Lehman Brothers has earned a seat on Sun Microsystems' Solaris Technical Advisory Board for its innovative implementation of SolarisTM Live Upgrade, enabling it to work with third-party volume management software.

"When we first learned about Lehman Brothers' framework during regular discussions with their IT engineering team, we were impressed by their depth of understanding and superlative technical skills," said John Loiacono, vice president, operating platforms group, Sun Microsystems. "Lehman Brothers has always been an innovator in global finance and they have been able to quickly solve this industry-wide issue. We'd like to formally acknowledge Lehman Brother's innovative spirit, and look forward to working with them in the future."

"Uptime is crucial for financial services. The challenge is that system upgrades are often critical to stability, but often require extended maintenance windows and are risky to implement," said Bridget O'Connor, managing director and chief technology officer at Lehman Brothers. "The technology developed by Lehman Brothers enables such critical upgrades to be performed safely with minimal interruption to services, especially when paired with Solaris."

This custom functionality, which Lehman Brothers' IT staff designed in-house, extends the Solaris Live Upgrade software feature to utilize alternative third-party storage volume management software. This allows the company to make on-the-fly upgrades of third-party volume management software while the entire system is still in full production. This is a very desirable feature for firms in the financial services industry. Sun plans to have this feature available to the general public within the year.

An administrator using Solaris Live Upgrade software can upgrade alternative boot environment to the latest operating system release, as well as apply patches or perform routine maintenance, while the OS continues to run. If the upgrade is not satisfactory after reboot, Solaris Live Upgrade software can enable fallback to the previous environment. [...read more...]

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