Oracle Expands
Investment in Cloud Infrastructure, Delivers Modern Cloud Platform with
Integrated OpenStack Distribution
Dubai,
UAE – May 27, 2014: Oracle introduced Oracle Solaris 11.2, a modern cloud
platform that melds efficient virtualization, application-driven software-defined
networking (SDN) technology and a full OpenStack distribution. This powerful
combination of an enterprise-class operating system and other components
creates a highly efficient, compliant, secure, open and affordable software
platform for cloud computing. With deep integration among Oracle Database, Java
and Oracle Applications, businesses can use Oracle Solaris 11.2 to deliver the
most reliable, high-performance, efficient and secure IT services and
accelerate time-to-market for new deployments. Oracle Solaris is an important
component of Oracle’s Systems business.
News Facts
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 is a complete, integrated and open platform
engineered for large-scale enterprise cloud environments. It combines OpenStack,
SDN technology, clustering, and virtualization with a proven enterprise-class
OS, all in a single product.
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Customers can simplify their IT infrastructure
and deliver reliable, high-performance, efficient, compliant and secure cloud services
to their end customers at low cost.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 incorporates a complete
OpenStack distribution, bringing OpenStack functionality to Oracle Solaris
environments and managing other hypervisors and infrastructure in the data
center.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 allows IT
organizations to now deliver services from “zero to cloud” in minutes rather
than weeks, with enterprise-grade reliability, security, and performance.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 features simpler,
faster lifecycle management capabilities than previous releases. For example, one
customer reported 16x higher administrator productivity with Oracle Solaris
compared to Red Hat.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 is the latest in a
series of innovations from Oracle’s growing Systems business designed to enable
customers to become more agile and reduce cost by simplifying their IT using
Oracle hardware and software engineered together. Thousands of customers
worldwide are running Oracle Solaris 11 on Oracle servers and Engineered
Systems today.
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Together with SPARC servers, Oracle
Solaris continues to excel with new
performance records
with Java, Oracle Database and in virtualized
environments.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 provides
investment protection with binary compatibility that has allowed customers to
run their existing apps over multiple generations of Oracle Solaris.
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Customers can seamlessly upgrade to Oracle
Solaris 11.2 within minutes and take full advantage of the new cloud
capabilities.
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Oracle Solaris 11.2 is engineered to
deliver record-breaking performance and efficiency when
deployed with Oracle ZFS Storage
Appliances.
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- “Oracle’s relentless innovation offers customers the strongest cloud product portfolio in the industry. By engineering the OS, the virtualization, SDN and OpenStack together, Oracle Solaris 11.2 provides a complete cloud solution,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “It’s a complete platform for simple, efficient, secure, compliant and open enterprise cloud deployments that can help customers accelerate their businesses and capitalize on the potential of cloud computing while reducing cost.”
- “Cloud computing is creating an entirely new set of expectations for enterprise-class infrastructure software,” said Al Gillen, Program VP, Servers and System Software, IDC. “Where once offering the piece parts -- the OS, virtualization and networking -- was a sufficient starting point, having an integrated solution is becoming more of the expectation for enterprise customers looking to build a private cloud. With Oracle Solaris 11.2, Oracle offers an enterprise-ready solution that includes OpenStack based management, and makes enterprise cloud deployments easier and more affordable.”
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