Oracle Magazine - September/October 2008

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SOME IT STAFFERS SNEAK A PEEK
In a survey of 300 senior IT professionals
conducted at Infosecurity Expo 2008, one-
third of respondents admitted to using their
privileged rights to access confidential
or sensitive information, and 47 percent
said that they had accessed information
that was not relevant to their job role. 30
percent said that the privileged passwords
in their organizations get changed every
quarter, while 9 percent said that privileged
passwords never get changed.
Source: Cyber-Ark
www.cyber-ark.com/news-events/
pr_20080619.asp

RDBMS MARKET CONTINUES GROWTH,
LED BY ORACLE
In 2007, the worldwide relational database
management system (RDBMS) market is
estimated to have grown by 12. 6 percent,
from US$16.7 billion in 2006 to US$18.8
billion. Oracle led the RDBMS market again
and increased its market share in 2007. The
top five vendors—Oracle, IBM, Microsoft,
Teradata, and Sybase—collectively represent
more than 90 percent of the market.
Source: IDC
www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=212840

WEB 2.0 USE WIDESPREAD, BUT DECISION-
MAKERS REMAIN CAUTIOUS
While 50 percent of corporations and 30
percent of government organizations surveyed
have deployed Web 2.0 tools, worries persist.
Of 1,060 IT decision-makers surveyed, 31
percent are concerned that personal use
of these technologies will overshadow
work-related use, 28 percent worry about
information security, and 27 percent think
employees will waste time with Web 2.0
technologies. In the private sector, use of Web
2.0 technologies correlates with company
size: they’re deployed by 67 percent of large
companies, 53 percent of medium businesses,
and 27 percent of small businesses.
Source: CDW
newsroom.cdw.com/news-releases/news-
release-06-18-08.html

ORACLE UPDATES ENTIRE BERKELEY DATABASE FAMILY

Oracle has unveiled Oracle Berkeley Database Release 4. 7, Oracle Berkeley Database XML Release 2. 4, and Oracle Berkeley Database Java Edition Release 3. 3 and has certified all three new versions with Oracle VM. Oracle Berkeley Database is a family of high-performance, open source, embeddable database engines that developers can integrate directly into software applications, devices, and equipment.

“Oracle is committed to continued development, enhancement, and support for the Oracle Berkeley Database product family, while maintaining the same open source dual license business model that it has always used,” says Rex Wang, vice president, embedded systems marketing, Oracle.

The Oracle Berkeley Database products are designed to be embedded within applications that must store data locally and run unattended. New features of Oracle Berkeley Database Release 4. 7 include improved caching efficiency, faster database recovery, and support for the Java Direct Persistence Layer API and QNX real-time operating system. Oracle Berkeley Database XML Release 2. 4 now supports XQuery update, cost-based query optimization, and XQilla for XQuery processing. Oracle Berkeley Database Java Edition Release 3. 3 has improved scalability and caching and more-efficient in-memory and on-disk storage, as well as support for Google Android and Apache Maven.

ORACLE AUDIT VAULT SUPPORTS SQL SERVER Oracle Audit Vault Release 2, now available, supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005 database auditing in addition to Oracle databases. Oracle Audit Vault consolidates audit data into a secure, centralized Oracle Data Warehouse and analyzes that data in real time for unauthorized activities that violate security and regulatory mandates.

“Oracle Audit Vault Release 2 allows organizations to turn database audit

data into mission-critical business intelligence for ensuring enterprise security and regulatory compliance,” says Vipin Samar, vice president of database security, Oracle. “With this latest release, Oracle Audit Vault customers can now also monitor SQL Server databases. Additionally the enhanced alerting and reporting capabilities make the product an even more powerful tool for detecting unauthorized activities and automating critical compliance reporting functions.”

The new release offers more built-in compliance reports related to Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and other data privacy protection regulations. It also features improved capabilities in filtering of audit data, highlighting rows with condition values, and generating charts and graphs. Custom reports can be saved and shared within the enterprise or with external auditors.

ORACLE WEBLOGIC SUITE AVAILABLE Oracle has released Oracle WebLogic Suite, a single, unified application server offering that features high-performance scalability and manageability.

Part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle WebLogic Suite brings together two industry-leading Java-based application servers to support enterprise applications and services: Oracle WebLogic Server Enterprise Edition and Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition. The suite also includes Oracle Coherence Enterprise Edition, which provides scalability, and Oracle WebLogic Operations Control, which automates application provisioning and resource allocation. Oracle JRockit Java Virtual Machine is the underlying engine that drives Oracle WebLogic Suite, and a variant of it, Oracle JRockit Real Time, is also included to ensure predictable, smooth-running systems.