When you transition from on-site development to development in the cloud, your system undergoes some significant shifts. Hardware resources are no longer static. Expense model is flexible (up to even “pay-per-use”) Previously, as long as your current servers were surviving the workload, it did not matter whether they were 50% or 70% utilized. Now, this…

Oracle’s Virtual Computing Appliance (VCA) provides performance, flexibility and manageability capabilities. In most companies the time between requesting a database and implementing a database can take weeks. Also, in many companies there are databases with different database setups, Operating systems, and environments. The delay in delivering the database and different database setups delay resolving issues…

SW in Silicon is custom hardware targeted at specific higher level functions traditionally implemented in software. Cloud based applications, especially analytics, offer many opportunities for SW in Silicon features. SW in Silicon in SPARC M7 provides gains in Performance, Power, Security and Memory Capacity. The Oracle RDBMS automatically uses these SW in Silicon features. Other…