Without a doubt, one of the most interesting features of Solaris 10 is its ability to establish numerous virtual systems on a single Solaris box — a concept known as “zones”. This radically ...

Following up on the April 2014 announcement of Solaris 11.2, a modern cloud platform including a full OpenStack distribution, Oracle has announced plans to integrate Docker into Oracle Solaris. Docker ...

Although this concept isn’t exactly new, Solaris Zones add a welcome twist. Zones permit much finer-grained resource control than earlier technologies did. They allow an administrator to create ...

Oracle has announced that it is integrating Docker with Solaris Zones. This annoucement comes close on the heels of Oracle’s decision to join Open Container Initiative (OCI). Containerization ...

New features include built-in virtualisation across storage and networking via Oracle Solaris Zones; a management system that amalgamates data from across the stack; and compatibility with over ...

called Solaris Zones. “It made much more sense to approach the problem that way,” he said. “It was actually cool that after talking about Janus for so long, management was actually able to ...