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FROM THE EDITOR

What Would You Do

with a Million?

Organizations are doing more with

Oracle Exadata and its 1 million I/Os

per second.

W

e first featured Oracle Exadata V2 and the Sun Oracle Database Machine in the November/December 2009 issue of Oracle Magazine. We reported on the September 2009 product release announcement, and I wrote a few words in this column focusing on some significant product metrics.

One of those key metrics is the fact that Oracle Exadata V2 is twice as fast as Oracle Exadata V1 for data warehousing. Another metric: Oracle Exadata V2 is capable of executing 1 million random I/Os per second. Almost a year later, the numbers for Oracle Exadata V2 continue to impress—and so does what this game-changing technology is doing for business.

WHAT’S IN AN I/O?

I/Os have long been considered “expensive” operations in application and query design, and minimizing I/Os has been a key goal of a lot of application and query tuning. Keeping data in fast main memory, limiting slower disk-based I/Os, and avoiding I/O conten-tion are all critical to the performance of high-volume online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and data-intensive query routines. But the information explosion continues, and keeping all your enterprise information in main memory is not always possible. What is possible is making the interconnect from main memory to storage better with InfiniBand technology; making persistent memory better with solid-state Flash storage; and making storage software that can optimize what the storage hard-ware and connections can do to prevent I/O bottlenecks. Along with InfiniBand and Flash technology, Oracle Exadata software is the

key to delivering 1 million I/Os per second in Oracle Exadata V2.

This extreme I/O capacity goes so many times beyond the I/O requirements of typical applications that the next question becomes “What would you do with a million I/Os per second?”

WORKING WITH I/Os

In this issue, “Oracle Exadata at Work” (page 42) presents the experiences of three organizations using Oracle Exadata and its unmatched I/O capacity. Executives and technologists from these companies describe getting more information about more information in data warehouses, storing and quickly accessing terabytes of information across millions of rows, and running more and faster calculations in OLTP applications. They also talk about the value of Oracle Exadata and the additional oppor-tunities it presents for their organizations.

The question “What would you do with a million I/Os per second?” has been addressed by the many organizations that are currently using Oracle Exadata V2; “Oracle Exadata at Work” presents a small part of the answer.

IN ADDITION

Note the addition of MySQL Sunday to the Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle Develop, and JavaOne triumvirate; it promises to be a great day. And I hope to see as many of you as I can at one of the many events taking place Sunday, September 19, through Thursday, September 23—not to mention Java University on September 24—in San Francisco, California.

Tom Haunert, Editor in Chief

tom.haunert@oracle.com

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y now you are gearing up for the feast of Oracle and Java technology offerings that await you in San Francisco, California, as the city opens its streets to Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, and Oracle Develop September 19 through 23. Here’s a look at 10 not-to-be missed technology offerings during the week.

1

MYSQL SUNDAY

Sunday, September 19, 12:30 p.m.–5:00 p.m. San Francisco Marriott Marquis

Oracle is rolling out the welcome mat for the MySQL community with a half-day tech-nical conference jam-packed with the latest on MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database. Get up to speed on the latest MySQL technical innovations and hear what’s new and what’s next from Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle, at the MySQL Fireside Chat general session.

2

JAVAONE

The Zone (San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko, Hilton San Francisco Union Square, and Parc 55 hotels, and the surrounding area) JavaOne offers education, practical hands-on sessions, and Java DEMOgrounds exclusively geared toward the Java developer commu-nity. Two JavaOne highlights are the Java User Group Forum (Sunday, September 19) and the JavaOne General Session (Tuesday, September 21, at 8:00 a.m.).

3

DEVELOP

The Zone

Develop is the best place in the world to find out what’s happening in the realm of enter-prise development. Choose from more than

100 expert-led, in-depth technical sessions and advanced how-tos on topics including .NET, Oracle Fusion Development, and Oracle Solaris and Linux Development.

4

DATABASE STREAM

Get up-to-date on the latest developments for grid consolidation, maximizing avail-ability, optimizing storage, and addressing data security and compliance requirements.

5

MIDDLEWARE STREAM

The Middleware Stream offers hundreds of sessions and hands-on labs on topics including application servers, application grid, business intelligence, collaboration, data integration, identity management, and SOA.

6

SERVER AND STORAGE SYSTEMS STREAM

Learn how Oracle’s complete Sun server and storage portfolios, combined with Sun Flash technologies and innovations in Oracle Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux, can help your organization improve the ROI of your application investments.

