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Mark Hurd Named Oracle President and BOD Member

One day after the Sept. 6th announcement from Oracle that former HP CEO Mark Hurd had joined the company as president and a member of Oracle’s board of directors, HP filed a civil complaint asking a court to block his hiring. In reaction to the lawsuit, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said, “the HP board is acting with utter disregard for that partnership, our joint customers, and their own shareholders and employees.”

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11 Suggestions on Preparing to Take Advantage of the Upcoming OS

To prepare for the major upgrade of Solaris 11, whose preview release is expected later this year and its general release is planned for 2011 availability, Oracle Consultant Constantin Gonzalez outlines 11 suggestions interested users can do right now to begin to enjoy the benefits of the upcoming OS.

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Formerly Sun Java Communications Suite

The former Sun Java Communications Suite is now the Oracle Communications Unified Communications Suite and has been updated to Version 7 Update 1. Multiple suite products and components comprise the Communications Suite to support distributed communication and collaboration applications. There have been considerable changes made to many of these individual components in this update.

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Former HP CEO Mark Hurd Joins Team as Charles Phillips Resigns

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd has joined Oracle as president and a member of Oracle’s board of directors. This action coincides with Charles Phillips’ resignation as president and a board of directors member. Hurd will be reporting directly to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison and joining Safra Catz as co-president of the company. Ellison said Phillips’ departure comes at his own request.

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Via Conference Call and Live Web Broadcast on Sept. 16

Oracle’s first quarter fiscal year 2011 results will be released on Thursday, Sept. 16th, after the close of the market. A conference call and live web broadcast will be presented at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time to discuss the financial results. The live web broadcast will be available on the Oracle Investor Relations website.

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Better Price/Performance Numbers Using Both RAID 5 and 6

Using the SPC Benchmark-1 to determine price-performance ratios for a number of storage systems, the benchmark delivered results that demonstrate a 1.9 X advantage for the Sun Storage 6180 (8Gb) array over the IBM DS5020, reported a Sun BestPerf blog. In another blog entry, testing of the same storage arrays on the SPC Benchmark-2 produced some interesting price-performance results as well.

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Oracle Sun Storage 6180 Array Uses Multipathing

The Sun BestPerf blog Transparent Failover with Solaris MPxIO and Oracle ASM is a report by Akiko Marti on configuring failover with Solaris MPxIO (Multipathing), Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and the Oracle Sun Storage 6180 Array, in which configuration failover was completely transparent to the Oracle database.

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Delivers Substantial Acceleration of Synchronous Writes

By hiding the write latency of disks and thereby enabling the use of economical, high-capacity drives, Logzilla, a key component of the ZFS Hybrid Storage Pool, can accelerate synchronous writes, blogger Adam Leventhal observes, conceding at the same time the role played by the fast SAS and SATA SSDs from STEC in the Sun Storage 7000 series. He adds that using SAS-attached SSDs is a simpler and more reliable, though slower, clustering solution than the traditional PCI-attached DRAM device, however.

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Sun Hardware, Oracle Software Combine to Satisfy Telcoms’ Need for New Services

Two new Sun Netra servers - Sun Netra CP3270 Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (ATCA) blade server and Sun Netra X4270 AC and DC carrier-grade rack server - were introduced this week. These servers are designed to help network equipment providers and communications service providers keep pace with rapidly growing demands for new services, such as 3G- and 4G-wireless data and voice-over-IP.

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Dedicated Sessions, Keynotes and Demos on the Agenda

What can partners expect at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2010? The company has a full line-up of partner activities, beginning with the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Forum on Sunday Sept. 19, followed by a series of Partner Pavilions and partner-only sessions to be held throughout the conference event, which ends on the 23.

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