Recent Posts by Scott Lynn

Today, Oracle is announcing Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. GraalVM Enterprise is built on the global standard for enterprise-class application development, Java SE.  GraalVM Enterprise is a multilingual virtual machine, and delivers even higher efficiency, better isolation and greater agility for enterprises in cloud and hybrid environments. GraalVM is ideal for cloud native environments because it starts services up to 100X faster and reduces memory usage up to 5X by...

We are pleased to announce the 2018 Oracle Excellence Awards “Leadership in Infrastructure Transformation" Winners. This elite group of recipients includes customers and partners who are using Oracle Infrastructure Technologies to accelerate innovation and drive business transformation by increasing agility, lowering costs, and reducing IT complexity. This year, our 10 award recipients were selected from amongst hundreds of nominations. The winners represent 5...

If you want to know what sessions at Oracle Open World 2018 are about Oracle Solaris and SPARC, you can find them in the Oracle Solaris and SPARC Focus on Document. Monday at 11:30am, in Moscone South - Room 214, Bill Nesheim, Senior Vice President, Oracle Solaris Development, Masood Heydari, SVP, Hardware Development, and Brian Bream, Chief Technology Office, Collier-IT, will be speaking about what's happening with Oracle Solaris, SPARC and how they are being used in...

Oracle Open World 2018 is next week! We're busy creating session slides, making Hands-on-Labs and constructing demos. But I wanted to take a few moments to highlight one of our sessions. Darren Moffat, our Oracle Solaris Architect, will be joined by Thorsten Muhlmann, from VP Bank, AG.  They will be speaking at about how Oracle Solaris helps simplify securing your data center and the new security capabilities of Oracle Solaris 11.4: Oracle Solaris: Simplifying Security and...

Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 on August 28, 2018, we have much to talk about. For information about the future of Oracle Solaris and SPARC, Bill Nesheim, Senior Vice President of Oracle Solaris Development is joined by Massod Heydari, Senior Vice President of Hardware Development, and Brian Bream, Chief Technology Officer of...

Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've been involved in, this is the best one yet! Oracle Solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use and is designed to always be secure. Some fun facts about Oracle Solaris 11.4 There have been 175 development builds to get us to...

As we continue to work toward release of Oracle Solaris 11.4, we present to you our third release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta. You can download it here, or if you're already running a previous version of Oracle Solaris 11.4 beta, make sure your system is pointing to the beta repo (https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/beta/) as its provider and type 'pkg update'. This will be the last Oracle Solaris 11.4 open beta as we are nearing release and are now going to focus our energies...

Before I get into talking about this, a word from Oracle Legal: The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.  The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle’s products remains at the...

On January 30, 2018, we released the Oracle Solaris 11.4 Open Beta. It has been quite successful. Today, we are announcing that we've refreshed the 11.4 Open Beta. This refresh includes new capabilities and additional bug fixes (over 280 of them) as we drive to the General Availability Release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Some new features in this release are: ZFS Device Removal ZFS Scheduled Scrub SMB 3.1.1 Oracle Solaris Cluster Compliance checking ssh-ldap-getpubkey Also, the Oracle...