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Blog: Should I Disable RPC Devices to Increase Security in Oracle Solaris?
Recently someone asked Alex Barclay what Oracle's official position was regarding disabling RPC devices to increase security on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. Here's his answer
posted Wed, 15 May 2013 16:57:32 +0000
Tech Article: Real World Results of OSS Applications on SPARC SuperCluster
If you put operations support system (OSS) applications on a SPARC SuperCluster, you wind up with a big hammer. Oracle engineering decided to find exactly how much real-world power that translates into by running a service fulfillment benchmark for 20 million subscribers. Read how they did it and what results they got.
posted Thu, 09 May 2013 22:29:40 +0000
Blog: Do You Feel Lucky?
As Kemer explains, if you put operations support system (OSS) applications on a SPARC SuperCluster, you wind up with a big hammer. Oracle engineering decided to find exactly how much real-world power that translates into by running a service fulfillment benchmark for 20 million subscribers. Read how they did it and what results they got.
posted Thu, 09 May 2013 22:26:42 +0000
Tech Article: How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution with Oracle Solaris 11.1
Have 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
Video Interview: The Top Capabilities of ZFS Storage Appliance Explained
Nancy Hart describes her favorite capabilities about the ZFS Storage Appliance, and Jeff Wright explains how each of them works. They cover Hybrid Columnar Compression, Direct NFS (makes data transfer more efficient), Remote Direct Memory Access, Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (database aware of the storage and vice versa), DTrace Analytics to optimize deployments, and more.
posted Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:55:02 +0000
Tech Article: Guidelines for Deploying Oracle Virtual Networking
Brian K. Matheson's tech article, just published on OTN, provides guidelines for deploying Oracle virtual networking, including setting up the traffic, interconnects, clouds, and templates.
posted Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:15:56 +0000
Blog: The Sysadmin as CEO
Bjoern Rost began his professional life as a sysadmin and became the CEO of his own consulting company. Oracle recently announced his appointment to Oracle ACE Director. Here's more information about Bjoern and his company, a video interview, and links to his blog posts.
posted Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:24:30 +0000
Blog: How the Oracle Linux Update Channels Are Structured
Every Oracle Linux distribution release is freely available as ISO installation images from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. Security updates and critical bug fixes (errata) released in between update releases are published on the Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) and our public yum repository. Lenz Grimmer describes these and other ins and outs of the Oracle Linux distribution cycle.
posted Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:47:58 +0000
Tech Article: Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center as a Management Tool for Virtualization
Oracle 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 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in a Virtualization Strategy
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a hosted, centralized or remote server. Matthias Pfützner explains.
posted Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:29:14 +0000

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