7

ORACLE DEMOGROUNDS

Moscone South and Moscone West

Get hands-on experience with Oracle products at demo stations staffed by product experts. Go to Moscone South for Oracle Applications, Oracle Enterprise Manager for applications, and industries. Head to Moscone West for Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Linux, virtualization, Oracle servers and storage; Oracle Enterprise Manager for database, middleware, and phys-ical and virtual systems; and Oracle services.

8

USER GROUP PAVILION

Moscone West

Membership has its privileges. No matter your place in the Oracle ecosystem, there is at least one user group for you. User group membership gives you a collective and valued voice in the Oracle community. Stop by to chat with user group representatives and find out which one is your best fit.

9

JAVA UNIVERSITY

Friday, September 24

Finish the week off right with hands-on Java training. Expert-led courses give you an exclusive opportunity to delve deeper into the hottest Java topics.

10

LARRY ELLISON’S KEYNOTE

Wednesday, September 22, 2:30 p.m. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison takes the stage fol-lowing the Infosys keynote. Queue up early to reserve your seat for this keynote, which is always a crowd favorite. W

Countdown to

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and Oracle Develop

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September 19–23.

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EVENTS

Technology Events

Conferences and sessions to help you stay

on the cutting edge

Next-Generation Datacenter:

Optimize with Oracle

Various cities, September through November

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This event, which will be held in more than 80 locations worldwide over several months, will focus on how to use virtualization and consolida-tion for a more efficient, fully integrated, and optimized datacenter platform.

Technology Strategies to Maximize

the Value of Your Oracle Applications

Various cities, September and October

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This global Oracle road show features keynotes and breakout sessions to help enterprises learn how to overcome common application imple-mentation challenges and gain more value from their applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Sangam 10

September 3–4, Hyderabad, India aioug.org/sangam10.php

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The All-India Oracle Users Group (AIOUG) holds its second conference for the large and active Oracle community in India. The agenda includes expert sessions, question-and-answer sessions

with Oracle Database consultant Jonathan Lewis, certification mini lessons, and demos.

Smart Energy International

September 7–9, San Jose, California

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This conference for the energy and utility industries features information on smart grids and smart metering, renewable energy, electric vehicles, home area networks, demand response, and smart building systems.

No Fluff Just Stuff Software

Symposium Series

September 10–12, Boston, Massachusetts September 17–19, Seattle, Washington September 24–26, Atlanta, Georgia October 15–17, Minneapolis, Minnesota October 19–22, Chicago, Illinois October 29–30, Jersey City, New Jersey

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This tour focuses on helping developers improve skills, solve problems, and be productive. Topics include enterprise Java, Hibernate, Spring, Groovy and Grails, Ajax, JavaServer Faces, and more.

Michigan OakTable Symposium

September 16–17, Ann Arbor, Michigan

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This symposium brings together members of the

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne,

and Oracle Develop

September 19–23, San Francisco, California Three leading technology conferences will happen simultaneously, offering a comprehensive selection of educational and networking opportunities for everyone in the enterprise. Attendees can custom-fit the event with sessions spanning Oracle hardware and software, Java technologies, and developer-specific hands-on labs. Gain insights at keynotes from industry lumi-naries, and be sure to leave time for the many partner exhibits and community celebrations. Learn more at oracle.com/openworld, oracle.com/javaone, and oracle.com/develop.

ORACLE AND JAVA USER GROUPS

Java User Group Sardegna Spring Meeting

September 4, Cagliari, Italy

bit.ly/JUGEvents

Java Users Group Bolzano- Bozen Meeting

September 6, Bolzano, Italy

jugbz.org

Utah Oracle Users Group Upgrade Forum

September 8, Salt Lake City, Utah

utoug.org

Georgia Oracle Users’ Group Meetings

September 9 and October 14, Dunwoody, Georgia

gouser.org

Swiss Oracle User Group Middleware SIG

September 15, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland

soug.ch

Portland Java User’s Group Meetings

September 21 and October 19, Portland, Oregon

pjug.org

New York Oracle Users Group Fall General Meeting

September 28, New York, New York

nyoug.org

Houston Java Users Group Meetings

September 29 and October 27, Houston, Texas

hjug.org

Utah Oracle Users Group SIG Fest

October 13, Salt Lake City, Utah

utoug.org

Virginia Oracle Users Group and Eastern States Oracle Applications User Group Combined Conference

October 13–14, Richmond, Virginia

voug.org

Grupo de Usuários de Tecnologia Oracle (Brazil) Tech Day

October 18, São Paulo, Brazil

guob.com.br

Croatian Oracle Users Group 2010 Conference

October 19–23, Rovinj, Croatia

hroug.hr

Michigan Oracle Users Summit

October 20, Livonia, Michigan

mi-oaug.org/events.html

Northeast Oracle Users Group Training Day

October 20, Waltham, Massachusetts

noug.com

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EVENTS

OakTable network—an informal gathering of Oracle experts—to present experiences and best practices in utilizing and deploying Oracle Database.

