Noticias y recursos sobre Databases

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (R2) and Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (R1) will be available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and Oracle Linux 6 with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel in 90 days. Oracle offers direct Linux support to customers running RHEL6, Oracle Linux 6, or a combination of both maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Linux. Effective immediately, Oracle will provide its Red Hat compatible Linux binaries, updates and errata for free https://public-yum.oracle.com. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply. The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is Oracle’s fast, modern, reliable Linux kernel that is optimized for Oracle software and hardware. Oracle Linux 6 with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is optimized for running Oracle products.
Adds Leading Cloud-based Clinical Trial Operations and Analytics Applications to Oracle Health Sciences Suite
Study finds nearly 90 percent of businesses are moving beyond virtualization  New IBM SmartCloud software advances visibility, control and automation across cloud and traditional environments  IBM extends secure cloud management to Mobile devices and physical assets
• Researchers invent novel technique by fabricating tiny holes in a single quarter-inch chip to boost data transfer rates  • Until now, it was not possible to transport terabits of data for existing parallel optical communications technology  • New prototype compactly and efficiently delivers ultra-high interconnect bandwidth to power future supercomputer and data center applications   IBM scientists today will report on a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – one terabit – of information per second, the equivalent of downloading 500 high definition movies. The report will be presented at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference taking place in Los Angeles.
To help customers integrate and maximize the value of Big Data, Oracle announced the Oracle Big Data Appliance today at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. Offering customers an end-to-end solution for Big Data, the Oracle Big Data Appliance, in conjunction with Oracle Exadata Database Machine and the new Oracle Exalytics Business Intelligence Machine, delivers everything customers need to acquire, organize, analyze and maximize the value of Big Data within their enterprise.
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow Technologies, a leading provider of cloud-based customer service, for $43.00 per share or approximately $1.5 billion net of RightNow's cash and debt. RightNow's Customer Service Cloud helps organizations deliver exceptional customer experiences across call centers, the web and social networks. Together, Oracle and RightNow can enable a superior customer experience at every contact and across every channel..
Pentaho, a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) and data integration software, today reaffirmed its commitment to support Big Data with a major expansion of native Big Data sources, including the latest Hadoop distributions, NoSQL sources, as well as native support for many analytic databases and traditional OLTP databases. Pentaho’s native connection to Big Data platforms makes it easier and faster than ever to analyze the enormous data volumes generated by today’s organizations.    Pentaho Offers Native Support for More Big Data Platforms Than any Other BI Vendor
Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent leader in data integration software, today introduced the Informatica Cloud administration application for iPhone, now available on the App Store.at no cost. In addition to the iPhone, the mobile application also runs on the iPad and iPod touch and enables users to remotely monitor and administer cloud integration jobs and take action from any place, at any time. The Informatica Cloud administration application is also available through a link on the Informatica Marketplace  to existing Informatica Cloud customers.
Data volumes are surging by the exabyte each day, and the time has come for more companies to start making sense of those complex clickstreams of big data, according to Teradata Corporation, the world’s leading analytic data solutions company focused on integrated data warehousing, big data analytics, and business applications. In new videos, Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, and Mayank Bawa, vice president of development, Teradata Aster, explain the compelling business value of big data – and how companies can – starting immediately – plan and deploy a big data analytics environment to start creating richer, detailed insight.
In an effort to improve the development of database-centric Web 2.0 applications and reports, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle Application Express Release 4.1.