IT Blog For the last few years I have been using VirtualBox for running my vm's. I prefer applications that will run on any of the operating systems that I use, and the more consistent the UI the better. VirtualBox will run on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD ( not sure about any other UNIX ) and OS-X. It is also...
IT Blog While VMware's stock dropped another6 points yesterday, losing aboutone-third of its trading value in the past two weeks, Oracle's stock soared after investors rushed to buy following the database giant's surprise virtualization announcement. Conveniently, traders ignored any analysis of the u...
IT Blog A few weeks ago, Oracle unveiled its new virtual machine (VM) product, Oracle VM, based on the Xen hypervisor. But why is Oracle introducing its own VM when it already has the Xen VM that comes with the Red Hat code? For an answer, we turn to SearchEnterpriseLinux.com expert Don Rosenberg, who fills...
IT Blog News broke this morning that Oracle is entering the virtualization space with Oracle VM. Toes were stepped on, canned analyst comments were issued via press release, and the virtualization space once again proved that it is hot, hot, hot and has no intention of settling down just yet. According to ...
IT Blog Oracle is, as we say here in Boston, wicked fah behind in the virtualization market. Building a strong, integrated virtualization portfolio is the best way -- and maybe the only way -- for the company to catch up. The Sun acquisition brought lots of hype about the future of Oracle-Sun virtualiz...
Oracle VM, Sun Microsystems, Solaris IT Blog I have to admit that I have been less than kind when it comes to Oracle's virtualization software and licensing policies; I've written articles about their stubborn refusal to support their customers who use VMware, user frustrations with their licensing policies, and their unsubstantiated performan...
Oracle VM, server virtualization, VMware IT Blog Oracle doesn't officially support its products running on VMware, but it will happily support you if you virtualize on its Xen variant, Oracle VM. But at least one large Oracle PeopleSoft customer with which I spoke recently refuses to play along and will maintain its VMware status quo. "We looked ...
IT Blog Sun/Oracle is back in the news this week because of the demise of the HDS partnership, leaving Oracle's portfolio stocked mainly with Sun's ZFS-based open storage products. Meanwhile, one of the more interesting aspects of the Sun/Oracle enterprise data storage hardware business going forward is ho...
storage vendors, primary data reduction; file-based storage IT Blog Oracles big storage product launch at Oracle OpenWorld today wasnt much of a surprise. It rolled out the next generation of its ZFS Storage Appliance line, bumping up the speeds and feeds and adding tight integration with Oracle software. Thats what Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said the vendor ...
IT Blog Of all the announcements and marketing-speak at OpenWorld recently, the release of Oracle VM seems to be generating some real buzz. But is the technology worthy of all the attention? Oracle describes VM like this: Consisting of open source server software and an integrated Web browser-based managem...
Oracle database administration, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog Oracle said Thursday that it is prepping a Critical Patch Bulletin (CPU) to address 41 security holes across its product line. According to the database giant's advance CPU bulletin, attackers could exploit themost severe flaws to compromise the database server or the host operating system. Affe...
IT Blog Last week during an online virtualization event, Oracle continued to push its concept of stack computing. And that concept includes Oracle VM, not VMware. Understandably, Oracle is going to want to push its own virtualization technology. In the case of servers, that happens to be Oracle VM, which i...
Oracle VM, Oracle on VMware, Oracle virtualization IT Blog Full Disclosure: First of all, I was a Sun employee just 8 months ago. While I am not currently a Sun employee, myself and/or my company does consulting work for Sun from time to time. I also work with other storage vendors as well, including significant work with EMC. Suffice to say, thi...
IT Blog Oracle is holding an all-day online forum on virtualization today. It's called "Oracle Virtualization: The Most Complete Virtualization. Desktop to Data Center." The event runs 9am-3pm PT and none of the session titles or descriptions mention VMware. Oracle VM is mentioned about 10 times in the ses...
IT Blog Appliances like Cisco's Unified Computing System are designed to help you kick-start a virtualization deployment. Now, Oracle is banking on an appliance to do the same for its lagging virtualization market share. Our sister site SearchITChannel.com reports that a so-called "Oracle VM machine" (per...
Colin Steele, Oracle VM, Cisco IT Blog Oracle is finalizing its deal for Sun Microsystems and already bought Virtual Iron. But an even bigger virtualization acquisition -- Oracle-Citrix Systems -- may be on the horizon. Oracle is sizing up Citrix for a possible acquisition, according to Briefing.com (via The Register). The move would gi...
IT Blog A few days before the start of Collaborate, the annual Oracle user show being held this year in Las Vegas, the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) released some data from a survey of 381 of its members. The results were not terribly surprising. To name a few: Virtualization efforts are being hamp...
Oracle hardware decisions, Collaborate, Oracle virtualization IT Blog by Rob Barry Since its launch in 1999, MercadoLibre, Latin Americas largest online marketplace, has continually outgrown its server farm. Because the company had started with Oracle DB to run its databases, it looked into Oracles other offerings when deciding the answer to its rapid growth wo...
IT Blog Vendor lock-in is a big concern in the server virtualization market, especially as more vendors come out with converged infrastructure and virtualization-ready appliances. Vendor lock-in is also a big concern when you're talking about Oracle, especially now that it owns Sun and has plans to build i...
Oracle VM, Dell, Hewlett-Packard IT Blog Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ~Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night [caption id="attachment_1193" align="alignright" width="340" caption="Oracle's case against Google could be more...
IT Blog Occasionally virtual machines (VMs) get stuck in a zombie state and will not respond to a power-off command using the traditional vSphere client power controls. Rebooting a host will fix this condition -- butrebooting is usually not an option. Fortunately, there are a few methods for forcing the V...
Eric Siebert, vSphere, virtual machine IT Blog Conspiracy; espionage; "Project Blue;" massive illegal downloading; corporate theft on a grand scale. These are just a few of the many words Oracle has used to describe SAP's alleged illegal activity with its third-party support subsidiary, TomorrowNow. What are Oracle's latest accusations, and ho...
Oracle database administration, Oracle development, Managing an Oracle shop IT Blog Is Oracle cool again? That's the question that Oracle Apps insider David Haimes asks in a personal account of his ten years at the company. He brings up an interesting point that I've been pondering as well: "Oracle is gobbling up competitors and that is all anybody talks about when you mention yo...
Oracle database administration, Oracle development IT Blog In the wake of lawsuits filed by shareholders over its acquisition by Oracle, Sun Microsystems called for a meeting of shareholders to vote on the proposed merger and released background information about the negotiation process in an SEC filing today. And it's a fascinating read. The industry was a...
IT Blog You may have heard this morning that Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems. Like Ron Burgundy, it's kind of a big deal. Most of the early reaction to the news has focused on the fallout in the database market. Oracle, the market leader, now owns the biggest thorn in its side, Sun's open source MySQL. B...
