Oracle Magazine Issue Archive
2007
September 2007
CHANNELS: Partner NewsPartner NewsCisco Solutions Optimize Oracle DeploymentsOracle Certified Advantage Partner Cisco Systems has released Cisco Solutions for Oracle Deployments, a set of three tested, documented, and validated solutions that together make up an end-to-end network architecture to optimize Oracle Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware implementations. Providing elevated application availability, performance, and security; lower application complexity and cost; and reduced deployment risk, these solutions include best practices and deployment guidance for WAN optimization, application and Ethernet switching, firewall access control, and storage switching technologies. Cisco, with the support of Oracle product teams, also continues to invest in testing and documenting of best-in-class network solutions for new Oracle releases such as Oracle SOA Suite and Siebel Customer Relationship Management 8.0. This commitment will reduce risk and shorten deployment times for future Oracle customer implementations. Zend Core for Oracle 2.0 ReleasedZend Technologies and Oracle have released Zend Core for Oracle 2.0, merging Zend Core's production-quality PHP solution with native integration with Oracle Database and PHP support in Oracle Application Server. Zend Core provides a certified, high-performance PHP development and production environment based on best practices in configuring and tuning PHP. This version includes PHP 5.2.1, Oracle's new OCI-8 extension, and Oracle Instant Client. Zend Core works with Oracle9i Database and Oracle Database 10g and can be integrated with Oracle Database 10g client libraries. It enables interoperability between PHP and Java (and other popular technologies) through an Oracle JDeveloper PHP extension. Zend, an Oracle partner, supports Zend Core for Oracle, which is certified by both Oracle and Zend. It includes support for a variety of operating systems and Web servers, including Oracle Enterprise Linux; Solaris; AIX; Windows; Macintosh OS X; and many versions of Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, and Oracle HTTP Server. Ingram Micro, Tech Data Extend Oracle's Reach to SMBsMore than 400 new value-added resellers (VARs) have joined with Oracle in the last year as a result of Oracle's distribution agreements with Ingram Micro and Tech Data. With the expertise, resources, and broad customer base of these two IT distributors, Oracle has expanded the community of solution providers offering Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware to small and medium businesses (SMBs). Oracle has a dedicated team of specialists available through Ingram Micro and Tech Data to provide their reseller channels with technical support and guidance throughout the SMB sales cycle. More than 175,000 SMBs currently use Oracle's technology products. "Tech Data supports tens of thousands of resellers nationwide, and we've had tremendous success expanding Oracle's reach in the SMB market," says Stacy Nethercoat, Tech Data's vice president of software product marketing. "Our team of dedicated Oracle specialists have recruited many SMB VARs, helping to expand the Oracle PartnerNetwork." "Ingram Micro places great focus on helping the channel provide its customer base with the most up-to-date solutions that are designed for the SMB market," says Jodi Honore, vice president of vendor management at Ingram Micro. "Being able to offer Oracle products is just another step in the right direction to providing our channel partners with new ways to generate business opportunities." Fujitsu FlexFrame for Oracle Applies Grid Computing DynamicallyOracle Certified Advantage Partner Fujitsu has announced FlexFrame for Oracle, the first dynamic infrastructure solution based on Oracle grid technology for application and database services. Fujitsu FlexFrame for Oracle eliminates the permanent assignment of Oracle services to specific servers, and instead uses all resources dynamically to handle workloads. Under the FlexFrame architecture, all services software resides on the storage system and can be assigned to any server in the infrastructure—even nonlocal servers—via NetBoot. In addition to providing flexibility, this approach simplifies patches, updates, and other software lifecycle management tasks.
The FlexFrame architecture is based on an IP network with a cluster of Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers and flexible, integrated storage. This architecture ensures that every Oracle-based service can be run on any server at any time, so enterprises can consolidate IT landscapes and provide on-demand availability of applications and services. Scalable PRIMERGY blade servers also provide an attractive software-licensing model. Applimation and Sierra Atlantic Provide Enterprise Data ManagementSierra Atlantic, a provider of business process-based integration and enterprise application optimization, has teamed with Applimation, a maker of enterprise data management solutions, to provide a data management archiving solution for Oracle Process Manufacturing based on Applimation's Informia Archive product. Applimation will extend Informia Archive's data archiving functionality to Oracle customers with Sierra Atlantic acting as its implementation partner. The offering is aimed at customers that have experienced exponential growth in transaction data. Informia Archive provides packaged templates for Oracle Process Manufacturing's key high-transaction modules and offers archiving for customizations. Informia Archive uses a single engine for online and long-term data retention of structured and unstructured data.
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