Oracle Tag Index

Shopping for a new Linux server isn't as easy as you might think. Here's a round-up of what's available for those of you who want to dance with the penguin.

Oracle recently introduced a new line of SPARC servers and a SPARC SuperCluster based on its brand new T4 chip. Here's a rundown of the new product offerings.

Boost your virtualization, private cloud or database-backed computing with these new blade servers. You'll save space, power and deployment headaches with high-density blade servers from your favorite manufacturers.

First major release of Java middleware server in two years, advances scalability, Java EE 6 and Java SE 7 features.

The third quarter marked the slowest quarterly growth rate for servers worldwide since the first quarter of 2010, according to IDC. Among global vendors, IBM was the big winner, picking up enough share to pull even with HP.

The research firm says worldwide server shipments and revenues were up in the third quarter of 2011, driven primarily by Asia/Pacific and Eastern Europe.

First Unix release from Oracle now officially available, delivering what Oracle execs call, the world's first Cloud OS.

At last week's Oracle OpenWorld, the OEM offered a glimpse at upcoming changes for Solaris 11 and the Oracle Enterprise Kernel for Linux.

Oracle CEO announced new SPARC T-4 based systems while leveling a competitive barrage against IBM.

Oracle improves ZFS and system performance in latest Solaris update.

Oracle looks to advance its server virtualization technology with new management capabilities and performance enhancements.

New virtualization release includes cloning and tunneling features, as Oracle pushes open source technology forward.
Tags: open source software, server virtualization, Oracle, virtualbox, VDI

Innovation makes companies memorable. Which of these companies will you remember tomorrow?
Tags: Apple, HP, IBM, EMC, Oracle

HP goes on the offensive in its defense of Itanium.
Tags: Oracle, HP, Intel, Itanium

New version of Oracle Fusion focused Java IDE is released.
Tags: Oracle, JDeveloper, Fusion, Java

IDC reports 'meaningful' enterprise server refresh cycle as first quarter server revenues hit $11.9 billion
Tags: IDC, Oracle, Dell, IBM, HP

Oracle users weigh in on how they perceive the vendor these days. How big of an impact is its smack at Itanium having, and how are non-Oracle software shops faring? Learn where the company remains strong and where there may be room for improvement or concern.
Tags: Oracle, Itanium, buyer's guide, Red Hat, x86 server

More than a year after acquiring Sun Microsystems, the question remains: Where is Oracle going with its Sun server bounty, and where does it see the industry heading?
Tags: buyer's guide, SPARC, netra, Oracle, x86 server

Oracle claims Intel is ending Itanium. HP and Intel respond.
Tags: Itanium, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, HP

Reference middleware architecture for JavaEE 6 is updated, tying the former Sun tech even closer to Oracle's broader Java platform offerings.
Tags: Oracle, Java, Glassfish, Sun

2010 was the year of the big box appliance. Oracle Exadata II, Oracle Exalogic and EMC Greenplum are but a few examples. IT historians, of course, will point out that this market was begun by such firms as Netezza and Teradata.
Tags: EMC, Exadata, Oracle, IBM, Exalogic

From Oracle's acquisition of Sun to Cisco releasing blade servers to SSDs going mainstream, 2010 was an eventful year for server hardware. Revisit the 10 most notable milestones.
Tags: Cisco UCS, Oracle, 2010, IBM, server hardware

Oracle claims the top spot for Unix with Solaris and reveals it has its eye on the Linux top spot for its homegrown Linux distro, Oracle Enterprise Linux. Red Hat and HP express a mix of consternation and amusement. But is that the right reaction?
Tags: Solaris, Oracle, server os, Unix server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Oracle updates Sun hardware lineup with new SPARC based servers for the cloud, delivering record setting performance.
Tags: InfiniBand, SPARC, Oracle, Sun

What happens when two supercomputers join together and operate as one? With Red Sky/Red Mesa, a collaborative effort involving Sandia National Labs, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oracle/Sun, we're about to find out.
Tags: Server Blades, Oracle, TOP500, Sun, supercomputers

Thanks to Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Fedora and the not-so-well-known (but no less notable) QNX, the server OS waters were choppier than usual this week. Here's some insight as to what's really going on.
Tags: Mac OS X, OS, Oracle, Windows, Ubuntu Server

