Updated: 2012-07-24 15:00:00
Michael Webster gives users the information needed to determine exactly what they legally owe in licensing fees while continuing to receive the support Oracle has been providing, even in a virtualized environment on VMware vSphere. Webster disputes four FUDs in considerable detail, which are:
Oracle Licensing and Soft Partitioning
Oracle Sub Cluster Licensing is Not Possible
Oracle is NOT Certified to Run on VMware vSphere
Oracle Does NOT Support Running on VMware vSphere
He includes five key questions to ask Oracle.
Updated: 2012-07-23 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 173 Issue 4 Service Sign in Register Password Help Membership types Oracle Platinum Services Deliver Industry's Highest Level of Support Services Solaris ZFS Storage Top10 Service Performance Java Technology NetBeans JavaFX Security Oracle Trademarks Previous Next Ideally Suited for Oracle's Engineered Systems July 23, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 4 Oracle Platinum Services offers customers the opportunity to maximize availability on their Oracle engineered systems that are already designed and integrated to provide optimal productivity and performance . Oracle Global Customer Management trainer Chris Warticki outlines the features of
Updated: 2012-07-18 15:00:00
Oracle has renamed its Sun x86 servers and Netra servers to align them with the naming conventions of Oracle's Engineered Systems, which have always used Oracle's x86 rackmount systems as the basis of its integrated and optimized solutions. Thus, for example, the former Sun Fire X4170 M3 Server is now the Sun Server X3-2 and above; the Sun Netra X4270 M3 is now Netra Server X3-2; the Sun Blade X6270 M3 is now the Sun Blade X3-2B, and so on.
Updated: 2012-07-18 15:00:00
In a proof of concept exercise running a customer's Oracle ERP on Oracle T-4 servers and an Oracle RAC on T-4's, plus storage using an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Darius Zanganeh reports that, even without any optimization, the Oracle system was 2.5x faster than the customer's IBM XIV production system in running their month end close. Zanganeh suggests the reason is the size of available CACHE: 1TB of cache split on 2 controllers, 2 TB of L2arc Read SSDs and a few write SSDs. Furthermore, the Oracle configuration only used about 25% of the total hardware setup.
Updated: 2012-07-18 15:00:00
Daily News Current Issue Archives by Activity by Section by Date Blogs Keywords Condensed List List Cloud Mediakit Advertise Free Trial System News Volume 173 Issue 3 Linux Sign in Register Password Help Membership types ElectraCard Services Runs Oracle Exadata on Oracle Linux News Illumos Features Solaris ZFS Linux Exadata Servers Storage Sun Tape OpenStorage Top10 LibreOffice Performance Virtualization Java Technology JavaFX Trademarks Previous Next Ups TPX to 12,000 per Second , Improves Performance by 2x July 18, 2012, Volume 173, Issue 3 ElectraCard Services provides real-time , third-party credit , debit , prepaid , and smart card processing services in the U.S . and more than 30 countries in Africa , Asia , and the Middle East . One of the company's workshorse solutions is
