Oracle Misses Badly, Spooks Everybody
21 Dec 2011 3:49am GMT 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 broad-based tech slowdown everybody’s afraid of given the newspaper headlines, especially out of Europe. Oracle in its conference call never once said it was, claiming instead that Q2 was a one-off event and that “short of a global meltdown” Q3 “won’t be a...
Building Enterprise Class Oracle Databases on Amazon Web Services
18 Nov 2011 10:30am GMT 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 thumb, you should be a pessimist when designing architecture for the cloud. That means that putting your Oracle databases on AWS cloud should be accompanied with carefully thought out fault tolerance and DR procedures. Usual practice of performing Oracle database backups should be carefully...
cVidya Achieves Oracle Exadata Ready Status
10 Nov 2011 4:37pm GMT 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 Oracle Exadata Database Machine. This announcement demonstrates that cVidya has fully tested and supports MoneyMap Version 6.5 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine, including Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Linux. This milestone follows cVidya's recent participation in the OPN Forum...
Oracle Database and Big Data: A Powerful Combination
27 Oct 2011 6:57pm GMT 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 sets. Apache Hadoop is open source software that can process petabytes of data in parallel on hundreds and thousands of commodity hardware nodes. It was inspired by Google MapReduce. Oracle corporation is acknowledging the power of Oracle/Hadoop combination by announcing Big Data Appliance -...
Oracle Database Upgrades Faster and Safer in Amazon Web Services
23 Oct 2011 7:59pm GMT 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 done and success is confirmed you can start using upgraded database. If something goes wrong then you rely on backups to restore to a previous state. In other words, there is complete dependency on backups and restore success if things go wrong. AWS gives us possibility to quickly and cheaply...