Updated: 2010-10-29 15:00:00
The newly released Oracle VM Server for SPARC 2.0 runs on all supported SPARC T-Series servers (i.e. T2, T2 Plus & T3 based platforms), including the just-announced SPARC T3 systems and is fully qualified on the T3-1 server. The complete details can be found in the official product documentation. As qualification activities are completed, support will be announced for the other SPARC servers.
Updated: 2010-10-29 15:00:00
The scheduled transition from Oracle Global Customer Support to My Oracle Support, set for later in 2010, will enable Sun customers and partners to take full advantage of the functionality available to all Oracle Support customers. At the time of the migration, legacy Sun applications - including the Member Support Center (MSC), SunSolve, and Email Center - will be retired, and Oracle's standard support processes implemented. Existing Oracle customers or partners do not need to re-register for My Oracle Support.
Updated: 2010-10-28 15:00:00
, . Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 4 Sun News Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle and Mellanox Technologies , . Ltd News VendorVoice Features Hardware Workstation HPC Servers Sun Tape Top10 Service Sysadmin Publications Virtualization Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Strategic Investment in InfiniBand October 28, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 4 Oracle has made a acquired 10.2 of Mellanox Technologies , Ltd . a leading supplier of end-to-end connectivity solutions for servers and storage systems Mellanox has had a long standing relationship with Sun , and now Oracle , that goes back over eight years , said Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman . We are
Updated: 2010-10-27 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 4 Sun Tape Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Announces StorageTek Virtual Library Extension VLE News VendorVoice Features Hardware Workstation HPC Servers Sun Tape Top10 Service Sysadmin Publications Virtualization Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Offers 2x More Disk Scalability , 5x More Availability than IBM's Mainframe Solutions October 27, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 4 Oracle's new StorageTek Virtual Library Extension VLE is the industry�s first highly scalable second tier of disk storage that optimizes tape processing in mainframe environments . The VLE delivers two times the disk scalability of IBM's
Updated: 2010-10-27 15:00:00
Booths 103/105 at the LISA 2010 Conference in San Jose, CA, November 7-12, is where you will find Oracle Solaris engineers hosting a free full-day summit on the technologies in Oracle Solaris 11 Express and explaining how users can deploy the solution. Oracle has also scheduled several BOF sessions on specific Solaris topics and the migration of content from BigAdmin to the Oracle Technology Network. Registration at LISA is not required for attendance at the Oracle Solaris Summit sessions.
Updated: 2010-10-27 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 4 VendorVoice Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Force10 Networks Support for Oracle VM and Oracle Linux for its Virtualization Solutions VendorVoice Features Hardware HPC Servers Storage Sysadmin Publications Virtualization Oracle Previous Next Continued delivery of solutions based on Force10�s Open Automation Framework October 27, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 4 Partners , such as Force10, leverage Oracle VM in their solutions to enable joint customers to achieve greater value by increasing resource utilization across servers and the network . Monica Kumar , senior director Linux , virtualization and MySQL product
Updated: 2010-10-26 15:00:00
Oracle has made access available online to the Oracle Optimized Datacenter, where potential users can explore the possibilities for their new datacenters in an immersive and dynamic fashion. Users can learn about Oracle's vision of an optimized, mission-critical datacenter, with Oracle software, servers, storage, and networking, all of which are designed to work seamlessly together.
Updated: 2010-10-26 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 4 Publications Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle White Papers VendorVoice Features Hardware HPC Servers Storage Sysadmin Publications Virtualization Oracle Previous Next Covering running Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris and Oracle Hardware October 26, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 4 Deploying Oracle Database on the Oracle Solaris Platform An Introduction Deploying Oracle Database on x86 Systems with Oracle Solaris Deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series Systems Optimizing Single Instance Oracle Databases on Oracle�s T-series Servers Dynamic SGA Tuning of Oracle Database on Oracle
Updated: 2010-10-26 06:09:27
The Oracle page for SysAdmins and Developers is a good site to bookmark because it features news in such categories as Recently Published; From the Community; Products and Topics and Essential Links. A jazzy note from the OTN Garage tips readers off to another resource designed to be even more current in communicating the latest developments involving Oracle Linux.
