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2013-05-10T16:00:00+01:00

The May edition of the Oracle "Database Insider" newsletter is now available.

News

Oracle Remains #1 in RDBMS Market Share Worldwide for 2012
Oracle Exadata Customers Speak About Real-World Value
New: Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 Starter Rack Helps Jumpstart Big Data Initiatives
New Study: Increased Security Spending Still Not Protecting Right Assets

Other sections include

Featured Video
Webcasts
Podcasts
Customer Buzz
Oracle Excellence Awards
Featured Training
Oracle Magazine Spotlight
Events

May Edition

Oracle Processor Core Factor Table

2013-04-22T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle pricing for Multi-core processors are priced as (number of cores)*(multi-core factor) processors.

The "Oracle Processor Core Factor Table" has been updated in order to include SPARC T5 and M5. It's 0.5 for both.

April 2013 Oracle Database Insider Available for Download

2013-04-22T16:00:00+01:00

The April 2013 issue of Database Insider Edition is now available. This issue features news stories on Oracle Database Appliance X3-2; a catalog of Oracle events for developers; and an appraisal of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. A featured video considers database management systems: build or buy; proposals are solicited for Oracle OpenWorld 2013; and a collection of webcasts and podcasts flesh out the edition.

'Best Practices for Deploying Oracle Solaris Zones with Oracle Database 11g on SPARC SuperCluster

2013-03-15T16:00:00+01:00

Giri Mandalika summarizes the Oracle white paper "Best Practices for Deploying Oracle Solaris Zones with Oracle Database 11g on SPARC SuperCluster," explaining that SuperCluster users have the choice of running their databases in logical domains dedicated to running Oracle Database 11g R2.

With exclusive access to Exadata Storage Servers, those domains are called "Database" domains. Users can create and use all logical domains as "database domains" or "application domains" or a mix of those, Mandalika writes. The paper talks only about database domains and their creation, configuration and use within each database domain for fine grained control over multiple databases in a SuperCluster environment.

Oracle Announces Industrys First One-stop Social Interactions and Experiences Platform

2013-03-14T16:00:00+01:00

The just-announced Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM) solution is the industry�'s first unified, end-to-end social management solution for the enterprise. Oracle SRM fully integrates organically-developed Oracle products with Vitrue, Collective Intellect, and Involver solutions and combines social marketing, engagement and monitoring into a complete platform that allows enterprises to seamlessly listen, create and publish content, engage customers and analyze interactions across multiple social channels in real-time. By integrating the full spectrum of social activities and analysis in a single platform, the solution eliminates the inconsistency, duplication and delays of social silos�' to enable users to create, measure, and consistently deliver more rewarding customer experiences.

SnapManager for Oracle DB for ZFSSA Now Available

2013-03-08T17:00:00+01:00

The Snap Management Utility for ZFSSA, as described by Steve Tunstall, combines the underlying snapshot, clone, and rollback capabilities of the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance with standard host-side processing so all operations are consistent. He calls it a license like the Clone or the Replication license, a one-time, yes-or-no, on-or-off license per controller. The software is available free for a 30-day trial. Purchasers of the SMU license do not need to buy the clone license because cloning is included in SMU. Tunstall provides download instructions for both outright purchasers of Snap and for those who opt for the 30-day free trial.

Enterprise Strategy Group Nixes DIY Big Data Solutions; Buy Oracle Big Data Appliance Instead

2013-03-06T17:00:00+01:00

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) has published "Getting Real About Big Data: Build Versus Buy" which, according to Javier Puerta, comes solidly down on the side of buy ... Oracle Big Data Appliance (OBDA), that is. Among ESG's conclusions are that "DIY infrastructure involves a long series of hidden risks and costs and may undermine your organization's ability to deliver big data in the long term." Their findings on OBDA (@$450K per device) are it is 39% less costly than "build your own" ($733k); OBDA reduces time-to-market by 33% vs "build"; and requires fewer expensive Hadoop engineers. The white paper is available for download.

Database Isolation in the Private and Public Cloud

2013-03-01T17:00:00+01:00

The isolation of natively consolidated databases, whether private or public, on a a single shared Oracle Grid Infrastructure can generally be accommodated by the provisions built in to Oracle Database, B.R. Clouse posts, citing "Best Practices for Database Consolidation in Private Clouds" for details. Database clouds hosting databases with security or compliance considerations can be isolated through the encapsulation techniques, either logical or physical, provided by Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC in Solaris 11 Zones. A second white paper, "Encapsulating Oracle Databases with Oracle Solaris 11 Zones," explains this capability. Clouse also recommends the white paper "The Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Database Cloud."

