Updated: 2010-09-30 10:42:21
The Oracle Solaris OS alone, explains the Oracle white paper "Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster: Extending Oracle Solaris for Business Continuity," offers comprehensive reliability features. Oracle Solaris Cluster goes much farther, however, providing nearly continuous access to data and applications by keeping the cluster running through failures that would normally bring down an application or service.
Updated: 2010-09-29 10:40:06
Those who missed the Oracle OpenWorld presentation "Oracle Solaris Patching Strategy and Best Practices" delivered by Solaris Systems Software Patch Services Director Gerry Haskins and Oracle Principal Sales Consultant Bob Netherton can review the slides, which have been released. The 68-slide presentation offers recommended patch strategies and considerations, including implementation details and information on the Image Packaging System (IPS).
Updated: 2010-09-28 15:00:00
Oracle says it is committed to the Java platform and open source developer communities, and reports evidence of this by its proposed new code contribution to the Eclipse Foundation. The Sapphire project is a proposed open source project under the Technology Container Project. Oracle also cites the continued advances being made to the Java platform and GlassFish server as well as its new releases of a broad range of developer tools as further testament to its dedication to the open source and developer communities.
Updated: 2010-09-24 12:40:40
A wide selection of Oracle enterprise software has been certified to run on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using Oracle VM virtualization. Oracle software customers will now be able to use the utility-based pricing model of Amazon Web Services for production workloads with full support from Oracle and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Additionally, customers may use their existing Oracle licenses on Amazon EC2 at no additional license cost, or they may acquire new licenses from Oracle.
Updated: 2010-09-23 15:00:00
Only recently released by Oracle, its Exadata Database Machine is now available in three configurations, the most impressive of which is the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8, billed by Oracle as the world's most secure database machine. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-8 delivers the ability to query fully encrypted databases with near-zero overhead at hundreds of gigabytes per second, which is accomplished by moving decryption processing from software into the Exadata hardware.
Updated: 2010-09-23 06:03:44
Oracle officially announced that it will be releasing Oracle Solaris 11 Express by the end of calendar year 2010. This release will provide the latest Oracle Solaris 11 Express features with an optional Oracle support agreement, and is expected to be "the path forward" for developers, end-users, and partners using previous generations of earlier Solaris and OpenSolaris releases.
Updated: 2010-09-16 15:00:00
This 21-page Oracle white paper offers a high-level discussion of the Oracle Solaris unique features and innovative technologies, such as Oracle Solaris ZFS, Oracle Solaris DTrace, Predictive Self Healing, built-in virtualization, independent security verification, binary compatibility, and others. An emphasis is placed on the link between Oracle's operating system, virtualization, cluster, and development technologies for the integrated portfolio the company now offers - the application-to-disk integration or integrated stack.
Updated: 2010-09-10 15:00:00
"Hardening Oracle Database with Oracle Solaris Security Technologies" is an Oracle white paper that explains how commodity Oracle Solaris OS security features can be used to lock down network-facing services in order to protect from internal and external threats. The paper uses Oracle Database Server 11g Release 2 executing on Oracle Solaris 10 /10/09 throughout to illustrate the concepts under discussion.
Updated: 2010-09-09 11:05:39
Anyone new, or even perhaps not-so-new, to Oracle and interested in finding documentation related to the Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server and Fusion Middleware, Oracle Beehive and Collaboration Suite, and others, may want to take a suggestion from Tim Hall. On his The ORACLE-BASE Blog, Hall states that the most important skill any Oracle DBA/Developer needs is knowing how to search the Oracle documentation. He offers a basic but key method that may assist.
Updated: 2010-09-09 11:05:38
Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 is out, along with Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2. The Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 update includes new features, fixes, and hardware support, and preserves full compatibility with over 11,000 third-party products and customer applications.
Updated: 2010-09-09 11:05:38
The Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking System running on Oracle Exadata V2 achieved outstanding benchmark results, successfully processing 100 million accounts and completing the benchmark in 4 hours and 23 minutes. Compared to previous benchmarks in this category, the results running on Oracle Exadata V2 are 3 - 5 times faster.