Updated: 2010-10-25 15:00:00
More information is now available on the new Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8 in the form of a podcast by Ron Weiss, Oracle's Director of Product Management, who informs listeners about how Oracle's new product can enable customers to experience extreme performance for both high capacity data warehousing and OLTP workloads.
Updated: 2010-10-25 15:00:00
Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns by Harish Gaur and Markus Zirn approaches the question of how one decides to use Oracle Fusion Middleware by presenting 10 patterns that can help solve business needs in three specific areas: process improvement, business visibility and collaboration and security. Each chapter introduces a new pattern, along with an architectural overview of a real-world customer solution developed with Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Updated: 2010-10-25 15:00:00
In the October 2010 issue of the Oracle Database Insider Edition, readers can learn about the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8 from Larry Ellison himself; Oracle's leadership in the embedded DBMS Market; a list of new podcasts; consumer success stories; and upcoming events involving Oracle solutions.
Updated: 2010-10-25 15:00:00
Lustre has been adopted by a consortium of some of the biggest names in HPC computing, reports Michael Feldman in HPCwire. Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), backed by Cray, Data Direct Networks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is the adoptive entity. The organization's mission is to bring together the stakeholders for high-end scalable file systems and provide a formal structure for moving the associated software forward, Feldman writes.
Updated: 2010-10-22 15:00:00
In a brief (56 seconds) video, Steve Wilson, Oracle VP for Systems Management, introduces Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center with Converged Hardware Management, which will allow users to manage servers, hypervisors, storage devices, and network fabrics from a single console within an ops center with hardware and software engineered to work together, as only Oracle can provide.
Updated: 2010-10-22 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 3 Virtualization Sign in Register Password Help Membership types What Does Amazon's Support of Oracle VM Mean for EC2 Users Partners Features Solaris MySQL Sun Tape Top10 OpenOffice Performance Sysadmin Publications Networking Virtualization Java Technology NetBeans Security Oracle Previous Next Reading Between the Lines , Little Has Changed October 22, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 3 Several questions may have arisen in the minds of readers attempting to fathom the implications of the announcement that Amazon Web Services and Oracle Announce Certification and Support of Oracle Applications , Middleware and Databases on Amazon
Updated: 2010-10-22 15:00:00
Oracle has released revised figures for its Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server, equipped with 32 SPARC64 VII 2.88 GHz processors, and Sun Storage 6180 arrays, Oracle Database 11g with Oracle Solaris on TPC-H 3 TB non-clustered performance with a result of 198,907.5 QphH@3000GB with a price of $16.58/QphH@3000GB. Joerg Moellenkamp attributes the performance to the substitution of Sun Storage 6180 for F5100 Flash.
Updated: 2010-10-22 14:49:26
All about RichFaces by Ilya Shaikovsky All Java General jsf ajax Google Application . Main Friday October 22, 2010 Long-running processes progress indication with RichFaces Found quite good article by Andrey Chorniy related to usage of rich:progressBar to indicate state of some long-running process in Seam conversations . Code skeletons provided in thread and even considering that the entry is not provides complete example it's looks still useful to be bookmarked to provide base idea for RichFaces newcomers Get updates of that blog in twitter My in.relation.to blog Posted by a4j Oct 22 2010, 05:49:26 AM PST Permalink Comments 0 : Comments Post a : Comment : Name : E-Mail : URL Notify me by email of new comments Remember Information Your : Comment HTML Syntax : NOT allowed Search Category
Updated: 2010-10-21 15:00:00
A new certification offered by the Oracle Certification Program is Oracle PartnerNetwork Certified Specialist (OPN), a new designation for those Oracle Partners who have completed specified requirements for select Oracle Certified Associate (OCA), Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Certified Expert (OCE), and Oracle Certified Specialist (OCS) certifications. Credit for the OPN certification will also be included in their company's OPN Specialized recognition.