Oracle Academy, Computer Science Teachers Association Team Up

2013-02-13T17:00:00+01:00

The Oracle Academy is collaborating with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) to instruct teachers in the U.S. and Canada in the delivery of the Oracle Academy�'s Introduction to Computer Science curriculum. The curriculum includes Database Design and Programming courses and a Java-specific curriculum aligned to Oracle certification and the US Advanced Placement Computer Science A exam. The Oracle Academy and CSTA will host 32 teacher training events and workshops in the training of up to 600 teachers throughout Canada and the U.S. in sessions running from February through August 2013.

Oracle Snap Management Utility for Oracle Database

2013-02-06T17:00:00+01:00

Oracle has just released Oracle Snap Management Utility which streamlines and automates critical tasks for customers using Oracle Database with Oracle�'s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. Oracle Snap Management Utility, tightly integrated with the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, accelerates the creation and management of snapshot-based copies and clones of Oracle databases by reducing the steps required from nine to one for snapshots and 12 to one for clones. The new utility is available as a software option for the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance. Oracle Snap Management Utility is qualified and supported on Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Database 11g and on Oracle Engineered Systems.

Oracle Acquires Acme Packet, Session Border Control Technology Provider

2013-02-05T17:00:00+01:00

Acme Packet, the leading global provider of session border control technology, has been acquired by Oracle for approximately $1.7 billion. Acme Packet enables the delivery of next-generation voice, data and unified communications services and applications across IP networks. The combination of Oracle and Acme Packet is expected to accelerate the migration to all-IP networks by enabling secure and reliable communications from any device, across any network. With the end-to-end portfolio of technologies resulting from this acquisition, Oracle Communications and Acme Packet can help meet user demand for service anytime and anywhere using the application, device, and network of choice.

Access and Analyze Big Data at Lower Cost with Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2

2012-12-28T17:00:00+01:00

It is now possible to get more value from Big Data less expensively with Oracle Big Data Appliance X3-2 hardware and enhanced Oracle Big Data Connectors, jgelhaus posts. The X3-2 features the latest 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 series of processors, and its 18 compute and storage servers with 648 TB raw storage now offer 33 percent more processing power; 33 percent more memory per node; and up to a 30 percent reduction in power and cooling. The Oracle Big Data Connectors software suite provides Oracle SQL Connector for Hadoop Distributed File System and offers transparent access to the Hive Query language from R.

Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 Available for Download

2012-12-20T17:00:00+01:00

Oracle has released Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0, a highly scalable,low latency, key-value database for real-time big data workloads that adds efficient support for storage and retrieval of large objects such as documents and images, as well as dynamic elasticity and automatic rebalancing for allocating storage and compute resources in response to changing production data processing requirements. Tighter integration with both Oracle Database and Hadoop environments, enables Oracle NoSQL Database 2.0 to fit seamlessly into an enterprise IT stack. Download a free evaluation version of NoSQL Database 2.0.

Oracle's Big Data Page Offers Users Guidance, Insight

2012-12-14T17:00:00+01:00

Oracle has established the web page Oracle and Big Data: Big Data for the Enterprise. Oracle demonstrates how big data analysis can include not just transactional data but such elements as weblogs, social media, email, sensors -- even photographs. Among the resources available on the Oracle Big Data page are the following:

Webcast: Drill Down on Disaster Recovery
Oracle Information Architecture: An Architect's Guide to Big Data (PDF)
White Paper: Big Data Strategy Guide (PDF)
Analyst White Paper: IDC, Oracle's All-Out Assault on the Big Data Market(PDF)
White Paper: Oracle: Big Data for the Enterprise (PDF)

Database Insider - December 2012 Issue Available Now

2012-12-13T17:00:00+01:00

Both an overview of and a link to Database Insider -- December 2012 Issue are provided in a post by Javier Puerta, who draws attention to such featured articles as "Big Data: From Acquisition to Analysis"; "Total Cost of Ownership Comparison: Oracle Exadata vs. IBM P-Series"; a webinar on Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3; and "Maximum Availability with Oracle GoldenGate." The issue also includes webcasts and podcasts, a featured video, "customer buzz," Oracle Exadata Spotlight, Mobile Resource, and how to find an Oracle Partner.

