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Archived Features Articles
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26 Dec 2011
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OTN Architect Day Presentations: Phoenix, AZ - December 14, 2011 [25085]
Resoures for the Architect Community
Presentations from OTN Architect Day Phoenix are on Slideshare:
- Engineered Systems: Oracle's Vision for the Future with Ralf Dossmann
- Cloud Computing Industry Trends and Directions with Ron Batra
- Cloud Computing: Making IT Simple with Scott Mattoon
- Innovations in Grid Computing with Oracle Coherence with Randy Stafford
- Rationalization and Defense in Depth: Two Steps Closer to the Cloud with Dave Chappelle
- Oracle Enterprise Manager with Adeesh Fulay
- Oracle VM Consolidation and Path to the Cloud with Ronen Kofman
- Oracle Cloud Reference Architecture with Anbu Krishnaswamy
- 21st Century SOA with Jeff Davies
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19 Dec 2011
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Explaining a Big Data Implementation and its Components [25118]
Smartmall as an Example
In his use case approach to explaining a big data implementation, Jean-Pierre Dijcks uses the example of Smartmall, which he characterizes as "multi-channel customer interaction," or luring customers into the online store rather than have them shop via smart phone. He identifies the elements of such a system and follows the data flow from end-to-end by way of example. Big Data, he writes, allows users to leverage tremendous data and processing resources to come to accurate models while also allowing users to create more accurate models, new ideas, and new business.
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25 Nov 2011
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Creating a Solaris 10 Branded Zone in Solaris 11 [24965]
A Speedy, Low-effort Procedure Jeff Savit Attests
Jeff Savit recounts his experience of building what he terms "a low effort way" to create a virtual Solaris 10 zone on Oracle Solaris 11. With the Oracle VM Templates for Oracle Solaris 10 Zones now available, Savit says, one can download a complete Solaris 10 install in a guest virtual machine that can run on any host OS that supports VirtualBox. Both sets of downloads (and he includes the link in his blog) provide a quick - and extremely easy way to set up a virtual Solaris 10 environment.
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31 Oct 2011
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Engineered Systems Deliver Performance and Management Advantages [24789]
Oracle Captures the Edge with Integrated Approach to Design
Oracle's shift to what blogger Jeff Savit terms "engineered systems" marks a pronounced shift in the direction of convenience for customers, he argues, because these are " ... designed to be optimal for a particular workload class, validated and proven by [Oracle] to be reliable, simple to purchase, configure and manage, and have dramatically superior performance for their target purpose. At the same time, these systems are built on industry-standard components rather than rare or exotic chips, in order to take advantage of price/performance advances.
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31 Oct 2011
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The Growth Prospects for Tape vs. HDD and NAND as a Storage Device [24825]
2014: 6Tb-12Tb Disks; 1.2Tb-2Tb SSDs; 6Tb-15Tb Tapes
"Tape Based Magnetic Recording: Technology Landscape Comparisons with Hard Disk Drive and Flash Roadmaps," a paper by IBM's Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Steven R. Hetzler, and Gary Decad, describes the areal density (bits per unit area) roadmap goals for tape-based magnetic recording to show that current volumetric densities (bits per unit volume) for tape, HDD and NAND are similar and that lithographic requirements for tape are less challenging than those for NAND and HDD. As a result the potential for sustained annual areal density increase rates for tape is greater by far than that for both NAND and HDD.
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18 Oct 2011
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Gartner Names the 10 Rising Tech Trends of 2012 [24785]
The Future of Cloud Computing Has Itself Become Cloudy
There were some surprises for the audience at the recent Gartner Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Jason Hiner reports, where the 10 rising trends in IT for 2012 were named. Among the other nine trends were these:
- An end to PC/Windows dominance
- Context-aware Computing (CAC) will have to be reckoned with
- An Internet of things
- In-memory computing will improve
- Low-energy servers will have a pronounced impact on the marketplace
The biggest trend was the demotion of cloud computing from first, in 2011, to last in 2012.
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