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UNIGROUP GENERAL MEETING
MEETING INTRODUCTION
Unigroup's January 2019 meeting will be a Field Trip to Oracle Headquarters in NYC and our topic is: Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update. Unigroup is pleased to have Bill Nesheim, SVP of Oracle Solaris Engineering presenting to us at this meeting.
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DIRECTIONS
(Field Trip Location - See Above)
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Topic: Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update
Related Topics/Keywords:
Unix Operating System, Solaris Operating System, SPARC CPU, Intel CPU. Hardware Architecture, Industry Trends.
Introduction & Description of Talk:
Oracle Solaris Engineering will be presenting: Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release meeting w/ SPARC CPU Update.
Presentation Outline:
Please refer to the Solaris 11.4 GA and Release URLs below.
Tentative Detailed Outline:
References & Web Resources:
Oracle Solaris:
http://www.oracle.com/solaris
Oracle Solaris 11.4 GA Release:
https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/oracle-solaris-114-released-for-general-availability
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release Notes:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60973/index.html
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Whats New:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E60974/index.html
Wikipedia on Solaris:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)
Wikipedia on SPARC CPU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
Wikipedia on OpenSolaris:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris
Wikipedia on illumos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos
illumos Project:
http://wiki.illumos.org
OpenIndiana Project - Community-driven illumos Distribution:
https://www.openindiana.org
Oracle SPARC Silicon Secured Memory Technology and ADI (Application Data Integrity):
Memory Tagging and How it Improves C/C++ Memory Safety
[SPARC ADI vs ARM AArch64 HWASAN] (Google Engineers WhitePaper):
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09517.pdf
ADI Blog Entries (Enrico Perla):
Hardening Allocators with ADI:
https://lazytyped.blogspot.com/2016/12/hardening-allocators-with-adi.html
Hardware-based Buffer Overflow Defenses Compared: SSM/ADI vs MPX:
https://lazytyped.blogspot.com/2016/12/hardware-buffer-overflow-defenses.html
Unigroup 20190117 - Oracle Solaris 11.4 Release Meeting Presentation:
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY
Bill Nesheim - Senior Vice President - Oracle Corp.
Bill Nesheim is Oracle's Senior Vice President of Solaris Engineering where he has over all responsibility for the development and delivery of Oracle Solaris, the world's most advanced enterprise UNIX operating system. Bill and his team play a key role in engineering Hardware and Software to work together including integration of the revolutionary SPARC processor with Security in Silicon and Software in Silicon innovation. Bill joined Oracle as part of the Sun acquisition in 2010, and has built his career on engineering hardware and software to work together.
COMPANY BIOGRAPHY
For information about Oracle, please visit: http://www.oracle.com
GIVEAWAYS
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR/Pearson, and O'Reilly have been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both publishing companies for the support provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the start of the meeting.
Note: Our book supply is currently running low, and we need to restock.
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FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served. This includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef, chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads (potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water and assorted beverages.
** However, due to a continuing situation at our caterer, we are planning to have: pizza (cheese+veggy), soda, water, cookies, and brownies at this meeting.
Oracle is sponsoring snacks and drinks, and we expect to have Pizza, soft drinks, and hopefully cookies/brownies at this meeting... Thanks to Oracle for hosting the meeting!
Please join us for this meeting, you won't want to miss it!
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