Oracle Servers, Storage, and Solaris Podcasts

This episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself' podcast series covers the topic of Oracle Solaris Developer tools. Our usual hosts are joined by Don Kretsch, Senior Director of Developer Tools Engineering. Hear about basic tools included in Oracle Solaris Studio, such as C, C++, and Fortran compilers, and more advanced analysis tools: the performance analyzer, a graphical tool for both, single-threaded and multi-threaded code; the thread analyzer; and a brand new tool called code analyzer, which can give you dynamic feedback on code that performs non-optimal memory access. And learn anything else about the upcoming Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 release, which now will be very comprehensive and complete IDE.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle are joined by Alex Barclay, the Product Manager for Oracle Solaris Security.Together, they give you an insight on what it means that security has always been part of the DNA in Oracle Solaris, and the OS itself is developed within the Oracle Software Assurance process. With Oracle Solaris, you can protect data at rest (e.g. with the new ZFS on-disk encryption), or data in motion (e.g. with the built-in cryptographic framework), reduce insider risk with Role Based Access Control, as well as use Zones as a security isolation feature including its new delegated administration capabilities. In addition, together with process privileges, customers can add modern security policies to legacy applications without changing them, which offers enough granularity to meet their specific security requirements.

Over the last several years, the maturation of x86-based server technologies and virtualization software has the been changing the landscape of today's data centers. Mid to large enterprise organizations have been adopting x86 infrastructure as a way to bring standardization, economies of scale and simplified support into their data center - but this trend has had a ripple effect on the overall supportability of IT infrastructure. Please join Kate Islas, Marketing Director for Oracle's enterprise x86 servers as she asks Bob Conklin, Senior Director of Oracle Support Marketing to discuss how Oracle's Premier Support people, processes and technologies are helping our customers mitigate risk and gain control of the unintended cost and complexities that server and virtualization sprawl has placed on IT managers.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself: podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle discuss how important Availability features are in Oracle Solaris. This includes reduction, even elimination, of unplanned downtime, and especially the heavy focus in Oracle Solaris 11 on great reduction of planned downtime, i.e. maintenance. In addition, Eve Kleinknecht, Product Manager for Oracle Solaris Cluster, joins the hosts to discuss recent developments in multi-system high availability and the great solutions that Oracle Solaris Cluster provides.

This podcast covers backup storage optimization when backing up an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture best practice and recommended approach for backing up an Exadata Database Machine is to back it up to Exadata storage, using an RMAN Fast Recovery Area on Exadata Storage Servers. Many customers also choose to take their backups one step further by backing up to secondary disk, and often times all the way to tape. The focus of this podcast is to discuss these 'Tier 2' type backup architectures: using Oracle StorageTek Tape, or Sun ZFS Storage Appliances for Exadata backups.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle allow you a quick look behind the scenes of Oracle Solaris development, and are joined by Joost Pronk van Hoogeven, Oracle Solaris Product Management Director. Without looking at a particular technology or feature, learn how Product Management, Marketing, Engineering and other organizations work together to address customer needs, and how they make sure that the innovative technologies in Oracle Solaris help solve customer's business problems.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle are joined by special guest Andy Roach, Director of Software Engineering. Together, they discuss why Oracle Solaris on the x86 platform is a key part of Oracle's OS strategy. As the amount of cores and thread counts are increasing on those platforms, learn why Oracle Solaris is a perfect solution for mission critical environments, and ideal for deploying one consistent OS on both the x86 and SPARC architectures.

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During this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss Oracle Solaris IPS, the new network-based Image Packaging System. For this, they are joined by Bart Smaalders, a Senior Software Engineer in the Oracle Solaris Core OS development team. Hear about how this new technology was designed from the ground up, how it utilizes other Solaris technologies like ZFS snapshots and clones, how it helps overcome the challenges that are involved in system patching, and how it delivers many other advantages.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss how you can manage Oracle Solaris, and many other assets in your data center, with Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. They are joined by Mike Barrett, the Principal Product Manager for this product. They talk about the latest release of OEM Ops Center and its new features, such as new hardware management capabilities, infrastructure management, integrated lifecycle management (e.g. patching), integrated application-to-disk management, Infiniband support, Oracle Solaris Cluster support, virtualization support, and much more.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle are joint by special guest Duncan Hardie, Product Manager for Oracle Solaris Virtualization and Networking. They discuss the built-in consolidation and virtualization features and benefits of Oracle Solaris. Learn about the concept of Oracle Solaris Zones, how it is deployed and used in many development, test, and production environments of existing customers, and especially what is new in the upcoming Oracle Solaris 11 release.

Welcome to this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, with our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle. Together with special guest Nicolas Droux, Sr. Principal Engineer in Oracle Solaris Engineering, they discuss the new built-in features and benefits of Oracle Solaris Network Virtualization. Hear about how this technology is not a simple add-on, but rather was designed from the ground up to be an integral part of the networking stack, that specifically benefits workload consolidation through Oracle Solaris Zones.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Dan Roberts discuss Oracle Solaris ZFS. Learn about how this technology is way more than a filesystem, what is new, and where the technology is going. On a high level, the concepts of pooled storage, hybrid storage pools with SSDs, data protection, data deduplication, deployment scenarios, and much more, is explained.

This podcast covers the business benefits of implementing Oracle's Content Management Suite on Oracle's end to end tiered storage system. You'll get information on: Current challenges on content management, Oracle's Enterprise Content Management Suite and Tiered Storage Infrastructure, Oracle's robust software union between content management and data management.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts discuss the newly announced SPARC Supercluster from Oracle, and how this showcases Oracle's firm commitment on the SPARC architecture and Oracle Solaris. You will learn about what hardware and software components, that are engineered to work together, are included and available, and how, in combination with Oracle Solaris, a new TPC-C world record has been announced, achieving a nearly unbelievable 30,249,688 transactions per minute (tpmC).

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts Bill Nesheim, Chris Armes, and Charlie Boyle discuss the newly announced Solaris and SPARC-based option of the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud System. You can learn about what hardware and software components, that are engineered to work together, are included and available, and how this integrated solution, together with Oracle Solaris 11 Express, can be the foundation for your mission critical data centers and cloud environments.

Welcome back! In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, our hosts are joined by Dr. Christoph Schuba to talk about Oracle Solaris security. After a brief overview of Oracle's Security Assurance Program (which guides Oracle's engineers in their product development) they cover some of the key security capabilities in Oracle Solaris 10 such as Trusted Extensions, Zones, Role Based Access Control, transparent cryptographic support, and Secure By Default while also discussing concepts like Mandatory Access Control and the principle of Least Privilege.

Managing costs in the datacenter is becoming more and more critical in today's IT environments. Listen to how Oracle can help customers gain storage efficiencies with Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance product line.

Learn about an exciting step forward in Oracle's strategy of delivering integrated applications-to-disk solutions. Oracle's Optimized Solutions were announced at OpenWorld 2010 in San Francisco and offer major technical and business benefits for organizations seeking to quickly deploy high performance using proven and certified configurations. Join Marshall Choy, Director of Systems Solutions and Business Planning, and Greg Crider, Senior Director of product marketing for Oracle Servers and Storage Systems, as they discuss how Oracle's Optimized Solutions can cut the time required to deploy best-in-class hardware and software solutions by 75%.

Podcast that covers the key reliability, availability and serviceability features of the M-series servers.