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Summary of OpenVMS Version 7.3 New
Features
Compaq OpenVMS Version 7.3 delivers the highest levels of availability,
scalability, flexibility, performance, and security that are required for e-Business.
With more than 20 years of proven reliability, OpenVMS continues to improve its
availability and performance by including new technology into the base operating
system and the OpenVMS Cluster software environment. The base infrastructure
technologies needed to support e-Business applications are being incorporated
into the OpenVMS license, so that OpenVMS is e-Business and Internet ready.
OpenVMS Version 7.3 new features include the following:
• Continuous improvement of OpenVMS availability
Improved disaster tolerant capabilities with ATM & Gigabit Ethernet as
cluster interconnects because of their inherent high performance and long
distance capabilities.
Greater system availability during backups with faster reintegration of
shadow members after copies.
Enhanced OpenVMS support for the latest ENSA Storage offerings.
Greater serviceability for the new AlphaServer GS systems with CPU
Online Replace.
• Higher system and application performance
Substantial application performance benefits can be realized with the new
Extended File Cache.
Improved cluster, SMP and system performance through enhancements to
RMS and the clusterwide Lock Manager, as well as FastPath support for
Fibre Channel and SCSI storage architectures.
• Expanded OpenVMS security options
OpenVMS adds industry standard Kerberos Version 5 security, which
allows OpenVMS applications to communicate and authenticate with
Windows 2000 domains and UNIX platforms.
OpenVMS Intrusion Detection expands to be clusterwide, reducing
chances of system break-ins.
• Expanded OpenVMS license includes new e-Business technologies
Compaq Secure Web Server for OpenVMS Alpha (based on Apache)
Compaq COM for OpenVMS
Compaq BridgeWorks
Extensible Markup Language API (XML parser)
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