Oracle Servers, Storage, and Solaris Podcasts

Mercer Lead Database Administrator Kari Jacobs discusses why Mercer chose Oracle Database Appliance and the benefits they've seen such as simplified deployment, improved performance, and cost savings.

Oracle's SPARC T7 and M7 servers are the latest in a long line of servers designed to deliver the highest levels of availabiilty in the data center. Hear about the features of the SPARC M7/T7 servers that make them ideal for business-critical applications that must have the highest levels of availabillty.

Oracle's new SPARC M7 processor, with Software in Silicon, delivers a new level of hardware and software co-engineering. Hear about the SPARC T7 and M7 servers that use this revolutionary new processor, and how they improve security and accelerate database processing.

Today's enterprise applications face more and stronger security threats. Oracle offers a layered defense strategy and Oracle's SPARC T7/M7 servers with the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system have unique security capabilities included in the processor and the servers. Hear how features such as built-in encryption, Silicon Secured Memory, and various Oracle Solaris capabilities help to secure mission-critical applications.

In this special episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, comes to you recorded live from Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco. Listen to Charlie Boyle, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Bill Nesheim while they discuss all the excitement of Oracle Solaris 11 news and announcements.

The Fujitsu M10 server is an enterprise-class SPARC/Solaris server that scales from 1 to 64 processors. Tom Atwood describes the unique dynamic scaling features, virtualization features and mainframe-class high availability features that make the Fujitsu M10 an ideal server for mission-critical applications.

In this audio podcast Allan Packer, SuperCluster Technical Lead, discusses the new Oracle SuperCluster M6-32. Allan explains how the Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 provides unprecedented performance and scalability and the ability to run entire databases and applications in memory.

Server and application consolidation is an important method for IT managers to improve server utilization, improve business flexibility and increase the return on IT assets. Tom Atwood will discuss why the SPARC M6-32 is an ideal platform for consolidating mission-critical applications.

The SPARC M6-32, Oracle's Big Memory Machine,combines lots of memory, virtualization solutions and high availability features to create an ideal platform for running mission-critical applications. In this podcast Gary Combs will give a quick overview of the key features and benefits of the SPARC M6-32 server and how it can improve your datacenter.

Welcome! In these special teaser of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, host Chris Armes gives you a great preview of upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Sep 22 to Sept 26. He highlights the content that is planned for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Systems, and explain why this is THE conference to attend.

Welcome! In these special teaser of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, host Bill Nesheim gives you a great preview of upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Sep 22 to Sept 26. He highlights the content that is planned for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Systems, and explain why this is THE conference to attend.

Welcome! In these special teaser of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, host Markus Flierl gives you a great preview of upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco, Sep 22 to Sept 26. He highlights the content that is planned for Oracle Solaris and Oracle Systems, and explain why this is THE conference to attend.

Scalability doesn't just mean growing capacity. You also need to be able to scale for performance. In this episode we will discuss why scalability is critical and how to do it the right way.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, listen to Charlie Boyle, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Bill Nesheim while they discuss all the excitement of Oracle Solaris and newly announced Oracle SPARC servers.

Whether you are consolidating your storage, trying to improve application performance, or looking to get the most out of your databases, it's important to ask the right questions. This 10 part podcast series examines the most important elements to consider when making storage purchasing or deployment decisions.

In this special episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, comes to you recorded live from Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco. Listen to Charlie Boyle, Chris Armes, Markus Flierl, and Bill Nesheim while they discuss all the excitement of Solaris 11 news and announcements.

Get the latest news around SPARC SuperCluster coming out of Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco. Product manager Rob Ludeman explains how customers are benefiting from rapid deployments, cost savings and accelerated performance for enterprise consolidation and cloud initiatives with SPARC SuperCluster.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Sean Wilcox, Principal Software Engineer. Sean explains Oracle Solaris SMF, a feature to manage system and application services, replacing the legacy init scripting start-up mechanism common to prior releases of Oracle Solaris.

In this episode of the "Oracle Solaris: In a Class By Itself" podcast series, the focus (and guest) is a bit more technical: host Charlie Boyle, Senior Director of Solaris Product Marketing, interviews Cindy Swearingen, Principal Technical Writer. Cindy explains Oracle Solaris ZFS, the default file system in Solaris 11.

Listen to a podcast on backup and storage optimization when backing up an Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Host Kelly Beckman, Storage Product Marketing Analyst for Backup and Recovery, is joined for the discussion by Todd Adler, Senior Manager for Software Development, and Jeff Wright, Principal Software Engineer. As Beckman explains, 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. She points out that many customers also choose to take their backups one step further by backing up to secondary disk, and oftentimes 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.