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News, VendorVoice, Partners, Solaris, Cloud Computing, Servers, Storage, OpenStorage, Top10, Free and Open Source S/W, Sysadmin, Publications, Virtualization, NetBeans, JavaFX, Security, Oracle, Trademarks
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Passlogix is the next company Oracle plans on acquiring.
Oracle employees share expectations for IT in 2020, while Gartner reports on its finding that virtualization will be the single most significant issue facing IT administrators through 2015.
There is a major software update for the Sun ZFS Storage 7000 series appliances and Oracle strongly recommends upgrading.
Oracle is expected to release the next Critical Patch Update on Oct. 12 with mapping of each vulnerability's CVE number included.
Newest publication to the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition. Learn more about the latest Oracle Solaris offerings on the Oracle Solaris Video Blog.
Sun resellers are going under contract with Oracle as Sun Partner Advantage Program closes.
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Oracle Buying Passlogix
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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"IT 2020: Technology Optimism: An Oracle Scenario"
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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VendorVoice
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Optimize Solaris Zone Performance and Increase Server Utilization
Effective Capacity Planning in Virtualized Environments
Halcyon's Neuron Performance Manager aggregates Solaris zone performance data to proactively monitor overall server utilization and quickly identify bottlenecks and excess capacity. This solution enables organizations to optimize their virtual environment to improve service levels, reduce costs, and increase availability of critical business applications.
Unlike traditional reporting tools, Neuron Performance Manager automatically collects important Oracle Solaris performance data such as CPU and memory usage from Zones and Containers and aggregates them into a single graph. This allows administrators to view historical trends and predict future capacity needs on both physical and virtual hosts. For more information, screenshots, and to download this solution with free pre-sales technical support, click on Get More Information.
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Partners
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Sun Resellers to Go Under Contract with Oracle
Former Sun Partner Advantage Program Expires Oct. 15
Sun solution providers under contract with Oracle from the previous Sun Partner Advantage channel program will see those contracts expire on Oct. 15 and will be under Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) contracts beginning Oct. 16, said Judson Althoff, senior vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and embedded sales, in an interview with CRN's Rick Whiting.
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Solaris
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Learn More About the Latest Oracle Solaris Offerings
On Oracle Solaris Video Blog
Oracle Solaris Video blog aims to provide the latest information on the operating system in video format. Recent additions to the site include DTrace for System Administrators, Oracle Solaris ZFS Triple Parity RAID-Z, Oracle Solaris ZFS Pool Split, Oracle Solaris ZFS Log Devices, Oracle Solaris ZFS System Duty Cycle Scheduling Class, and Introducing Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3.
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Cloud Computing
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The Upcoming Oracle Cloud Office
Screencast Offers Quick Introduction to the Future Collaborative Suite
Oracle Cloud Office is a Web and mobile office suite. It includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. Based on Web open standards and the Open Document Format (ODF), Oracle Cloud Office enables Web 2.0-style collaboration and mobile document access and ensures compatibility with Microsoft Office file documents. Recently previewed at Oracle OpenWorld, the upcoming collaborative office suite has had a screencast posted highlighting its features.
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Storage
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Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array Delivers 17 GB/sec Sequential Read Throughput Performance
Measured with with PCI-Express SAS-2 HBAs Using Vdbench
Recently Oracle's Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array was put to the test. Two IO performance metrics were measured on the solid-state flash array using Vdbench 5.0. This is a disk and tape I/O workload generator for verifying data integrity and measuring performance of direct attached and network connected storage. The flash array delivered 17 GB/sec sequential read throughput performance for 1 MB transfers and 10 GB/sec write sequential throughput performance for 1 MB writes.
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OpenStorage
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Major Software Update for Sun ZFS Storage 7000 Series Appliances
Oracle Strongly Recommends Upgrade to 2010.Q3.1.0
There is a major software update for the Sun ZFS Storage 7000 series appliances. 2010.Q3.1.0 offers a number of new features and repairs multiple issues. It is supported on Sun Storage 7110, 7210, 7310, 7410, 7120, 7320, 7420, and the Sun Storage 7000 Simulator. Oracle strongly recommends upgrading to this latest edition. Users should note the first shipping release of 2010.Q3 software is 2010.Q3.1.0.
