OmniTI Debuts OmniOS

OmniTI Debuts OmniOS, an Open Source Operating System 
for the Solaris Community
 
Born Out of Need To Evolve OpenSolaris Platform; Provides Updated Tools for
Third Party Software Allowing Projects to Compile Quickly to Current
Versions
 
 
San Francisco-April 3, 2012-DTrace
<http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf>
<http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf> Conference
<http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/dtrace.conf> --OmniTI
<http://www.omniti.com/> , a provider of web infrastructures and
applications for companies that require scalable, high performance, mission
critical solutions, today announced OmniOS <http://omnios.omniti.com/> , an
open source operating system for application developers in the Solaris
community looking for reliable, innovative, data-intensive application
deployment.
 
OmniOS is a continuation of the OpenSolaris
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris> legacy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris>  and aims to address the
longstanding issues that occurred when Oracle decided to discontinue open
development of the operating system. OmniOS builds on Illumos
<https://www.illumos.org/>  to make a complete OS.
 
OmniOS provides users with a traditional, Solaris-like installable operating
system with a minimal package set to ease regulatory compliance. It delivers
a self-hosting, environment with simplified processes for ongoing
maintenance. Most importantly, it brings third-party software components
up-to-date within OmniOS. Third-party software has been a problem with
previous attempts to evolve OpenSolaris, as some have not been updated in a
decade. It served as a key driver behind OmniTI's interest to develop
OmniOS.
 
According to Theo Schlossnagle, CEO of OmniTI, "Other attempts in the past
to continue OpenSolaris resulted in excruciating work that would involve
more than a week just to get the system up and running. With OmniOS, you can
get it installed with a single command in 60 seconds." 
 
Users can expect OmniOS to have a Solaris look and feel with an updated
compiler tool chain (gcc 4.6.3),   the latest OpenSSL (1.0.1) and a more
consistent, dual instruction set support (x86 and x86-64). In addition,
there are four key technologies that OmniTI included within OmniOS to bring
significant business advantage to customers. 
 
.         Solaris containers: combination of system resource controls and
the boundary separation provided by zones.
.         Crossbow: provides the building blocks for network virtualization
and resource control by virtualizing the stack and NIC around any service
(HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, NFS, etc.), protocol or container.
.         ZFS file system: combined file <http://system/>   <http://system/>
system <http://system/>  and logical <http://manager/>   <http://manager/>
volume <http://manager/>   <http://manager/> manager <http://manager/>  with
superior data integrity protection and scalability.
.         DTrace: provides increased visibility and aids in troubleshooting
on any level of the application stack.
 
"OmniOS is our vision of what OpenSolaris could have been had it remained in
the open. It runs better, faster and has more innovations," continued
Schlossnagle.  "OmniTI did not want to lose the benefits that OpenSolaris
technologies brought to customers, so we decided to pursue the continuation
of the OS on our own. We've been running OmniOS in our data centers for six
months and have seen tremendous results. We're excited to announce our news
at the DTrace conference because of its importance and relevance to this
community."
 
OmniTI is currently using OmniOS for OmniTI customer applications and is
making it generally available to the Solaris community for free with the
intention that it becomes a standard platform for open source development.
OmniTI will offer support for OmniOS in the future. It can be downloaded
immediately at omnios <http://omnios.omniti.com/> .
<http://omnios.omniti.com/> omniti <http://omnios.omniti.com/> .
<http://omnios.omniti.com/> com <http://omnios.omniti.com/> 
 
About <http://www.omniti.com/>   <http://www.omniti.com/> OmniTI
<http://www.omniti.com/>  
Founded in 1997, OmniTI designs, builds and operates web infrastructures and
applications for companies that require scalable, high performance, mission
critical solutions. Targeted to B2C organizations, the company's expert
engineers specialize in providing complex, high-transaction and large-volume
data applications. Unlike competitors that offer limited web design,
development or database services, OmniTI offers end-to-end, purpose built
technology solutions that include strategic consulting, web design and
development, database services, Internet architecture support and managed
services. OmniTI is committed to continuous innovation that enables
businesses on the web to move at customer speed. 


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