Sun Microsystems Inc. is adding an advanced, more powerful 128-bit ZFS file system, new virtualization technologies and the Postgres open-source database to its Solaris 10 Unix operating system, as ...

Some IT users may question the need for running Sun Microsystems Inc.’s Solaris operating system on IBM’s Power processor — something the chip wasn’t designed for. But for Solaris developer Dennis ...

Oracle has released a beta version of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future? Oracle said the new operating system has been built as a modern cloud platform to ...

MENLO PARK, Calif.--New technology built in to Sun Microsystems' new operating system is key to the company's long-term strategy for making collections of computers act like a single, mammoth machine.