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Articles for the keywords: Solaris 11
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18 May 2013
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Oracle Solaris 11 and PCI DSS [31007]
Meeting PCI DSS Compliance with Oracle Solaris 11
"This paper provides guidance to IT professionals who are implementing Oracle Solaris 11 within their Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) and to the Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) assessing those environments. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to all organizations that store, process, or transmit cardholder data. This includes entities such as merchants, service providers, payment gateways, data centers, and outsourced service providers.
This guidance is not intended as an in-depth technical assessment of Oracle Solaris 11 or an installation guide, but rather an analysis of its ability to meet and support the PCI DSS requirements. In evaluation of Oracle Solaris 11 and its security capabilities, Coalfire has determined that it is fully capable of supporting PCI DSS compliance.
The Oracle Solaris 11 features highlighted within this document specifically address PCI DSS compliance; however, the same basic tenets can be used for meeting other regulatory environment standards such as the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLBA), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)."
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10 May 2013
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How to Build A Cloud for Family and Friends Using Oracle Solaris 11 [30909]
by Suk Kim, Oracle ACE Director
Oracle Solaris 11 is a cloud operating system that is very powerful. Using Oracle Solaris 11, you will be able to provide various services. For example, it is possible to create storage that can be utilized by AjaXplorer, which provides Web-based access to files.
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This article describes a PHP-based open source solution that uses AjaXplorer, Oracle Solaris 11.1, and Apache Web server (although other Web servers can be used) to build a cloud-based storage service that is similar to Dropbox.
Of course, you can also build the storage in the same way using AjaXplorer with other operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. However, when using Oracle Solaris 11.1, you will be able to configure the storage in a more powerful and secure way by taking advantage of ZFS.
After you implement the solution described in this article, you will be able to use any Web browser to access the Web-based storage. In addition, you can use apps on Android and Apple iOS smartphones and tablets to access the storage...
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22 Apr 2013
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Solaris 11 outperforms RHEL 6 on 2 socket Intel servers [30731]
Compare SPECjbb on servers with same Intel chips
Along time Sun employee writes, "I've often heard the term "Slow-laris" applied to Oracle's premier Unix operating system. Most frequently this was in comparison to the Linux OS running on small two socket servers. I will admit that in the Solaris 8 and 9 timeframe engineering decisions were made to benefit scalability to 64 sockets that sometimes penalized smaller servers. In addition, because of Solaris long history and derivation from ATT and BSD Unix code, there was undoubtedly a bit of code labeled, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
With the advent of Solaris 10 and Dynamic Tracing, (DTrace) we actually hunted down and killed a number of those legacy code segments using a new philosophy labeled internally, "If Solaris is slower than Linux on the same hardware, it's a bug."
As a result, Solaris 11 provides higher performance than Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 on basically identical 2 socket hardware as measured by the SPECjbb benchmark..."
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22 Apr 2013
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How Oracle Solaris Engineering Thinks [30532]
Solaris Engineer Liane Praza Pulls Back the Curtain
In two brief videos (both about two minutes long) recorded at Oracle Solaris Innovations Workshop, Solaris Engineer Liane Praza explains why Oracle Solaris engineering continues to build virtualization capabilities into the OS instead of adding more features and better management to the hypervisor and then explains what it is about Solaris that makes it such a good platform for managing virtual machines . As Rick Ramsey notes, this is a perfect opportunity to glimpse how Oracle's engineering staff think about Solaris and the other solutions that emerge from their shop.
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22 Apr 2013
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Oracle Solaris and SPARC Performance [30626]
Larry Wake draws attention to Steve Sistare's three-part blog
Larry Wake draws attention to Steve Sistare's three-part blog "Massive Solaris Scalability for the T5-8 and M5-32," in which he discusses scaling a general purpose operating system to handle a single system image with thousands of CPUs and tens of terabytes (TB) of memory; in Part 2 he explains how improvements to Solaris enable superior performance and scaling on T5 and M5 systems, and in part 3 he focuses on enhancements made in the Scheduler, Devices, Tools, and Reboot areas of Solaris.
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