Oracle Solaris 11 Express

Oracle announces immediate availability of Oracle Solaris 11 Express, a fully supported, production-ready environment that builds on existing Oracle Solaris 10 features with more than 2,700 new projects and 400 significant innovations.

Oracle Solaris 11 Express provides access to advanced Oracle Solaris features that have been in development for more than five years. It allows customers to deploy the latest Oracle Solaris features today while preparing their environments to take advantage of Oracle Solaris 11. See the press release for further announcement details.

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• Support is available on a wide range of systems
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Unlike other operating systems, Oracle Solaris 11 Express provides extensive compatibility with customers' existing investments while delivering:

• Enhanced Availability—Greatly reduces planned downtime by eliminating traditional patching and significantly reduces maintenance-related reboots with up to a 50 percent reduction in system boot time
• Complete, Built-in Virtualization—Delivers fully virtualized networking features that provide the highest levels of performance with the lowest overhead, adding even more flexibility to Oracle Solaris Zones
• Unified Software Administration—Eases the acquisition, installation, and maintenance of Oracle Solaris and additional Oracle, third-party, and in-house applications through a network-based package system that uses dependency-aware tools to update the entire software stack while virtually eliminating opportunities for errors during updates
• Additional Security—Provides advanced, transparent security to users, applications, and devices while simplifying security with fine-grained delegated management, implementing the latest security standards and continuing Oracle Solaris' leadership position as a highly secure operating system
• Improved Data Management—Includes new advanced storage features such as built-in deduplication, encryption, and thin provisioning that enhance our industry-leading Oracle Solaris ZFS technology and deliver the best storage foundation for virtualized and cloud environments