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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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Solaris 11.2 proves to be a cloud-worthy Oracle OS

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How to migrate 1.5 TB Oracle database from Solaris to AIX

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