Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center is the newest addition in the Oracle Enterprise Manager family. It is used to manage both physical and virtual systems, and manages across the entire system lifecycle from discovery to provisioning, updating, monitoring and management.
The Oracle virtualization portfolio got a boost with the company's acquisition of Sun, and it has signaled a willingness to take on VMware. Oracle VM 3, which is expected this spring, will give Oracle credible Xen-based server virtualization that could challenge VMware, Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. -- at least in the tens of thousands of Oracle database and application shops. A SearchServerVirtualization.com article explores Oracle's virtualization play.
A recent study conducted by the Edison Group titled "Comparative Management Costs Study—Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5" quantifies how Oracle widens the manageability lead against IBM. Points made in the 78-page report: 43% annual savings in database management; typical administrative functions are 40% faster; 49% fewer steps for the same set of standard RDBMS tasks; and save up to $35,155 per year per DBA.
"IBM POWER7 SPECfp_rate2006: Poor Scaling? Or Configuration Confusion?" is a blog post by John Henning that casts a skeptical eye on certain aspects of the SPEC benchmark results posted for the IBM POWER7. His overall conclusion? "Scaling POWER7 from 2 to 4 chips is not impressive." He writes that, "As of 23-Feb-2010, IBM's best published 2-chip result and best 4-chip result for SPECfp_rate2006 are, respectively, 586 and 851. The scaling from 2 chips to 4 chips is less than 1.5x (851/586=1.452)."
The headline for IDC's press release on the 4Q09 server market sums things up nicely: "Worldwide Server Market Rebounds Sharply in Fourth Quarter as Demand for Blades and x86 Systems Leads the Way." Gartner found that while the worldwide server market recovered in the second half of 2009 from the economic downturn, plummeting sales in high-end systems resulted in a decline in overall revenue in the fourth quarter.
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