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Software Architecture:
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What is your definition of a software architect or
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October 2010, bit.ly/hHoi3h).
much more scalable context.
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It has been specified that Oracle Essbase
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limit on the dimension members that we can have
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minimum of mined data.
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at HDR, talks about how his company used plete stack support from a single organization with right to upgrade.
how the company decided when the time was
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StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive Released
Oracle SQL Developer 3.0 Oracle By
Oracle has
The StorageTek solution includes inline
Example Series
encryption and policy-based data manage- This tutorial series provides an introduction
unveiled the
ment across FC and SAS disks, fast access how to manage your database objects, use
StorageTek
to Oracle SQl Developer 3.0 and shows you
tape, and high-capacity tape tiers. the Query Builder feature to graphically and
T10000C tape
The new tape drive works with leading intuitively build your queries, develop in and
drive, a device that
third-party operating systems, open debug Pl/SQl using Oracle SQl Developer,
provides the highest performance and lowest
systems storage management products, use the DBA Navigator feature, and more.
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and mainframe storage management soft- bit.ly/fgnxSd
archive, or backup solution and that requires
one-third to one-fifth the floor space of
ware. “The StorageTek T10000C sets the
Database Synchronization with
competing solutions.
new standard in tape by storing more than
Oracle GoldenGate
three times more data on a single cartridge This tutorial series covers synchronizing
The new tape drive has a 5 TB native
than any other tape drive,” says James Oracle Database with Oracle GoldenGate on
capacity—more than three times the
Cates, vice president of hardware develop- many different platforms and databases.
capacity of any other tape drive—and 240
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MB/sec native throughput, which is 50
to 70 percent faster than any other drive.
StorageTek SL3000 and SL8500 modular
Developing an Oracle ADF
Compared to disk-only solutions, Oracle’s
library systems helps ensure that customers,
Application with Oracle Enterprise
StorageTek solution scales to 30 times the
regardless of size, can afford to retain critical
data without concern for future scalability.” Besides providing a tour of major com-
Pack for Eclipse
capacity and 50 times the performance while
requiring 99 percent less power and cooling.
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ponents in Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11.1.1.7.0, this tutorial shows you how to build a basic Oracle Application
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Oracle has released Oracle SQL Developer
Data Modeler 3.0, which now supports col-
of designs, support multiuser access, notify
Oracle Coherence Server
laborative development through integration
users of changes to models, and accept and
Lifecycle Management with Oracle
with Subversion open source version control
merge changes.
WebLogic Server
“Our new release offers two great new This tutorial provides a brief overview of
software. The lightweight, simple-to-install
features—support for Subversion source how to manage Oracle Coherence servers
tool also incorporates user-defined design
code control and the ability to design trans- from Oracle Weblogic Server.
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speed and accuracy of making bulk schema
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changes,” says Mike Hichwa, vice president
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Scales Up
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11g offers an improved user interface, new Oracle Database 11g Release 2
and applications in large-scale environments.
monitoring instruments, and integration with Oracle Database, Express Edition
IT professionals can track the exact flow of
business transactions across underlying
Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher. “With
the new business transaction management Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
systems, which enables them to identify and
capabilities in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
fix issues, address performance problems,
IT can significantly streamline management Oracle JDeveloper 11g
and perform comprehensive reporting for
of enterprise infrastructure,” says Richard Oracle SQl Developer
historical analysis. Oracle Enterprise Manager
Sarwal, senior vice president of product devel- Oracle Solaris 10 and 11 Express
11g integrates SOA management technology
from AmberPoint, which Oracle acquired.
opment at Oracle.
This integration enhances Oracle Enterprise
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Oracle GlassFish Server and Java SDK Updated Oracle Ships Products and
Oracle has released Oracle GlassFish Server
built-in HTTP and Enterprise Java Bean state
Platforms for Communications
3.1 and an update to the Java Platform,
management, and improved administration
Service Providers
Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 software
Oracle has released several new or upgraded development kit (SDK). Oracle GlassFish
and manageability.
products and platforms geared toward com- Server is the reference implementation for
Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 supports
munications service providers (CSPs) and the Java EE.