EmTech@MIT 2010

September 21–23, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Sponsored by Technology Review magazine, this gathering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus showcases emerging technologies from innovative laboratories, com-panies, and entrepreneurs around the world.

Software Testing Analysis and

Review Conference

September 26–October 1, San Diego, California

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This gathering of industry experts in the test and quality assurance communities includes in-depth tutorials, concurrent sessions on major testing issues, and certification training.

CLO Symposium

September 27–29, Laguna Niguel, California

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The Chief Learning Officer (CLO) Symposium examines the links between learning and orga-nizational strategy.

Metering, Billing/CRM Latin America

September 28–30, São Paulo, Brazil

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With workshops, panel discussions, and net-working opportunities, this event for the Latin American power industry will include technical

information on dynamic measurement, billing, and customer management.

IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Conference

October 6–8, Boston, Massachusetts

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IT compliance professionals will gather for ses-sions on IT governance frameworks, resource management, risk management, performance management, and more.

PMI Global Congress North America

October 9–12, Washington DC

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Sponsored by the Project Management Institute (PMI), this professional development and networking event can be customized to fit attendees’ budgets and schedules. More than 150 educational sessions are featured, along with a keynote address by President Bill Clinton.

Oracle Health Sciences User Group

2010 Annual Conference

October 10–13, San Antonio, Texas

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The Oracle Health Sciences User Group (OHSUG) conference will include presenta-tions on the technical and functional aspects of Oracle Health Sciences applications. Companies from the clinical, pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and clinical research industries will hear presentations and partici-pate in group discussions.

Linux Foundation End User Summit

October 12–13, Jersey City, New Jersey

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This event brings together CTOs, architects, senior IT representatives, and kernel developers to hear about Linux developments and work together to directly advance the features most critical to using Linux in the enterprise.

GITEX Technology Week

October 17–21, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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More than 3,000 delegates are expected to attend sessions on business solutions, consumer electronics, networking and security, mobile applications, e-government, cloud computing, and more.

International Conference on

Software and Computing

Technology

October 18–19, Kunming, China

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This global conference, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, provides a platform for researchers, engineers, academics, and industry professionals to describe develop-ment activities and present research results.

GridWeek 2010

October 18–21, Washington DC

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This gathering for smart grid stakeholders will include sessions on collaboration, consumer issues, deployment challenges, and standards, with an emphasis on the intersection between smart grid and information and communica-tions technologies.

Chartwell’s EMACS Customer

Experience Conference

October 25–27, San Diego, California

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This event, designed for utilities with cutting-edge customer-facing programs, will feature some 30 presentations on customer service, billing and payment, energy efficiency, smart grid, marketing, and more.

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What’s New at Oracle

The latest videos, podcasts, blogs, and more

VIDEOS

TechCast Live: The MySQL Community Lives! bit.ly/deLs9M

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Luke Kowalski, vice president in the corporate architecture group at Oracle, and Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community manager and author of The Art of Community (O’Reilly, 2009), discuss the meaning and value of community and why the MySQL community offers the ultimate example.

Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache youtube.com/watch?v=6Sv70I9UMYo f

Want to know what’s so smart about Oracle Exadata’s Smart Flash Cache feature? This three-minute video explains how Smart Flash Cache helps solve the random I/O bottleneck challenge and delivers extreme performance for consolidated database applications.

WEBCASTS

Introducing Next-Generation Business Process Management

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Hasan Rizvi, Oracle senior vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java develop-ment, discusses Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g, Oracle’s com-plete, open, and integrated business process management solution.

Grid Consolidation on Private Clouds bit.ly/aGpeA2

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Find out how you can use Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle grid infrastructure to consoli-date your databases to a private cloud, where you can realize the efficiencies of multitenancy, rapid provisioning, and pay-for-use infrastructure.

Extreme Performance for Consolidated Workloads with Oracle Exadata

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Tim Shelter, vice president of Oracle Database product management, and Richard Exley, con-sulting member of technical staff at Oracle, discuss how Oracle Exadata can help you deliver extreme performance for all database applications,

reduce IT infrastructure costs through consolida-tion, and preserve critical service levels.

