Recently, a customer asked to review the value proposition of Sun's UltraSPARC T2 servers vs x86 servers. I started off by providing some benchmark results. This page on Sun's web site is a good starting point to access those benchmark results:
Symantec describes Enterprise Vault as "... software-based intelligent archiving platform that stores, manages, and enables discovery of corporate data from email systems, filer server environments, instant messaging platforms, and content management and collaboration systems.
Sun and Oracle have been working together for over 25 years. Each company tries to takes full advantage of the other's technology. A few months ago, Sun published a white paper, "SUN’S REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID", (October 2007), that shows how Sun's technology can be used to create a horizontally scalable grid for database application deployment:
Many IT organizations find that a large migration project can be both a technical and business challenge. Remember that in any non-trivial migration, there will always be challenges—prepare and plan for them. Here are some suggestions for transitioning from Solaris 8/9 to Solaris 10:
To say that Solaris 10 has been successful would be an understatement. The award-winning technical features, the support for a large number of hardware platforms and the process of becoming Open Source via the OpenSolaris project have all contributed to that success. The large number of Solaris 10 downloads (11m+) and OEM agreements with IBM and Dell further validate that success. It is clear that Solaris is and will remain a major operating system for the foreseeable future.
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