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An Opinion is Offered on Expected Growth Areas

In 2009, multitudes of IT departments had to reassess their datacenters, and many are making enlightening discoveries, like air cooling can be sufficient in keeping systems in optimum condition or 15-30 percent of what is consuming power in their datacenters can be turned off with no harmful effect. So what does this type of complete and thorough datacenter inventorying translate to for the IT industry in 2010? ServerWatch’s Andy Patrizio offers his opinion.

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Help Manage Risk, Safeguard Assets in the Cloud

Leveraging the built-in security capabilities of the Solaris Operating System, including Solaris ZFS and Solaris Containers, Sun reports some of its open source security tools can help in securing data in transit, data at rest, and data in use in the cloud. Sun also has announced its support for the latest security guidance from the Cloud Security Alliance.

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Solutions Accommodate Growth, Improve Service Delivery

Monmouth Independence Network (MINET) is a public utility that delivers voice, data and cable services to 3,500 customers in the cities of Monmouth and Independence, Oregon, using Sun technologies. Faced with the need to expand services while minimizing costs, providing for high performance and availability and scaling to support rapid growth, MINET looked to Sun for the servers, unified storage, flash memory, thin clients, and virtualization necessary to meet these business needs.

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Adds ZFS User and Group Quotas, L2ARC Support, Faster Patching, and More

Sun released Solaris 10 10/09 with new and enhanced features, such as up to two Tbytes disk support for installing and booting the OS, ZFS and Flash installation support, updates to setting ZFS user and group quotas, support of L2ARC, power management capabilities to leverage the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, a “P2V” (Physical to Virtual) method, faster patching and parallel zone patching, etc. There are many more system administration, installation, system resources, device management, system performance, driver, and freeware enhancements included.

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Run Solaris 10 Environments on Top of OpenSolaris Kernel

Solaris 10 Containers on OpenSolaris allows system administrators to adopt technologies found in the OpenSolaris kernel by maintaining Solaris 10 Operating System environments on top of the OpenSolaris kernel. Technologies like Crossbow networking and ZFS enhancements are now available as long as the Solaris 10 environment meets the standard Solaris Zone requirements.

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Covers Discovering, Identifying, Managing (and Patching)

Curious about the advantages to be had by managing Solaris Containers with Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0 Software? Then have a look at the BigAdmin article by Shanthi Srinivasan entitled “Managing Solaris Containers Using Sun xVM Ops Center 2.0,” which will show you how to discover, identify and manage zones in the user interface. The paper also deals with (and simplifies) the patching of zones.

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