Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) today announced the availability of Solaris(TM) Cluster 3.2 11/09 software, the most innovative, cost-effective high availability platform based on the Solaris Operating System (OS). The latest release of Solaris Cluster enables increased use of the cost-saving, built-in virtualization features of the Solaris OS, allowing customers to run Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel CRM 8, Single Instance Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) inside Solaris Containers. It also provides greater consolidation options for end-to-end high availability and disaster recovery solutions with Oracle applications and databases. The Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 software is available for download at: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/cluster/get.html.

“Customers using Solaris Cluster technology to achieve significant cost savings by optimizing compute resource utilization and consolidating multi-tier applications and databases are also finding benefits and cost savings from improved end-to-end system reliability, availability and serviceability,” said Jim McHugh, vice president of Datacenter Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Customers can reduce software licensing fees, system management overhead and hardware costs, as well as get great investment protection with more than ten years of support for each product version of Solaris Cluster.”

Solaris Cluster is scalable and extensible across server, storage, networking and software components, providing a complete high availability and disaster recovery ecosystem. Tightly coupled with the Solaris OS, Solaris Cluster 3.2 11/09 software extends Solaris' virtualization and single instance high availability features into global disaster recovery solutions, providing significantly faster failover notification and minimal application downtime in case of a failure. The new release extends the support for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) with Oracle RAC databases to single instance Oracle databases in different types of Solaris Container deployment. This extended integration further utilizes the ease of use and performance of ASM in a fully virtualized and highly available environment, while providing a cost-effective solution.

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