Date: 26-Nov-2009   URL: www.sun.com/software/solaris/8/features.xml

Features & Benefits

Features
Feature
Benefit
Live upgrade1
The Solaris OS can be upgraded while the system is still running, which significantly reduces planned downtime . In the event of an upgrade failure, you can quickly fall back to the original boot environment with a simple reboot.
Web Start Flash2
Significantly reduces installation time, configuration complexity, administrative resources, and improves deployment scalability. Customers can now rapidly provision thousands of complete systems over the LAN or WAN.
Role-based access control (RBAC)3
Minimizes the chance that any user will go beyond their realm of expertise and inadvertently -- or intentionally -- make a change that results in a system failure.
UFS Concurrent Direct I/O
Improves database performance by approximately 25% over direct I/O alone. Combines the performance of "raw disk" access with the administrative convenience of file systems for database usage.

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Links Mentioned on This Page

This page is located at: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/8/features.xml

Additional links mentioned are:

  1. Live upgrade: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/liveupgrade/index.xml
  2. Web Start Flash: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/
  3. Role-based access control (RBAC): http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/wp-rbac/wp-rbac.pdf
 
 
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