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BEGIN

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network and telecommunications, and content

African experience and best practices in enter- groups and the Financial Services Industry User

and collaboration. The conference includes

prise technology management. Topics include Group for two days of education geared toward

opportunities to network with analysts, vendors,

government support and leadership and organi- Oracle’s PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers.

and peers.

zational culture.

Black Hat USA 2011 July 30–August 2, Las Vegas, Nevada

EVENTS LOCATOR

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October 2–6, 2011

This conference for the information security

Oracle Events

San Francisco, California

community delivers timely, actionable security

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information in a vendor-neutral environment.

Locate User Groups

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Training topics include auditing and assessment,

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What’s New at Oracle

The latest videos, podcasts, blogs, and more

VIDEOS

business and IT with expanded tools for simpli-

as 90 percent while increasing manageability and

TechCast Live: Oracle Database, Express

fying communication and collaboration.

flexibility with mySQL on Windows.

Edition Goes to 11!

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WEBCASTS

Boost Utilization, Cut Costs with SPARC

Chris Rice, senior director for database tools at

Cloud Computing Webcast Series

Consolidation and Virtualization

Oracle, tells you what you can expect from Oracle

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Database, Express Edition 11g, a free and redistrib- This four-part series will help you develop a Find out how the built-in virtualization capabilities utable version of Oracle Database (now in beta).

strategy and roadmap for cloud computing.

in Oracle’s SPARC servers can increase system utilization levels to as much as 90 percent.

TechCast: Oracle GlassFish Server and

The Value of Linux in Today’s Fast-Changing

Oracle WebLogic Server Interoperability

Improve Performance with Enhanced Insight and Integration

Computing Environments

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into Profitability and Costs

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IDC analysts discuss the evolution of Linux as a

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Learn about Oracle’s strategy for creating

Learn how Oracle’s Hyperion profitability and cost increasing integration between Oracle GlassFish

solution for business-critical deployments and the

management solutions allow you to rapidly identify Server and Oracle WebLogic Server.

new ways in which Linux is being delivered.

sources of profitability and increase transparency.

Securing High-Performance

Avea Improves Performance with Oracle

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Learn how to optimize your mission-critical Web

COUNTRY

PHONE NUMBER

Hear why Avea selected Oracle Data Integrator

applications by balancing security and operational

U.S. and Canada

and Oracle Exadata to implement a real-time data performance using Oracle technologies.

Austria

warehousing solution.

Belgium

Why Pella Corporation Deployed Oracle VM 0800.901.985

Oracle’s Software as a Service and Oracle Linux

Denmark

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Finland

Learn about the software-as-a-service offerings

Pella’s datacenter managers and IT administrators

France

available through Oracle On Demand. 0800.1.810.111 discuss why they virtualized their Oracle applica-

tions with Oracle Vm and moved to Oracle Linux.

Hong Kong

PODCASTS

India

Edward Whalen on Oracle VM 001.800.1.672.253 Oracle VM and Cloud Computing:

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A Reality Show

Italy

Edward Whalen discusses his new book, Oracle

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Japan

VM Implementation and Administration Guide 1800.80.1837

Learn about the role of Oracle Vm server virtual-

(Oracle Press, 2011).

ization in the cloud and what you need to know to

The Netherlands

run an efficient datacenter.

New Zealand

Rick Greenwald on Oracle Exadata

Norway

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Philippines

Enterprise Storage Innovations

Portugal

Rick Greenwald, lead author of Achieving Extreme

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Singapore

Performance with Oracle Exadata (Oracle Press,

Hear how Oracle, Intel, and other leading com-

South Africa

2011), discusses this new book. 080.2194.114 panies are dealing with skyrocketing amounts of

South Korea

Spain

data and other storage challenges.

Sweden

Oracle BPM Suite Overview: Social BPM Switzerland

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Hear how social business process management

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Turkey

(BPm) provides process lifecycle participants in

Learn how to reduce database TCO by as much

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TRAINING

Self-Study Training for Java

“Today we have an Oracle Exadata database and we have

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almost 25 terabytes. Our ETL [extract, transform, and load]

Self-study training on CD-ROm is a convenient

batch window decreased by one-third. Our query performance way to learn. New Java self-study courses include is 10 times better than it was with the old system.” Web Component Development with Servlets

and JSPs, Java EE 6; and Developing Web —Hanife Keskin, ETL Supervisor, BI Solutions at Avea, in the Avea Improves Performance with Oracle

Applications using JSF Technologies. Data Integration and Oracle Exadata video (bit.ly/gpHaag).

