Thursday June 08, 2006
Thursday June 08, 2006 The Yankee Group has just released it's latest Server Reliability Survey which is notable in that it isn't sponsored i.e. they haven't been paid to do the survey by a particular vendor. This should have the effect of it being a bias-free report.
The OS which they think has made the biggest improvement over the last year is Windows 2003 which was bested by "only Unix-based server operating systems including HP-UX and Sun Solaris 10". According to Yankee, Windows led Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20% more annual uptime in similar deployment scenarios.
I'd love to talk to the analysts who did this about how they accounted for the Predictive Self-Healing functionality in Solaris 10. Our internal testing shows that running Solaris 10 (the only OS on the planet with Predictive Self-Healing) can result in over 50% reductions in annual system downtime.
With the soon-to-be-released 6/06 update to Solaris 10, customers will now have complete Predictive Self-Healing functionality on all AMD-based platforms regardless of whether it's a Sun manufactured system or one from Dell, HP, IBM (or anyone else who makes AMD64 based systems).
There's some more interesting snippets here, but for the whole thing you'll have to buy the report.
For more on Predictive Self-Healing in Solaris 10, go here.
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Thursday June 01, 2006 This isn't my opinion (well, it is, but this time it's not me saying it), it's the opinion of of 75 U.S. and 25 European chief information officers. It's taken from an interesting article in Forbes and is based on a report from Merrill Lynch. See for yourself here.
When you combine this with the Gartner Dataquest's recent market share numbers, this starts to look like it's a bit of a trend.
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