Oracle Magazine - May/June 2012

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Oracle Health Sciences Institute Announces First Round of
Research Projects

Coalition Against Major Diseases at the Critical Path Institute, and the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland.

“I T innovation fuels the transformation needed to realize the full potential of the convergence of healthcare and life sciences,” says Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “We are pleased to support esteemed research project teams as they seek new ways to apply information technology to advance the discovery and development of next-generation treatments and therapies.”

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Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux Available

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux is now generally available. Based on the mainline Linux kernel

3.0.16, the latest release of Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux includes performance and scalability enhancements, improved memory and resource management, and greater virtualization support. It also includes one of the first commercially supported production Btrfs, the “ next-generation file system” for Linux. With Btrfs included, Oracle Linux supports large files and file systems, snapshots, and checksums for data and metadata; provides integrated RAID and volume management; and simpli-fies administration.

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 for Oracle Linux is included with Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6.

“Oracle Linux continues to deliver timely Linux innovations, backed by real-world testing, providing users a modern, scalable, and reliable platform for their business-critical workload demands,” says Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering at Oracle. “Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 further demonstrates Oracle’s investment in Linux technology and the community and delivers on our goal to make Linux better for everyone.”

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New Enhancements for Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Oracle has introduced new capabilities for its Sun ZFS Storage Appliance that deliver better performance, simpler management, and higher scalability.

The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance now includes Oracle VM Storage Connect Plug-in for Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, which allows users to seamlessly provision and manage Sun ZFS Storage Appliance logical unit numbers and execute advanced data-protection features. For scalability, Sun ZFS Storage Appliances now have the option of

3 TB hard-disk drives, which allow the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance 7420 to scale to more than 1. 7 PB.

“Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances offer a compelling proposition for customers looking to extend deployment of network-attached storage [NAS] for critical enterprise applications,” says Phil Bullinger, senior vice president of storage at Oracle. “With the new enhancements, Oracle is delivering greater value to customers and extending its storage leadership in high-performance, efficient NAS storage.”

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Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops
Center 12c Unveiled

Now available, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c introduces new capabilities for establishing, managing, and supporting enterprise clouds that enable Oracle systems and server virtualization users to adopt cloud computing faster and with less effort and risk. Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c delivers increased server management; support for Oracle VM x86, Oracle Solaris 11, and existing virtualized Oracle Solaris Zones environments; and increased Sun ZFS Storage Appliance management.

“With Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c, we have extended our leadership by providing our customers with the best management solution for all of Oracle’s systems at no additional license charge,” says John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle. “Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c is the only solution our customers need to manage Oracle systems, whether for traditional enterprise IT, private cloud, public cloud, or a hybrid environment.”

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Oracle Acquires Taleo

Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire Taleo, a leading provider of cloud-based talent management solutions. Taleo’s talent management cloud helps organizations attract, develop, motivate, and retain human capital to improve performance and drive growth.

Together, Oracle and Taleo plan to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their human resources operations and employee careers. The combination is expected to empower employees and managers to effectively manage careers throughout their entire employment, enable organizations to retain talent and optimize costs, and improve the employee experience through faster onboarding and better collaboration with team members via social media.

“Human capital management has become a strategic initiative for organizations,” says Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of product development at Oracle. “Taleo’s industry-leading talent management cloud is an important addition to Oracle Public Cloud.”