Oracle threw down the gauntlet at the high-end of the server market this week, demonstrating its commitment to Sun servers at its annual OpenWorld show in San Francisco.
Tags: Oracle, buyer's guide, server hardware, Sun, OpenWorld

SAP is getting its own optimized Linux operating system, thanks to a new effort from Novell with SUSE Linux.
Tags: SUSE, Novell, SAP, Oracle, Linux

These days, the UNIX and Linux server OS landscape would play on the big screen as well as a combination Jackie Chan, James Bond, and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure movie all rolled together.
Tags: VMware, Novell, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, server os, Oracle

Has Oracle replaced Microsoft as public enemy No. 1 when it comes to enterprise operating systems? Some in the OpenSolaris community believe so.
Tags: Oracle, OpenSolaris, open source, OS, Microsoft

When your Linux server breaks, you'd better find someone who can fix it. Try some commercially supported distributions for those times when community forums just won't satisfy the corporate direction.
Tags: Debian, Oracle, Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu

Big Blue Releases its biggest Unix Server yet, a Power7 system that boasts record transaction performance.
Tags: AIX 7, IBM, POWER 7, Unix server, Oracle

Promises to double application performance on Sparc systems every two years.
Tags: Oracle, HPC, server hardware, Solaris, Sun

Oracle is investing in Sun's Unix and will use technologies from openSolaris as part of the next-generation release.
Tags: OS, Oracle, OpenSolaris, Unix server, Solaris

Next week's event will tout Oracle's systems approach, Sun hardware and the benefits of private clouds.
Tags: data center, Oracle, Sun, enterprise applications, SAP

Anyone paying attention to Oracle's acquisition of Sun had a keen sense that a culture clash was inevitable for the open source software OpenSolaris. This week's launch of Illumos reveals the time might be now.
Tags: open source software, Sun, open source server, OpenSolaris, Oracle

With the future of OpenSolaris under Oracle unclear, a new effort aims to deliver an alternative to the popular open source software.
Tags: Illumos, open source software, OpenSolaris, Sun, Oracle

The company says that Dell and HP will be reselling Oracle's Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems.
Tags: HP, Solaris, Oracle, Dell

The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) that oversees the open-source community is threatening to disband.
Tags: OpenSolaris, Oracle

Speed advances in storage and network connectivity are feeding back into the design constraints for servers.
Tags: Architect, database, Oracle, server

After Oracle's acquisition, Sun Microsystems has turned a profit for the first time in more than a year.
Tags: SPARC, Oracle, server, Sun Microsystems

True to its promise, Oracle sticks to the high-end market with massive clustering x86 servers and a unified network fabric.
Tags: Sun, x86 servers, Intel, HPC, Oracle

Sun traditionally offered both AMD and Intel processors in its x86 server lineup. Now, it's looking like AMD's Opteron won't make the cut under Oracle's ownership.
Tags: Intel, x86 servers, AMD, Opteron, Oracle

If you believe that virtualization is limited to Web, application and a few other "lightweight" services, think again.
Tags: database virtualization, virtualization, database, Oracle

The Sun Ray 3 Plus client can significantly reduce power consumption.
Tags: data center, virtual desktop, virtualization technologies, VDI, Oracle

Virtually Speaking: Following on its recent release of VirtualBox, Oracle is now refreshing the Sun Ray client and the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Tags: desktop virtualization, virtualization technologies, Oracle, virtualbox

The new Sun Microsystems owner plans to discontinue existing Opteron servers.
Tags: Oracle, server, Sun, AMD, Opteron

The position of IBM is covered here with regards to the Oracle/Sun deal, and the alliance between EMC,Cisco and VMware.
Tags: Oracle, IBM, server, Storage, VMware

Got data? Need a database server? Chances are you'll be considering at least one of these 10 to meet your needs.
Tags: database, Oracle, Top 10, database management, MySQL

The company announces a 10U chassis for its Sun Netra servers.
Tags: blade server, server, Oracle, Sun Netra

Upgrade to the Netra line of blade servers for telcos makes them more suitable for mission-critical functions.
Tags: blade server, netra, telcos, Oracle

At the Cloud Computing Expo, Microsoft and Oracle Execs shared different enterprise cloud visions.
Tags: Enterprise, Microsoft, Cloud, cloud computing, Oracle

