Today we released Oracle Solaris 11.4 public beta (#solaris114beta).
This latest update in our continuous innovation stream delivers many new features and enhancements to help secure your data, simplify the system and application lifecycle, and streamline your cloud journey, while preserving your current on-premises investment.
Oracle Solaris is engineered for security at every level, allowing you to spend time innovating while reducing risk. New security features include:
The new sandboxing capability allows you to control exactly what an application can see, and even what different aspects of an application can see. So, for example, you can prevent the DB admin in two different databases from seeing the data files of the other database, even in a container database environment.
We've enhanced compliance to be able to report all your Oracle Solaris 11.4 systems and to also report on configuration changes on the systems in a single step.
SPARC Silicon Secured Memory is now easier to use on applications and can be controlled on a system-wide or file basis easily with our sxadm(1) tool, and is enabled in the kernel by default.
We've continued to simply the system and application life-cycle. Making common tasks easier and taking less time, enabling you to adapt to business needs quickly and run your data center with the utmost confidence and efficiency.
The new StatsStore also has a technology preview web GUI that will show you the statistical data in nice graphs. RAW sends stream for ZFS means that you can now forward compressed and encrypted data between datacenter as efficiently as possible.
No matter what the enterprise workload from ERP to DevOps, Oracle Solaris delivers secure, reliable and agile compute that will setup your business for the new wave of enterprise computing.
That is only a brief look at what's available in Oracle Solaris 11.4 beta. There is a wealth of information already available on Oracle Solaris 11.4. For more information, you can read the data sheet. The What's New is invaluable for finding out the details. For your frequently asked questions, we have the FAQ. Please do read the Release Notes for important information about this release.
There are also many blogs coming to this very site as well as others such as those Brian (Oracle ACE Director, Collier IT) and Erik (Oracle ACE Director, Mythics) already posted.
Go download it now and try it yourself!