Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 Delivers Advanced High Availability
Oracle has unveiled Oracle Solaris Cluster
4.0, the first release providing extended high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR)
capabilities for Oracle Solaris 11. Oracle Solaris
Cluster 4.0 delivers built-in support for cloud
implementations through virtual clusters for
secure deployment of mission-critical applications in private, public, and hybrid clouds as
well as enterprise data centers.
With Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0, customers
can deploy multiple, isolated, and secure
virtual clusters through Oracle Solaris Zones
clustering. Oracle Solaris Cluster offers an HA
solution for enterprise applications through
instant and load-resilient failure detection
and fast service recovery time through kernel-
level integration with Oracle Solaris 11. It also
provides out-of-the-box support for a wide
range of Oracle and third-party software prod-
ucts, with application-specific failover in both
traditional and virtualized environments.
“Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.0 delivers un-
rivaled high availability on Oracle Solaris 11
for enterprise applications and databases
and offers comprehensive capabilities
for keeping customers’ most demanding
applications up and running in the face of
nearly every conceivable situation,” says John
Fowler, executive vice president of systems
at Oracle. “Customers can now combine the
additional critical HA and DR features of
Oracle Solaris Cluster with the new cloud-
ready features of Oracle Solaris 11 to help
simplify their infrastructure, significantly
reduce planned and unplanned downtime,
and protect mission-critical applications in
both traditional and cloud deployments.”
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People Tools 8. 52 Enhances UI, Search, and Mobility
Oracle’s PeopleSoft People Tools 8. 52, a
development toolset for PeopleSoft applications, is now available. Enhancements in this
product update include intuitive keyword
search, iPad support, an interactive UI, and
an integrated reporting functionality.
“Thousands of customers around the
world depend on Oracle’s PeopleSoft to help
run their organizations, and any way we
can improve user experience and adoption
directly supports their business success,”
says Paco Aubrejuan, group vice president,
Oracle’s PeopleSoft.
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Directing Traffic For Oracle
WebLogic Server
Oracle Database Firewall Supports MySQL
Edition and delivers enhanced reporting
capabilities. Oracle Database Firewall
protects MySQL databases against data
breaches without requiring any changes to
existing applications, the database infra-
structure, or the existing operating system
of the target database. The new release
provides a reporting infrastructure for
running and modifying the layout of existing
reports, with 10 new out-of-the-box reports
to further help organizations comply with
privacy and regulatory mandates. The new
release also offers
a proxy-operating
mode that allows
organizations even
greater flexibility in
deploying it on the
network. In addition,
new multicore management capabilities
offer administrators fine-grained control
over the resources allocated to protect spe-
cific databases for even greater scalability.
Oracle Database Firewall establishes a
defensive perimeter around databases, while
monitoring and enforcing normal applica-
tion behavior in real time to help prevent
SQL injection attacks as well as unauthorized
attempts to access sensitive information.
“Organizations can further enhance
enterprise database security with Oracle
Database Firewall,” says Vipin Samar, vice
president of database security at Oracle.
“With new MySQL support, Oracle Database
Firewall extends the combination of data-
bases that organizations can secure across
their enterprise. The improved reporting
capabilities automate time-consuming reg-
ulatory compliance reporting functions.”
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Now available, Oracle Database Firewall
5. 1 extends support for MySQL Enterprise
I-HUA CHEN
Oracle Updates Oracle Tuxedo 11g
The latest release of Oracle Tuxedo 11 g
delivers optimized integration with Exalogic
Elastic Cloud X2-2 and new features for
improved usability, faster migrations, greater
availability, enhanced monitoring and control
capabilities, and integration with Oracle
Berkeley DB and the COBOL-I T compiler.
The enhanced integration between Oracle
Tuxedo 11 g and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
enables up to seven times performance and
scalability gains and five times improvement
in Oracle Database 11 g access throughput.
The new release includes Oracle Tuxedo
Application Runtime for IMS 11 g, which
accelerates the migration of IBM mainframe
IMS applications to open systems.
“Organizations are looking to streamline
mainframe migration and modernization,”
said Frank Xiong, vice president of development at Oracle. “The new release of Oracle
Tuxedo 11 g and the addition of Oracle Tuxedo
Application Runtime for IMS 11 g further
simplify the process by optimizing integration with Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and
simplifying the migration and modernization
of IBM mainframe IMS applications.”
