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
Podcast: The State of SOA - Part 3What is Industrial SOA? A panel of experts explains and discusses what it means for cloud computing, big data, and other trends.
posted Thu, 09 May 2013 18:16:40 +0000
Community Opinion: DevOps or Dodos?In a rapidly evolving IT landscape, DevOps may be what keeps today's organizations from meeting a fate similar to that of
a very large, ungainly species of flightless bird.
posted Mon, 06 May 2013 14:46:49 +0000
Podcast: The State of SOA - Part 2A panel of SOA experts discusses business/IT alignment challenges and the differences in approaches to SOA between Europe
and the US.
posted Thu, 02 May 2013 12:51:26 +0000
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
Video Interview: The Top Capabilities of ZFS Storage Appliance ExplainedNancy 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: 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