"Analytics and business intelligence will be the top technology priorities for CIOs this year, according to Gartner Inc.'s annual survey of IT executives ..."
CIOs are like jugglers of glass balls; there are always items in the air and if one drops the results could be disastrous. The annual Gartner survey of "The Top 10 Tech Priorities of CIOs" show a change from last year; for one thing, the Cloud is no longer number one.
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With release of the latest version of its Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and the Oracle Identity Management 11g product family, Oracle has made it possible for its customers to gain simplified access review certification with business-centric views and actionable dashboards, powered by rich identity analytics, all of which helps to reduce errors in the certification process and increase user productivity by up to 80 percent.
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By way of their slide presentation from Oracle OpenWorld 2011, now available as a download, Cheri Williams, Craig Yappert, and Gowthaman Ranganathan provide an update on Oracle IT Upgrades to Sun Storage Products. The presentation is in three parts:
Overview: Oracle IT and Storage Strategy (reasons for migrating to ZFS Storage Appliance and outline of storage strategy)
Storage Configurations and Performance (specifics of Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance)
Oracle IT Use Cases (includes an overview of ZFS Storage in Product Development)
The presentation then summarizes lessons learned from the migration to ZFS Storage Appliance.
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With the introduction of its third-generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliance line, Oracle can assure its customers twice the performance at half the cost per IOPS of NetApp on transactional workloads. Oracle claims that the significant new software and hardware enhancements (Hybrid Columnar Compression, for example), to the product line's Hybrid Storage Pool technology accelerate IOPS performance and allow customers to maintain optimal performance under heavy utilization.
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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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