Oracle defies skeptics with Sparc T3 servers
Oracle has announced new servers based on the Sparc T3 processor, a chip that began life at Sun Microsystems and which some said might never see the light of day.
Known previously by its code name, Rainbow Falls, the Sparc T3 has 16 processor cores, twice as many as Sun's current high-end chip, the UltraSparc T2 Plus, which was released about two years ago. Oracle appears to have made a slight branding change, shortening UltraSparc to simply Sparc.
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Was Stuxnet built to attack Iran's nuclear program?
A highly sophisticated computer worm that has spread through Iran, Indonesia, and India was built to destroy operations at one target: possibly Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor.
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Oracle airs Java ambitions
Oracle intends to improve Java for deployment on a full range of systems including servers, clients, and devices, the company stressed in a keynote presentation Monday evening at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco. This year's conference marks Oracle's first as the steward of Java technologies primarily developed by Sun Microsystems, which was acquired by Oracle in January.
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The A-Team of IT -- and how to assemble one
IT is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. And these days it takes a team of talented technology professionals, each with his or her own special expertise, to carry out mission-critical assignments.
But how do you assemble your Alpha Team to tackle a fast-tracked business initiative, to shore up a new attack surface in your infrastructure, to transition your IT operations to take advantage of the latest advancements?
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Netezza buy further defines IBM's analytics bent
IBM's $1.7 billion planned acquisition of data warehouse vendor Netezza is more evidence of IBM's relentless intent to define and perhaps even create a new IT market, which its executives call business analytics.
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Oracle, HP settle Hurd litigation, affirm partnership
Hewlett-Packard and Oracle have settled the lawsuit HP filed against its former CEO and current Oracle co-President Mark Hurd as well as "reaffirmed their long-term strategic partnership," the companies said Monday.
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JavaFX moves forward while mobile variant on hold
JavaFX, the rich Internet application platform launched in 2007 by Sun Microsystems, will be refreshed next year, although the mobile version of the technology apparently has been placed on the back burner.
JavaFX 2.0 is set for arrival in the third quarter of 2011, said Richard Bair, Java client architect at Oracle, at the JavaOne conference Monday in San Francisco. Oracle acquired Sun early this year.
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Hurd unveils Oracle's Exadata X2-8
Oracle co-President Mark Hurd ripped the curtain off Exadata Database Machine X2-8, the newest incarnation of the company's high-performance data processing systems, during a keynote address at the OpenWorld conference on Monday.
Four problems have dogged the data warehousing market, according to Hurd. Namely, companies are dealing with oceans of data; they have many users with questions about that information; often, users want to run difficult queries; and all of them want the answers fast, he said. "When those four things come together, systems fall apart."
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Oracle MySQL rival PostgreSQL gets major revamp
While Oracle trumpets its open source MySQL database management system this week at the company's OpenWorld conference, the creators behind MySQL's rival, PostgreSQL, have released a major new version of their rival database software.
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