Certification Value Packages Pull the Plug on Your IBM Mainframe

of 200 IT professionals about the storage-related

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Save up to 20 percent and get the added advan- Find out how Oracle Tuxedo and Oracle

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challenges caused by server virtualization.

tage of a free certification retake when you pur- GoldenGate enable IBm mainframe customers

chase an all-in-one Certification Value Package, to move to modern, efficient systems with mini-

Gaining Business Advantage Through

available for Java, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database mized risk and cost.

Storage Management Efficiency with

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

10g, Oracle Database 11g, and mySQL.

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Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Training Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server

Upgrade Your Custom Java and Forms

Edison Group analysts provide the results of a

manageability study comparing Oracle’s Sun ZFS

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Get up to speed on Oracle Exalogic with Oracle Hear how upgrading to Oracle WebLogic Server

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Storage Appliance to a NetApp storage solution.

University’s Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud can help you improve your development produc-

Overview Seminar and Oracle Exalogic Elastic tivity and flexibility and manage your production

In Search of the Long-Term

Cloud Administration course. applications more efficiently.

Archiving Solution

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Clipper Group analysts reveal why tape is the best

TOUR

No Contest: Oracle WebLogic Outperforms

solution for long-term storage of digital media.

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RESOURCE CENTERS

sentative to tour Oracle’s newest datacenter. This IBm WebSphere in TCO, performance, and

Oracle Optimized Datacenter

datacenter exemplifies how Oracle uses its own cloud readiness.

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Explore the Oracle Optimized Datacenter, which

technologies to deliver business results, solve IT

features strategies and solutions to help you solve

problems, and drive down costs.

E-BOOKS

your datacenter challenges.

The Most Complete and Integrated WEB LOCATOR Virtualization

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Oracle Blog Center

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Learn how a complete and integrated virtualiza-

Access the latest Oracle Database 11g tutorials,

white papers, customer success stories, and more.

Oracle Consulting

management to lower costs. oracle.com/consulting

Oracle Exadata Resource Kit Oracle Events and Webcasts

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Storage Tiering for Dummies, Oracle

Oracle Podcast Center Special Edition

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Learn about Oracle Exadata’s extreme perfor-

oracle.com/podcasts

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mance for data warehousing and online transac-

Oracle Newsletters

Learn how to implement tiered storage in your

oracle.com/newsletters organization and find out how it can intelligently

tion processing applications through videos,

demos, analyst reports, and customer stories.

Oracle University

improve storage performance, increase capacity, oracle.com/education and drive costs down.

Enterprise Performance Management and Oracle on Twitter

twitter.com/oracle

Governance, Risk, and Compliance Center

Oracle Support

WHITE PAPERS

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oracle.com/support

Consolidated Storage for Virtualized Server

My Oracle Support Environments

Learn about Oracle’s enterprise performance

management and governance, risk, and compli-

myoraclesupport.com

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ance (GRC) solutions through videos, demos,

My Oracle Support Communities

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10 of the 10

Top Banks Top Telcos

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DEMOS

Oracle Releases Oracle ADF Mobile Client

Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship

Oracle Application Development Framework

and data synchronization services for offline

Management

data synchronization, as well as real-time Learn how Oracle Hyperion Data

Mobile Client (Oracle ADF Mobile Client),

data links via Web services. Data can also rules and constraints of managing the busi-

a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware

Relationship management models business

be cached locally for hybrid online/offline ness to streamline change management.

that allows developers to create applications

for mobile devices, is now available. Oracle

mobile applications. Applications created

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ADF Mobile Client is based on the same

with Oracle ADF Mobile Client can access

programming paradigm as JavaServer Faces

local device hardware (such as cameras,

Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.4

and uses a single Java user interface frame-

barcode readers, and GPS devices) through

Zip Distribution

Java code embedded in the application. distribution reduces the download size of

work and tooling for all supported devices.

