Recent Posts by Joost Pronk Van Hoogeveen

If you're like me you like new info on how you can do things better, or on features of newly released product versions. So I try to keep up with blogs other folks write and new versions of related products that get released and there are a few things I'd like to share. Firstly, I'd like to highlight a series of blogs by Joerg Moellenkamp on his c0t0d0s0 blog on how to use Oracle Solaris 11.4 features. Lately he's been on fire! He has released a blog nearly every day and it...

As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by James McPherson and Darryl Gove, we're now bringing back a set of blogs by one of our long time security engineers Glenn Faden. These posts he wrote under the handle Trusted Blogger cover various aspects of Oracle Solaris in the security space and how to use and configure its often unique features. Some of the older...

In previous blogs, we have discussed the great improvements available in Oracle Solaris 11.4, and how important it is for customers to plan for a move to Oracle Solaris 11.4 as quickly as they can. We’re announcing that after January 2021 Oracle will only offer new fixes for Oracle Solaris 11.3 through Extended Support. Typically Oracle stops releasing Support Readiness Updates (SRUs) for one Oracle Solaris 11 update shortly after the next one is released, we've done this...

Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September 29, starting at 9 AM PT, and registration is available here. We’ll talk about Oracle Solaris, SPARC, and x86 compute platforms for on-prem deployments, and how they are consistent, secure, and innovative. Customers are invited to directly engage with Oracle engineers to learn about...

I'm writing a short blog to give you a heads up that we'll be doing another Virtual Seminar on Oracle Solaris and SPARC next week on April 21st. In this seminar Renato, Martin and myself will be giving you an update on where we are with Oracle Solaris and SPARC Systems, plus we'll be giving a deeper dive and demo's on some of the new features and how to use them. We'll also have a team of folks from Oracle Solaris Engineering ready to answer questions during the seminar, so if...

One of the things I like to do on a somewhat regular basis is point out interesting upcoming customer events or interesting blogs. The first link is to a blog by Joerg Moellenkamp about a series of Business Breakfast events (5 in total) he's helping to organize together with Marcel Hofstetter from Jomasoft. They'll be talking about Oracle Solaris 11.4, the Jomasoft VDCF tool, and the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance. These are events local to Germany and presumably will be...

Since our last update on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Java we've been getting more questions, so we wanted to write a quick blog to share the latest on this topic. There are a lot of applications out there running on Oracle Java SE 8 and Oracle Java SE 11, these are mature and widely adopted platforms. As you can see on the Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap, Oracle is committed to supporting these releases until at least 2025 and 2026 respectively. In addition, this page notes: "Orac...

We got you covered on your way to Oracle Solaris 11 OS The Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System (OS) platform provides major improvements over earlier releases in areas critical to our customers, including gains in security, compliance, performance, virtualization, and observability. There are important business reasons for you to adopt the Oracle Solaris 11 OS release, including that it is much easier to manage and it can help to lower your cost to run and maintain your IT...

In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) so it gives you access to all its modules. In this blog I wanted to highlight the IPS RAD module and how you can use it through the REST interface to do some common IPS tasks using it. Where in the previous blog I showed the initial REST...