HP Customers Benefit from Solaris Integration on ProLiant Servers
The agreement makes Sun a ProLiant strategic OS Distribution Partner and elevates Solaris into the lineup of key operating systems available with ProLiant servers. Customers can now get, directly from the HP factory, an integrated, Solaris-based solution that delivers the Solaris reliability, security, scalability and performance they need to run their business.
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Learn More About Solaris
Group manager for Solaris marketing Larry Wake summarizes the features of the latest release of the Solaris OS in this video.
More About Solaris and HP
Over 60 HP ProLiant servers are already certified for Solaris. Check out the Solaris Hardware Compatibility List for details.
You can learn more about the HP ProLiant Servers that are certified by HP to run Solaris.
Solaris is one of the most robust and sophisticated operating systems on the market today, so there is much about it you should know. Learn more about it here, including its ZFS file system, virtualization tools, and scalability. And you can download it for free
any time you want.
You can read the Press Release to learn
more about the new Solaris distribution agreement between Sun and HP.
Solaris Certification and Support
- Only certified HP ProLiant servers can get HP support for Solaris. These servers have gone through rigorous testing standards that are set by the Hardware Certification Test Suite at Sun. Those HP systems listed as certified in the Hardware Compatibility List have successfully passed those tests run by HP engineering teams.
"Nokia Siemens Networks is encouraged to see this important agreement being made. These types of agreements enable Nokia Siemens Networks to leverage industry hardware and software components from various suppliers into our products and solutions and will continue to enable NSN to focus our R&D and innovation to the benefits of our customers." – Stephan Scholz - CTO at Nokia Siemens Networks
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Listen to the Conference Call
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You can listen to the replay of Sun executive vice president John Fowler and Mark Potter and Gary Budzinski from Hewlett-Packard discussing the new agreement with analysts.
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What They're Saying
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Thur, 26 Feb 2009
The multi-year deal marks the first time the hardware manufacturer has explicitly endorsed Sun's operating systems.
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Thur, 26 Feb 2009
Bloggism.net says the partnership is good news for Sun, because HP's ProLiant leads the x86 server market with 38.2% factory-revenue share in the fourth quarter of 2008 (IDC). The deal also strengthens Solaris' position to be a long-term Unix-variant survivor.
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Thur, 26 Feb 2009
As part of the deal, the two companies have agreed to collaborate on integrating Solaris and HP Insight software in ProLiant servers in order to reduce operational costs.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
Sun's Matt Dixon, who worked at HP early in his career, calls the Sun/HP news "a milestone relationship" forged by key industry players.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
The new partnership benefits both companies. It gives HP another operating system to offer its customers, while it gives Sun a wider distribution network for its software.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
Sun and HP said providing a single point of purchase, contact, and accountability for Solaris on ProLiant improves the overall customer experience.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
The deal elevates Sun to a strategic partner for HP's ProLiant servers and could also help each in its battle with a common enemy: IBM.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
Sun and HP agreed to have HP distribute the Solaris OS in its ProLiant line of servers, the latest agreement by Sun aimed at expanding the reach of its open source software.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009
The Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have announced details of an expanded multi-year OEM partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and provide software technical support for Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms.
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