Iowa Network Services upgrades Services Uptime
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Iowa Network Services is using Oracle Solaris on Oracle's SPARC T-Series servers to provide superior application performance and reliability, improve services uptime and create virtual servers to help consolidate its datacenter and phase out older hardware. Iowa Network Services has claimed to be substantially improved the availability and reliability of their services, achieving close to 99.999% uptime with Oracle Solaris. Iowa Network Services is also supposed to be using Oracle Solaris Containers to establish isolation mechanisms that help improve resource use and provide all workloads with access to the appropriate amount of computing resources. The Oracle Solaris Legacy Containers capability is said to allow Iowa Network Services to run their Solaris 8 and 9 Oracle Solaris applications within multiple Oracle Solaris environments on a single system, immediately gaining scalability and performance benefits, without modifying existing ...