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What's New with OpenSolaris 2009.06?

An interview with Distinguished Engineer - Stephen Hahn about the new enterprise features and networking technologies in OpenSolaris.

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OpenSolaris 2009.06 delivers industry leading features in networking, storage and virtualization, along with significant performance enhancements and developer productivity updates, the best in open source software and a vibrant development community.

OpenSolaris is the one platform you need, to go from the desktop to production; it scales with you from the smallest Intel Atom processors through enterprise systems with hundreds of CPUs. All the software that you need to get up and running fast is available through the Image Packaging System (IPS), including the latest developer tools and a lightning fast optimized production web stack.

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What's new with 2009.06
OpenSolaris 2009.06 is the latest release of the OpenSolaris Operating System, a powerful and complete operating environment for users, developers and deployers. Click here to learn more.

» Industry Leading Features

Features

Key Feature Icon: Desktop

Desktop
The OpenSolaris Desktop is an attractive environment with a complete suite of productivity applications, developer tools and utilities for desktop systems and laptops.

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Key Feature: Server

Server
With leading edge technologies and the performance and scalability you need, OpenSolaris offers a complete, flexible and secure operating system for a production server environment.

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Key Feature Icon: Storage

Storage
An operating environment that is ideal for storage deployers and administrators, OpenSolaris 2009.06 makes it easy to turn any server into a storage server with the innovation of ZFS data services, COMSTAR framework for creating iSCSI storage targets and greater interoperability with Microsoft environments with our enhanced CIFS services.

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Virtualization

Virtualization
Virtualization is a powerful tool for reducing IT infrastructure costs and managing service levels. But, consolidating applications onto fewer systems often involves changing how they're deployed, which can be very expensive. OpenSolaris virtualization has cost-effective answers for developing for multiple OS platforms, consolidating disparate systems, and isolating application environments.

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Key Feature Icon: Networking

Networking
OpenSolaris is the industry leading platform for networking environments. Project Crossbow - new in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - provides advanced network virtualization and enhances the ability to consolidate workloads on a single server.

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Key Feature Icon: Availability

Availability
Safely deploy your mission critical services on OpenSolaris: extend OpenSolaris with advanced high availability clustering. Get a simple, thoroughly tested, and production-ready high availability solution for OpenSolaris 2009.06.

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FEATURED PRESENTATION

How To Upgrade to OpenSolaris 2009.06

A screencast on how to upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.11 to 2009.06, both through GUI and command line.

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