Solaris 10 is the one operating system where real innovation continues. We've designed some incredibly powerful and innovative features into Solaris 10 to help you do two things: reduce costs and reduce complexity. Put innovation to work for you and see what an OS can do for your bottom line. » More

As the only industrial-grade UNIX environment available for both UltraSPARC and x86 platforms, the Solaris OS allows you to select the right platform for the right job. With over 600 new features, Solaris 10 allows you to scale-up or scale-out depending on your business needs. Reduce your costs, complexity, and risk with Solaris and see how it's broad hardware platform support and expanding interoperability with Linux and Windows makes this the ideal OS for the enterprise. » More

More than just an operating system, Solaris 10 includes a wealth of additional software that lets you hit the ground running. » More

A great solution for your server consolidation challenges, Solaris Containers isolate software applications and services using flexible, software-defined boundaries. This gives businesses the ability to ensure service levels by dynamically controlling applications and resources priorities. And each application can be given a private environment, virtually eliminating error propagation, unauthorized access and unintentional intrusions. Companies can expect reduced costs by improving resource utilization and reducing downtime. » More

DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting systemic problems in real time. With DTrace, administrators, integrators and developers can performance tune applications and troubleshoot production systems, all with negligible performance impact. DTrace is an ideal tool for getting visibility into kernal and application activity, giving you insights and performance gains you can't achieve with any other operating system. DTrace will quickly be a strategic tool in your quest to develop higher quality applications, lower costs, reduce time to resolution, and provide greater utilization of your computing resources. » More

Solaris ZFS represents a dramatic advance in the Solaris file system and volume manager model by automating many common tasks that system administrators perform, protecting data from corruption and providing virtually unlimited scalability. Solaris ZFS is built atop virtual storage pools, making it easier to create and delete file systems. This helps reduce costs by simplifying administration and allowing resources to be shared among file systems. The time needed to perform some functions has been reduced by orders of magnitude -- to just seconds. » More

Predictive Self-Healing is an architecture for maximizing the availability of system and application services by automatically diagnosing, isolating and recovering from hardware and application faults. Business-critical applications and essential system services can continue uninterrupted in the event of software failures, major hardware component failures and even software misconfiguration problems. In the event of a system restart, it can be used to automate this process including checking and managing hardware and application dependencies. This enables a business to deliver higher levels of availability while minimizing administrative costs. » More

The Solaris 10 Operating System includes advanced security features designed to protect the enterprise at multiple levels. The system protects against the buffer overflow attacks launched from the network or security violations by trusted insiders. Enhancements includes Solaris Process Rights Management, Solaris Containers technology, and an encryption infrastructure that enables applications to take advantage of cryptographic hardware. » More

The new Solaris TCP/IP Stack is a highly scalable, redesigned networking stack which will dramatically improve performance of your networked services. It dramatically lowers overhead by reducing the instructions required to process packets. This also increases scalability, allowing more connections and enabling server network throughput to grow without increasing the number of CPUs and network interface cards. » More

Carriers and service providers are accelerating the deployment of differentiated, high-value, and secure next-generation services across a converged network. With the most advanced features available in any OS today, the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) helps to bring down the cost of operations, reduces complexity, protects your IT infrastructure, and leaves plenty of room to grow.. » More

Do you wish your Linux and Solaris systems were more interoperable? Now you can with Solaris and Linux workloads running on the same system at the same time, server utilization is increased and there are fewer physical systems to manage. And with Solaris Containers, you can even have your Linux application running in a secure container alongside your Solaris applications. » More

The only industrial-grade UNIX environment for x86 systems, Solaris provides the same features and services across UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon-based systems. Solaris 10 offers exciting new features for relentless availability, extreme performance and unparalleled security that today's enterprises demand. Businesses can leverage the benefits of low-cost hardware yet standardize on a single operating system. » More

With the open systems server market is growing rapidly, Sun continues to offer customers the choice of running Linux, Solaris, or Windows environments on Sun servers. Sun is one of the largest contributors of intellectual property -- after the University of California, Berkeley -- to the open source community, and continues to expand its participation. And now Sun is the only company to bring Linux and the #1 UNIX OS -- the Solaris OS -- to the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon x86-based platforms. Along with the ability to run the Java Desktop System and Java Enterprise system atop Linux, Sun's portfolio is one Linux customers are finding increasingly compelling. » More