Updated: 2012-07-24 15:00:00
Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2, whose new and enhanced features optimized to secure the new digital experience enable organizations to securely embrace cloud, mobile and social infrastructures and reach new user communities to help further expand and develop their businesses. Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 2 consolidates elements of Oracle's entire portfolio of Identity Management offerings into three main categories designed to help customers reach a new equilibrium in performance and operational scale.
The categories include: Oracle Identity Governance; Oracle Access Management; and Oracle Directory Services
Updated: 2012-07-24 15:00:00
Marina Vatkina, a Principal Engineer at Oracle and Specification Lead for EJB 3.2 under the Java Community Process (JCP), discusses EJB 3.2 with host Roger Brinkley on Episode 91 of Java Spotlight. Appearing on this episode's Java All Star Developer Panel is Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador. Vatkina's experience over the past decade includes responsibility for several areas in the implementation of Sun's and now GlassFish Java EE application server, including persistence, transaction manager, and EJB container.
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: Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 173 Issue 4 Review Database Sign in Register Password Help Membership types 10 Free Database Security Tools : Dark Reading July 11, 2012 Solaris ZFS Storage Top10 Service Performance Java Technology NetBeans JavaFX Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Solutions Useful for Organizations not Faced with Security Mandates July 24, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 4 In the list of 10 free database security tools compiled by Ericka Chickowski and published in darkreading.com readers will find solutions ranging from MYSQL.Datamask , a data masking tool Scuba , a database vulnerability scanner BSQL Hacker , a SQL injection tester to OScanner , a
Updated: 2012-07-24 15:00:00
Michael Webster gives users the information needed to determine exactly what they legally owe in licensing fees while continuing to receive the support Oracle has been providing, even in a virtualized environment on VMware vSphere. Webster disputes four FUDs in considerable detail, which are:
Oracle Licensing and Soft Partitioning
Oracle Sub Cluster Licensing is Not Possible
Oracle is NOT Certified to Run on VMware vSphere
Oracle Does NOT Support Running on VMware vSphere
He includes five key questions to ask Oracle.
Updated: 2012-07-24 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 173 Issue 4 NetBeans Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Releases NetBeans IDE 7.2 Solaris ZFS Storage Top10 Service Performance Java Technology NetBeans JavaFX Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Features Faster Development Cycles , Better Code Quality July 24, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 4 Oracle has released NetBeans IDE 7.2, a free , open source IDE available for Windows , Mac , Oracle Solaris , Oracle Linux , and other Linux distributions , that enables developers to rapidly create web , enterprise , desktop and mobile applications for the Java platform , PHP and C C++ . New in Release 7.2 are : Enhanced
Updated: 2012-07-23 15:00:00
The ZEVO ZFS technology for Mac is now owned by enterprise storage vendor GrenBytes, which will make the ZEVO Community Edition product available as a free download in September, writes Michael Rose in tuaw.com. ZFS is a file system invented in 2004 at Sun (now part of Oracle) which offers next-generation support for huge volumes, fault tolerance and other essential Big Storage features, Rose continues. Both Ten's Complement, which originated ZEVO ZFS, and GreenBytes intend to continue work on improvements to the solution.
Updated: 2012-07-23 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 173 Issue 4 Service Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Platinum Services Deliver Industry's Highest Level of Support Services Solaris ZFS Storage Top10 Service Performance Java Technology NetBeans JavaFX Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Ideally Suited for Oracle's Engineered Systems July 23, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 4 Oracle Platinum Services offers customers the opportunity to maximize availability on their Oracle engineered systems that are already designed and integrated to provide optimal productivity and performance . Oracle Global Customer Management trainer Chris Warticki outlines the features of
Updated: 2012-07-21 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 173 Issue 3 ZFS Sign in Register Password Help Membership types New features in open source ZFS News Illumos Features Solaris ZFS Linux Exadata Servers Storage Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Trademarks Previous Next Contributors include the companies Delphix , Nexenta and Joyent July 21, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 3 Martin Matu�ka writes , Since OpenSolaris got discontinued , the development of open source ZFS continues at the illumos project . The main contributors are the companies Delphix , Nexenta and Joyent . In this post I am going to sum up the main user-visible changes in ZFS
Updated: 2012-07-18 15:00:00
Oracle has renamed its Sun x86 servers and Netra servers to align them with the naming conventions of Oracle's Engineered Systems, which have always used Oracle's x86 rackmount systems as the basis of its integrated and optimized solutions. Thus, for example, the former Sun Fire X4170 M3 Server is now the Sun Server X3-2 and above; the Sun Netra X4270 M3 is now Netra Server X3-2; the Sun Blade X6270 M3 is now the Sun Blade X3-2B, and so on.