Understanding Oracle Strategy, the Oracle Cloud and Oracle Engineered Systems

2012-12-08T17:00:00+01:00

Three brief videos are gathered in a compendium by Eric Bezille on Oracle Strategy, the Oracle Cloud, and Oracle Engineered Systems. All told, the three animated presentations take less than 15 minutes and constitute a useful introduction to the subjects mentioned above.

Interactive One Meets High-Traffic Demands with Oracle Database Appliance to

2012-12-05T17:00:00+01:00

Interactive One, the digital link to millions of Black and Latino urban audiences with more than 60 unique brands on both a national and local level, deployed Oracle Database Appliance with Oracle Real Application Clusters. The Oracle implementation replaced a legacy system that consisted of a full rack of storage, servers and switches, including components from 3PAR and SGI that ran six database instances of a custom-built application running approximately 20 million OLTP queries per day. Replacing a full rack of servers and storage hardware that ran six database instances with just two Oracle Database Appliances running two database instances, enabled Interactive One to significantly increase performance with ample capacity to grow while reducing its rack footprint by 80 percent, and its power and cooling costs as well.

Mark Hurd Stresses Oracle's Database Expertise in the Face of Big Data Growth

2012-11-23T17:00:00+01:00

The volume of Big Data is projected to increase by a factor of 20X by 2020 Mark Hurd told Maria Bartiromo in an interview for USAToday. Much of that data is going to wind up in a database, he continued, and customers can be confident of the security of their data with Oracle, the company with the industry's greatest level of experience with database technology. Furthermore, with Oracle's engineered systems approach to solution design, customers will find managing their databases, whether on-premise or in the cloud, simpler and more secure, Hurd said. Oracle's five billion dollar R&D budget ensures that end, he added.

Oracle OpenWorld Presentations Available for Download

2012-11-23T17:00:00+01:00

Videos of keynotes and sessions from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 are now available online, Di Seghposs reminds readers, providing a convenient link to the OpenWorld site. Even if you were there, you're bound to have missed something in a packed agenda. Here's another opportunity.

OpenWorld General Session 2012: Middleware & JavaOne

2012-11-21T17:00:00+01:00

In his one hour long remarks on Middleware at OpenWorld General Session 2012 Hasan Rizvi, EVP of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java Development, comments on how fusion middleware aids business development, how to reach customers using mobile devices, how to use middleware in the cloud, and how to process massive volumes of data. Elsewhere in a post by Jürgen Kress, are links to the SOA Community Workplace and key Fusion Middleware presentations (community membership required), feedback from ACE Directors, a compilation of tweets from SOA Community members, and links to JavaOne 2012 Strategy and Technical Keynote and the JavaOne 2012 JavaOne Technical Keynote.

Oracle Magazine November/December 2012

2012-11-12T17:00:00+01:00

The cover article in the November/December 2012 edition of Oracle Magazine, "Optimized Application Performance," brings readers up to date on the solutions available to consolidate, cut costs and reap the optimum benefit from these solutions on Exadata. The usual department articles are included in this issue as well, covering topics in the At Oracle, Community, Technology, and reader comment sections. Features also include pieces on the importance of the architect's role; the intriguingly titled "External Table Queries, Data Consistency and Nothing"; and "A Path to Leadership." Qualified readers can subscribe now.

How to Migrate Oracle Database 10 From Oracle Solaris 8 to Oracle Solaris 11

2012-11-08T17:00:00+01:00

Orgad Kimchi has created a procedure for migrating Oracle Database from Oracle Solaris 8 to Oracle Solaris 11. His procedure utilizes the Oracle Solaris 8 P2V (physical to virtual) Archiver tool to migrate a physical Oracle Solaris 8 system with Oracle Database 10.2.0.5 and an Oracle Automatic Storage Management file system located on SAN storage connected via a Fibre Channel HBA into an Oracle Solaris 8 branded zone inside an Oracle Solaris 10 guest domain on top of an Oracle Solaris 11 control domain. Kimchi demonstrates both how to preserve the host information and how to modify the host name.

