Tech Article: Real World Results of OSS Applications on SPARC SuperClusterIf 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 11.1Have 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
Blog: The Sysadmin as CEOBjoern 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 StructuredEvery 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 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