Two patch updates were released in October 2011, reports Eric Maurice in his oracle.com/security blog. One is the October 2011 Critical Patch Update and the other the Critical Patch Update for Java SE"] The latter provides fixes for 20 new security vulnerabilities, Maurice reports, and the former provides fixes for 57 new security vulnerabilities. He points out that, because of Oracle's diligence in identifying and fixing vulnerabilities, the number of required fixes declines with each passing release.
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Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server is over 42% faster than Oracle's Sun Fire X4270 M2 (Intel AES-NI) when running DSS-style queries referencing an encrypted tablespace. Oracle's SPARC T4 processor with Encryption Instruction Accelerators greatly improves performance over software implementations, which will greatly expand the use of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for many customers. Oracle's TDE feature of the Oracle Database simplifies the encryption of data within datafiles, preventing unauthorized access to it from the operating system. Tablespace encryption allows encryption of the entire contents of a tablespace.
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Oracle has announced the enhanced integration of its Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Siebel CRM, Oracle ATG Commerce Suite and Oracle Supply Chain Management applications"] to ensure optimal performance on its Oracle Exadata and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud solutions, giving customers unmatched benefits from industry-leading products, including superior system availability, scalability, energy efficiency, extreme performance, and low total cost of ownership.
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How many reasons would it take to convince you to upgrade to Oracle Database 11g? Mike Dietrich offers six worth thinking about ... maybe more than once:
Oracle support period will end soon or has ended
Oracle EBS, Siebel, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, even SAP - will require Oracle 11.2 for their currently supported versions
The last word in security will be found only ... that is, only ... in 11.2
Cost savings: 11.2's advanced compression permits users to eliminate superfluous and costly fast disks; and Active DataGuard allows users to employ standby for a number of purposes.
There's an app for that, "that" being the [Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad, a recent addition to Oracle's desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio, which is now available on the App Store. The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App enables users to gain secure access to virtual desktops managed by Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, providing support through Oracle desktop virtualization, bringing full “session mobility” if iPad Users. The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App supports a broad range of enterprise applications, including network-intensive applications and those requiring full desktop browsers, Oracle reports. For example, Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App provides high performance, mobile computing environment for users of Oracle’s Siebel CRM. Compact and convenient, the Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App allows customers to efficiently and easily virtualize and manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.
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