Tag: Oracle
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Nutanix Google-like Storage Architecture
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Exadata Performance Architect moving to EMC’s Greenplum
Now that’s a thing: Kevin Closson Joins EMC Data Computing Division To Focus On Greenplum Performance Engineering! Kevin’s been the public voice of Exadata in the blogosphere for much of four years, so that’s quite a loss for the folks at Oracle.… Continued
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BYO Oracle RAC on EC2
Former work mate Jeremy Schneider is always the first to look at interesting ways to use Oracle RAC – now he’s considering to run a BYO Oracle RAC on Amazon EC2. I kinda defeats the purpose of cloud, but it’s still fun the play with.… Continued
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Oracle Database Firewall
Oracle recently released it’s Oracle Database Firewall.
[The] release of Oracle Database Firewall is the culmination of the company’s acquisition of database security vendor Secerno last year. The product creates a defensive perimeter around databases by looking at SQL statements sent to the database through the wire to determine whether to pass, log, alert, block, or substitute SQL statements based on an organization’s policies.… Continued
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2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms
Gartner released it’s 2011 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, and Oracle apparently is sponsoring it for the public.
We have to obvious suspects in the leaders quadrant: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SAP, as well as a few smaller folks.… Continued
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January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released
It’s that time of the year again: January 2011 Oracle Critical Patch Update Released. People using OEM Grid Control on 11g versions and people using RAC on 10g and newer are vulnerable to remote vulnerabilities not requiring authentication, so again quite a serious CPU.… Continued
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Oracle Direct NFS Clonedb Feature
Kevin Closson introduces us to the Oracle 11g Direct NFS Clonedb Feature in a mini-series (part 1.5). Sounds very interesting from what I hear. And I wonder if this is a(nother) sign of Oracle going against NetApp, i.e. maybe even a sign of soon to be announced features or products that will further de-value NetApp features with offerings from the combined Oracle and Sun stack?
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Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference
Oracle took the popular DBA Views poster and now provide a Flash based digital version for download at Oracle 11g Interactive Quick Reference. I’m not sure how helpful that’s ultimately going to be as it doesn’t allow for the same kind of visual browsing, but wanted to post this anyway.… Continued
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What are the criteria used by Oracle to decide whether a vulnerability warrants a fix in the CPU?
Oracle answer one of the most asked questions around CPUs: What are the criteria used by Oracle to decide whether a vulnerability warrants a fix in the CPU?