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Archived News Articles
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02 Nov 2010
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Oracle Is a Leader in User Provisioning [23604]
Recognized by Gartner
Gartner has recognized Oracle as a leader in its recent, 2010 "Magic Quadrant for User Provisioning."
Gartner says that leaders in user provisioning "are high-momentum vendors (based on sales, world presence and mind share growth), and they have evident track records in user provisioning across most, if not all, market segments. Business investments position them well for the future. Leaders demonstrate balanced progress and effort in the Execution and Vision categories. Their actions raise the competitive bar for all products in the market. They can and often do change the course of the industry."
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02 Nov 2010
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Pella Corporation Improves IT Performance and Efficiency [23628]
With Oracle VM and Oracle Linux
Pella Corporation, a leader in designing, testing, manufacturing and installing quality windows and doors, has standardized on Oracle VM, server virtualization software and Oracle Linux to improve IT performance and efficiency, and lower operational costs
Upon a competitive review of server virtualization solutions, including Red Hat and VMware, Pella says that they chose to implement Oracle VM, which aligned with its strategic vision of greater efficiency and performance at lower cost, along with enterprise class support that Pella needed for its critical business systems.
By moving to a virtualized environment, Pella expects to reduce its infrastructure costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to less than $20,000 per year. The initial savings in maintenance costs more than covered the projects cost.
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01 Nov 2010
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SPARC Enterprise Servers See Expanded Deployment at Qualcomm [23632]
Company Opts for Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000, T5240 Servers
Qualcomm has opted for Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise servers to provide the enterprise-class, scalable infrastructure needed to support its large developer community and corporate IT systems. Oracle reports that Qualcomm runs a wide-range of mission-critical Oracle Applications, including CRM, Business Intelligence and Financial applications, as well as Oracle Database 11g, on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 servers. The company also uses Sun SPARC Enterprise servers to operate many of its Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools and engineering infrastructure.
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28 Oct 2010
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Oracle and Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. [23634]
Strategic Investment in InfiniBand
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.
"InfiniBand is by far the fastest and most efficient switch fabric for running enterprise data centers," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "Mellanox has been instrumental in maintaining InfiniBand's immense competitive lead over Ethernet. We are a big supporter of the company and this investment based upon our belief in the InfiniBand technology and in the Mellanox management team."
Oracle has stated that Mellanox is expected to continue to work with all technology vendors
and they will make Solaris a core supported operating system platform.
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08 Oct 2010
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"IT 2020: Technology Optimism: An Oracle Scenario" [23550]
Drawn from the Views of Oracle Personnel Worldwide
Polled on their expectations for IT in 2020, a number of Oracle employees submitted essays on what technology might bring about in the coming decade. The Oracle white paper "IT 2020: Technology Optimism: An Oracle Scenario" characterizes the responses as optimistic though with the proviso that no one expected technology alone to solve humanity's problems unless it is used as " ... a tool ... to respond to critical human issues and lead humanity to a safe, happy, and meaningful future."
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07 Oct 2010
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Oracle Buying Passlogix [23565]
To Advance ID Management, Compliance, and Authentication Initiatives
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.
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