The differences between the GlassFish open source and commercial editions are examined in Arun Gupta's blog, where he notes that the GlassFish Server Open Source Edition provides a full Java EE 6 compliant, is free, and an open source application server. The Oracle GlassFish Server is Oracle's commercially supported GlassFish Server distribution and constitutes a suite of features that improve performance, allow automatic backup of configuration and application data, enable fine-grained monitoring, and enable more secure and highly available production deployments. Customers also get 24 x 7 support, priority for their bug fixes and patches/hot fixes for them.
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Igloo Products Corporation, the world's #1 cooler manufacturer, has migrated its legacy IBM mainframe IT infrastructure to Oracle's Sun SPARC servers and Oracle software in a move that is anticipated to deliver 169% ROI in three years and a break-even point in the first year. Igloo has consolidated its operations on two Sun SPARC Enterprise T-Series servers -- the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 -- in a virtualized system employing Oracle Solaris Containers. Igloo has determined that it can reduce its former monthly hosting fees by half now that it uses 66% fewer servers and 83% fewer CPUs.
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In an eloquent post, Constantin Gonzalez both introduces the new and compelling features of Solaris 11 and issues an invitation to the launch on November 9. Those new features that Gonzalez writes about include a new package manager, boot environments, and an automated installer. The migration issues of the past can, with Solaris 11, remain in the past, as one can now use Solaris 10 Containers to import Solaris 10 installations into Solaris 11 as a branded zone: the essence of management simplicity. And, with Project Crossbow, Gonzalez continues, Solaris 11 allows users to enjoy limitless network virtualization.
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Using two SPARC T4-4 servers to run the application and database tiers and one SPARC T4-2 server to run the webserver tier, Oracle demonstrated world record performance of 15,000 concurrent users running the PeopleSoft HRMS Self-Service 9.1 benchmark on Oracle Solaris 10. This combination of the SPARC T4 servers running the PeopleSoft HRMS 9.1 benchmark supports 3.8x more online users with faster response time compared to the best published result from IBM on the previous PeopleSoft HRMS 8.9 benchmark. The average CPU utilization on the SPARC T4-4 server in the application tier handling 15,000 users was less than 50%, which leaves significant room for application growth. The application tier was configured with two PeopleSoft application server instances on the SPARC T4-4 server hosted in two separate Oracle Solaris Containers to demonstrate consolidation of multiple application, ease of administration, and load balancing.
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The battle cry of IT brinksmanship, "If it ain't broke, don’t fix it," means that risk has triumphed over cost. This fate is commonplace for legacy applications which can be found sitting on an outdated/unsupported box, running on ancient OS sporting a "Do Not Touch" sign.
Not important enough to fix; too important to fail. These applications are at risk of failure. And everyone knows it.
AppZero offers an alternative that changes the risk/cost math by eliminating the risk at a slashed cost/effort – with no re-engineering or coding required.
Over the last few years, we have helped a number of significant IT operations use our application virtualization solution to migrate their legacy Solaris applications onto newer systems that are reliable and powerful systems. Prior to learning about AppZero, these organizations lived with risk hunting spare parts for their hardware systems from Ebay and Craigslist – sites that, like the old buffalo grounds, are now hunted-out. At this point, risk becomes probability.
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