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Sun Microsystems launches the latest version of OpenSolaris, the time slider reveals the instrument display and a new partnership with Toshiba to build the line laptop OpenSolaris OpenSolaris ZFS provides powerful and eco-efficiency Desktop, DataCenter and Open Storage operating system optimized for next-generation Intel Core microarchitecture (Nehalem)
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRWEB) December 10, 2008
“Customers who want to improve their efficiency and data center to reduce the environmental impact can trust Sun to deliver affordable and highly effective open source solutions such as OpenSolaris, GlassFish and MySQL, “said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems Group at Sun Microsystems.” Innovations break for developers, installers and administrators in a freely available software platform combined with a global service and support is exciting for everyone. ”
OpenSolaris provides a platform for developers to take their work to test for distribution worldwide. New features in OpenSolaris include Time Slider, an easy to use graphical interface that brings powerful ZFS functionality, like a snapshot, to all users. The developers have also expanded access to repositories allowing them to get innovations to all OpenSolaris users through the updated package manager. Sun also extended OpenSolaris subscription options to meet the growing needs of customers deploying open source solutions. Customers who want to run OpenSolaris as the operating system of choice now two subscription plans affordable support from Sun? production and essential? based on their technology and business needs.
For developers who want a laptop pre-installed OpenSolaris, Sun and Toshiba have announced a strategic partnership to offer OpenSolaris on Toshiba laptops in early 2009. “Sun Microsystems and Toshiba America Information Systems announced today a new initiative to work together and to offer new laptops, pre-configured and optimized for the new OpenSolaris 2008.11 operating system that all OpenSolaris users have easy access to a portable platform for first class, “said Carl Pinto, vice president of product planning and product marketing, Digital Products Division, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.” We hope to deliver these in the first part of 2009 before the United States, but with the objective of growing worldwide during the duration of the program. “
Record performance
Over the past six months, OpenSolaris has achieved several world records for reference and the results of high level performance. This month, Sun has made a world record open source result of 1197.10 SPECjAppServer2004JOPS @ Standard. The SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark is the first all open source stack published and delivered to an order of magnitude better price performance and the score of the competition. This result demonstrates the advantage of Sun Web 2.0 and Enterprise deployments market and reflects the complex applications and high volume transaction processing for the customer’s environment.
addition to performance gains this latest version, it is easier for companies to deploy OpenSolaris solutions within their data centers. These improvements include a new Automated Installer application, which allows users to decide which packages to include in the installation of the Web service, the manufacturer Distro, allowing users to create their own custom image for distribution through their systems and a function storage, COMSTAR Storage Framework that lets developers create an open storage server with OpenSolaris.
OpenSolaris with Intel and AMD
OpenSolaris 2008.11
exploits the generation of Intel? Xeon? processors and next generation of Intel? Core (TM) microarchitecture (codenamed Nehalem). This version of the operating system will be optimized for the Intel Core microarchitecture next generation. Some highlights of the operating system allows more support for further improving the overall performance of the system, taking advantage of Intel? Fast-Path (TM) Interconnect, better scalability with Intel? Hyper-Threading technology and virtualization with support for Intel? The virtualization technology. For more information.
“Intel is an active leader in open source development community,” said Doug Fisher, Intel vice president and general manager Systems Software Division. “With deep technical collaborations with Sun, OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes optimizations for performance, scalability, power management and virtualization for Intel Xeon based. This solution offers a powerful combination for our customers and developers of database for the generation of microarchitecture and the next Intel. “
addition, Sun and AMD are working together to enjoy the latest AMD? Opteron? processor technology. The OpenSolaris community provides AMD the ability to directly add support for new Shanghai processor features as they become available, and provides immediate access to the source operating system to adjust processor performance improvement.
“In this economy, the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor is the right solution at the right time for the OpenSolaris community. With most consistent x86 platform industry, we offer IT managers the ability to obtain evolutionary breakthrough performance and performance per watt increases, “said Randy Allen, Senior Vice President, Computing Solutions Group, AMD. “Furthermore, we have our own Research Center operating system developers who contribute directly to the OpenSolaris community working on the next generation of features to help improve the overall reliability and manageability of AMD Opteron-based systems.”
About OpenSolaris
OpenSolaris is an open source project created by Sun Microsystems in 2005. In May 2008 the community delivered the OpenSolaris Operating System, a single distribution for desktop deployments, server and HPC. OpenSolaris, based on the Solaris kernel and created through community collaboration, offers an unrivaled development and deployment environment offering the right mix of rapid innovation, platform stability and support to meet the needs of business and development. There are over 200,000 community members registered.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision – “The Network Is The Computer” – Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun is present in over 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, OpenSolaris, MySQL and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries.
SPEC
, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The results of that http://www.spec.org 26/09/2008. 2x Sun Fire X4150 (8 cores, 2 chips) and Sun Fire X1450 1x (4 cores, 1 chip) 1197.10 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS @ Standard; 1xHP BL460c (8 cores, 2 chips) and 1xHP BL480c (8 cores, 2 chips) 2056, 27 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS @ Standard; 1xHP rx2660 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1xHP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) 1578.16 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS @ Standard; 1xHP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1xrx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS @ Standard; 1x IBM P570 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1xIBM P550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS @ Standard. For all published SPECjAppServer2004.
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