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.

Managing costs in the datacenter is becoming more and more critical in today's IT environments. Listen to how Oracle can help customers gain storage efficiencies with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line.

Learn about an exciting step forward in Oracle's strategy of delivering integrated applications-to-disk solutions. Oracle's Optimized Solutions were announced at OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco and offer major technical and business benefits for organizations seeking to quickly deploy high performance using proven and certified configurations. Join Marshall Choy, Director of Systems Solutions and Business Planning, and Greg Crider, Senior Director of product marketing for Oracle Servers and Storage Systems, as they discuss how Oracle's Optimized Solutions can cut the time required to deploy best-in-class hardware and software solutions by 75%.

Podcast that covers the key reliability, availability and serviceability features of the M-series servers.

Podcast that covers the key M-series virtualization features that make the M-series servers Oracle's best platform for consolidation.

Podcast that covers the features of the M-series servers that provides the scalability and capacity for the most complex enterprise workloads.

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.

Learn about the new SPARC T3 servers - the next generation of scalable, secure and integrated systems from Oracle. Hear from Helmut Buehler, SPARC T3 product manager, how Oracle has delivered innovative design and world record performance through a processor and family of servers that also provide the highest levels of security and investment protection. He will discuss how the SPARC T3 systems have been integrated with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, and Oracle Applications and illustrate Oracle's strategy of creating hardware and software solutions engineered to work together.

Datacenter administrators face dramatically increasing rates of change and complexity in their datacenters today. Join IDC Research Director, Mary Johnston Turner, as she discuses her perspective on these operational challenges, and the need for an automated and integrated management solution to address them.