OmniOS - New Addition to the illumos Familiy

At the DTrace Conference, OmniTI announced OmniOS, an open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris community looking for reliable, innovative, data-intensive application deployment.

OmniTI joins a number of other distributions and projects built on the illumos kernel:

illumian
napp-it
NexentaStor
OmniOS
OpenIndiana
SmartOS
StormOS

The key technologies of illumos that bring significant business advantage to customers:

Solaris containers: combination of system resource controls and the boundary separation provided by zones

Crossbow: provides the building blocks for network virtualization and resource control by virtualizing the stack and network interface card (NIC) around any service (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or container

ZFS file system: combined file system and logical volume manager with superior data integrity protection and scalability

DTrace: provides increased visibility and aids in troubleshooting on any level of the application stack

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