Partners are encouraged to get specialized in Sun-Oracle products, such as Exadata, which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison says may be the company's iPhone. Oracle is offering a live virtual class on Oracle Exadata Storage Server Version 2.

Is it per-core performance or system design that really makes a difference?

Get the latest on the free, open source tool dim_STAT - its most recent version and how it can help with performance analysis.

The case for Image Packaging System (IPS), the cross-platform package management system created by the OpenSolaris community.

Virtualization-related articles covered include an Oracle Tech Days presentation on virtualizing applications on Oracle Solaris; Oracle VM Templates; and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

Recent survey shows organizations deciding to switch from Microsoft's Office 2003 or older suites are turning to OpenOffice.org.

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As Oracle announces its new Oracle Business Process Management (BPM) Suite 11g, the company also states that it is committed to Sun customers' investments in BPM technology.

New community and commercial versions of Oracle GlassFish Server, Version 3.0.1, have been released. New patch available for Oracle GlassFish Server 2.1. The new NetBeans IDE 6.9 introduces the JavaFX Composer, adds OSGi interoperability, and more.

Guidelines for running IBM DB2 UDB V8.2x in non-global zones under Oracle Solaris 10 is presented. Updated Oracle Solaris learning paths are now available for those interested in certification.

Get a hint of the OpenSolaris road map via a short slide presentation.

Learn about using external tables to load data into a data warehouse. Oracle Exadata V2 for SAP is expected to be certified by early 2011.

Read a comprehensive approach to the virtualization of Mac OS X Server with Virtual Box, Version 3.2.

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Oracle launched Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems. There are also new enhancements for the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product line.

A prerelease version of Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is now available for Solaris. Learn about the hxbt driver for Solaris that implements a WAN emulation.

Take a closer look at ZFS virtual devices (vdevs) and how they affect performance, particularly in relation to RAID-Z.

New open source connector Ora-Oop to link Oracle databases to Hadoop.

Recent white papers of interest:

• Increasing Application Availability Using Oracle VM Server for SPARC
• Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center: Datacenter Lifecycle Management
• Oracle Exadata: a Data Management Tipping Point
• How to Eliminate Web Page Hijacking Using Oracle Solaris Security
• Rich Applications for Billions of Devices: What's New in LWUIT?
  
  

Oracle has released some new versions of Sun technologies. The Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2.4 is a maintenance release, and Oracle Solaris Studio Express 6/10, formerly Sun Studio Express, along with its Customer Feedback Program are now available.

Marc Hamilton, former vice president of Americas Systems Practice at Sun, explains the statistical reasons behind the inadequacy of a multi-petabyte cloud storage environment.

New DTrace providers are in OpenSolaris. Solaris recommended and Sun Alert patch clusters have been merged.

Take a look at OpenESB from the standpoint of development, administration, and management. Learn about cloning a VMware guest on a ZFS NFS share.

Oracle's new world record result on SAP BI-D benchmark surpasses the IBM DB2 result by more than eight times the performance.

The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology or Sun SPOT devices have been repriced and reportedly the project is still an active one.

You can automatically lock down your servers and maintain your security posture over time easily with Security Blanket.

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Oracle reported profitable fourth-quarter numbers with Sun hardware and support sales adding $1.8 billion in revenue.

A newly developed framework has been put into place to assist the 900 user groups, including OpenSolaris, now associated with Oracle and the International Oracle User Group Community (IOUC). The OpenSolaris project Sun Security Toolkit's (SST) history, goals, use cases, and future, were discussed in a June conference call. Oracle's policies with regard to open source and open standards recently were addressed.

The IEEE has ratified its standard for 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE).

Two reviewers pit Oracle VM VirtualBox 3.2 against VMware Workstation 7.1.

Current shifts in the server architecture were explored.

Helpful tips covered include configuring Oracle VirtualBox VM for Oracle Enterprise Linux and installing Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 for Sun Ray Server; migrating a Windows XP VM from VMware to VirtualBox; sharing ZFS file systems with Windows clients; and allowing Mac OS X to run in a native ZFS partition.

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