Find out why Oracle WebLogic Server zip

“The increased adoption of mobile busi- Oracle WebLogic Server by more than 70

Developers can build an application with

ness applications requires Java developers percent and enables faster download-to-

Oracle ADF Mobile Client, deploy it to mul-

to create and extend mobile applications running times for users.

tiple devices, and extend it to new platforms

without redevelopment.

faster than ever before,” says Ted Farrell,

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Developers using Oracle ADF Mobile

chief architect and senior vice president

Active Cache for Oracle GlassFish of tools and middleware at Oracle. “Oracle Server (Parts 1 and 2)

Client can employ a mix of visual editing

ADF Mobile Client enables developers to This two-part series on the Active Cache

tools and Java code

leverage their existing skill sets to effi- feature for Oracle GlassFish Server dis-

to define a device-

ciently deploy applications across mobile cusses concepts and basic deployment and

independent rep-

devices and platforms and address rapidly setup, reviews the product feature set, and

resentation of an

increasing mobility requirements within shows you how to configure Active Cache.

application. Oracle

ADF Mobile Client

the enterprise.”

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provides design tools

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TUTORIALS

Java EE 7 Java Specification Request Approved

Oracle BPM 11g Quick Start Series

and JSR 344 for JavaServer Faces 2.2. These This series of four short tutorials covers the

The Java Community Process (JCP)

submissions complement JSR 338 for Java essentials of using Oracle Business Process

Executive Committee has approved the Java

Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339 for Java API for management 11g to model and simulate,

Specification Request (JSR) for JSR 342, the

RESTful Web Services. implement, participate in, and monitor a

next release of Java Platform, Enterprise

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Edition (Java EE). Java EE 7 enhances the

business process.

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Java EE platform for cloud environments and

will allow Java EE 7–based applications and

for the cloud,” says Steven G. Harris, senior

Oracle Exadata Database Machine

products to operate more easily in private

vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware

product development. “With Java EE 7, In this tutorial series, members of Oracle’s

Best Practices Series

and public clouds. Features such as multi-

enterprise developers and deployers will see maximum availability architecture team

tenancy and elasticity will allow Java EE 7

additional cloud-specific innovation built implementing, managing, and working with

applications to function as a service.

share tips, tricks, and best practices for

into the standard and available across many Oracle Exadata Database machine.

The JCP also approved JSR 340 for Java

Servlet 3.1, JSR 341 for Expression Language

vendor implementations.”

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3.0, JSR 343 for Java Message Service 2.0,

jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=342

Respin Your Desktop Application Using Java Web Start

MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release Available

Learn how to respin your desktop application by converting it into a Java Web Start

tions; and comprehensive resources infor- application.

Now available, the first development mile-

stone release for MySQL 5.6 delivers increased

mation for tuning and troubleshooting.

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performance, scalability enhancements,

“With this first MySQL 5.6 development

an improved InnoDB storage engine, and

milestone release, we are offering early

DOWNLOADS

enhanced replication capabilities.

access to new stable features for testing,”

says Tomas Ulin, vice president of engi- Oracle Database, Express Edition 11g

New Downloads

MySQL 5.6 has an improved optimizer, for

better query performance; more partitioning

neering at Oracle. “Oracle continues to inno-

vate and enhance MySQL Database, deliv- NetBeans IDE 7.0

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options, for faster access to relevant data;

and better performance monitoring and

ering a higher-performing, more scalable,

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tuning. InnoDB now offers more-predictable

more reliable, and easier-to-use MySQL.”

A CHEN

optimizer plans; more-efficient purge opera-

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Oracle Enterprise Gateway 11g Secures SOA Deployments Oracle Enhances MySQL

To help enterprises secure their SOA deploy-

and environments; and XML connectivity and

Enterprise Edition

ments, Oracle has unveiled Oracle Enterprise

An update to MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.5— Gateway 11g, which secures, accelerates,

security capabilities that safeguard traffic

a subscription offering of MySQL that includes integrates, and routes XML, Web services,

between heterogeneous environments.

MySQL Database; monitoring, backup, and and other types of data.

“Oracle is the only SOA and identity

design tools; and 24/7 support—is now avail- Oracle Enterprise Gateway offers out-of-

management vendor to offer comprehen-

able. The update adds the Enterprise Backup the-box integration with Oracle SOA Suite

sive threat mitigation, identity propagation,

feature, which enables hot online backup 11g, Oracle SOA governance, Oracle Identity

secure connectivity, and compliance for SOA

and full, partial, and incremental backups; Management 11g, and Oracle Enterprise

environments,” says Amit Jasuja, vice presi-

and MySQL Workbench, which provides data Manager. It includes demilitarized-zone-class

dent of development, identity management,

modeling, SQL development, and compre- security for SOA and cloud environments;

and security products at Oracle. “Using

STORAGE FROM A TO ZFS