Updated: 2012-02-24 16:00:00
Oracle scored another triumph in its campaign to dominate OpenStorage with its SPC-1 benchmark result that was 2X faster at half the cost of NetApp. The systems involved were Oracle's 7320 and two NetApp systems, 3270 and 3160. Blogger Darius Zanganeh attributes this level of performance to Oracle's superior engineering and its use of the Hybrid Storage Pool in the ZFS Storage Appliance.
Updated: 2012-02-24 16:00:00
Oracle has not only covered the extension of Ksplice support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux but also extended the Oracle Linux Support lifecycle to cover a time frame of 10 years. With this announcement, Oracle is bringing its Linux support policy in line with the already existing support periods for Oracle Solaris. Existing customers can continue to run the same release of Oracle Linux 5 and 6 for two additional years.
Updated: 2012-02-20 16:00:00
A new ORC International study, "Database Manageability and Productivity Cost Comparison Study Oracle Database 11g Release 2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2," finds that Oracle Database 11g Release 2 took half the amount of time and effort to complete four routine database administrator (DBA) tasks compared to Microsoft. The study measured typical tasks such as initial database setup, routine daily administrative tasks, and backup and recovery, as well as performance and tuning tasks.
Updated: 2012-02-13 16:00:00
Because the Oracle VM dom0 (management domain) contains only a minimum set of packages, none of which provides the additional development packages required for building modules, Oracle has released the Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 SDK (delivered as Oracle VM Templates), which provides an environment for third party drivers to be built for the Oracle VM Server for x86. A post by Honglin Su asserts that it is easy to build a device driver for Oracle VM Server 3.0.3 with Oracle VM Server SDK and then proceeds to outline a five-step process to accomplish that end.
