Oracle Partner Newsletter, January 2017 Issue

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PARTNER NEWS AND

PROGRAMS

Oracle Linux & Oracle VM

Validated Configurations

Oracle Partner Network Corner

ORACLE VIRTUALIZATION AND

LINUX NEWS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Did You Know?

500+ technical

experts and

evangelists are active

in the global Oracle

Community Experts

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an explanation)?

This technical

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Cloud Integration,

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Oracle’s Commitment to Open

Source as exemplified by its

Technical Contributions to Linux

Kernel and Xen Project

Hypervisor

Xen Project Hypervisor

Oracle is a proud member of the Xen Project Advisory Board and has been using and supporting the Xen Project Hypervisor for many years. In fact, Oracle is one of the major contributors for the new release of Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8.

Oracle VM Server for x86 is based on the Xen Project Hypervisor, and has been customized and optimized to allow customers to run the most demanding workloads on the infrastructure of choice; whether it is traditional server virtualization, Infrastructure as a Service, embedded systems or the next generation cloud computing. The latest update of Oracle VM Server for x86 incorporates some of the performance and security enhancements of the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8. Click here for download instructions.

The Linux Foundation announcement provides a complete list of enhancements delivered in the Xen Project Hypervisor 4.8.

Linux Kernel

The Oracle mainline Linux kernel team works as part of the Linux kernel community to develop new features as well as maintain existing code.

The newly announced Linux Kernel 4.9 is touted as the biggest release based on the number of commits (per the announcement by Linus Tovalds).

Oracle contributed 14,425 lines of codes in this new release. For a list of technical contributions please refer to this blog.

Testing software systems for correct behavior

requires precision and proper setting. As an

example, when it comes to enterprise software

systems, timing can be everything. Is the item of

interest month-end, quarter-end, or year-

end? Has the system correctly aged uncollected

receivables? Have the systems amortized the

debt correctly, over the correct period? These

are examples of what could become date and

time sensitive test cases.

Time Machine, by Solution-Soft, enables

strategically placed software virtual clocks to

time travel the system being validated into the

past or the future. What is strategic about the

software virtual clocks is directly related to how

the system queries the environment for the date

and time and the underlying architecture of the

environment itself. Time Shift Testing with Time

Machine can result in enormous savings over the

life of a project by eliminating the resource

utilization and procedures associated with

changing the system clock on one or many

servers in the environment.

Solution-Soft has been a proud member of the

Oracle Partner Network for over fifteen years,

providing the Time Shift Testing solutions for

customers who write, deploy and execute

software using products in the Oracle eco-

system. Solution-Soft has developed specific

solutions in the Time Machine Suite of Products

for this eco-system using the Oracle Cloud,

Oracle Linux and Oracle Virtualization products.

The Time Machine Framework for Oracle and the

Time Machine Framework for WebLogic were

developed and tested using these platforms and

services and are available on the Oracle Cloud

Marketplace.

Partner Spotlight

Solution-Soft

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Partner News and Programs

For the latest partner

news and updates, visit

the Oracle Linux

partner page and the

Oracle VM partner

pages.

Partner News

APC, by Schneider Electric is an industry-

standard for reliable power and physical infrastructure. Its products are widely used in energy management and automation. Its award-winning PowerChute® Business Edition software has recently added Oracle Linux and Oracle VM as supported environments.

Elastic is an Open Source provider of Cloud

Ready stack of software that takes data from any source, in any format, and provide search, analytic and visualization capability in real time. Elasticsearch and Logstash is supported on Oracle Linux.

By 2018, 45% of CIOs will

focus on platformization,

using DevOps for rapid

development, cost

reduction, and enterprise

agility.

IDC Press Release 02 Nov 2016

IBM’s License Metric Tool (LMT) is a no-charge

tool to determine processor value units licensing requirements. It helps calculate the number of PVUs available to installed Passport Advantage PVU-based software, including supported virtualized servers. LMT is supported on running Oracle Linux.

Performance Test of Real-time Analytics with Oracle® Database 12c In-Memory, with SGI

Trend Micro, a global leader in

cybersecurity solutions, has been named a Leader in the IDC MartketScape: Worldwide Email Security 2016 Vendor Assessment (doc #US41943716, December 2016). Its flagship product Deep Security™ provides advanced server security for physical, virtual, and cloud servers. Deep Security™ 9.6 agent has added support for Oracle Linux 7 and Deep Security Virtual Appliance supports both kernels for Oracle Linux.

Tenable Network Security

BMC is a global leader in innovative software

solutions that enable businesses to transform into digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive advantage. Its performance management product, BMC Patrol added support for Oracle Linux 7. Cloudera delivers the modern platform for

data management and analytics.

Microlite Corporation is a leader in the

Bare Metal Disaster Recovery Technology for Linux. BackupEDGE and its disaster recovery component, recoverEDGE are tested against and supports Oracle Linux and other Linux distributions.