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Top10
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Top Ten Articles for last few Issues
Vol 151 Issues 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; Vol 150 Issues 2, 3 and 4
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, Vol 148 Issue 1, the top 10 articles were:
- Performance of Oracle's SPARC T3
- Oracle Solaris Patching Strategy and Best Practices
- 2010 Duke's Choice Awards Winners
- Oracle Database on Sun SPARC Enterprise T-series Systems
- Create Virtual Machines in Five Easy Steps
- Brief Introduction to Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
- Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster: Extending Oracle Solaris for Business Continuity
- OpenOffice.org Supporters Launch Separate Project
- Oracle Sues Micron Technology Inc.
- Oracle Cites Recent Actions as Commitment to Open Source Community
The longer version of this article has list of top ten articles for the last 8 weeks.
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Top 50 Articles on Web Site This Week
October 4th to October 10th
We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, the top 10 articles were:
- Performance of Oracle's SPARC T3 (2010-10-01)
- 'Oracle Solaris Patching Strategy and Best Practices' (2010-09-29)
- 'Oracle Database on Sun SPARC Enterprise T-series Systems' (2010-09-30)
- Create Virtual Machines in Five Easy Steps (2010-09-30)
- The Upcoming Oracle Cloud Office (2010-10-06)
- Brief Introduction to Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud (2010-09-30)
- SPARC T3 Processor and SPARC T3 Systems (2010-09-21)
- 'Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Cluster: Extending Oracle Solaris for Business Continuity' (2010-09-30)
- OpenOffice.org Supporters Launch Separate Project (2010-09-29)
- 2010 Duke's Choice Awards Winners (2010-10-01)
The longer version of this article has list of top 50 articles for this last week.
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Free and Open Source S/W
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An Attempt at Defining Open Standards
That Not Everyone Agrees Comes as No Surprise
In his Oracle.com blog Trond-Arne Undheim addresses the issue of "Defining Open Standards," challenging the notion that arriving at a definition of open standards is impossible. In fact, he goes as far as to describe open standards as "pure goodness."
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Sysadmin
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Slide Presentation: "What is My Unix Doing?"
Thoughts About Tuning Unix Systems
An 110-slide presentation entitled "What is my Unix doing?" by Joerg Moellenkamp explores tuning these systems and touches on performance issues, observability pointers, and debugging techniques. This slides were presented at the Free Software and Open Source (FroSCon) 2010 event held Aug. 21-22.
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Publications
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"Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials"
Covers Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition
"Oracle Solaris Cluster Essentials" combines a complete technology introduction and hands-on guide written for architects, administrators, and IT managers. This newest edition to the Oracle Solaris System Administration Series covers both Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in detail, offering start-to-finish lifecycle guidance for planning, implementation, management, and troubleshooting.
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NetBeans
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NetBeans Named One of the Top Java Programming Tools
Shows Largest Increase in Adoption of Any Java IDE
An article in InfoWorld, "Top Java Programming Tools" by Andrew Binstock takes a detailed look at such solutions as Eclipse, IntelliJ, IDEA, NetBeans, and Oracle JDeveloper as each extends the utility and the adoption of Java-based tools for the development community. Binstock cites a survey that found the rate of adoption for NetBeans 6.9 has put it second only to Eclipse as the most employed Java IDE.
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JavaFX
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Tips for Developing on the JavaFX TV Platform
Ideal for Electronic Program Guide, Social Networking, Sports Broadcasting, Informative Widgets
From Oracle's JavaFX web site comes an article on "Tips for Developing on the JavaFX TV Platform" by Larry Hoffman and Jim Holliday. The authors write that their article describes some of the ways in which the television platform differs from the desktop platform, providing tips and guidelines for designing effective television applications. In addition, the article also provides some guidelines for moving applications written for the desktop platform to the television platform.
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Security
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Mapping to be Included in Future Solaris CPU Patch Documents
Customer Feedback Provides Catalyst for Change in Oracle Policy
Oracle is expected to release the next Critical Patch Update on Oct. 12. According to the Sun Security Community Security Blog, Oracle has decided to update its policies and include the mapping of each vulnerability's CVE number to the particular Solaris package patch version (patchid), in all future Solaris CPU Patch Availability Documents.
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Oracle
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Oracle Openworld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop On Demand
Revisit Sessions from the Conference
An on-demand preview of sessions from this year's Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop are now available. Get access to keynotes and General sessions in streaming video with synchronized slides and transcripts. Those interested also can download mobile video and audio, PowerPoints, White Papers, and more for all the sessions.
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