Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle allow you a quick look behind the scenes of Oracle Solaris development, and are joined by Joost Pronk van Hoogeven, Oracle Solaris Product Management Director. Without looking at a particular technology or feature, learn how Product Management, Marketing, Engineering and other organizations work together to address customer needs, and how they make sure that the innovative technologies in Oracle Solaris help solve customer's business problems.

During this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss Oracle Solaris IPS, the new network-based Image Packaging System. For this, they are joined by Bart Smaalders, a Senior Software Engineer in the Oracle Solaris Core OS development team. Hear about how this new technology was designed from the ground up, how it utilizes other Solaris technologies like ZFS snapshots and clones, how it helps overcome the challenges that are involved in system patching, and how it delivers many other advantages.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss how you can manage Oracle Solaris, and many other assets in your data center, with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. They are joined by Mike Barrett, the Principal Product Manager for this product. They talk about the latest release of OEM Ops Center and its new features, such as new hardware management capabilities, infrastructure management, integrated lifecycle management (e.g. patching), integrated application-to-disk management, Infiniband support, Oracle Solaris Cluster support, virtualization support, and much more.

Welcome to this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, with our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle. Together with special guest Nicolas Droux, Sr. Principal Engineer in Oracle Solaris Engineering, they discuss the new built-in features and benefits of Oracle Solaris Network Virtualization. Hear about how this technology is not a simple add-on, but rather was designed from the ground up to be an integral part of the networking stack, that specifically benefits workload consolidation through Oracle Solaris Zones.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle are joint by special guest Duncan Hardie, Product Manager for Oracle Solaris Virtualization and Networking. They discuss the built-in consolidation and virtualization features and benefits of Oracle Solaris. Learn about the concept of Oracle Solaris Zones, how it is deployed and used in many development, test, and production environments of existing customers, and especially what is new in the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11 release.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss Oracle Solaris ZFS. Learn about how this technology is way more than a filesystem, what is new, and where the technology is going. On a high level, the concepts of pooled storage, hybrid storage pools with SSDs, data protection, data deduplication, deployment scenarios, and much more, is explained.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts discuss the newly announced SPARC Supercluster from Oracle, and how this showcases Oracle's firm commitment on the SPARC architecture and Oracle Solaris. You will learn about what hardware and software components, that are engineered to work together, are included and available, and how, in combination with Oracle Solaris, a new TPC-C world record has been announced, achieving a nearly unbelievable 30,249,688 transactions per minute (tpmC).

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle discuss the newly announced Solaris and SPARC-based option of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud System. You can learn about what hardware and software components, that are engineered to work together, are included and available, and how this integrated solution, together with Oracle Solaris 11 Express, can be the foundation for your mission critical data centers and cloud environments.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts are joined by Dr. Christoph Schuba 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) they 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.

Tune in to hear Dan, Bill, and Chris talk about Oracle Solaris 11 Express - the most exciting release of the Oracle Solaris platform to date. The hosts discuss how Oracle Solaris 11 Express raises the bar on the functionality introduced in Oracle Solaris 10. They also dive into key features such as the new network-based package management system, new installation technologies, some of the built in network and server virtualization technologies and more. Listen in to find out why customers who adopt Oracle Solaris 11 Express will quickly distance themselves from the competition.