Oracle Misses Badly, Spooks Everybody
Oracle zigged when it was expected to zag Tuesday and came in with a nasty fiscal Q2 miss that caused its stock price to buckle close to 10% after-hours for fear the results are a harbinger of the...
View ArticleBuilding Enterprise Class Oracle Databases on Amazon Web Services
AWS is built on commodity hardware and it is software virtual machine based. AWS documentation states that: It's inevitable that EC2 instances will fail, and you need to plan for it. As a rule of...
View ArticlecVidya Achieves Oracle Exadata Ready Status
cVidya’s MoneyMap® Version 6.5 has achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status through Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). This will significantly assist clients with the extreme performance available only with...
View ArticleOracle Database and Big Data: A Powerful Combination
Ever wondered how it is possible that Google searches through so much data with such speed and precision ? Part of the answer is MapReduce, Google technology for processing and generating large data...
View ArticleOracle Database Upgrades Faster and Safer in Amazon Web Services
Oracle database upgrades are a stressful exercise. Normally you need to backup production database, upgrade database software, then run database scripts that will upgrade dictionary. Once it is all...
View ArticleAWS Announced New Scaling and Availability Features for Oracle Databases
Amazon RDS is already offering Multi-AZ deployments and Read Replicas for MySQL databases. We are looking at what feature will look like when released for Oracle databases, how it will be implemented...
View ArticleWhich Cloud Service Provider Should Host Your Oracle Databases?
We are looking at reasons which make Amazon Web Services likely choice of IaaS Cloud Service Provider for your enterprise data center needs. Big shift towards Cloud environment has started. It is now...
View ArticleEnterprise Class Oracle Databases in the Public Cloud?
Most of enterprise class shops today run their Oracle databases on either HP-UX, AIX or Sun OS operating systems. Is it possible to move these databases to the public cloud, and, if so, who are...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2011: The Video Outtakes
My guests and I (mostly me) share the collection of flubs, scrubs and otherwise unusable material from the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 videos. What better way to spend a few minutes on a Friday than watching...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2011: The Wrap Up
Thanks to everyone involved with this week’s videos – Andy, Chris, Matt, Ron, Keith, Calvin and Jonathan. I try to recall all the various things we covered this week and wrap up Oracle Open World...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2011: Interview with F5’s Ron Carovano
Peter Silva talks with F5’s Ron Carovano Sr. Business Development Mgr about the F5's acceptance into the Oracle Exastack Ready program. The Oracle Exastack Program enables partners to deploy their...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2011: Interview with F5′s Keith Gillum
I interviewed F5's Keith Gillum, Product Manager for BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM). We discuss WANOp, latency sensitive networks and applications, database replication and other bandwidth...
View ArticleOracle OpenWorld 2011: Interview with F5’s Calvin Rowland
I meet with Calvin Rowland, F5 VP - Application Partner Program, about the F5 & Oracle relationship, our solution partnership and a few other gems from this always fun, energetic and interesting...
View ArticleInterview with F5′s Andy Oehler
I chatted with Andy Oehler, F5 Product Manager about BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, the integration with Oracle Access Manager and what APM brings to BIG-IP.read more
View ArticleF5 ARX & Oracle ZFS Storage
I met with F5′s ARX Solution Engineer Matt Quill for a F5 ARX and Oracle ZFS Storage along with chatting with Oracle’s David Wallace.read more
View ArticleBIG-IP WANOp & Oracle GoldenGate
I found F5 Solution Architect Chris Akker to discuss F5′s WAN OP Manager and how it helps accelerate Oracle GoldenGate Software.read more
View ArticleAnother Whopper From Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch
Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch continues to insist that Autonomy was never 'shopped' to Oracle. But now at least he remembers and admits to meeting with Oracle President Mark Hurd and Doug Kehring, Oracle's...
View ArticleOracle Has Good Numbers
Oracle narrowly vaulted Wall Street’s expectations Tuesday when it reported its first fiscal quarter. Its results encouraged people to think budgets aren’t in lockdown mode. Revenues were up 12% to...
View ArticleSpeaking at Oracle Open World
It's not often I am on the same roster as Sting and Tom Petty, but at Oracle Open World I am. Admittedly Sting and Tom Petty will be performing to tens of thousands of people on Treasure Island,...
View ArticleInoapps Acquires Teamsolve
Oracle solutions specialist, Inoapps is today announcing it has completed its acquisition of Teamsolve, a specialist in Oracle technology and managed services. Complementing existing Inoapps...
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