Solaris 10 OS on AMD Opteron Processor-based Systems—A Unique Proposition

A powerful combination for your business Sun and AMD take x64 computing to a new level with the breakthrough performance of AMD Opteron processor-based systems combined with the Solaris 10 OS. By combining the best of free and open source software with the most powerful industry-standard platforms, customers can take advantage of the most robust and secure, yet economical Web, database, and application servers.

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Key Highlights

A unique partnership

Coengineering and technology collaboration

Growing the Solaris OS ecosystem for AMD64

Engaging the community

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Price/performance

World-record performance

Improve application performance

Memory placement optimization

Enabling data-intensive computing

Solaris for lower TCO

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Product

Multicore platform support

Virtualization on x64

Built to scale

DTrace

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Predictive Self-Healing

An innovative capability in Solaris 10, Predictive Self-Healing automaticallydiagnoses, isolates, and recovers from many hardware and application faults. As a result, business-critical applications and essential system servicescan continue uninterrupted in the event of software failures and major hardware component failures, even software misconfiguration problems. To deliver fault management support for AMD Opteron processor-based systems, Sun worked closely with AMD.

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Open source

For organizations that require access to the source code when choosing an operating system, the Solaris OS—millions of lines of code—has been released to the open source community via opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris gives developers and users a low-risk option for evaluating Solaris source, plus an excellent opportunity to participate in developing the Solaris OS. Additionally, 188 leading open source packages—like Apache, Tomcat and Samba—are included, precompiled and ready to go.

Learn More

To find out about the Solaris 10 OS and download it for free, please visit sun.com/solaris. Read about Sun's x64 systemsat sun.com/x64 and see details of Solaris 10 world records at sun.com/solaris/benchmarks. Find out if Solaris 10 is supported on your x64 system at sun.com/bigadmin/hcl. Learn to develop Solaris applications at developers.sun.com/solaris.

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