Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Endeca provides powerful tools which help businesses analyse unstructured data, achieve better understanding of business knowledge and thus provide a superior customer experience. Endeca’s huge success so far has depended on the use of MDEX core technology which allows companies to analyse unstructured data.

The combination of Oracle ATG Commerce and Endeca InFront technology will perfect cross-channel commerce and on-line user experience.

The transaction is expected to complete by the end of 2011.

Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/endeca/index.html

The new acquisition is likely to benefit network equipment providers and it is expected to result in the creation of more comprehensive and standards-based offering that delivers service availability across the telecoms industry.

Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/495941

Oracle Unified Directory was developed as a key component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g which allows customers to better manage the vital identity information which drives their business applications.

With Oracle Unified Directory, administration and ownership costs can be considerably reduced as all corporate needs are maintained in a single directory. This also allows for a simplification of the enterprise architecture.

Some of the unique features of Oracle Unified Directory are:

- High Volume Writes – which allows customers to increase the frequency of changes to identity data and to include more content details such as location, images and relationships;

- Elastic scalability and Extreme performance – provides a global index data so that unmatched horizontal scalability is delivered;

- On-premise and Cloud computing capabilities – which controls the synchronization and virtualization of data in order to make it available to cloud-based applications and systems while data is protected;

- Next generation: builds on the success of the existing Oracle directories with innovative development to suit the needs of modern directory servers.

Source: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/434211

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In a continuing drive to set the standard for mission-critical computing, Oracle has invested heavily in the development of the Solaris operating system. The organisation has announced Oracle Solaris 10 9/10, Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 and Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3.

Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 is designed to compliment systems that are based on up to date SPARC and x86 architectures. It is compatible with well over ten thousand third-party products and applications.

Users of the updated Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 OS will access updates to the Oracle Solaris ZFS file system, and will experience improved performance, virtualization and networking potential.

Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 is an application development tool designed for increased developer productivity.

Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.3 is a multi-site disaster recovery solution. It enables virtual application clusters via Oracle Solaris Containers and integrates with Oracle WebLogic sevrer, MySQL Cluster, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g and Oracle’s Siebel CRM.

In a further drive to deliver faster processing, increased performance, scalability, security and virtualization capability, Oracle has also unveiled the SPARC T3 Processor and four new servers.

Billed as “the first [processor] to deliver to deliver 16 core and 128 threads” [Oracle Magazine November/December], the SPARC T3 processor delivers on scalability, integration and security.

Whilst the company is unable to release further details at this stage, it has been confirmed that Xynomix’ portfolio of Oracle Support customers now contains yet another household name.

Known for the delivery of Oracle Support and Consultancy to SME’s and Blue Chips, Xynomix continues to grow in terms of revenue and improvements to their Oracle Support delivery infrastructure.

Says Marketing Executive, Jules Pedersen: “Companies of all sizes, in all sectors and with varying levels of system criticality, continue to entrust us with their Oracle Support, system management and Oracle Consultancy requirements. In return, we continue to deliver on strict SLA’s and high levels of customer service”

Xynomix plans to continue with its organic growth strategy for the forseeable future.

The Exadata machine, an integrated hardware and software solution for high-performance data warehousing, online transaction processing and mixed workloads, can deliver incredibly quick access to data both internally and externally

This improves the degree to which data can be analysed and used productively, and the speed at which data can be acted upon.

The buzz words here are most certainly: High Visibility and Intelligence.

In a recent newsletter, Oracle reference an IDC report which stated that Oracle’s claims of speed, efficiency and scalability are actually modest in relation to actual experience. Their data was taken from numerous customer panels and one-on-one interviews with users, citing Exadata’s easy deployment, reduced backup times and performance improvements of up to 30 times.

Sources:

• http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-indepth/database-insider/nov-10/exadatanews.html?msgid=3-2677507400
• http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-indepth/database-insider/nov-10/exadatawork.html?msgid=3-2677507400
• http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-indepth/database-insider/nov-10/exadata_idc.html?msgid=3-2677507400

The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is now available.

Optimised for Oracle software and hardware, it is described by Oracle as ‘fast, modern and reliable’ and reportedly delivers 75 percent better performance over a Red Hat Linux 5 compatible kernel.

Based on the 2.6.32 mainline Linux kernel, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel provides the core of Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine and the new Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. It is now the only Linux kernel that Oracle recommends for use with Oracle software.

Oracle highlight the following features of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux:

• It is fast, with the aforementioned 75 percent performance gain over Red Hat compatible kernel, a 200 percent increase in speed on infiniband messaging and 137 percent faster solid state disk access.
• It is modern, with optimizations provided for large Non-Uniform Memory Access servers, improved energy efficiency, memory resource control and fine grained CPU.
• It is specifically optimised for Oracle, with a capacity to run Oracle hardware, databases and middleware with excellent Linux performance and reliability.
• It is reliable, with support for the Data Integrity Extensions and T10 Protection Information Model to stop corrupt data being written to storage, hardware fault management for greater application uptime and low overhead performance counters for tracing.

Oracle believe that Oracle Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 customers will find it easy to upgrade to the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, without the need to reinstall the operating system.

More details can be found in Oracle’s press release, the main source for this article: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173453

Referenced by ComputerWeekly.com, the survey revealed that hardware upgrades, software upgrades and network infrastructure upgrades will all suffer: source

Computer Weekly’s article echoes the general feeling within the IT world that now is the time for intelligent cost-saving: reducing expenditure whilst improving service delivery. Once upon a time, this may have been a tall order, but with advanced technologies and IT management processes, it is entirely possible.

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