Updated: 2010-10-21 15:00:00
If you've wondered about the fortunes of MySQL under the Oracle banner, here is some information that will bring you up to date on the solution, which Oracle has made improvements to since the acquisition. Oracle has declared that MySQL is integral to its complete, open and integrated corporate strategy.
Updated: 2010-10-20 15:00:00
An Oracle Critical Patch Update (including Sun products) and an Oracle Java SE and Java for Business Critical Patch Update were released on October 12, 2010. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches for these as soon as possible. The Critical Patch Update Advisories are the starting point for relevant information, as they include the list of products affected, pointers to obtain the patches, summaries of the security vulnerabilities for each product suite, and links to other important documents. Oracle will issue Security Alerts for vulnerability fixes deemed too critical to wait for distribution in the next Critical Patch Update.
Updated: 2010-10-20 15:00:00
SunSPOTWorld has been updated to include tutorials from the last few years of JavaONE proceedings. Blogger Roger Meike gives readers the details in his blog New Sun SPOT tutorials and Labs available online. If you are unfamiliar with SunSPOTWorld, the Sun SPOT Quick Start Tutorial is a good place to start. You can follow up with the Robot Tutorial.
Updated: 2010-10-20 15:00:00
The October 2010 containing all available Security, Data Corruption, and System Availability fixes Solaris OS CPU (Critical Patch Updates) are now available from My Oracle Support (MOS) and SunSolve. Gerry Haskins, Director, Software Patch Services, advises users to see Critical Patch Updates and Security Alerts and "which includes CVE mappings for Oracle Sun products.
Updated: 2010-10-20 15:00:00
You really must read Joerg Moellenkamp's blog "About that 'core performance is important for licensing' myth" for yourself because the logic of his argument is too complicated for this teaser. His striking conclusion -- " ... I think we can safely bury that myth, that core performance is interesting because of licensing. The licensing metrics take care of that challenge," -- should pique your curiosity on the subject and take you to the blog. If you are also curious about what prompted Moellenkamp's argument, see the "Oracle Processor Core Factor Table."
Updated: 2010-10-19 15:00:00
A helpful series of links having to do with the alliance between IBM and Oracle on accelerating innovation of the Java Platform is now available on The Aquarium blog. Blogger Pelegri writes that, "The new arrangement should indeed provide an acceleration of the development of the [Java] platform."
Updated: 2010-10-19 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 3 OpenOffice Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Demonstrates Continued Support for OpenOffice.org Features MySQL OpenOffice Publications Networking Java Technology NetBeans Oracle Previous Next Participates in ODF Plugfest October 19, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 3 Good news for the diehard fans of OpenOffice.org : Oracle will be in attendance at the ODF Plugfest in Brussels , October 14 and 15. With OpenOffice.org 3.3 now in Beta , Oracle has demonstrated its commitment to continuing support for the open source versions of its product line while fostering such contributions from the community as localization ,
Updated: 2010-10-18 16:02:24
All about RichFaces by Ilya Shaikovsky All Java General jsf ajax RichFaces 4.0.0.Mile . Main Monday October 18, 2010 Google Application Engine Support with RichFaces 4 Support for cloud deployment of RichFaces based applications was one of the hot topics for a long time and finally it’s there Actually the development was mostly completed a month ago and was already announced at Java One sessions The official announcement was postponed in order to stabilize the feature and to create a special archetype to make it an easy start . nbsp Let’s review what was done and the steps which should be performed to deploy your RichFaces application to Google Application Engine . nbsp Restrictions of GAE deployment Google Application Engine deployment introduces some restrictions for the Java developer .
Updated: 2010-10-18 15:00:00
Important elements of the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 specification, writes Adam Bien are "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 and Contexts and Dependency Injection." EJB 3.1, he reports, greatly simplifies the EJB specification and provides declarative aspects, such as transactions, security, threading, and asynchronous processing while Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) provides Dependency Injection (DI) power and flexibility.