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database bit.ly/cWqR8W

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Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of Oracle TimesTen, discusses how to achieve microsecond response to SQL transactions by leveraging in-memory database technology in your response-time critical applications.

Oracle’s New Powerful and Integrated x86 Systems

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John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle, unveils Oracle’s new comprehensive line of powerful x86 systems ranging from blades and rackmount servers to networking systems based on Intel’s Xeon 5600 and 7500 processors.

Revealing the Secrets that will Re-energize your Services Strategies

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Enterprise architects at Oracle discuss how to refine your strategies and evolve your services to create an adaptable, sustainable enterprise architecture.

New IT Optimization and Consolidation Strategies

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Find out how to overcome IT complexity with a practical approach to building your optimization roadmap. Topics covered include rationalization, virtualization, datacenter consolidation, cloud computing, and the latest in database machines.

Reduce Cost of Rehosting IBM Mainframe Applications

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Ajay Patel, vice president of product manage-ment for Oracle Fusion Middleware, discusses how Oracle Tuxedo, Oracle Tuxedo Application Runtime for CICS and Batch, and Oracle Tuxedo Application Rehosting Workbench offer time and cost savings for hosting mainframe applications.

Oracle Makes Virtualized Java Applications Practical

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Adam Messinger, vice president of product devel-opment, Oracle Fusion Middleware, discusses how Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder and Oracle WebLogic Suite Virtualization Option make Java virtualization practical.

PODCASTS

Handbook Authors on Oracle JDeveloper 11g bit.ly/dcxF5Q

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The authors of Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook— Building Rich Internet Applications with Oracle ADF Business Components and ADF Faces

(Oracle Press, 2009) discuss strategies for using

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and integrating Oracle JDeveloper 11g in your development environment.

Easy Migration to Oracle Database 11g

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Barry McGillin, senior development manager at Oracle, discusses Oracle SQL Developer tools that greatly simplify migration of data from Microsoft, IBM, Sybase, and other databases to Oracle Database 11g.

Jeff Victor on Oracle Solaris Virtualization

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Author Jeff Victor discusses his new book, Oracle Solaris 10 System Virtualization Essentials (Prentice Hall, 2010).

Sharon Zakhour on Java Platform, Standard Edition

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Sharon Zakhour, lead writer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition tutorial series, discusses the fourth edition of The Java Tutorial: A Short Course in the Basics (Prentice Hall, 2006).

Glenn Brunette on Oracle Solaris

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Author Glenn Brunette discusses Solaris 10 Security Essentials (Prentice Hall, 2009) and describes the various security technologies con-tained in the Oracle Solaris operating system.

Data Grid Technology and Oracle Coherence, Parts 1–3

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Cameron Purdy, vice president of development at Oracle; Oracle ACE Director Aleksandar Seovic; and Oracle ACE John Stouffer talk about data grid technology and Oracle Coherence.

Architecture and Agility, Part 1

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Can architecture and agility play nice? Oracle ACE

Directors Mike van Alst and Ron Batra, Oracle ACE Ronald van Luttikhuizen, and Oracle Enterprise Architect Jason Stallings discuss how architec-ture and agility can work together.

Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Virtualization on Bare Metal: Speed and Agility

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Steve Harris, senior vice president of application server product development and Java at Oracle, discusses how Oracle WebLogic Server runs more than 30 percent faster in a virtualized environ-ment without a guest operating system.

BLOGS

Data Integration and Management

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Check out Oracle’s data integration blog to plug into data integration market trends, product updates, data integration events and Webcast recaps, and more from Oracle product experts.

Rob Reynolds’ BI and EPM Blog

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Learn how to implement successful business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions with Rob Reynolds, who leads Oracle Consulting’s BI and EPM orga-nization in North America.

WHITE PAPERS

Real-Time Data Integration for Data Warehousing and Operational Business Intelligence

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Read how Oracle’s data integration products enable real-time data movement and operational business intelligence.

Architectural Strategies for IT Optimization: From Silos to Clouds

oracle.com/goto/ITO

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Read about Oracle’s roadmap for rationalization,

virtualization, consolidation, systems management automation, and shared services.

TRAINING

Oracle University Training for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 11g

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Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g: Grid Control Essentials introduces you to the core function-ality of this product, the underlying framework functionality, and how to implement and use Oracle Grid Control to manage your enterprise-computing environment. Hands-on practices help you learn how to use the robust features of Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control to manage, monitor, and administer your datacenter.

