Why Upgrade to the Solaris 10 OS?

Karen Perkins, last updated on 2009-10-21

Thinking about upgrading, but wondering what the benefits would be?

How about increased uptime and better application performance? Or simplified file management, built-in virtualization features, and built-in debugging tools, plus a potential ROI of over 300% within 5 years, depending on the size of your deployment?

Research done by the Crimson Consulting Group indicates the Solaris 10 OS significantly reduces data center costs, such as administrative and operating costs, maintenance and support, and environmental costs.

But even if you believe the Solaris 10 OS will make your job easier, make you more efficient, and save money, how can you see what impact upgrading will have in your environment and learn more before taking the plunge?

Here are some resources that can help:

• Upgrade to Solaris 10 web site

• What's New in Solaris 10 and Solaris 10 Feature Overview, which describe new developments in the Solaris 10 OS and explain why InfoWorld declared Solaris to be the most innovative server OS in 2008*

• Solaris 10: Ten Moves Ahead of the Competition (WS-245), a free, one-hour training course that describes distinguishing features of the Solaris 10 OS and illustrates the advantages of using the Solaris 10 OS

• White papers:

  • Beyond the Technology Argument: Upgrading to Solaris 10 Delivers Significant Economic Value (March 2008), a white paper (registration required) by the Crimson Consulting Group that provides an interactive ROI tool (requires Flash plug-in) to help you estimate the potential ROI for upgrading your infrastructure to the Solaris 10 OS; also provides example ROIs for a variety of deployment environments, from shops with less than 50 servers to enterprises with 1,000 servers

  • Build Your Business on a Solid Foundation and Envision the Possibilities (Oct. 2007), a white paper (registration required) that explains how the OS, as the foundation beneath mission-critical applications, can have dramatic effects on an organization's profitability, revenue generation, market share, and security

  • The Solaris 10 Advantage: Understanding the Real Cost of Ownership of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Oct. 2007), a white paper (registration required) by the Crimson Consulting Group that describes research on over twenty unique deployments of Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and shows why true cost includes not only "cost to buy," but also "cost to own"

• Good for Business, Good for the Environment web site, which explains how using the Solaris 10 OS and other Sun software, Sun servers, and Sun storage products can cut your energy bills and reduce IT environmental impact