Sun Ray Software 5.2 is the latest release of Oracle’s server-hosted desktop software. It is dramatically simpler to install and configure and features improved video, audio, smart card, Virtual Private Network (VPN), and network resiliency.
Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s senior vice president, Linux and Virtualization Engineering said, "with Sun Ray Software, IT can centralize the management and maintenance of thousands of thin clients - reducing cost and complexity, while enhancing security. Innovations in Sun Ray Software 5.2 make it even easier to install and update, while delivering an improved end user audio and video experience."
The Sun Ray Server software is supported on Oracle Linux 5.5/5.6, Solaris 10 5/09 or later on SPARC and x86 platforms.
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Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3, the latest update of Oracle Solaris Cluster, is built on the solid foundation of Oracle Solaris and offers the most extensive Oracle enterprise High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions for the largest portfolio of mission-critical applications. Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 has been integrated and thoroughly tested with Oracle's Sun servers, storage, connectivity solutions and Solaris 10 features, and is now additionally qualified with Solaris Trusted Extensions, enabling support for Infiniband for general networking or storage usage.
Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 can be deployed with Oracle Unified Storage in Campus Cluster configurations. It now extends its applications support to new Oracle applications such as Oracle Business Intelligence, PeopleSoft, TimesTen, and MySQL Cluster. This single, integrated HA and DR solution enables multi-tier deployments in virtualized environments, and in this release, Oracle Solaris Containers clusters supports even more configurations including additional applications (Oracle WebLogic Server, Siebel CRM, and more) and integration with Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition.
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The "documentation for Solaris 10 Operating System" page includes links to the HTML and/or PDF versions of the documents for each of the releases of Solaris 10:
In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the hosts are joined by Dr. Christoph Schuba, co-security lead for hardware at Oracle, to talk about Oracle Solaris security. After a brief overview of Oracle's Security Assurance Program (which guides Oracle's engineers in their product development) participants cover some of the key security capabilities in Oracle Solaris 10 such as Trusted Extensions, Zones, Role Based Access Control, transparent cryptographic support, and Secure By Default while also discussing concepts like Mandatory Access Control and the principle of Least Privilege. Dr Schuba takes the lead in discussing Oracle Security Assurance.
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"Solaris 10 Security Essentials" is a book that one of its co-authors, Darren Moffat of Oracle Solaris engineering, promises that readers will find useful with both Solaris 10 and the forthcoming Solaris 11. In a four minute video with OTN's Rick Ramsey, Moffat. The book, Moffat says, is directed to administrators and explains the tools included in Solaris.
The book’s topics include:
Zones virtualization security
System hardening
Trusted Extensions (Multi-layered Security)
Privileges and role-based access control (RBAC)
Cryptographic services and key management
Auditing
Network security
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
The book describes how to make installations secure and how to configure the OS to the particular needs of individual environments, whether they are on the edge of the Internet or running a data center.
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