The conclusion was that large enterprises can run analytics on demand at extraordinary speed, without slowing transactions. For more information please refer to the whitepaper

SGI (recently acquired by Hewlett Packard

Enterprise) and Oracle engineering teams have conducted mixed workload testing of Oracle Database In-Memory using the Intel-based SGI UV 300RL server running Oracle Linux and a 10+ terabyte/billion record database.

It is better known for providing one of the world’s fastest, easiest, and most secure Hadoop platform. Its newer release of Cloudera Manager continues its support for Oracle Linux, the latest version being Oracle Linux 7.

FlashGrid has announced an automated

provisioning tool for Oracle RAC clusters in AWS. The clusters are provisioned with VM instances running Oracle Linux 7.3, FlashGrid Cloud Area Network and FlashGrid Storage Fabric software. Creating a cluster fully prepared for Oracle RAC installation now takes less than 10 minutes.

transforms security technology for the business needs of tomorrow through solutions that provide continuous visibility and critical context, enabling decisive actions to protect enterprises. Oracle Linux 7 (both kernels) has been added as a supported Operating System for the Nessus product platform, which includes Nessus Manager, Nessus Professional and Nessus Agents.

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Partner Programs

Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Validated Configurations

The top 5 visited Validated Configuration for month ending December 31st, 2016

1. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 + Oracle Linux 6 Update 8 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2.0)

2. HP ProLiant BL460c Gen9 + Oracle VM Server 3.4.1 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database()

3. Cisco Unified Computing Systems B200 M34 + Oracle Linux 6 Update4 x86_64+Nimble Storage CS Series + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.1.0)

4. HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 + oracle Linux 7 Update 1 x86_64 + HPE 3PAR StoreServ 7200 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.2.0)

5. Lenovo System x3950 X6 + Oracle Linux 7 Update 2 x86_64 + IBM Storwize V7000 + Oracle Database 12c Release 1(12.1.0.2.0)

Oracle Linux and Oracle

VM Validated

Configurations are tested

and documented best

practices which allow

companies to quickly and

easily deploy complete 3rd

party and Oracle hardware

on Oracle Linux and Oracle

VM at a lower cost. The

FAQ provide more details

about this program.

To join the program,

please send an email to:

linuxvc-info-

ww_us@oracle.com

OPN Network key links:

- Join OPN

- Benefits of membership

- OPN Incentive Program

- Exastack Program

description

- Exastack Ready Criteria

Connect with OPN:

Oracle Partner Network

Corner

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With the Oracle Partner and Customer Reference Program, you can

get recognized, as explained in the Oracle Partner Network blog.

3 Ways to Optimize Your Digital Marketing Footprint.

In this OPN article, find out how OPN members can optimize their

marketing efforts by leveraging the Oracle Channel Marketing

Automation Service.

Upcoming LIVE OPN PartnerCast: Data Management in the Cloud| January 25th, 2017

Mark your calendar and bookmark the OPN Homepage

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Some blog sites that may

be of interest and worth

checking out:

2. Oracle Linux

3. Oracle Virtualization

4. OTN Garage (System

Admin and Developer

Community)

5. Oracle Mainline Linux

Kernel Development

Customer Newsletters

requiring a subscription

Oracle Linux Newsletter

Oracle Virtualization

Newsletter

Videos and Webcasts

Oracle Webcast

Oracle Media Network

Oracle University

Oracle Linux

Oracle VM

Private Cloud Appliance

Oracle Learning Library

NEW Training Oracle OpenStack for

Oracle Linux: Getting

Started Ed. 1

Oracle Private Cloud

Appliance:

Overview Ed1

Administration Ed 1

Oracle Linux 7:

What’s New for

Administrators Ed 1

System

Administration Ed1

Learn about using

Oracle Private Cloud

Appliance (PCA)

PCA and Disaster Recovery

This short new video (1:27 min) highlights how

disaster recovery on PCA can be done efficiently

and effectively with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

This Whitepaper, this webcast and FAQ can be

used as a reference for getting started with

disaster recovery on PCA.

PCA and Managing it with Oracle Enterprise Manager

This technical Oracle Whitepaper dives into:

The end-to-end process of deploying an

Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c agent to the

PCA management nodes

How to deploy the PCA plug-in on Oracle

Enterprise Manager

How to discover the OVM Manager within the

PCA

Oracle Linux and Open Source

Updated Docker Images on Oracle Linux Docker is the original author and primary

sponsor of the Docker open source project.

Together with the community of maintainers

and contributors, Docker aims to deliver open

tools to help developers build applications

with open APIs to help sysadmins better

manage these applications.

Oracle is part of the Docker community, where

Docker forms the basis of several Oracle Cloud

products, including Developer Cloud, Oracle

Application Container Cloud and Oracle

Container Cloud.

This blog by our Senior Director of Product

Management, Avi Miller, walks through steps

to getting updated Docker Images for Oracle

Linux.

Oracle Virtualization News

Oracle Linux News

Oracle Partner Newsletter, January 2017 Issue

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