Oracle Coherence for in-memory session
communications industry. Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 is based on
state replication and integrates with Oracle
Among the new releases are products GlassFish Server Open Source Edition and
Access Manager to support seamless appli-
in the Oracle Communications service includes new high-availability features for
cation single sign-on.
delivery product family, including Oracle load balancing, failover, state manage-
“Oracle GlassFish Server 3.1 delivers a flex-
Communications Services Gatekeeper 5.0; ment, and centralized administration. It also
ible, lightweight, and extensible Java EE 6
Oracle Communications Service Broker includes new features for OSGi Enterprise,
platform,” says Steven G. Harris, senior vice
5.0; Oracle Communications Converged including support for JDBC and HTTP Service;
president of application server development
at Oracle. “With this release, Oracle is
Application Server, Standard Edition 5.0;
and Oracle Communications Presence 5.0. cycle than Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1; a
a 29 percent faster startup/deploy/redeploy
responding to the increasing demand for
Oracle GlassFish Server by adding new fea-
These products help CSPs monetize new ser-
vices that leverage existing network assets, replication over Oracle GlassFish Server
34 percent improvement in high-availability
tures for enterprise management and high
maximize profitability, and accelerate time 2.1.1; and tools integration with NetBeans
availability to help customers reduce applica-
to market. “The latest releases in the Oracle and Eclipse. It also features improved com-
tion and deployment complexity and increase
Communications service delivery product patibility with Oracle WebLogic Server 11g,
developer productivity and system uptime.”
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family demonstrate Oracle’s ongoing commitment to leveraging the best-of- breed technologies from our key SDP
Oracle Introduces Oracle Cloud File System
acquisitions—including BEA, Convergin, Now available, Oracle Cloud File System
and HotSip—and enhancing them to deliver enables effective storage pooling through
volume manager provides volume manage-
ment support for Oracle Automatic Storage
next-generation service delivery platform
and intelligent network capabilities for The new system has two components. First,
a network-accessible elastic storage cloud.
Management Cluster File System and other
communications service providers,” says Oracle Automatic Storage Management
third-party file systems such as Linux ext3.
Liam Maxwell, vice president of products for Cluster File System is a highly available,
“Organizations can move beyond expen-
Oracle Communications. general-purpose cluster file system that
sive and difficult-to-manage and scale hard-
ware and storage silos to a highly available,
takes snapshots of and restores files on
scalable cloud environment that adapts to
demand, replicates files for disaster protec-
change in workloads to meet their service-
tion, provides fine-grain access security
level objectives,” says Angelo Pruscino,
and data encryption, and supports file
senior vice president of product develop-
tags for file management. Second, Oracle
ment at Oracle.
Automatic Storage Management’s dynamic
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On the hardware side, Oracle has unveiled two new carrier-grade Netra SPARC T3 servers
Oracle Linux 6 Available
designed for the communications market. Oracle has released Oracle Linux 6, which
The Netra SPARC T3-1 rackmount server uses now includes Oracle’s Unbreakable
online transaction processing performance,
the 16-core, 128-thread SPARC T3 processor; Enterprise Kernel as the default kernel.
407 percent faster flash cache reads, and 137
it doubles the I/O bandwidth and memory of Oracle Linux continues to provide full Red
percent faster solid-state disk access.
its predecessor, resulting in 35 percent faster Hat compatibility by including the standard
“Today Oracle provides the most com-
performance. The Netra SPARC T3-1BA ATCA Red Hat–compatible kernel, as well as the
plete and integrated Linux stack coupled
blade server can be used to place as many as Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.
with the Oracle Unbreakable Linux support
36 SPARC T3 processors (3,456 processing Oracle Linux with Unbreakable Enterprise
program,” says Wim Coekaerts, senior vice