Sun ZFS Storage Appliances Released
Oracle has unveiled its third-generation Sun
ZFS Storage Appliances, which offer enter-
prise network-attached storage (NAS) func-
tionality and best-in-class performance, effi-
ciency, data integrity, and integration with
Oracle software. The storage line includes
significant enhancements to its hybrid
storage pool technology, which accelerates
I/O-operations-per-second performance
and enables customers to maintain optimal
performance under
heavy utilization.
The latest
Sun ZFS Storage
Appliances
include Oracle
Hybrid Columnar
Compression
support, which
increases storage
efficiency with 10 to
50 times compression for most data
sets and reduces
capital and operating expenses.
This technology, pioneered in Oracle
Exadata, is also now supported in Oracle’s
Pillar Axiom storage systems.
The latest Sun ZFS Storage Appliances
feature capacity-optimized disk drives as
well as 15,000 RPM SAS- 2 drives with
300 GB and 600 GB capacity, which accelerate noncached reads and high-volume
synchronous writes and enable customers
to run both databases and applications that
stream large amounts of data faster and
with fewer resources.
“Oracle is changing the dynamics of
the NAS market in a single step, giving
enterprise customers a quantum leap in
achievable performance and efficiency,”
says John Fowler, executive vice president
of systems at Oracle. “Third-generation
software, third-generation disk drives,
and unique Oracle integration like Hybrid
Columnar Compression on the Sun ZFS
Storage Appliance enable Oracle storage
customers to achieve business results and
reduce cost at levels other NAS solutions
can’t match.”
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JavaFX 2.0 Unleashed
At JavaOne 2011, Oracle announced general
availability of JavaFX 2.0, an advanced Java
user interface platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the
evolution of Java as a premier rich client
platform. Developers use JavaFX 2.0 to build
rich client applications in Java. By using Java
for both the server and client side of their
applications, developers can decrease risk
significantly by reducing the complexity of
their business solutions.
Key features in JavaFX 2.0 include FXML,
a scriptable, XML-based markup language
for defining user interfaces, and full Swing
integration. JavaFX 2.0 also provides a Web
component based on WebKit, which allows
developers to seamlessly mix and match
native Java capabilities and the dynamic
capabilities of Web technologies.
“With JavaFX 2.0, customers and partners
can leverage their existing knowledge of
and investments in Java technologies and
easily create modern, expressive graphical
user interfaces and data visualizations,” says
Nandini Ramani, vice president of development, Java client group, at Oracle.
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Oracle Fusion Applications Available
In a keynote speech at Oracle Open World,
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced general
availability of more than 100 Oracle Fusion
Applications components. These span enterprise resource planning, human capital management (HCM), and customer relationship
management (CRM) and were all rewritten on
top of modern technology, Ellison said.
“These are not just point solutions but a
rich set of apps,” said Steve Miranda, senior
vice president of applications development
at Oracle, in another Oracle Open World
presentation. “They were designed from the
ground up not just to be transactional appli-
cations; we really designed them to have
embedded business intelligence.”
In other applications news, Oracle Fusion
Customer Relationship Management and
Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management
are now available as part of the new Oracle
Public Cloud. Oracle Fusion CRM Cloud
Service is an enterprise-grade CRM cloud
application offering. It integrates sales terri-
tory management with quota management
to help sales organizations optimize resource
allocation. The service also combines cus-
tomer and product master data information
with all CRM processes and delivers a consol-
idated customer center for all CRM business
processes that is supported by a common
360-degree view of customer information.
Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud Service is an
enterprise-grade HCM cloud application
offering. It delivers a complete HCM suite,
including core HR, payroll, and benefits
management capabilities that enable
organizations to manage, track, and
analyze employee information and objec-
tives via employee dashboards that provide
context-specific transactional business
intelligence. Oracle Fusion HCM Cloud
Service also provides worker directories,
employee provisioning and deprovisioning,
compensation management, incentive
management, performance management,
and goal management.
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Oracle Buys Endeca
