IT Industry News

Podcast: Mobile Architectures and Oracle ADF Mobile - Part 1 - Oracle ADF mobile experts Andrejus Baranovskis, Luc Bors, Steven Davelaar, and Shay Shmeltzer discuss the relative merits of Native, Web, and Hybrid mobile architectures. (Thu, 16 May 2013 12:49:03 +0000)

Blog: Should I Disable RPC Devices to Increase Security in Oracle Solaris? - Recently someone asked Alex Barclay what Oracle's official position was regarding disabling RPC devices to increase security on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. Here's his answer (Wed, 15 May 2013 16:57:32 +0000)

Blog: Do You Feel Lucky? - As Kemer explains, if you put operations support system (OSS) applications on a SPARC SuperCluster, you wind up with a big hammer. Oracle engineering decided to find exactly how much real-world power that translates into by running a service fulfillment benchmark for 20 million subscribers. Read how they did it and what results they got. (Thu, 09 May 2013 22:26:42 +0000)

Podcast: The State of SOA - Part 3 - What is Industrial SOA? A panel of experts explains and discusses what it means for cloud computing, big data, and other trends. (Thu, 09 May 2013 18:16:40 +0000)

Community Opinion: DevOps or Dodos? - In a rapidly evolving IT landscape, DevOps may be what keeps today's organizations from meeting a fate similar to that of a very large, ungainly species of flightless bird. (Mon, 06 May 2013 14:46:49 +0000)

Podcast: The State of SOA - Part 2 - A panel of SOA experts discusses business/IT alignment challenges and the differences in approaches to SOA between Europe and the US. (Thu, 02 May 2013 12:51:26 +0000)

Tech Article: How to Build a Web-Based Storage Solution with Oracle Solaris 11.1 - Have you ever wanted to build a cloud just to see if you can? Turns out it's not that difficult. Install Oracle Solaris 11.1 on your laptop via VirtualBox, set up a little ZFS storage, a little access control, and configure AjaXplorer so you and your friends can manage your files. Don't neglect to drop phrases like "Download that from the cloud I just built" into casual conversation. (Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:37:42 +0000)

Video Interview: The Top Capabilities of ZFS Storage Appliance Explained - Nancy Hart describes her favorite capabilities about the ZFS Storage Appliance, and Jeff Wright explains how each of them works. They cover Hybrid Columnar Compression, Direct NFS (makes data transfer more efficient), Remote Direct Memory Access, Oracle Intelligent Storage Protocol (database aware of the storage and vice versa), DTrace Analytics to optimize deployments, and more. (Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:55:02 +0000)

Tech Article: Guidelines for Deploying Oracle Virtual Networking - Brian K. Matheson's tech article, just published on OTN, provides guidelines for deploying Oracle virtual networking, including setting up the traffic, interconnects, clouds, and templates. (Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:15:56 +0000)

Tech Article: Evaluating Oracle Linux from Inside Oracle VM VirtualBox - What's really cool about evaluating Oracle Linux from inside VirtualBox is that you can assign each virtual image a unique IP address, and have it communicate with the outside world as if it were its own physical machine on the network. Yuli describes how to do this, and also how to install guest additions to, for instance, share files between the guest and host systems. (Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:56:03 +0000)