When Oracle Corp. acquired to save some brands of Sun Microsystems April 2009 through January 2010, much was made about the enterprise software giant’s entry to the hardware business. Now, two years on, things are looking up for one of the industry’s better known platforms for performance and stability through the last couple decades—Solaris. Just last month, Markus Flierl, Vice President of Software Development, Oracle, told MIS Asia what Oracle has been doing to breathe new life into Solaris and where he expects the new platform to add value to industry users.

MIS Asia: What was it about the virtues of Solaris 11 that you found to be most important for business users?
Markus Flierl: Oracle Solaris 11 introduces a number of innovations, features and tools aimed at solving the most complex enterprise computing challenges. Going from a large number of physical nodes to a cloud environment with a 10 times larger number of virtual systems creates huge challenges for customers. Oracle Solaris 11 offers a set of features that make it the ideal platform for deploying a private or public cloud, but also for managing their traditional data centre environment.

Oracle Solaris 11 offers a new standard for software lifecycle management and provides business users with the agility and ease of use required to manage large-scale cloud deployments, for instance, by allowing them to update their systems 4 times faster than Red Hat 6. Integrated zero overhead virtualisation provides flexibility for customers and allows them to make the most of their compute, storage and network resources, at no additional cost.

In addition, Oracle Solaris 11 includes built in security and data services, which provide security protection and innovative data services like de-duplication and encryption at no additional cost. These services often cost business thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional software licences and integration costs on other operating systems.

Now that the product is being driven by Oracle out onto the market, how do you see it being deployed differently by enterprises in Singapore, Asia and globally?
Oracle Solaris 11 is the first cloud operating system on the market and we are seeing increasing global customer demand to create and deploy more distributed cloud applications and services. Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 extends the virtualisation and reliability features in Solaris 11 to provide highly available virtual clusters to allow mission critical applications to move to an Oracle Solaris-based cloud infrastructure.

Oracle Solaris 11 continues to lead the market segment as the best deployment platform for enterprise applications and the number one platform for Oracle Database 11g deployments. Now that Oracle Solaris is part

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