What is Solaris 10

[Sean J]

What is Solaris 10? Have anyone heard about it?

[MindSpace]

Solaris is a Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS.

The Solaris Operating System delivers the performance, stability and security to users.

[Yitzchak909]

Features of Solaris 10

• Security: Solaris 10 includes some of the world's most advanced security features, such as Process and User Rights Management, Trusted Extensions for Mandatory Access Control, the Cryptographic Framework and Secure By Default Networking that allow you to safely deliver new solutions, consolidate with security and protect mission-critical data.
  
• Performance: Solaris 10 delivers indisputable performance advantages for database, Web, and Java technology-based services, as well as massive scalability, shattering world records by delivering unbeatable price/performance advantages.
  
• Networking: With its optimized network stack and support for today’s advanced network computing protocols, Solaris 10 delivers high-performance networking to most applications without modification.
  
• Data Management: Solaris 10 offers dramatic advances in file system and volume management by delivering virtually unlimited capacity and near-zero administration.
  
• Interoperability: Understanding that businesses today rely on a mix of technologies from a variety of vendors, Solaris 10 provides tools to enable seamless interoperability with hundreds of heterogeneous hardware and software platforms.
  
• Observability: The Solaris 10 release gives you observability into your system with tools such as Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace), which enables real-time application debugging and optimization.
  
• Platform Choice: Solaris 10 is fully supported on more than 900 SPARC-based and x64/x86-based systems from top manufacturers, including systems from Sun, Dell, HP, and IBM.
  
• Virtualization: The Solaris 10 OS includes industry-first virtualization features such as Solaris Containers, which let you consolidate, isolate, and protect thousands of applications on a single server.
  
• Availability: New Solaris 10 features, such as Predictive Self Healing, support automatic diagnosis and recovery from hardware and application faults, maximizing system uptime.
  
• Support & Services: Offering a broad portfolio of world-class services, Sun can help you extract maximum value from the Solaris 10 Operating System.