Ten of the top 10 telecommunications providers worldwide have adopted SPARC T4 servers with Oracle Solaris, including Motorola Solutions, Portugal Telecom, Qualcomm, SkyOnline, Telefonica de Espana, United Telephone Mutual Aid Corporation, and Ziggo BV. Oracle recently announced its NEBS Level-3 certified Netra SPARC T4 servers, ideal for next generation telecommunications, providing the performance, scalability and efficiency required for 4G network infrastructures and cloud-based deployments. Oracle Solaris 11 enables telcom customers to take advantage of compelling features, including virtualization of the entire stack, secure, fail-safe boot environments, safe roll-backs, 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots.
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In his how-to piece on managing the ZFS Storage Appliance with JavaScript Peter Brouwer covers three approaches: grouping CLI commands in a file to perform batch processing; executing user-defined scripts; and using workflows. Brouwer writes that his article primarily provides details on how to use JavaScript programming features within the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, as well as providing detail on the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance script architecture, the JavaScript interface into the appliance, and methods for executing scripts. The piece is not, he cautions readers, a tutorial for the JavaScript language nor the appliance's CLI command language.
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Oracle’s SPARC T4 enterprise servers and complete software stack are engineered to enable customers to consolidate multiple application tiers onto a single server, reduce system complexity, and improve utilization. Oracle credits the SPARC T4 with driving midrange server volume that can power enterprise and mission-critical applications on Oracle Solaris 10 or 11, with guaranteed full binary compatibility back to Oracle Solaris 2.6. SPARC T4 server customers who use Solaris 11 can take advantage of cloud-scale life cycle management with secure, fail-safe boot environments, safe roll-backs, 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots.
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How do you manage staff idiosyncrasies within the purview of a system administrator? You could allow access to all of your applications (from Oracle or other vendors) through Oracle Secure Global Desktop, which allows you to host the client side of the applications on dedicated Application Servers in the data center, which are tightly controlled and managed by IT. And Oracle Secure Global Desktop provides a simple, web-browser based way for users to access those applications remotely from Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Solaris. Users don't have to be concerned about installing any client bits or complicated VPN software.
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MySQL 5.0 and 5.1 are now available for Solaris 11. A post on the Solaris and Systems Information for ISVs site all but performs the install (which it calls "as simple as typing) for you.
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