Tech Article: How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution with Oracle Solaris 11.1Have you ever wanted to build a cloud just to see if you can? Turns out it's not that difficult. Install Oracle Solaris 11.1
on your laptop via VirtualBox, set up a little ZFS storage, a little access control, and configure AjaXplorer so you and your
friends can manage your files. Don't neglect to drop phrases like "Download that from the cloud I just built" into
casual conversation.
posted Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:37:42 +0000
Tech Article: Evaluating Oracle Linux from Inside Oracle VM VirtualBoxWhat's really cool about evaluating Oracle Linux from inside VirtualBox is that you can assign each virtual image a unique
IP address, and have it communicate with the outside world as if it were its own physical machine on the network. Yuli describes
how to do this, and also how to install guest additions to, for instance, share files between the guest and host systems.
posted Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:56:03 +0000
Tech Article: Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center as a Management Tool for VirtualizationOracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center offers complete infrastructure management with a focus on Oracle hardware (servers, switches,
storage appliances) and Oracle operating systems, plus non-Oracle Linux variants that are supported on Oracle servers. Although
Oracle VM VirtualBox and Oracle VDI include management capabilities, Ops Center has the best overall toolset for central virtualization
management.
posted Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:52:56 +0000
Tech Article: The Role of Oracle VM Server for x86 in a Virtualization StrategyOracle VM Server for x86 is an Oracle technology that existed before Oracle acquired Sun. It is a virtualization product based
on the Xen hypervisor and like its SPARC counterpart, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, it is a thin Type 1 hypervisor that performs
hardware virtualization and uses paravirtualization.
posted Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:25:44 +0000
Tech Article: Java EE 7 and JAX-RS 2.0Java EE 7 with JAX-RS 2.0 brings several useful features, which further simplify development and lead to the creation of even
more-sophisticated, but lean, Java SE/EE RESTful applications.
posted Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:22:54 +0000
Article: On the Integrity of DataOracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema shares this introduction to the basics of data integrity enforcement in a variety of environments.
posted Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:48:09 +0000