• MySQL Newsletter

    Updated: 2012-12-29 16:00:00
    This Edition's Content December 2012 News Spotlight: MySQL for the Cloud White Papers Case Studies On Demand Webcasts Blogs Read on for the "December Issue".

  • Java Spotlight Episode 114: Holiday Greetings 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:00
    In Episode 114 of Java Spotlight Host Roger Brinkley extends the traditional montage of holiday greetings to his audience in 10 different languages from 13 countries from all over the world. "The Java Spotlight Podcast would like to wish Java developers around the world a special Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," Brinkley writes.

  • 'Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c: Managing Data Center Chaos'

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:00
    : Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 4 Publications Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c : Managing Data Center Chaos' Features Solaris MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Top10 LibreOffice Publications Networking Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next New Title from Packt Publishing Offers Guidance Toward Panic-free DataCenter Management December 28, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 4 Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c : Managing Data Center Chaos is a new title from Packt Publishing by Porus Homi Havewala , Senior Manager , Database Management , in the Enterprise Technology Program

  • Access and Analyze Big Data at Lower Cost with Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:00
    It is now possible to get more value from Big Data less expensively with Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 hardware and enhanced Oracle Big Data Connectors, jgelhaus posts. The X3-2 features the latest 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 series of processors, and its 18 compute and storage servers with 648 TB raw storage now offer 33 percent more processing power; 33 percent more memory per node; and up to a 30 percent reduction in power and cooling. The Oracle Big Data Connectors software suite provides Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System and offers transparent access to the Hive Query language from R.

  • Oracle Exalogic vs. IBM PureApplication System: A Dramatic Comparison

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:00
    . : Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 4 Exadata Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Exaloigic vs . IBM PureApplication System : A Dramatic Comparison Features Solaris MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Top10 LibreOffice Publications Networking Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next And the Winner Is December 28, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 4 A post comparing Oracle Exalogic engineered systems to IBM�s PureApplication System from the customer's point of view in terms of the three critical areas of performance , simplicity and cost finds Oracle's Exalogic the clear winner . The post concludes with a lengthy graphical comparison

  • Securing the Cloud for Public Sector: Webcast

    Updated: 2012-12-28 16:00:00
    Oracle Enterprise Security Architect Spiros Angelopoulos assembled a team including himself and Darin Pendergraft, Principal Product Marketing Director, Identity Management; Glenn Brunette, Cloud Architect, Enterprise Solutions Group; and Girish Venkataraman, Sales Consulting Senior Manager, Platform Advanced, to discuss such issues involving "Securing the Cloud for Public Sector" as adoption rates for cloud in public sector, common challenges, security issues, Identity Management issues, and public vs. private cloud, just to name a few. Darin Pendergraft provides a link to a replay of the discussion.

  • Analyst Report - Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c : The First Year of Adoption

    Updated: 2012-12-21 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 3 Sun SysAdmin Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Analyst Report Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c The First Year of Adoption News MySQL Exadata Servers Sun Tape Top10 Developer Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Solution Matures to Become Application-to-Disk Management Tool December 21, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 3 A year out , Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c is scrutinized by IDC Link's Tim Griesler , who describes the solution as a comprehensive multifunction full-stack , application-to-disk hardware and software manager featuring a broad set of cloud-enabling and management

  • Nike Achieves Scalability and Performance with Oracle Coherence & Exadata

    Updated: 2012-12-21 16:00:00
    In a brief video Nicole Otto, Senior Director, Consumer Digital Tech at Nike, explains how the company achieved scalability and performance with Oracle Coherence and Oracle Exadata for users of its Nike+ FuelBand, which measures everyday activity and turns it into NikeFuel. It tracks calories burned, steps taken, running, walking, dancing, basketball and dozens of everyday activities. Otto reports some 650,000 users daily of the FuelBand product.

  • StorageTek SL150 wins Best Business Storage at V3 Technology Awards 2012

    Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:00
    One of the winners of the V3 Technology Awards 2012 was Oracle's StorageTek SL150 modular tape library, which was named by readers as the Best Business Storage product, and Oracle itself was named Best Business Intelligence Vendor.

  • Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 and Enhanced Oracle Big Data Connectors Are Released

    Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:00
    Oracle's release of Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 and the Enhanced Oracle Big Data Connectors provides users with a cost-effective, engineered system of hardware and software upgraded to include Intel's new processors and the latest Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Manager, plus the new Oracle Enterprise Manager plug-in for Big Data Appliance. The enhanced Oracle Big Data Connectors enable greater SQL access to Hadoop from Oracle Database and more transparent access to Hadoop from R. Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalytics, and Oracle Big Data Appliance with Oracle Big Data Connectors provide an engineered system to acquire, organize, and analyze big data.

  • Underground PHP and Oracle Manual Available on OTN

    Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 3 Developer Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Underground PHP and Oracle Manual Available on OTN News MySQL Exadata Servers Sun Tape Top10 Developer Sysadmin Virtualization Java Technology Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Download this Free PDF with the Latest Information on PHP OCI8 Extension , Oracle Database 11g R2 December 20, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 3 The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual has been updated for Oracle Database Express Edition 11g Release 2, co-author Christopher Jones announces . He and Alison Holloway wrote the manual for PHP programmers developing applications for Oracle Database , showing how

  • Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 Available for Download

    Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:00
    Oracle has released Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0, a highly scalable,low latency, key-value database for real-time big data workloads that adds efficient support for storage and retrieval of large objects such as documents and images, as well as dynamic elasticity and automatic rebalancing for allocating storage and compute resources in response to changing production data processing requirements. Tighter integration with both Oracle Database and Hadoop environments, enables Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 to fit seamlessly into an enterprise IT stack. Download a free evaluation version of NoSQL Database 2.0.

  • MySQL 5.6.9 Release Candidate Available: Download Now

    Updated: 2012-12-20 16:00:00
    Responding to the feedback gathered at MySQL Connect in September, the MySQL Team has produced MySQL 5.6.9, which is now available for download, Rob Young reports. He writes that MySQL 5.6 is designed to meet the agility demands of the next generation of web apps and services and includes across the board improvements to the Optimizer, InnoDB performance/scale and online DDL operations, self-healing Replication, Performance Schema Instrumentation, Security and developer enabling NoSQL functionality.

  • Six Free/Open Source Databases with Commercial-Quality Features

    Updated: 2012-12-15 16:00:00
    Susan Perschke, writing in "Network World," "tested six popular free or open source relational database management systems (RDBMS): Microsoft SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, Oracle's MySQL, MariaDB, Apache Derby, and Firebird SQL. We tested each product on ease of installation, documentation, features, management tools and performance using a log file containing more than 1 million records. Here are the individual results..."

  • Oracle's Big Data Page Offers Users Guidance, Insight

    Updated: 2012-12-14 16:00:00
    , Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 2 Oracle Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle's Big Data Page Offers Users Guidance , Insight ZFS DTrace MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Events Storage Sun Tape Top10 LibreOffice Sysadmin Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Learn Just How Inclusive the Expression Big Data' Can Be December 14, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 2 In keeping with its heritage as a database industry leader , Oracle has furthered its reputation by establishing the web page Oracle and Big Data : Big Data for the . Enterprise Oracle demonstrates how big data analysis can include not just transactional data but such important

  • Documentation Changes Accompany Release of JavaFX 2.2.4

    Updated: 2012-12-14 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 2 JavaFX Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Documentation Changes Accompany Release of JavaFX 2.2.4 ZFS DTrace MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Events Storage Sun Tape Top10 LibreOffice Sysadmin Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next New Releases , Updates and Revisions December 14, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 2 There have been some revisions and additions to the documentation for JavaFX 2.2.4 and JDK 7u10, both of which were recently released to GA . The changes include : A new document , Using the Image Ops API , describes how to read and write raw pixel data to and from JavaFX images . The Handling

  • DTrace for Oracle Linux Brings Powerful New Tool to Customers

    Updated: 2012-12-14 16:00:00
    Initially developed for the Oracle Solaris operating system, DTrace for Oracle Linux is now available to Oracle Linux customers who can download it from the Unbreakable Linux Network, Zeynep Koch reports. DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework designed to give operational insights that allow users to tune and troubleshoot the operating system. Among the benefits to users of DTrace for Oracle Linux that Koch cites are its ability to find performance bottlenecks; its dynamically enabled, multiple-probe-point kernel; and its ability to enable maximum resource utilization and application performance.