Updated: 2010-10-18 15:00:00
Oracle's recently announced Oracle Identity Management 11g, is a comprehensive product suite featuring identity management, access management, identity analytics, directory services, identity federation, entitlements, information rights management, and more. In a recent interview conducted by Caroline Kvitka, senior managing editor of Oracle Magazine, Amit Jasuja senior VP of development, identity management and security products, provides the details on the new release. Readers can download the full podcast of the interview.
Updated: 2010-10-18 15:00:00
Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of bestselling guide. Written by the developers of the JBoss EJB 3.1 implementation, this book brings you up to speed on each of the component types and container services in this technology, while the workbook in the second section provides several hands-on examples for putting the concepts into practice. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference you'll find on this specification.
Updated: 2010-10-18 15:00:00
With as many as 36 system releases and 8,000 IT changes per year, a client-server model for GM's OnStar system was not consistent with management's plans to offer more services and move into new markets. GM chose Oracle's SOA Suite, which features a business rules engine, a BPEL engine, an enterprise service bus, and monitoring and management tools to replace the legacy infrastructure. Writing in Profit Online Tara Swords reports GM's savings of 40 percent or so in application development and deployment costs and about 45 percent reduction in ongoing sustained costs. Not to mention increased functionality for the user.
Updated: 2010-10-17 20:39:44
Imagine a JSF 2.0 based input view working with AJAX and you have h:messages positioned above of this input form – and you want the messages area to be rerendered on each validation step. You now will have to add the clientId of h:messages to all f:ajax render=”..” behavior definitions – or somehow add the [...]
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
<a href="http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/152/2/storage/23557"This much is known: Lustre 2.0.0 is now GA and available for download but in a community-only release. Upgrades to 2.0.0 are not supported for production 1.8.x sites. Lustre 2.0.0 provides support for OEL 5, RHEL 5, SLES 10 and 11 (client only), and Fedora 11 (client only). This release offers a number of significant features and enhancements, including Changelogs, Commit on Share, Lustre_rsync, and Size-on-MDS (preview). Lustre 2.0.0 supporting documentation includes the Operations Manual, Release Notes, and Change Log 2.0. As to Lustre's ultimate future ... more will be revealed.
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
The Oracle White Paper "Deploying Oracle Database on Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series Systems" provides technical information on the Oracle Sun SPARC Enterprise M-series systems and the mainframe-class RAS features and resource management capabilities that they offer. The white paper also explores the virtualization capabilities provided by Oracle Solaris and the Oracle Sun Enterprise M-series Systems, and offers as well several recommendations on how to combine virtualization technologies for enterprise deployments of Oracle Database.
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 152 Issue 2 Sun Security Sign in Register Password Help Membership types White Paper on High Performance Security Features Developer Free and Open Source Software Sysadmin Java Technology Security Previous Next For Oracle WebLogic Applications October 14, 2010, Volume 152, Issue 2 Institute sound security practices no excuses The Oracle white paper High Performance Security for Oracle WebLogic Applications Using Oracle SPARC Enterprise T-series Server details the high performance security strategies for Oracle WebLogic server based applications and XML Web services using the on-chip cryptographic acceleration capabilities of Oracle SPARC
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
The slide presentation "How to Build Better Applications with Oracle Solaris DTrace," prepared by Oracle's Brendan Gregg, Principal Software Engineer, and Jim Mauro, Senior Principal Software Engineer, approaches the subject from four aspects: What is DTrace?; Using DTrace; Application Analysis; and USDT Probes. Concluding supplemental example slides include code for Which ZFS file?; Running zfs.d; Measuring ZFS file write latency; Time-based user-mode profile; and User stack trace for mutex_trylock () call.
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
<img border=0 src="http://sun.systemnews.com/images/152/2/OTN_developer-day.jpg" align="right"The Oracle Technology Network Developer Day document describes the installation of a virtual guest appliance that provides pre-configured Oracle software to use while working on the Hands-on Database Application Development hands-on lab (HOL). The authors state that the subject Database Development Appliance is necessary for completing the Hands on Labs in the Java, Apex and Database Development tracks; it is not necessary for the .Net Track.
