Many of the software products produced by Sun Microsystems have been rebranded since the Oracle acquisition. This is a useful table mapping the old names to the new names along with links to the Oracle (or other) home pages for those products.
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Promoting a holistic approach to addressing tiered storage needs, Oracle sets out to show how its solutions portfolio can align the right type of storage – flash, disk, and tape - with customers' unique environment needs for the best optimization for their data center in the white paper "Optimizing Information with a Tiered Storage Architecture". Readers will get an introduction to the concept of tiered storage, the business needs that drive it, and the value of implementing a tiered storage strategy from an Oracle perspective.
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Oracle announced it is the first enterprise tape automation vendor to offer up to 150 petabytes of native storage capacity managed in a single tape library. This is a result of the enhancements to the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive. With the SL8500 supporting the LTO-5 and increasing its scalable capacity from 70,000 to 100,000 tape slots and redundant electronics, the tape libraries now offer a 90 percent increase in capacity over LTO-4 drives and a 16 percent improvement in overall performance, Oracle said.
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"Using the (Open) Solaris Service Management Facility as a Building Block for System Security," a paper by Christoph Schuba, examines how the Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) can be used as a fundamental building block to improve system security. The Service Management Facility is a backwards-compatible extension to the traditional way UNIX services are managed with the rc (run command) utility command scripts.
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