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November 27, 2017 27 Nov'17
Veeam enterprise customers gain enhanced physical protection

Veeam's push for additional and deeper enterprise bookings gets a bump with AIX and Solaris protection. The support is based on Cristie Software technology.
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
The 'Sun' starts to set for Oracle Solaris customers

After a round of layoffs to its Solaris division, it appears Oracle is phasing out its hardware portfolio and continuing to focus on the cloud.
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
Oracle to support Docker in next Solaris Zones release

The upcoming release of Oracle Solaris Zones will support Docker's Linux-based, open source application container technology to aid app distribution.
February 10, 2015 10 Feb'15
A guide to the changes in Oracle Exadata X5

The Exadata X5 release has more updates to it than any previous release. This guide provides summaries of the changes Oracle has made for Exadata X5.

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Oracle Sparc SuperCluster has features of Exadata and Exalogic

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The future of SPARC/Solaris is cloudy -- in multiple ways

Cutbacks by Oracle have put the future of SPARC and Solaris in doubt, but the vendor says it's still committed to the technologies as part of its enterprise cloud strategy. Continue Reading
Solaris 11.2 proves to be a cloud-worthy Oracle OS

Oracle's Solaris 11.2 includes cloud-ready features such as a complete OpenStack distribution, kernel zones, Unified Archives and Elastic Virtual Switch. Continue Reading
How to migrate 1.5 TB Oracle database from Solaris to AIX

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Oracle support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in question

Oracle recently announced changes for the storage management features of Oracle Database, leaving some Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) users wondering if Oracle is pulling support for Red Hat. Continue Reading
How to import/export Oracle dump file from Windows to Solaris

Can you give me the command prompt to import and export a dump file from Windows 2003 to Sun Solaris? Continue Reading
Upgrade Oracle 8 on Solaris 8 to 10g on Solaris 10

We are migrating and upgrading our Oracle 8.1.7.4 database on Solaris 8 (64-bit) to a completely new location. The OS will be Solaris 10. The database will be upgraded to 10.2.0.2. What would be the best approach to do that? Continue Reading