The improvements in Solaris 11.1 and other Oracle/Sun products do have continued.
Not only platform and infrastructure evolved, applications too, notably Oracle Database 12c.
It was an amazing wealth of datacenter evolution around virtualization, specially at the:
- Operating System
- Networking
- Storage
Solaris, of course, continues to be the #1 enterprise cloud-ready operating system.
There's absolutely no way to contest this fact.
This year we saw the introduction of the massive scale-up M6-32.
It is impressively capable of:
- 32 TB or RAM.
Unprecedented huge memory.
Large pages and the Solaris VMM 2.0 can handle that.
- 3072 processing threads.
For a single process!
Yes, the Solaris scheduleres can handle that almost linearly.
- 3 TB/s interconnect.
More than 100x faster than Infiniband.
That's because it's on silicon, that is ns instead of ms.
- 1 TB/s I/O.
Faster than many current parallel file systems.
This redefined the wisdom of a multitude of commodity systems for integer computations.
It's a far less TCO and better ROI against the higher TCA, all part of critical IT indicators.
On the Cloud era, on-premise solutions ought to have the Solaris edge for the IT to survive.
For the next year, as the demand explodes, I have confidence that Solaris will keep up.
But I have to say that deemed competitors shall be put through their paces.
Of course, those of us who survive till there will find out.
Hope to be there and see you there.
Take care and happy new year!
