Database giant Oracle has elaborated on its plans for the release of Solaris 11, saying the update will be available in 2011 and that an express version, Solaris 11 Express, will be unveiled in the meantime, to provide customers with access to the latest Solaris 11 technology.
Oracle revealed this information at its annual OpenWorld conference, in San Francisco. The company says Oracle Solaris 11 is scheduled to contain over 2 700 projects with more than 400 inventions, and will be the result of more than 20 million person hours of development and over 60 million hours of testing.
John Fowler, executive VP of systems at Oracle, says Solaris is the top enterprise operating system and customers everywhere know that if their systems must run, they run Solaris.
“Solaris 10 set the bar for operating system reliability, scalability, and security, and Oracle Solaris 11 is now raising that bar by increasing system availability, delivering the scale and optimisations to run Oracle and enterprise applications faster with greater security and delivering unmatched efficiency through the completely virtualised operating system.”
Fowler said users can easily build a custom stack of Oracle Solaris and Oracle software in a physical or virtual environment to enforce enterprise quality and policy standards that speed deployment and ease maintenance.
Oracle Solaris 11 is being engineered with capabilities that are designed to make it ideal for building, deploying and maintaining cloud systems. It will be optimised for the scale and performance requirements of immediate and future cloud-based deployments, allowing customers to lower costs and improve security by creating self-contained, multi-tier application environments in single instance systems linked by virtual networking.
Fowler added that the OS will reduce planned downtime by being faster and easier to deploy, update and manage. “It will virtually eliminate patching and update errors with dependency-aware packaging tools that are aligned across the entire Oracle hardware and software stack to reduce maintenance overhead.”
Over 1 000 SPARC and x86 systems from other hardware systems providers have been tested and certified for running Oracle Solaris, says the database giant.
Share