Solaris Technology Headlines

OpenSolaris expert Brian Leonard explains how to get started with the OpenSolaris operating system.

Use jstack and tune your Web applications to prevent performance bottlenecks on chip multithreading (CMT) platforms.

This tutorial uses DTrace, a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the Solaris 10 OS, to analyze several applications and shows how its use can improve performance.

This Sun BluePrints article describes the available technologies and approaches, from a simple system upgrade to a consolidation strategy using built-in virtualization technology. (Login required.)

BigAdmin has gathered a useful collection of documentation, blogs, articles, and more.

Sun announces the availability of Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09, the best high availability platform for the Solaris OS with new innovative features, addressing your high availability needs for end -to-end business solutions in a virtualized or traditional environment.

Install and configure the open-source Joomla! Content Management System with Sun's Unified Storage systems. The Sun servers in this setup run the OpenSolaris 2009.06 release and PHP, MySQL, and Apache web server from pkg.opensolaris.org.

Find out why it's a good idea, what's involved, what you'll need to know, and what to do with your legacy applications.

This article shows how ZRM performs on a Sun Fire X4500 system using ZFS snapshots and the OpenSolaris OS.

Learn the basics of application memory management on Solaris, and avoid and resolve common memory usage problems.