OS Roundup: Will the open source server OS from what was once Sun Microsystems soon be known as the project formerly known as OpenSolaris? It's beginning to seem like it.
Tags: Oracle, open source, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems, open source server

Oracle's change tempo picks up as it changes the licensing rules for Solaris. OpenSolaris' open-source software song remains the same, however.
Tags: OpenSolaris, Oracle, Solaris, open-source software

OS Roundup: Is Oracle closing the door on Solaris in favor of Linux servers? Recent actions imply the company is determined to drive potential customers away from the UNIX offerings it acquired from Sun and into the arms of Red Hat and other enterprise Linux vendors.
Tags: Oracle, OS, Sun Microsystems, Linux server, Solaris

OS Roundup: When it comes to Linux server management, if your Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro isn't supported by Red Hat, is it still Red Hat Linux, or is it 'Frankenstein Linux'?
Tags: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle, Linux Server Management, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat

With Sun now part of Oracle, how much has its server line up changed? Not at all -- at least not yet. We look down the road to evaluate the changes likely to have an impact on server room management decisions.
Tags: server room management, Sun Oracle merger, sun servers, Oracle, Sun Microsystems

Oracle forced to address a critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Node Manager utility after exploit code was released to the public.
Tags: patch, exploit, security, Oracle

Jonathan Schwartz, who is not moving on to Oracle from Sun, made a grand exit with a fond farewell tweet.
Tags: Schwartz, Sun, Oracle

With its acquisition of Sun having closed, Oracle is deciding what stays and what goes.
Tags: Sun, Sun Oracle merger, integration, acquisition, Oracle

Ellison outlines Oracle's open source direction now that the Sun acquisition has closed.
Tags: Linux, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Oracle

Virtually Speaking: With Oracle's acquisition of Sun complete, will it be lights out for VirtualBox and other Sun virtualization technology?
Tags: Oracle, virtualbox, Solaris, Sun Microsystems, virtualization

OS Roundup: The contrast couldn't be any starker: On Wednesday, Oracle will tell the world why it means business, and Apple will likely show off some new playthings.
Tags: OS, Sun, Oracle, Apple, iPhone

Virtually Speaking: Sun just updated its virtual desktop software, VirtualBox, but Oracle's post-acquisition jaws of death loom large.
Tags: Oracle, Sun Microsystems, desktop virtualization, virtualization, virtual box

Last night's speech from Larry Ellison shed some light on his plans for Sun.
Tags: Oracle, Larry Ellison, Sun Microsystems, Sun

OS Roundup: While the world waits for Oracle's acquisition of Sun, IBM and HP aren't wasting any time going after Sun's customer base. Will there be a place for Sun hardware or Solaris when the sale completes, and does Oracle care?
Tags: Oracle, Sun, IBM, HP, Larry Ellison

HP and IBM are aggressively pitching to Sun customers, but many aren't budging. Meanwhile, Oracle is planning to unveil a new Sun/Oracle database system later this week.
Tags: IBM, Sun, Oracle, HP, Sun Microsystems

Virtually Speaking: Oracle elaborates on its plans for Virtual Iron's product line. Not a pretty picture for many customers.
Tags: Virtual Iron, virtualization, Oracle, Sun Microsystems

7,350 person-years of engineering nets "significant new capabilities."
Tags: middleware, Oracle

OS Roundup: From Java to Solaris, Sun brings myriad good technology to the table, technology that Oracle will likely exploit and monetize.
Tags: OpenSolaris, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, Java

Oracle's announced acquisition of Virtual Iron is designed to enhance Oracle VM in the long term. For now, though, it showcases the gaps in the current feature set.
Tags: Oracle, Virtual Iron, virtualization

Virtually Speaking: As venerable stalwarts, like SGI and Borland, and young companies, like Virtual Iron, are going extinct, some of the big guns are evolving and holding the line.
Tags: virtualization, SGI, Oracle, Itanium, cloud computing

Hard-Core Hardware: Analysts weigh in on the proposed acquisition with scenarios ranging from doom and gloom to eternal sunshine.
Tags: acquisitions, Java, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, virtualization

OS Roundup: What's in it for Oracle that wasn't there for IBM? Lots -- if you look closely.
Tags: Oracle, IBM, MySQL, Java, acquisitions