Oracle OpenWorld Keynotes Now Available as On-demand Videos

2012-11-02T16:00:00+01:00

On-demand videos of all the keynote speeches from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 are now available. Hear Larry Ellison, Mark Hurd, Juan Loaiza, Thomas Kurian, Joseph Tucci of EMC, John Fowler, and many others. If you need your memory jogged about a point or two or, if you were unable to attend in person, here is the next best thing to having been there.

Database Insider - October 2012

2012-10-18T16:00:00+01:00

The October 2012 issue of Oracle's Database Insider Newsletter is now available. Contents include the following news articles:

"Newly Launched Oracle Exadata X3 Redefines Extreme Performance"
"Oracle OpenWorld Revelations Top Agendas at Regional User Group Meetings"
"FAQ: Label-Based Access Controls in Oracle Database 11g"

The issue also includes links to a video feature on analyzing big data, as well as links to a variety of webcasts and podcasts, news from the Oracle Database 11g Resource Center, reader responses, and a calendar of events.

Oracle Introduces Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine

2012-10-01T16:00:00+01:00

Oracle has announced the latest in its family of Oracle Exadata Database Machines: the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, which, with its eighth-rack configuration, is ideal for high-end OLTP, large data warehouses, and database clouds at a low-cost entry point. Oracle Exadata X3-2 Database In-Memory Machine and Oracle Exadata X3-8 Database In-Memory Machine can store up to hundreds of terabytes (TB) of compressed user data in Flash and RAM memory, virtually eliminating the performance overhead of reads and writes to slow disk drives and making Exadata X3 systems the ideal database platforms for the workloads of cloud computing.

Oracle Releases Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite for Mission-Critical Environments

2012-09-29T16:00:00+01:00

The newly released Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite, optimized for the Oracle E-Business Suite is ideal for customers looking to modernize their mission-critical Oracle E-Business Suite environments, lower operating expenses and maximize user productivity. The Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle E-Business Suite can deliver significant cost savings versus both new and existing hardware infrastructure. For example, it has an up to 56 percent lower acquisition cost versus new IBM POWER7 and HP Superdome2-based configurations, and it offers up to 40 percent lower five-year TCO when consolidating existing IBM and HP infrastructure, while reducing rackspace footprint up to 73 percent.

Profit : August, 2012

2012-09-20T16:00:00+01:00

The August 2012 issue of Profit is now available online. Contents include:

The Middleware Advantage
Playing to Win
Adjustable Loans
Future Proof
Spring Training
Keeping Online Customers Happy

Profit's editor says, "Technologies continuously evolve�'some become standard practice, some are revived or reinvented, and some are left by the wayside. But the drive to innovate and the desire to succeed are business principles that never go out of fashion."

Oracle Magazine Sept/Oct 2012 - Security on the Move

2012-09-13T16:00:00+01:00

The September/October 2012 issue of Oracle Magazine features David Baum's article "Security on the Move," which discusses how organizations are using Oracle Identity Management solutions to secure operations in the cloud and on the go; Karen Shamban's piece "Engineered for Innovation," which whets readers' appetites for Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne 2012, and MySQL Connect; and Chip Brookshaw, who writes in "Complete Cloud" about the Oracle Cloud, which provides subscription-based access to best-of-breed, integrated, and standards-based application, platform, and social service. All this and the usual department articles make for another interesting issue.

Oracle Tuxedo 12c Released; Provides Enhanced Scalability and Performance

2012-08-02T16:00:00+01:00

With the release of Oracle Tuxedo 12c, a solution for the development, rehosting and deployment of C/C++/COBOL applications in traditional data centers, engineered systems and enterprise clouds, users are in possession of a solution optimized to run on Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and tightly integrated with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. Oracle Tuxedo 12c provides mainframe-class scalability and performance for mission critical enterprise applications, Oracle's press release proclaims. A new feature, Oracle Tuxedo Message Queue 12c, provides transaction management, enhanced performance and improved availability of enterprise messaging applications.

Oracle Licensing and Support on VMware vSphere

2012-07-24T16:00:00+01:00

Michael Webster gives users the information needed to determine exactly what they legally owe in licensing fees while continuing to receive the support Oracle has been providing, even in a virtualized environment on VMware vSphere. Webster disputes four FUDs in considerable detail, which are:

Oracle Licensing and Soft Partitioning

Oracle Sub Cluster Licensing is Not Possible

Oracle is NOT Certified to Run on VMware vSphere

Oracle Does NOT Support Running on VMware vSphere

He includes five key questions to ask Oracle.