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Dear partner,

we are pleased to announce our next eSTEP TechCast on Thursday 6th of June and would be happy if you could join. Please see below the details for the next TechCast.

Date and time:
Thursday, 06. June 2013, 11:00 - 12:00 BST (12:00 - 13:00 CEST; 14:00 (more...)

Dear Partners,

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to those of you who attended our TechCast on "Update on Oracle Virtual Networking".

The presentation from the TechCast is now available for all of you via our eSTEP portal.  You will need to provide your email address (more...)

Appliance Manager 2.6 is available (since May 3rd 2013) in MOS and the updated documentation is externalized.  The release can be run on both ODA V1 and ODA X3-2.  The new functionality added is:

• Support of OVM assemblies (.ova)
• SAP for ODA V1 & ODA X3-2 (more...)

Announcing new qualifications and general news for the Oracle Solaris Cluster  product.

The Oracle Database Appliance V1 has reached its last order date ahead of schedule. The revised last order date is April 30th, 2013 and the revised last ship date is November 30th, 2013.
The Oracle Database Appliance is being replaced with the Oracle Database Appliance X3-2.
Starting May 1st, 2013, (more...)

Dear partner,

we are pleased to announce our next eSTEP TechCast on Thursday 2nd of May and would be happy if you could join. Please see below the details for the next TechCast.

Date and time:
Thursday, 02. May 2013, 11:00 - 12:00 BST (12:00 - 13:00 CEST; 14:00 (more...)

Dear Partners,

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to those of you who attended our TechCast on "Update on SPARC Product-Family".

The materials (presentation, replay) from the TechCast are now available for all of you via our eSTEP portal.  You will need to provide your (more...)

On 9th of April, we are announcing a plan to support intermixing the new DE2 (24P and 24C) enclosures and legacy DS2 enclosures in the same ZFS Storage Appliance system in September, 2013.

Intermixing disk enclosures will require a specific and prescribed upgrade procedure to existing systems, but can (more...)

Announcing end of life on the following Sun storage flash components:

• The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array FMOD (flash modules) capacity upgrade for existing F5100 customers has reached end-of-life (EOL), with the following key dates:
  

• EOL: 04/09/2013
• LOD: 11/30/2013
• LSD: 12/31/2013
• EOSL: 12/30/2017
  

The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Flash (more...)

If you were unable to attend the SPARC T5/M5-32 Partner Technical Training session on April 4^th or if you just want to review some of the content again the link is now available at:  SPARC T5/M5 Technical Training

Simplified StorageTek media ordering means Oracle continues to offer a full enterprise tape storage solution while using fewer part numbers!

• Going forward all StorageTek T10000 T2 tape cartridge orders will be ordered using combination of base parts and options
• To order media you will need to specify:
  - Base part (more...)

On 9th of April 2013 Oracle announced the immediate availability of the Netra SPARC T5-1B server module.

• Netra SPARC T5-1B server module

• Netra Sun Blade 6000 Modular System

Please read the Netra Bulletin on Oracle HW TRC for more details on this announcement.

If you are not registered on (more...)

We are announcing exciting news of the availability of “Oracle WebLogic Server on Oracle Database Appliance 2.5.0.0.0”! You can now download the WebLogic on ODA OVM images and the WebLogic  configuration for Oracle Database Appliance from MOS and eDelivery.

www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic-oda/overview/index.html

Oracle WebLogic Server (more...)

The new SPARC servers have been announcent recently. Impressive systems with impressive numbers.

Find  Technical & Customer Presentations, FAQs, Documentation, Datasheets and Configuration hints and more to the new announced SPARC Servers on the Oracle HW TRC.

• SPARC T5 Servers

• SPARC M5-32 Servers
  

• Fujitsu M10 Servers

If you are (more...)

Announcing the availability of Pillar Axiom Data Protection Manager Version 3.0!

Pillar Axiom Data Protection provides customers with dramatically reduced recovery time objectives and recovery point objectives (RPO/RTO) as compared to traditional backup and restore.  There is no incremental charge for this feature.  The latest version (more...)

Announcing the End-of-Life for the SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 servers as well as the External I/O Expansion Unit. In addition, we are releasing new Capacity-on-Demand (COD) activation permit part numbers for the SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers, and transitioning the current activation permit parts.

Read the bulletins below (more...)

Announcing new qualifications and general news for the Oracle Solaris Cluster product.

Hardware Qualifications

• Support for the new Oracle SPARC T5-1B, T5-2, T5-4, T5-8, M5-32 servers


• Support for Fujitsu M10-1, M10-4, M10-4S servers
  

Software Qualifications

• HA for Oracle VM Server for SPARC with SR-IOV now supported on Oracle Solaris Cluster (more...)

Find below a short overview to the already excisting public benchmark-results for the new announced SPARC servers T5 and M5.

• TPC-C for SPARC T5-8
  
• SPECjEnterprise2010 for SPARC T5-8
• SAP SD for T5-8
• SAP SD for M5-32

Some impressive numbers as you can see, talk about them.

And by the (more...)

On March 26th we announced the availability of the new SPARC T5 and M5 Servers with the world’s fastest microprocessor. Read the press release.

Highlights:

• 5x-15x price-performance advantage over IBM’s just announced Power 7+
• 17+ World Record benchmarks including database, java and applications
• SPARC M5-32 server is up to 10x (more...)

Dear Partners,

We would like to let you know that the February '13 issue of our Newsletter is now available.
The issue contains information on the following topics:

Corp News

CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration
General info about the company
The SPARC Difference - Reduce Risks, Cut (more...)