Tune in to hear an in depth discussion about Oracle's unique virtualization technology - Solaris Containers. Dan Roberts, Chris Armes and Bill Nesheim deep-dive into the capabilities of Solaris Containers including application patching, management, security, and how it's integrated with other Oracle Solaris features like ZFS and Live Upgrade.

In this episode Dan, Bill and Chris check in from the show floor at Oracle OpenWorld with a their thoughts on the show and a recap of the news around Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Solaris 11 Express and offerings for Exadata and Exalogic.

To coincide with the launch of Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2, Dan Roberts, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes are back! In this episode they highlight the key features of each product and how they are developed, integrated and tested with the Oracle Stack to provide improved value for our customers.

By combining the great products and technologies from Oracle and Sun, we are able to deliver a complete solution to our customers - from applications to disk. In this episode, the hosts dive into some of the things we've been doing over the last six months to integrate testing, support, and applications. They also cover early plans for deploying Sun systems in Oracle's Global IT infrastructure and how this will benefit our customers.

In this episode our hosts provide a high-level discussion of the benefits of Oracle Solaris running on Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series and T-Series servers and a drill-down on specific features, functionality and optimizations for increased reliability, scalability, security, and virtualization.

Welcome to the Oracle Solaris: In A Class By Itself podcast. In this first episode, we'll provide an general update on the state of Oracle Solaris and then dive into the features and optimizations that make Oracle Solaris the best operating system for x86-based systems.