Oracle Solaris 10 zones (also known as containers) are implemented as solaris10 branded zones. These branded zones are used to run applications that cannot otherwise be run in an Oracle Solaris 11 environment. Workloads that run within solaris10 branded zones can take advantage of the enhancements made to the Oracle Solaris kernel and can use some of the innovative technologies available only on the Oracle Solaris 11 release, such as virtual NICs (VNICs) and ZFS deduplication.