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Oracle Announces Solaris 11.1

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Oracle has unveiled the Oracle Solaris 11.1, at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Solaris 11.1 delivers over 300 new performance and feature enhancements to the Oracle Solaris 11 product family, says Oracle.

Oracle Solaris 11  cloud OS  allows customers to build large-scale enterprise-class Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) clouds on SPARC and x86 servers and engineered systems.

Oracle Solaris 11 is the operating system for Oracle’s SPARC T-Series server line, powers Oracle SPARC SuperCluster T4-4, Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems and is a building block for the delivery of the Oracle optimized data center.

Oracle Solaris 11 is  in production with  deployments across ” tens of thousands of systems”, according to the company.

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