AT ORACLE: Resources

As Published In July/August 2011

What’s New at Oracle

The latest videos, podcasts, blogs, and more

VIDEOS

Chris Rice, senior director for database tools at Oracle, tells you what you can expect from Oracle Database, Express Edition 11g, a free and redistributable version of Oracle Database (now in beta).

TechCast: Oracle GlassFish Server and Oracle WebLogic Server Interoperability and Integration
Learn about Oracle’s strategy for creating increasing integration between Oracle GlassFish Server and Oracle WebLogic Server.

Avea Improves Performance with Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Exadata
Hear why Avea selected Oracle Data Integrator and Oracle Exadata to implement a real-time data warehousing solution.

Oracle’s Software as a Service
Learn about the software-as-a-service offerings available through Oracle On Demand.

PODCASTS

Edward Whalen discusses his new book, Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide (Oracle Press, 2011).

Rick Greenwald on Oracle Exadata
Rick Greenwald, lead author of Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata (Oracle Press, 2011), discusses this new book.

Oracle BPM Suite Overview: Social BPM
Hear how social business process management (BPM) provides process lifecycle participants in business and IT with expanded tools for simplifying communication and collaboration.

WEBCASTS

This four-part series will help you develop a strategy and roadmap for cloud computing.

The Value of Linux in Today’s Fast-Changing Computing Environments
IDC analysts discuss the evolution of Linux as a solution for business-critical deployments and the new ways in which Linux is being delivered.

Securing High-Performance Web Applications
Learn how to optimize your mission-critical Web applications by balancing security and operational performance using Oracle technologies.

Why Pella Corporation Deployed Oracle VM and Oracle Linux
Pella’s datacenter managers and IT administrators discuss why they virtualized their Oracle applications with Oracle VM and moved to Oracle Linux.

Oracle VM and Cloud Computing: A Reality Show
Learn about the role of Oracle VM server virtualization in the cloud and what you need to know to run an efficient datacenter.

Enterprise Storage Innovations
Hear how Oracle, Intel, and other leading companies are dealing with skyrocketing amounts of data and other storage challenges.

MySQL on Windows Online Forum
Learn how to reduce database TCO by as much as 90 percent while increasing manageability and flexibility with MySQL on Windows.

Boost Utilization, Cut Costs with SPARC Consolidation and Virtualization
Find out how the built-in virtualization capabilities in Oracle’s SPARC servers can increase system utilization levels to as much as 90 percent.

Improve Performance with Enhanced Insight into Profitability and Costs
Learn how Oracle’s Hyperion profitability and cost management solutions allow you to rapidly identify sources of profitability and increase transparency.

Pull the Plug on Your IBM Mainframe
Find out how Oracle Tuxedo and Oracle GoldenGate enable IBM mainframe customers to move to modern, efficient systems with minimized risk and cost.

Upgrade Your Custom Java and Forms Applications to Oracle WebLogic Server
Hear how upgrading to Oracle WebLogic Server can help you improve your development productivity and flexibility and manage your production applications more efficiently.

No Contest: Oracle WebLogic Outperforms IBM WebSphere
Learn how Oracle WebLogic Server outperforms IBM WebSphere in TCO, performance, and cloud readiness.

E-BOOKS

Learn how a complete and integrated virtualization solution can provide end-to-end visibility and management to lower costs.

Storage Tiering for Dummies, Oracle Special Edition
Learn how to implement tiered storage in your organization and find out how it can intelligently improve storage performance, increase capacity, and drive costs down.

WHITE PAPERS

This report details the results from a recent survey of 200 IT professionals about the storage-related challenges caused by server virtualization.

Gaining Business Advantage Through Storage Management Efficiency with Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance
Edison Group analysts provide the results of a manageability study comparing Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to a NetApp storage solution.

In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution
Clipper Group analysts reveal why tape is the best solution for long-term storage of digital media.

RESOURCE CENTERS

Explore the Oracle Optimized Datacenter, which features strategies and solutions to help you solve your datacenter challenges.

Oracle Database 11g Resource Center
Access the latest Oracle Database 11g tutorials, white papers, customer success stories, and more.

Oracle Exadata Resource Kit
Learn about Oracle Exadata’s extreme performance for data warehousing and online transaction processing applications through videos, demos, analyst reports, and customer stories.

Enterprise Performance Management and Governance, Risk, and Compliance Center
Learn about Oracle’s enterprise performance management and governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions through videos, demos, white papers, data sheets, and podcasts.

TRAINING

Self-study training on CD-ROM is a convenient way to learn. New Java self-study courses include Web Component Development with Servlets and JSPs, Java EE 6; and Developing Web Applications using JSF Technologies.

Certification Value Packages
Save up to 20 percent and get the added advantage of a free certification retake when you purchase an all-in-one Certification Value Package, available for Java, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Database 11g, and MySQL.

Get up to speed on Oracle Exalogic with Oracle University’s Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Overview Seminar and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Administration course.

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