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Making the Most of the Net Effect in 2001... With Solaris 8 Top Ten Benefits Explained January 7, 2001, Volume 35, Issue 1 The Net Effect is here. It's causing an explosion in the growth of network-connected users, wired and wireless devices, applications, and data. And it's forcing organizations to rethink how they create, manage, extend, and ultimately deliver information technology (IT) services. For more than 15 years, Sun has been telling the world that The Network Is The Computer, and has led the way in helping customers harness the transforming power of the Net Effect. As the foundation for Sun systems, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment enables your IT organization to deliver on the promise of massive scale, continuous real-time computing, and secure systems -- while increasing service levels and decreasing costs. It's time to make the move to the Solaris 8 platform, so you can realize the benefits of the best 64-bit operating environment available-combined with the innovative technology of UltraSPARC III systems. Make it the driving force behind your enterprise's power and productivity -- and make the most of the Net Effect. Top Ten Reasons To Move to Solaris 8 Today
Number 1: Massive scalability ... Solaris 8 defines massive scalability. Its multithreaded design delivers fast performance for key applications and core system functions that your enterprise depends on. The Solaris 8 platform scales to handle heavy network traffic, huge data sets, and compute-intensive processes to meet growing business needs. It provides the foundation to easily expand a computing environment in every direction -- from processes and users, to IP addresses and data sets. Number 2: Reduced cost of ownership ... Solaris 8 offers data center-class reliability, availability, and serviceability at a fraction of the cost of a mainframe. Solaris 8 software is the leading UNIX operating environment, combining power, stability, and predictability with complete backwards compatibility. Moving applications to the Solaris 8 platform is so straightforward that Sun offers a Solaris Application Guarantee compatibility program. Existing applications written to the Solaris Application Binary interface will move to the Solaris 8 platform without a recompile or rebuild, improving system reliability and saving time and money. No other operating system vendor can make this claim. And, Solaris 8 is available for free. Through the Free Solaris Binary License Program, the Solaris 8 Operating Environment -- the dot-com platform -- is available for use at home or at work without paying a license fee. For only the cost of the media ($75 U.S.) plus shipping, you can use the software on an unlimited number of computers with a capacity of eight or fewer CPUs. Number 3: Reactive scalability ... Solaris 8 lets system administrators write and execute scripts to quickly address peak load situations -- as they occur -- and dynamically move system processes from one domain to another. Dynamic System Domains enable system administrators to divide a server running Solaris software into several partitions, allowing multiple applications to run in isolated environments on a single server. Resource allocation across individual domains can be done on the fly, without rebooting any of the partitions, driving cost and time savings. Dynamic System Domains are crucial to maintaining a mission-critical computing platform in IT environments that are expected to deliver higher levels of services. In addition, Automatic Dynamic Reconfiguration (ADR) enables administrators to automate -- and run automatically -- the domain reconfiguration process with a simple script. Number 4: Lower downtime due to planned events ... Because downtime means your company loses productivity and profitability, the Live Upgrade feature of the Solaris 8 platform lets system administrators build a new upgraded operating environment image -- while the system is still running a full application service load. There is no need to take the system offline and interrupt processing or productivity. Plus hot patching greatly reduces system downtime required to diagnose, test, analyze, and correct problems, by allowing patches to take effect in the operating environment -- without rebooting. With Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), a feature unique to Sun and the Solaris 8 Operating Environment, system administrators can add, change, and remove system components such as memory and CPU boards, I/O controllers, network interface cards (NICs), disk drives, and other SCSI devices without shutting down the system. While you work, systems reconfigure themselves to use available resources. Number 5: Highly available system and network resources ... In order to remain productive and profitable throughout the new millennium, your enterprise requires systems and networks that are highly available. With Sun Cluster 3.0 software, system administrators can deliver higher service levels at a lower cost, because Sun Cluster software enables servers and storage devices to be managed as a single entity within your network. Additionally, Dynamic Multipathing technology in Solaris 8 software handles load spreading and failovers with multiple network interface cards, enhancing connection reliability and service times when processing and transferring information. As a result, if one connection is broken, redundancies built into the system ensure overall connection is not lost and data continues to flow. Number 6: Secure and predictable operations ... As more and more mission-critical operations move online, security and predictability increase in importance. The Solaris 8 platform has many built-in features that protect your valuable networks. IPSec provides system authentication and data encryption, with the ability to create virtual private networks. Solaris 8 software includes Kerberos, the industry standard for authenticating users, as an integral building block to implementing single sign-on capability. Other security features include:
Number 7: Connectivity to the world ... More users than ever before are connected to the Net, using more types of devices. With standards-based networking built into the software, Solaris 8 offers proven interoperability and includes the leading-edge features that optimize networking across a range of platforms. The following technologies are implemented by the Solaris 8 platform to simultaneously support millions of users across the globe, anytime, anywhere, with any device.
Number 8: Manageability ... Today, IT organizations are faced with managing the increasing complexity of multitiered infrastructures, with hundreds, even thousands of servers. Reducing complexity requires simplifying and automating as many system management tasks as possible. Through a series of management tools; Solaris Management Console, Diskless Client Management, and Sun Management Center 3.0 software, you can easily manage systems running the Solaris 8 platform. Number 9: High performance application services ... Your system performs multiple processes at high rates, but sometimes you need more power. With Solaris 8, the Network Cache Accelerator dramatically increases your web server performance. And Solaris software leads the industry as the premier, mission-critical platform for deploying applications based on Java technology. In fact, Java technology is tightly integrated into the Solaris Operating Environment to efficiently leverage its multithreaded capabilities, and the Solaris platform improves Java server-side performance and stability for large applications. In many networks, the problem is not one of available power, but of using what's available in the most efficient manner. High-performance computing (HPC) is a requirement for today's demanding IT infrastructures, but most networks do not fully utilize its resources. Sun Grid Engine software aggregates available compute resources and delivers compute power as a network service. And the Number 10 Reason To Move to Solaris 8 in 2001: Universal Operating Environment ... Solaris 8 is universal, delivering technologies that connect billions of users and devices over the Internet. Solaris software also provides extensive support for 37 different languages and 123 locales. Your enterprise can concurrently support multiple language environments concurrently on a server or desktop system with just a single install, and can conveniently add and remove any language environment at any time. Countdown to Success in 2001
With 10 outstanding reasons to move to the Solaris 8 Operating
Environment, isn't it time? It's going to be easier to execute, and far
more rewarding, than any other New Year's resolution you've ever made.
As you go forward in 2001, build your dot-com success on the Solaris 8
Operating Environment -- and deliver on the promise of the Net Effect,
while increasing service levels and decreasing costs.
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