  • Java Spotlight Episode 112: Joonas Lehtinen on @Vaadin

    Updated: 2012-12-13 16:00:00
    On Episode 112 of the Java Spotlight Host Roger Brinkley interviews Joonas Lehtinen, one of the developers of Vaadin,</A a Java-based open source framework for building business-oriented Rich Internet Applications. He has been developing applications for the web since 1995 with a strong focus on Ajax and Java. He is also the founder and CEO of the company behind the Vaadin framework.

  • Partner Webcast – Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine

    Updated: 2012-12-13 16:00:00
    Log in on Thursday, December 20th at 10:00 a.m. CET (9:00 a.m. GMT) for a free, online live eSeminar devoted to Oracle Exadata X3. Topics covered will include the evolution of Oracle Exadata and the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine (hardware and software update); review of the unique next-generation technologies underlying Exadata; how to get onboard with Oracle Exadata; and Q&A. Registration is required. Oracle cautions that registrations received less than 24 hours prior to start may not be sufficiently timely to enable receipt of confirmation to attend.

  • Database Insider - December 2012 Issue Available Now

    Updated: 2012-12-13 16:00:00
    Both an overview of and a link to Database Insider -- December 2012 Issue are provided in a post by Javier Puerta, who draws attention to such featured articles as "Big Data: From Acquisition to Analysis"; "Total Cost of Ownership Comparison: Oracle Exadata vs. IBM P-Series"; a webinar on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3; and "Maximum Availability with Oracle GoldenGate." The issue also includes webcasts and podcasts, a featured video, "customer buzz," Oracle Exadata Spotlight, Mobile Resource, and how to find an Oracle Partner.

  • Oracle Releases Amazon Web Services (AWS) Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager

    Updated: 2012-12-12 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 2 Sun SysAdmin Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Releases Amazon Web Services AWS Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager ZFS DTrace MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata Events Storage Sun Tape Top10 LibreOffice Sysadmin Java Technology JavaFX Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Enables Monitoring of Non-Critical Resources Deployed to AWS December 12, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 2 Oracle recently introduced the Oracle Enterprise Manager Plug-in for Amazon Web Services AWS which enables the monitoring of non-critical resources deployed to AWS . Sunil Kunisetty and Daniel Chan present an overview of this tool , explaining

  • GA. Tech Researchers: Mobile Browsers Need Better HTTPS Indicators

    Updated: 2012-12-12 16:00:00
    <img border=0 src="http://sun.systemnews.com/images/178/2/networkworld.png" align="right""Researchers from Georgia Tech recently released a study that claims almost all mobile browsers in use in the U.S. fail to accurately notify users whether they are using HTTPS or not... World Wide Web Consortium guidelines recommend that all browsers clearly identify the HTTPS status of their current connection. When tested, the Georgia Tech researchers found that the browsers used by 90% of American mobile customers didn't measure up..."

  • OS-Level Virtualization with Oracle Solaris Zones and Linux Containers

    Updated: 2012-12-09 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 1 Virtualization Sign in Register Password Help Membership types OS-Level Virtualization with Oracle Solaris Zones and Linux Containers Features MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Top10 LibreOffice Publications Virtualization Java Technology Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Requires No Additional Software Layer December 9, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 1 In the third article of a series that covered Oracle VM Server for SPARC and Oracle VM Server for x86 Detlef Drewanz posts about the operating system level of , virtualization which is one type of software virtualization , by looking at Oracle Solaris Zones and Linux

  • Second Generation Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Released

    Updated: 2012-12-08 16:00:00
    Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 178 Issue 1 Exadata Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Second Generation Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Released Features MySQL Cloud Computing Exadata SPARC Top10 LibreOffice Publications Virtualization Java Technology Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Delivers 60x Increase in Application Deployment Density December 8, 2012, Volume 178, Issue 1 Oracle has released Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud X3-2, the second hardware generation of the company's flagship engineered system for running business applications . Oracle Exalogic X3-2 builds on the recent release of Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software 2.0 to provide

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