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Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 173 Issue 3 News Sign in Register Password Help Membership types InsideView MySQl Enterprise Edition Running on Oracle Solaris News Illumos Features Solaris ZFS Linux Exadata Servers Storage Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Trademarks Previous Next Platform Delivers High Availability and Horizontal Scaleout July 18, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 3 At InsideView , whose sales intelligence applications are used by more than 200,000 sales and marketing professionals and 2,000 market-leading companies , MySQL Enterprise Edition on Oracle Solaris is the platform of , choice enabling the
Updated: 2012-07-18 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 173 Issue 3 Java Technology Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Java Spotlight Episode 90 : Mike Duigou on Project Lambda News Illumos Features Solaris ZFS Linux Exadata Servers Storage Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Trademarks Previous Next Dalibor Topic Joins Java All Star Developer Panel July 18, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 3 Java Spotlight Episode 90 features Mike Duigou , a developer on the Oracle Java Core Libraries team , for a discussion of url https : blogs.oracle.com javaspotlight entry java_spotlight_episode_90_mike Project Lambda . Duigou's work is focused on
Updated: 2012-07-18 15:00:00
Learn about the top 10 tips to accelerate Oracle VM server deployments from the session replay of the July 11, 2012, webcast. With the focus on Oracle VM Server on SPARC, the recording addresses recommended practices for installation, maintenance, performance, and reliability. Topics include sizing, resource allocation, multiple I/O domain configurations for availability, secure live migration, selection of I/O backends, and I/O virtualization. Honglin Su, Director of Product Management, Oracle VM, Oracle, and Greg King, Senior Best Practices Consultant, Oracle VM Product Management conduct the hour long webcast.
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In a proof of concept exercise running a customer's Oracle ERP on Oracle T-4 servers and an Oracle RAC on T-4's, plus storage using an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Darius Zanganeh reports that, even without any optimization, the Oracle system was 2.5x faster than the customer's IBM XIV production system in running their month end close. Zanganeh suggests the reason is the size of available CACHE: 1TB of cache split on 2 controllers, 2 TB of L2arc Read SSDs and a few write SSDs. Furthermore, the Oracle configuration only used about 25% of the total hardware setup.
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In a video running something under eight minutes, the impact of the ZFSSA hybrid storage pool on storage performance is demonstrated by Darius Zanganeh. He shows how high DRAM cache capacity and both write-optimized ssd and read-optimized ssd enable users to achieve large increases in drive performance of the Oracle 7000 Storage Series.
Updated: 2012-07-18 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 173 Issue 3 Linux Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Tips for Hardening an Oracle Linux Server News Illumos Features Solaris ZFS Linux Exadata Servers Storage Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Trademarks Previous Next Secure by Default' Can Be Improved Upon July 18, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 3 A recent article on the so-called secure by default attributes of Oracle Linux explores a variety of those defaults and administrative approaches that help to minimize vulnerabilities . While Oracle Linux is configured out of the box with settings and utilities that make it secure by
Updated: 2012-07-16 15:00:00
LibreOffice 3.5.5, the current version of the free office suite, is now available with stability enhancements and bugfixes, improvements in Calc, Impress, font handling and compatibility to third-party formats. The Document Foundation has made the download available. This release of LibreOffice is the best version available for corporate and enterprise adoption. The worldwide LibreOffice Conference will take place in Berlin, Germany, from October 17th to 19th, 2012. It is supported by the German Federal Ministries of the Interior and of Economics and Technology, with the Call for Papers running until August 15th.
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"Bigger, better, faster, more -- those have been the main tenets of networking since the first IMP (Interface Message Processor) spat out the first packet. Just look how far we've come: from the text-centric 9600-baud UUCP connections through 10Base-2 and 10Base-T Ethernet through switched 100Mbit, gigabit, 10G, 40G, and 100G. The bandwidth limitations of fiber optics have yet to be determined, and last year, research teams cracked 100 terabits in the lab..."
