Confidence in Data Security

Hi. We converted from Red Hat Linux and have been running Solaris 10 and can't believe how amazingly fast the system is. We run Java applications and Tomcat on Linux systems and can never get the performance that Solaris is able to deliver. WOW!! But the real story for us is Solaris Containers.

We are an ASP, Web hosting and e-commerce solutions company. Our Sun machines are running Apache, mySQL, PHP, and Tomcat serving JSP content to various clients. For example, one of our clients hosts a large apartment network search site for accommodations in the city of Halifax. Other clients are logged into different Solaris Containers to run their accounting system. Solaris Containers made it possible for us to run more than one copy of Tomcat and more than one Apache server listening on the same port. The security feature of having all of our clients in separate Solaris Containers makes our clients feel safe about their data. Solaris 10 makes us very happy, and our customers are pleased with our service offerings compared to any other hosting company out there.

Thank you Sun for making an incredible operating system and the Solaris Containers! We have never seen or worked with any beta operating system that is rock solid and stable enough to place into a production environment to really see its reliability and security features. We are very pleased and look forward to implementing Solaris on a larger scale soon.

Margaret Flunkert
VP of Communications

Solaris just keeps getting better and better

I work in the IT services group within a large company managing over 300 systems. The infrastructure makeup is largely SPARC and x86/AMD boxes running various versions of Solaris and Windows server software. We run everything from company financial systems to development compiler boxes.

Having used Solaris since 2.4, the greatest thing I have found about Solaris is its constant improvement. Features are always being added, additional FREE software is always being bundled, and support is second to none. I have seen this OS through the worst of problems to find nothing but constantly driven improvement. Solaris has enabled me to bring an unsupportable computer room into a reliable, accessible, and serviceable data center by using proactive patch management based on Sun Enterprise Installation Services standards. Solaris with Samba has permitted us to share storage between windows servers and improve file system interoperability. We don't have to reboot Solaris to resolve service issues like many services in Windows; we just stop and restart the service in seconds. There are no platforms even close to providing the blade/dynamic reconfiguration abilities like Solaris on 15Ks to support increasing capacity on demand or even maintaining mission-critical domains during a hardware failure.

We are eagerly awaiting Solaris 10 because with Solaris Containers and the ability to use DTrace for troubleshooting application issues, we will be able to better isolate system workloads and aid application developers in software debugging and repair of their applications. Solaris 10 will also permit us to further consolidate systems as we move towards a grid and utility operating model over the next five years.

And with unmatched professional development, I look forward to using Solaris 10 with JDS 3 on my own laptop using Solaris 10 with JDS 3 as my windows replacement for work and home use.

Ronald DeMena

99.99 percent Uptime

My team is responsible for running some of the most visited Web and WAP sites for a large multinational telecommunications company in our small corner of the world (New Zealand). The Web site handles well over a million hits per week, and the WAP site handles more than 750,000 hits per week. We use BEA, Sun’s enterprise, and Apache Web software with Oracle on the back end.

I love Solaris—especially when combined with the Sun enterprise product suite—for its stability, security, and ease of deployment. Our main Web site has had a 99.99 percent uptime over the past three months, thanks to Solaris being rock solid! Solaris also allows us to easily support large, temporary increases in traffic, such as during marketing promotions.

Excellent Solaris package management, inclusion of features such as IPsec, and excellent all around technical support when required have allowed us to use Solaris as a secure base on which to build often complex online applications. Excellent documentation and Sun training programs have allowed us to get new-to-Solaris systems administrators on stream and providing support quickly and efficiently.

I don’t think you’ll be surprised to hear that I always specify Sun products when working on a new project.

Dan Richardson
IT Architect