VIDEO COMPETITION

America’s Cup Video Production Competition

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Do you know how to make action videos that jump off the screen? The America’s Cup Video Production Competition invites aspiring film-makers between the ages of 18 and 28 to submit a unique video clip demonstrating creative pro-duction techniques. The competition winner will get to choose from prizes that range from a top-of-the-line Apple MacBook Pro, installed with the latest video editing software, to a high-end HD video camera. Submissions are due by September 28, 2010.

“ MySQL has always been about ubiquity, and we want to

continue that and ensure that the MySQL Community Edition

is robust and remains free and GPL. We’re investing in the

product and making it a better solution.”

—Luke Kowalski, Vice President in the Corporate Architecture Group at Oracle, in the TechCast Live: The MySQL Community Lives! video (bit.ly/deLs9M)

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Oracle Blog Center oracle.com/blogs

Oracle Consulting oracle.com/consulting

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2010 ORACLE.COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE

NEW DOWNLOADS

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Sun Ray Software 5

Oracle Coherence 3.6

Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1

NetBeans IDE 6.9

Oracle Application Express 4.0

Oracle Universal Content Management 11g

Release 1

Oracle TimesTen In-Memory

Database 11g

Oracle Enterprise Repository

Oracle Designer 10g Release 2

DEMOS

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Business Transaction Management

with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

See how business transaction

manage-ment with Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g

identifies real user experience issues and provides real-time insight into business transactions.

Delivering OLAP Analytics with

Oracle Business Intelligence

Enterprise Edition 11g

See how you can use Oracle’s business intelligence platform to achieve a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities that result in improved decision-making, better-informed actions, and more-efficient busi-ness processes.

TUTORIALS

Configuring JDBC Data Sources

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This tutorial explains the steps to configure datasources for an Oracle WebLogic Server instance.

Deploy and Undeploy Applications

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In this tutorial, you will use the Oracle WebLogic Server administration console to deploy a simple Java Platform, Enterprise Edition Web application. After testing the application, you will redeploy an updated version of it. Then, you will use the console to undeploy the application.

Getting Started with Oracle

Application Express 4.0

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This four-part tutorial series provides step-by-step instructions on how to get started using Oracle Application Express 4.0.

Oracle Delivers Sun Fire x86 Clustered Systems

Oracle has unveiled its next-generation Sun Fire x86 clustered systems, designed for cus-tomers that run a mix of demanding Oracle and non-Oracle enterprise workloads across a grouping of systems.

The new Sun Fire x86 portfolio includes a versatile set of blade systems, x86 rack servers, high-performance networking products, and advanced systems manage-ment capabilities. Based on the Intel Xeon 5600 and Intel Xeon 7500 processors, these systems ship with Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Oracle VM and deliver an end-to-end virtualized environment that provides a completely tested and supported solution for Oracle applications. They are also certified to run Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Microsoft Windows, and VMware.

“The launch of our Sun Fire x86 clustered systems underscores our commitment to delivering the best, most differentiated x86 clustered solutions,” says John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle. “We are the first to deliver high-performing

application-to-disk solutions that can be managed and supported as a single system. This is a major step forward in providing a completely optimized solution that delivers enterprise-class performance and scale while reducing management complexity and costs for customers.”

All Sun Fire x86 clustered systems include Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager, which provides a single management interface for virtualization features as well as all the hard-ware components including blades, servers, storage, networking, and power. Sun Fire x86 customers who use Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center can achieve a highly scalable and seamless management system that provides lifecycle management and process automation capabilities.”

“Datacenter managers have always looked for price/performance improvements from their infrastructure investments, which are increasingly being achieved through fully integrated hardware and software,” says Matt Eastwood, group vice president at IDC. “Oracle’s new x86 blade and rack systems provide a complete solution for running Oracle software, delivering an integrated stack designed to reduce CAPEX [capital expenditure] and OPEX [operating expense] costs in the datacenter.”

Oracle Introduces Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g

Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g, a comprehensive, integrated, and high-performance content management solution, is now available to help organiza-tions increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve content security.

A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite 11g consists of Oracle Universal Records Management 11g, Oracle Imaging and Process Management 11g, and Oracle Information Rights Management 11g.

The new suite is built on a unified content repository and provides an easy-to-use, end-to-end solution spanning imaging, Web, document, and records management. It builds on Oracle’s solu-tion for enterprise applicasolu-tion documents through preintegration with business

pro-cesses, business applications, and desktop productivity tools. Its unified repository can support high-volume content ingestion applications, such as invoice processing, and high-volume content delivery applica-tions, such as e-commerce sites.

