Oracle Uses Xserve RAID
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Ina Fried reports for cnet News.com, &#147;Apple Computer&#146;s rack-mounted storage system received a vote of confidence Monday, with database giant Oracle endorsing the Xserve RAID as part of an initiative to cut storage costs &#133; Additionally, Oracle is using the Xserve RAID in its own technology department to store e-mail, voice mail and calendar information &#133; Meanwhile, Apple also said Oracle is moving ahead with previously announced plans to offer its 10g software for the Mac sometime before the end of the year.&#148; [Dec 07]
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Apple today announced a major upgrade to Xsan, its enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) file system for Mac OS X. Xsan 2 represents the first upgrade since the original product was released in 2005.
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At work we're mostly an OSS shop.  Partly because I have a strong bias towards OSS but cost, reliability, security, etc are all leading factors.  For the last several months now I've been in an interesting position to prove the benefits of OSS in a real-world environment.  We've had to extend a number of OSS tools to fit into our production environment.  These are significant additions and non-trivial.  Open Source allows you to STAND on the shoulders of gods.  For example we've been having a problem with the Jakarta DBCP  connection pool.  It was running out of connections in highly threaded environments and is slow.  Certainly slower than would be necessary.  Long story short.  Last night  ...
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Oracle on Wednesday will introduce Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2, which is being characterized as a significant upgrade to the product with improvements in Java, Web services, and identity management and the addition of RFID backing.
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Drobo is a storage appliance that retails for $499 without drives, employs its own disk and storage virtualization algorithms to give users many of the data redundancy benefits of RAID without RAID's complexity.
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Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has today launched a high-end Raid storage platform and software offering complex data management. The TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform (USP) is designed to provide up to 32
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle Corp. has always made bold claims about the security of its database and applications. Now the company has said it will make security a priority as it begins rolling out its next-generation software products for building service-oriented architectures (SOAs), Oracle Fusion, in the next several years. Speaking at an event in New York on Wednesday, Oracle President Charles Phillips outlined three areas of security that will be important to Oracle going forward -- access control, data privacy and compliance. Acquisitions and internal product development over the last 18 months have given Oracle a comprehensive portfolio in this area, allowing the company to think of security "holistically" across its product line, he said. "We take it pretty seriously," Phillips said. "We [are putting] security where it belongs, which is consistent across the architecture." Oracle has had its ups and downs when it comes to security. The company is infamous for a 2002 marketing campaign in which it called its database "unbreakable," a notion that was proven wrong by security researchers. While Oracle's database has not been the target of a widespread attack, security experts point out that it is also in a less vulnerable position than many commonly targeted programs. Oracle databases are embedded so deeply in a network's infrastructure that attacks aimed for it are thwarted by technologies closer to the surface, such as firewalls. The true test of Oracle's security will come when it begins opening up its products to allow for SOAs, which enable applications to communicate via Web services standards across disparate systems. "Adding Web services to an architecture makes everything often more insecure because you add an additional way into the database," said Alexander Kornbrust, chief executive officer of security consulting firm Red Database Security GmbH. "Web services should be designed and developed very carefully." Beginning in March 2005, Oracle began a string of purchases to bolster its security portfolio. In March the company purchased Oblix, which has access-management software. Then last November, Oracle acquired Thor Technologies for identity provisioning and compliance software and Octet String for identity virtualization software. The company is combining these acquired technologies with new software it developed internally: Database Vault, which prevents the database administrator from accessing sensitive information stored in an Oracle database, and Audit Vault, a data warehousing product to keep track of data stored in various places. The former is available now, while Audit Vault will be available in the next few months, said Thomas Kurian, senior vice president of server technology for Oracle. Together with existing products such as Oracle Identity Federation, the products help shore up a strong portfolio for protecting data across multiple applications and systems in the network, he said. Oracle has these products now, but they will become increasingly important as SOAs become more prevalent and Oracle rolls out its Fusion architecture over the next couple of years, Kurian said. "We'll be making sure at each level of the application, you have common policies that are enforced," he said. "No matter where you come in [on a network], you can still access security." Charles Kolodgy, an IDC security analyst, called Oracle's presentation on Wednesday "a little underwhelming," but said the message the company was trying to send is important. "Many of their customers are not aware that Oracle has security offerings to help customers manage identity, data protection and compliance," Kolodgy said. "They have been know for building security into their products, but not for building security products." However, despite the rosy picture Oracle paints about its past and future security strategy, it's something customers have traditionally been less than happy with, Kornbrust said. New products like Data Vault and Oracle Transparent Data Encryption -- which encrypts database data and stores the encryption keys in another location -- show the company is taking security more seriously, he said. But Oracle has a long way to go before it gets it right. "They are not doing enough helping customers to make their database secure," Kornbrust said. "The patches are still ugly ... Selling new -- and expensive -- high-end features is good but doesn't raise the bar for the normal Oracle security. Most databases I see are vulnerable in most cases." Still, said Kornbrust -- whose firm handles Oracle security exclusively -- those responsible for securing Oracle infrastructure "appreciate the direction Oracle is taking in the last month." However, it will take at least two to four years for most database administrators and developers to see results of the changes taking place now, he said.