Tag: Oracle
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Oracle Exadata Updates
After yesterday’s Exalogic announcement, Oracle now also announced a good chunk of updates on Exadata. Not a v3, though, but Exadata X2-8 does sound like a winner for those who need the single-node performance of an 8 socket (at 8 cores each) DB server box with 2TB of RAM.… Continued
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Oracle Exalogic, Linux Changes
As expected, Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s new Middleware appliance at OpenWorld yesterday – Oracle Exalogic features 30 servers, Infinibad, Flash storage. More about the announcement in eWeeks’s Oracle’s Ellison Introduces Exalogic: New Cloud-in-a-Box System.… Continued
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Exawars
There are some funny little wars being fought in the blogosphere between Teradata and Netezza attacking Oracle Exadata. Instead of taking side, let me just link to what’s been going on so far.
- The Teradata whitepaper that got the ball rolling: Exadata – the Sequel.
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Project Lockdown updated for 11gR2
Arup Nanda finally updated his Project Lockdown series of Oracle Security articles for 11gR2. Definitely worth a read (and I’m surprised I can’t find an article on my blog about the first version of Project Lockdown – must’ve happened during a low-impact-blogging phase).… Continued
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Oracle OpenWorld 2010
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is casting its shadows because it’s merely two weeks in the future now. I again didn’t manage to get sent… but the lucky few 😉 who will be there, here’s some advice: from the DWH guys on getting organized, from the OEM guys on the Top 11 Things to do, and you should obviously go and see Kevin Closson’s session on DIY Exadata performance.
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HP Sues Hurd For Accepting Oracle Co-President Position
I wasn’t going to write about Mark Hurd joining Oracle, but this is too good to ignore, or as Dave Kellogg puts it:
This makes daytime soaps look boring by comparison.
More in Techcrunch. And some more unique thoughts from Curt Monash.
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Oracle RAC on VirtualBox
Oracle RAC on VirtualBox is now possible because VirtualBox now supports shared disks. Tim Hall of ORACLE-BASE fame has added a write-up of all the steps required to get 11gR2 RAC on VirtualBox up and running. Thx Tim!
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Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?
Stephen Jannise of Distribution Software Advice put together a nice speculate post about Oracle’s next acquisition targets based on an analysis of the last five years worth of acquisitions: Oracle Mergers & Acquisitions: Who’s Next?… Continued
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NoSQL Ecosystem
Jonathan Ellis from the Cassandra project published a fantastic overview of the current NoSQL ecosystem in late 2009. He analyzed 10 popular NoSQL databases along three axes: horizontal scalability, data model and internal persistence design.… Continued