Additionally, there are various security, performance and compliance enhancements introduced in Oracle’s new release.
Oracle Corp newly launched the latest version of its Solaris enterprise Unix platform: Solaris 11.2. Notably, this new version of Solaris was in beta since April. The latest release comes with several key enhancements: the support for OpenStack as well as software-defined networking (SDN). Additionally, there are various security, performance and compliance enhancements introduced in Oracle’s new release.
Solaris 11.2 comes with OpenStack integration, which is perhaps its most important enhancement. The latest version runs the most recent version of the popular toolbox for building clouds: OpenStack Havana. Meanwhile, the inclusion of software-defined networking (SDN) support is seen as Oracle’s ongoing attempt to transform its Exalogic Elastic Cloud into one-stop datacenters. Up until now, Exalogic boxes were being increasingly used in the form of massive servers or for transaction processing. They were therefore not satisfying their actual goal, that is, working as cloud-hosting systems. However, with SDN support added, Oracle is eying to change all this. Oracle plans to directly take on network equipment makers like Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and Brocade with the introduction of Solaris 11.2. Enterprises using Solaris can now simply purchase a handful of Solaris boxes and run their mission-critical clouds. In addition, they can also use bits of OpenStack without needing additional hardware.
With that said, Oracle has also announced that Solaris 11.2 will support OpenDaylight SDN in near future. OpenDaylight project is an open-source platform meant for network programmability that will enable SDN and create a solid foundation for Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) for networks.