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Starting at just $2,999, the new Xserve has up to two Quad-Core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors for 8-core performance, a new server architecture, faster front side buses, faster memory, up to 3TB of internal storage and two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots for greater performance and flexibility. âWith the latest Intel processors and no client access licenses, Xserve offers unbeatable server performance and value for under $3,000,â said Philip Schiller, Appleâs senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle has shipped the first major upgrade to the stand-alone enterprise search software itÂ debuted last yearÂ emphasizing new links to third-party data sources and identity management systems. The company and its applications rivals, notably SAP, see significant revenue opportunities in selling customers products to securely search across their corporate databases, applications, file servers, portals and other Internet sites. The vendors argue that traditional enterprise search software is often too expensive and complicated to use, while desktop search offerings aren't well enough integrated with user authentication systems to enable secure querying. Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) 10g Release 10.1.8 is generally available Monday. In response to customer feedback on the initial version which focused on searching data held in Oracle software, the new release also supports non-Oracle information sources, according to Greg Crider, senior director of product marketing at Oracle. The data sources include Microsoft's Exchange and SharePoint, IBM's Lotus Notes and FileNet, and EMC's Documentum. Oracle users also requested support for third-party directory servers, Crider said, so the new release has hooks into Microsoft's Active Directory, Novell's eDirectory, Sun Microsystems' Java System Directory Server and the open-source OpenLDAP identity management directories. The new release of SES provides federated search capabilities through its Suggested Link feature to deliver real-time information as well as search results from any data source, Crider said. Federated search is the ability to send out a query to a number of distinct databases and then collect, merge and format the results to avoid duplication as much as possible. The Suggested Link feature in SES is compatible with the OneBox standard defined by Google, Crider said, so a query can be passed to any application supported by OneBox. Oracle also begun a new partner program, Secure Search Initiative, to encourage independent software vendors and systems integrators to provide additional connectors into non-Oracle data sources, including user desktops and business intelligence repositories. Oracle will particularly look to partners to provide hooks into third-party data sources which have already been highly customized, Crider said. At the same time, Oracle is both integrating and embedding SES into its own products, particularly its applications. Last week, the vendor officially launched new versions of all of its five applications families, highlighting the search capabilities SES has made possible in its Siebel 8.0 customer relationship management (CRM) software. To date, there have been 5,000 downloads of SES from Oracle's Web site, Crider said. He didn't comment on how many customers have actually purchased SES. While SES is built on Oracle's 10g relational database, SAP is adopting a different approach with its Enterprise Search offering due out in the first half of this year. Drawing on in-memory capabilities, the SAP software will allow users to carry out queries on the fly without first having to pre-aggregate and store the information in a database. SES 10g Release 10.1.8 is priced from $30,000 per central processor unit (CPU) and runs on Linux, Windows and Unix operating systems.
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Oracle yesterday launched its Files 10g content management software, which is part of the Oracle Collaboration Suite product line.
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Among the âpretty sweet new featuresâ that distinguish Xsan 2, Chris Foresman  points to the new MultiSAN feature, which âgives simultaneous access to multiple volumes that are hosted by separate controllers.â Xsan 2 âalso allows file copies from one SAN volume to another directly over FibreChannel for a significant speed boost.â In addition, Foresman points to the redesigned admin tools that simplify setup and to Xsan 2âs tighter integration with Open Directory, Mac OS X Leopard, and Server Assistant on Leopard server.
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InfoWorld - Sleepycat Software this week announced the general availability of Berkeley DB XML 2.0, a major upgrade to its open source database for telecommunication infrastructure and enterprise data centers. This release adds support for XQuery 1.0, an emerging standard for XML data access, as well as improvements in performance and usability. Other enhancements include support for XPath 2.0, which allows the selection of a portion of an XML document, and support for the PHP API, which enables developers using the PHP scripting languages to work with XML documents.
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Mystery over bogus DenyHosts listing An investigation by Oracle has revealed the none of its systems were involved in launching a recent brute force attack on secure servers around the net.â¦
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In the first major release of its flagship product in several years, Oracle unveiled 11g on Wednesday. The Redwood Shores, California-based company said that the new database software contains more than 400 features for improving database clustering, data center automation, and workload management.
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On tap for the new database management system: improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, manageability and what Oracle dubs "diagnosability."
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Nexsan Technologies is set to unveil a storage array optimized for Apple Inc.'s Xserve computer server system.
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(Source: Symantec) Microsoft Exchange Server has quickly risen to mission-critical status in many companies; therefore, keeping it available and protecting its data is not an option.  Read this white paper to find out how Backup Exec 11d eliminates the traditional tradeoffs of database versus individual mailbox, folders, or message backups.