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Oracle Coherence 3.6 Ships

Oracle Coherence 3.6, the latest release of Oracle’s distributed in-memory data grid product, is now available. Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle Coherence 3.6 is a critical component of application grid and private cloud deployments.

Oracle Coherence 3.6 introduces Coherence Quorum, a feature that enables greater control of capacity and resource management in grid and cloud environments. It also introduces Coherence Query Language, a SQL-like query language that lets developers use query syntax to manage and use Oracle Coherence.

Another new feature is the Oracle Coherence 3.6 Session Provider for the Microsoft .NET Framework, which supports session management for Microsoft .NET Framework–based applications.

“With greater data scalability, reliability, performance, and security, Oracle Coherence continues to set the benchmark for distrib-uted in-memory data grid products,” says Cameron Purdy, vice president of develop-ment at Oracle.

MySQL Enterprise 2.2 Now Available

Oracle has released MySQL Enterprise 2.2, which includes the latest MySQL open source database, monitoring tools, and production support. A key component of this release is MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2, which provides organizations a means of more effi-ciently managing MySQL servers and helps reduce downtime by identifying problems before they become outages.

MySQL Enterprise Monitor delivers enhanced query performance monitoring, improved security, and integration with MySQL Support. It also provides enhance-ments for collecting, searching, and viewing query performance data, allowing developers to filter and analyze patterns that may hinder key system resources. New features include Query Analyzer Execution Notices, which

pinpoint problem queries so that DBAs and developers can find and fix perfor-mance problems,

and MySQL Enterprise Connector Plug-ins, which allow users to gather and send SQL and related performance data to the query ana-lyzer. In addition, GUI-based tools continu-ously monitor the MySQL database and help developers implement MySQL best practices.

MySQL Enterprise also includes 24/7 production support, with guaranteed response times to assist users in the devel-opment, deployment, and management of MySQL applications.

“DBAs and developers need solutions that help them manage their MySQL servers efficiently and allow them to identify perfor-mance issues before they become expensive, time-consuming problems,” says Thomas Ulin, director of MySQL development at Oracle. “MySQL Enterprise 2.2 offers pow-erful tools for query performance moni-toring, improved security, and an enhanced administration experience—all of which help alleviate many common pain points DBAs and developers face.”

Oracle Application Express

Release 4.0 Available

Oracle has released Oracle Application Express 4.0, its rapid Web application development tool for Oracle Database. The latest release helps reduce the time and complexity of building Web 2.0 applications and reports.

New features of Oracle Application Express 4.0 include Dynamic Actions, which make implementing client-side and interac-tive functionality declarainterac-tive; Plug-Ins, which allow the Oracle Application Express frame-work to be readily extended with custom item types, application processes, and dynamic actions; and RESTful Web Services, which provide an alternative to SOAP.

“When Oracle Application Express was first introduced six years ago, the goal was to simplify the development of fast, secure Web applications for Oracle Database,” says Mike Hichwa, vice president of software develop-ment at Oracle. ”Oracle Application Express 4.0 extends that vision with new capabilities that significantly reduce the time and com-plexity of developing database-centric Web applications.”

NetBeans Integrated Development Environment 6.9 Unveiled

NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.9, the first NetBeans release under Oracle’s stewardship, intro-duces JavaFX Composer, a visual editor and layout tool for building JavaFX applications. With JavaFX Composer, organizations can build, visually edit, and debug rich internet applications and bind components to various datasources, including database and Web services. NetBeans IDE 6.9 also offers OSGi interoperability, enabling developers to easily create OSGi bundles for applications based on the NetBeans platform.

The new components in NetBeans IDE

6.9 support accelerated JavaFX application development. NetBeans IDE 6.9 enables developers to rapidly create Web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications using Java EE, JavaFX, and scripting languages.

“NetBeans 6.9 continues the tradition of providing the best open source IDE for Java application developers,” says Ted Ferrell, chief architect and senior vice president, tools and middleware, at Oracle. “We believe that the ease of use and developer produc-tivity provided by NetBeans is key in helping developers of any skill level take advantage of all great Java technologies.”

Agile Customer Needs Management Unveiled

Oracle has introduced Agile Customer Needs Management, part of Oracle’s product value chain suite, to manage and automate the front-end innovation process. The product helps customers to capture and prioritize product ideas, customer feedback, and product requirements from internal and external sources.

“We are broadening our product value