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ORACLE DATA SHEET ORACLE SOLARIS 10 KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS Innovation matters—increase business efficiency and lower costs with the industry’s #1 UNIX BENEFITS • Virtualization. Optimize resource utilization to deliver predictable service levels with Oracle Solaris Containers. • Networking. Attain near-wire-speed throughput with minimal CPU overhead using the Oracle Solaris networking stack. • Security. Implement a secure foundation for deploying services with Oracle Solaris leading-edge security features. • Availability. Minimize unplanned downtime with the predictive self healing feature. Oracle Solaris 10 is the strategic platform for today’s demanding enterprise, delivering proven results on everything from missioncritical enterprise databases to high-performance Web farms, and from the latest generation of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) SPARC systems to industry-standard x86 systems. For customers facing challenging business and technical requirements—such as lowering costs, simplifying system administration, and maintaining high service levels—Oracle Solaris 10 is the ideal cross-platform choice Meeting the IT Challenge Enterprises are under tremendous pressure to show stronger returns on their investment in IT, rolling out new business services faster, increasing processing and storage capacity while reducing space and power usage, and complying with new regulations. With Oracle Solaris innovative built-in features deliver breakthrough virtualization and utilization, high availability, advanced security, and industry-leading performance—all at a great price. Unparalleled Innovation The demonstrated innovation of Oracle Solaris 10 pays off by delivering benefits that can reduce administrative overhead, hardware costs, and power and cooling while preserving investments in software and training. In short, innovation matters because it saves you money. Oracle Solaris is fully tested and tightly integrated with the Oracle database, middleware and applications and is a key component in the Oracle “stack”. Application Compatibility Oracle Solaris 10 guarantees binary compatibility from release to release and its architecture neutral programming interfaces ensure source code compatibility between SPARC and x86 processors. To assist in rehosting legacy applications, use Oracle Solaris 8 and Oracle Solaris 9 Containers on Oracle Solaris 10. This provides a “physical to virtual” way to quickly and easily run your legacy application environments on the latest SPARC systems. Single Source Code Base With a single source code base, Oracle Solaris 10 runs on x86 and SPARC processor–based systems—delivering the same features on both platforms. This means that you can develop and optimize applications on Oracle Solaris 10 for use across the entire Oracle hardware product set and on a range of non-Oracle systems.

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ORACLE DATA SHEET Secure Operation The leading-edge security features in Oracle Solaris 10 helps you reduce the risk of intrusions, secure your applications and data, assign the minimum set of privileges and roles needed by users and applications, and control access to data based on its sensitivity label. Oracle Solaris 10 has been independently evaluated at EAL4+ at three Protection Profiles, one of the highest levels of Common Criteria certifications. Designed for Virtualization Oracle Solaris 10 also offers powerful built-in virtualization features. With Oracle Solaris Containers, you...

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ORACLE DATA SHEET Machine. This level of insight reduces the time for diagnosing problems from days and weeks to minutes and hours, and ultimately reduces the time required to fix those problems. Oracle Solaris Containers Oracle Solaris Containers is an OS-level virtualization technology built into Oracle Solaris 10. Using flexible, software-defined boundaries to isolate software applications and services, this breakthrough approach allows multiple private execution environments to be created within a single instance of Oracle Solaris 10. Each environment has its own identity, including a...

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ORACLE DATA SHEET components which can be carried out during periods of planned downtime. • Oracle Solaris’ service management facility creates a standardized control mechanism for application services by turning them into first-class objects that administrators can observe and manage in a uniform way. These services can automatically be restarted if they’re accidentally terminated by an administrator, fail as the result of a software programming error, or are interrupted by an underlying hardware problem. Performance Achieving optimal performance and efficiency in Oracle Solaris 10 depends...

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ORACLE DATA SHEET critical need for increased network performance. With Oracle Solaris 10, Oracle meets current and future networking challenges by significantly improving network performance without requiring changes to existing applications. Oracle Solaris 10 speeds application performance via the Network Layer 7 Cache and enhanced TCP/IP and UDP/IP performance. The latest networking technologies, such as 10Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and hardware offloading, are all supported out of the box. In addition, Oracle Solaris 10 supports current IPv6 specifications, high availability, streaming, and...

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