) V6.0.2 or newer can be installed and configured on Solaris 10 in the global and non-global zones.
Includes networking advancements in the Solaris 10 OS and the evolution of networking in previous releases.
The innovative and far-reaching new features delivered in Solaris 10 can significantly improve how you manage your IT infrastructure.
Information about the important differences between Solaris and Linux flavors can help you choose the best operating system for use on AMD Opteron processor-based servers.
Initial comparisons of the Solaris OS and Novell SUSE LINUX performance using the PostMark file system benchmark show Solaris as the better performer.
Sun’s approach to building self-healing systems, including the new Solaris 10 Predictive Self Healing technology, helps maximize availability.
Solaris Containers isolate software applications and services using flexible, software-defined boundaries, allowing you to consolidate servers and improve resource utilization.
The Solaris Volume Manager software greatly simplifies storage administration and allows many
operations to occur online, minimizing the need for costly downtime.
