Servers, Storage, and Solaris Podcasts Oracle's complete portfolio of Sun servers, storage, networking, Oracle Solaris and other software are engineered to work together to deliver record-breaking performance, simplified management, and cost-saving efficiencies. Tune in to our featured podcasts and find out why we offer the ideal infrastructure for your business, from applications to disk.   There are two ways to subscribe: Manually point your news reader client to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/OracleSunServersAndStoragePodcasts  Use your favorite podcast service to subscribe: |   To see all Oracle podcast shows and obtain podcasting client software, visit the Oracle Podcast Center. SERVERS, STORAGE, AND SOLARIS PODCASTS Making the Right Storage Choices: Part 2-Scalability (13 May 2013) Scalability doesn't just mean growing capacity. You also need to be able to scale for performance. In this episode we will discuss why scalability is critical and how to do it the right way. Oracle Solaris 11 and SPARC T5 Announcement (09 Apr 2013) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, listen to Charlie Boyle, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Bill Nesheim while they discuss all the excitement of Oracle Solaris and newly announced Oracle SPARC servers. Making the Right Storage Choices (02 Jan 2013) Whether you are consolidating your storage, trying to improve application performance, or looking to get the most out of your databases, it's important to ask the right questions. This 10 part podcast series examines the most important elements to consider when making storage purchasing or deployment decisions. Oracle Solaris 11 Live from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 (23 Oct 2012) In this special episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, comes to you recorded live from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco. Listen to Charlie Boyle, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Bill Nesheim while they discuss all the excitement of Solaris 11 news and announcements. OpenWorld 2012 - SPARC SuperCluster Update (12 Oct 2012) Get the latest news around SPARC SuperCluster coming out of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco. Product manager Rob Ludeman explains how customers are benefiting from rapid deployments, cost savings and accelerated performance for enterprise consolidation and cloud initiatives with SPARC SuperCluster. Oracle Solaris 11 - Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF) (20 Sep 2012) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Sean Wilcox, Principal Software Engineer. Sean explains Oracle Solaris SMF, a feature to manage system and application services, replacing the legacy init scripting start-up mechanism common to prior releases of Oracle Solaris. Oracle Solaris 11 - Solaris ZFS (20 Sep 2012) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Cindy Swearingen, Principal Technical Writer. Cindy explains Oracle Solaris ZFS, the default file system in Solaris 11. Oracle Exadata Database Machine Backup and Recovery: Tier 2 Architectures (20 Aug 2012) Listen to a podcast on backup and storage optimization when backing up an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Host Kelly Beckman, Storage Product Marketing Analyst for Backup and Recovery, is joined for the discussion by Todd Adler, Senior Manager for Software Development, and Jeff Wright, Principal Software Engineer. As Beckman explains, Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture best practice and recommended approach for backing up an Exadata Database Machine is to back it up to Exadata storage, using an RMAN Fast Recovery Area on Exadata Storage Servers. She points out that many customers also choose to take their backups one step further by backing up to secondary disk, and oftentimes all the way to tape. The focus of this podcast is to discuss these 'Tier 2' type backup architectures: using Oracle StorageTek Tape, or Sun ZFS Storage Appliances for Exadata backups. Get Faster Results with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (30 Jul 2012) Gary Combs, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster reduces the time and effort required to install, tune and administer optimized mission-critical systems. VIDEO PODCAST: Get Faster Results with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (30 Jul 2012) Gary Combs, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster reduces the time and effort required to install, tune and administer optimized mission-critical systems. Oracle Solaris at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 - A Teaser (25 Jul 2012) Welcome! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Markus Flierl, and Charlie Boyle give you a great preview of upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, Sep 30 to Oct 4. They highlight the content that is planned for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Systems, and explain why this is THE conference to attend. Improve Application Performance with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (13 Jul 2012) In this podcast Ganesh Ramamurthy, Vice President of Engineering in Oracle's System Group, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster can provide 10x to 50x performance improvements for a wide range of database, middleware and enterprise applications. Learn how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster combines the high performance computing power of the SPARC T4-4 server, the unmatched scalability of Oracle Solaris 11, the database optimization of Oracle Exadata, and the accelerated processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. VIDEO PODCAST: Improve Application Performance with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (13 Jul 2012) In this podcast Ganesh Ramamurthy, Vice President of Engineering in Oracle's System Group, explains how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster can provide 10x to 50x performance improvements for a wide range of database, middleware and enterprise applications. Learn how the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster combines the high performance computing power of the SPARC T4-4 server, the unmatched scalability of Oracle Solaris 11, the database optimization of Oracle Exadata, and the accelerated processing of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and Oracle Solaris 11 (10 Jul 2012) Welcome! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Markus Flierl, and Charlie Boyle are joined by Steve Wilson, VP of Systems Management at Oracle. They discuss the latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center and how it enables you to design and manage mission critical cloud environments at scale with Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle Solaris Cluster, the new T4 Systems, and OVM Server for SPARC. Hardware and software, truly engineered to work together! Oracle Solaris 11: Tools For System Archival and Image Creation (18 May 2012) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, host Charlie Boyle is joined by Isaac Rozenfeld, Principal Product Manager for Oracle Solaris, as well as Jesse Butler and Drew Fisher, both Senior Software Engineers in the Oracle Solaris organization. Hear about new system archival and recovery procedures for Oracle Solaris 11, using built-in ZFS filesystem capabilities. In addition, the distribution (or distro) constructor is discussed, a new tool that allows you to built deployable Solaris 11 images and media fairly easily. Tools To Help You Move From Oracle Solaris 10 To 11 (16 May 2012) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our host Charlie Boyle discusses tools and procedure to help move from Solaris 10 to 11. He is joined by Isaac Rozenfeld, Principal Product Manager for Oracle Solaris, as well as Ethan Quach and Harold Shaw, both Principal Software Engineers in the Oracle Solaris organization. Hear about new technologies, such as the Automated Installer, and how the tool js2ai can help you get there from your existing deployment environment(s). In addition, learn about how to move from Solaris 10 to 11 with a new procedure called Live Install. MySQL Thread Pool (27 Apr 2012) Mikael Ronstrom, senior MySQL Architect, explains us how the MySQL Thread Pool improves MySQL Scalability. Server Consolidation with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (27 Apr 2012) Join Rob Ludeman, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, as he explains why the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster provides an ideal platform for server consolidation. VIDEO PODCAST: Server Consolidation with Oracle SPARC SuperCluster (27 Apr 2012) Join Rob Ludeman, Principal Product Manager at Oracle, as he explains why the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster provides an ideal platform for server consolidation. Immutable Zones in Oracle Solaris 11 (23 Apr 2012) In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Darren Moffat, Senior Principal Software Engineer. Darren explains a new feature in Oracle Solaris 11: immutable zones. Those are read-only root zones for highly secure deployment scenarios.