As Published In March/April 2004

Vendor News

In This Issue:

Princeton Softech
JNI Corporation and Topspin Communications
ASSET Technology Group
Book Beat

Princeton Softech to Archive Oracle Applications Data

Princeton Softech has introduced Archive for Servers Oracle Applications Edition, a comprehensive active archiving utility for the Oracle E-Business Suite. It improves the performance and availability of Oracle applications by removing excess data from the production environment and archiving it to lower-cost storage media.

Using Archive for Servers Oracle Applications Edition, companies can archive complete sets of historical inactive data based on user-specified business parameters. The utility provides transparent access to archived data using familiar Oracle forms and reports and offers access to archived and production data at the same time without interrupting routine workflow.

JNI and Topspin Demonstrate InfiniBand with Oracle RAC

JNI Corporation and Topspin Communications have demonstrated InfiniBand, a high-performance fabric I/O architecture that, using Oracle technology, is designed to interoperate with any server technology. The demonstration combined high-speed storage for Oracle databases using the Direct Access File System (DAFS) protocol and a clustered Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) database running on the user-level Direct Access Provider Layer (uDAPL) library, both on a single 10gB InfiniBand fabric. (DAFS is a high-performance file-access technology designed for next-generation clustered server environments, and uDAPL is a low-latency memory-to-memory application-programming interface developed for application clustering across high-speed fabrics.)

The demonstration system consisted of a two-node Oracle9i RAC configuration running file I/O over DAFS and an interprocess communication (IPC) layer for clustering over uDAPL, as well as a single-node Oracle 10g database running file I/O over DAFS. It employed a Network Appliance (NetApp) FAS940 storage system, Dell 2650 servers, a JNI IBX-4x02 InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter (HCA) running both DAFS and uDAPL on Red Hat Linux, a Topspin 90 switch, and Topspin HCAs running uDAPL on Red Hat Linux.

ASSET Technology Group Launches Jupiter in Europe

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ASSET Technology Group announced the European launch of Jupiter, its enterprise-document, Web-content, and process-management platform, and its support for Oracle Application Server 10g. Jupiter is already available in the United States and the Middle East.

Jupiter is built on Oracle Application Server and takes full advantage of its technology. The Jupiter package includes a Jupiter Development Kit based on Oracle JDeveloper to assist Oracle professionals in building e-business applications; a process-management module that extends the Oracle Workflow into Jupiter; the ability to manage Jupiter security and users by importing user data from Oracle Directory Server; the ability to search discrete textual documents with Oracle Database-powered Free Text Retrieval; the ability to integrate existing business applications with Jupiter's capabilities through Web services or XML-based application-programming interfaces based on Oracle Integration Server; and the ability to access Jupiter directly through Oracle Portal.

Jupiter uses a single instance of the Oracle Database as its repository for all content, including documents, Web pages, images, workflows, and audio files.

Book Beat Oracle Database 10g New Features By Robert Freeman McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Oracle Press ISBN: 0072229470 Making sense of the many new features of Oracle Database 10g—and putting them into perspective—can be a daunting task. Examining one of the most highly anticipated new releases from Oracle, Oracle Database 10g New Features describes hundreds of new features for improving performance, increasing database availability, deploying the database in an enterprise grid environment, and much more. This new text from Oracle Press is an invaluable overview of all the cutting-edge features of Oracle's latest database release. The book, by Oracle expert Robert Freeman, not only helps make sense of the many new features of the database; it also provides valuable insight and real-world examples for their use. The book also includes commentary throughout from world-renowned Oracle guru Jonathan Lewis. This is an ideal resource for decision-makers and IT staff preparing for upgrades or migration. Oracle Database 10g Linux Administration By Wim Coekaerts McGraw-Hill/Osborne's Oracle Press ISBN: 0072230533 Oracle has been working with the Linux community for years to improve the Linux kernel and make it ready for the enterprise. Much of that work has come to fruition with the Oracle 10g product line, and now Oracle's Mr. Linux, Wim Coekaerts, provides comprehensive information about the world of Oracle and Linux in this authoritative and complete text from Oracle Press. Coekaerts begins with an interesting and much-needed discussion of the various Linux distributions, explaining Oracle's support strategy along the way. He discusses the necessity for certifying and supporting certain Linux environments and provides details about which distributions are supported, and why. Perhaps most valuable in the book is the manner in which Coekaerts details new features of Oracle 10g and previous clustering features of Oracle9i (such as Real Application Clusters, or RAC) and explains exactly how these features work with Linux. For example, in the case of RAC, he provides information on the interconnect network, an insightful discussion of shared disks, and details on how to configure for raw volumes.