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
In a half-hour video, Dave Miner, architect for Solaris Installation, describes the changes to the installation process and tools for Solaris 11. Miner explains how much easier Solaris 11 Install will be to use than JumpStart was.
Updated: 2010-10-14 15:00:00
<a href="http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/152/2/Solaris/23377"The new podcast series about Solaris called "Oracle Solaris: In A Class By Itself," hosted by Dan Roberts, Bill Nesheim and Chris Armes, provides an update of what's been happening over the last few months and furnishes details on why Oracle Solaris is the best OS for x86-based servers. The podcast also includes a brief overview of the new support offering for Oracle Solaris on third party x86 hardware.
Updated: 2010-10-13 23:02:10
Sometimes binding of UIComponent comes in very handy. For example if you want to pass client ids into a composite component to alow the cc to use these ids with attributes. It would be very boring to specify the full client ids explicitly. This article will show how component references can be passed on in [...]
Updated: 2010-10-12 15:03:56
All about RichFaces by Ilya Shaikovsky All Java General jsf ajax JSF 2.0 CookBook by . Main Tuesday October 12, 2010 RichFaces 4.0.0.Milestone3 Released The third milestone release of RichFaces 4.0 is now available With this release we have added a few new components , GAE support , and more . As before you can download the distribution at our RichFaces download page The RichFaces-4.0.0.M3 distribution has everything you need to get started . Check out the readme.txt files for any details , or dependencies . If you are a maven user you can follow the instructions here : How to add RichFaces 4.X to Maven Based Project Complete announcement at Jay Balunas . Blog Get updates of that blog in twitter My in.relation.to blog Posted by a4j Oct 12 2010, 06:03:56 AM PST Permalink Comments 0 :
Updated: 2010-10-12 15:00:00
Do you remember Sun OpenDS project? Good. Then perhaps you will be happy to learn that it has been resurrected as OpenDJ, a new member of the ForgeRock product family. Simon Phipps reports this information in his Wild Webmink blog "New ventures: OpenDJ, FossAlliance."
Updated: 2010-10-07 15:00:00
New York-based Passlogix is an enterprise single sign-on (ESSO) solution provider and the next company to be acquired by Oracle. "With the addition of Passlogix, we expect to provide a complete enterprise-scale identity management solution and be able to provide more global reach and support resources to customers," said Amit Jasuja, vice president, Oracle Identity Management in the Oct. 5th announcement.
Updated: 2010-10-07 15:00:00
"Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials" combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide written for architects, administrators, and IT managers. This newest edition to the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.
Updated: 2010-10-07 15:00:00
Oracle Solaris Video blog aims to provide the latest information on the operating system in video format. Recent additions to the site include DTrace for System Administrators, Oracle Solaris ZFS Triple Parity RAID-Z, Oracle Solaris ZFS Pool Split, Oracle Solaris ZFS Log Devices, Oracle Solaris ZFS System Duty Cycle Scheduling Class, and Introducing Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3.
Updated: 2010-10-07 15:00:00
There is a major software update for the Sun ZFS Storage 7000 series appliances. 2010.Q3.1.0 offers a number of new features and repairs multiple issues. It is supported on Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, 7410, 7120, 7320, 7420, and the Sun Storage 7000 Simulator. Oracle strongly recommends upgrading to this latest edition. Users should note the first shipping release of 2010.Q3 software is 2010.Q3.1.0.
Updated: 2010-10-06 15:00:00
An on-demand preview of sessions from this year's Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop are now available. Get access to keynotes and General sessions in streaming video with synchronized slides and transcripts. Those interested also can download mobile video and audio, PowerPoints, White Papers, and more for all the sessions.
Updated: 2010-10-06 15:00:00
Oracle Cloud Office is a Web and mobile office suite. It includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Based on Web open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF), Oracle Cloud Office enables Web 2.0-style collaboration and mobile document access and ensures compatibility with Microsoft Office file documents. Recently previewed at Oracle OpenWorld, the upcoming collaborative office suite has had a screencast posted highlighting its features.
