Oracle Magazine

Driving Mobile Development

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 08:00:00 -0800

Your applications need to be mobile and run on multiple mobile platforms. Denis Tyrell, senior director of middleware tooling product management at Oracle, talks about cross-platform mobile application development with Oracle ADF Mobile.

Engineered Systems as a Service

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:00:00 -0800

There's a new business model for deploying Oracle engineered systems in a private cloud. Javier Cabrerizo, vice president of business development at Oracle, explains what Oracle Infrastructure as a Service with Capacity on Demand means for Oracle engineered systems users.

Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata X3

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 11:00:00 -0800

Juan Loaiza, senior vice president of systems technology at Oracle, talks about the latest developments in Oracle's engineered systems with Tom Haunert, Oracle Magazine editor in chief.

Optimized Application Performance

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 08:00:00 -0800

Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software runs applications in isolation, provides traffic metering, and delivers self-service-based infrastructure as a service.

New Questions, Fast Answers

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:00:00 -0800

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery enables easy exploration of diverse and changing data. Rich Schwerin, Oracle Magazine contributing editor talks with Paul Sonderegger, Senior Director of Analytics at Oracle, about business analytics and data discovery.

Virtually Everywhere

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 30 May 2012 08:00:00 -0800

Andy Hall, product management director at Oracle, talks about Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 and other Oracle desktop virtualization products with Rich Schwerin, Oracle Magazine contributing editor.

Upon Further Analysis

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:00:00 -0800

Oracle Advanced Analytics delivers key insights from big data. Rich Schwerin, Oracle Magazine contributor, talks with George Lumpkin, vice president of product management for data warehousing at Oracle, about this new option for Oracle Database.

Obsessed with PL/SQL

Oracle Corporation — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:00:00 -0800

Steven Feuerstein talks about his long and productive PL/SQL journey.

Talking Tape

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0800

Jim Cates, vice president of storage technology at Oracle, talked with Oracle Magazine about the past, present, and future of enterprise tape technology.

Work in Progress: 33,000 and Counting

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0800

People have questions, and Tom Kyte has answers. Oracle Magazine talks to Mr. Kyte about the benefits of answering questions, asking questions, the best questions, the Real World Performance Tour, and more.

Big Data Management

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Following the announcement of the availability of Oracle NoSQL Database, Rich Schwerin, Oracle Magazine contributor, sat down with Dave Segleau, director of product management at Oracle, to talk about the new offering for big data management.

Open to the Public

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:00:00 -0800

Oracle Public Cloud provides a self-service, subscription-based model for building, deploying,and running applications in the cloud. Amit Zavery, vice president for Oracle Public Cloud,provides details.

Strategic Storage

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:00:00 -0800

Oracle storage solutions deliver optimized performance for all types of I/O

Storing the Information Explosion

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:00:00 -0800

How Oracle's new storage strategies and technologies help IT shops handle today's unique storage challenges.

First Line of Defense

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:00:00 -0800

Steve Moyle, chief technical officer of Oracle Database Firewall, talks about the product's cutting-edge security features.

The Social Connection

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:00:00 -0800

Andy MacMillan, vice president of Enterprise 2.0 product management at Oracle, talks with Oracle Magazine's Caroline Kvitka about what's new in Oracle WebCenter Suite 11g.

The What, Why, and When of Oracle Exadata

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:00:00 -0800

Tom Haunert, Oracle Magazine editor in chief, talks with Juan Loaiza, senior vice president of systems technology at Oracle, about how Oracle's engineered systems have evolved since the introduction of Oracle Exadata in 2008.

A Kernel of Truth

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:00:00 -0800

Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux delivers support for new hardware, new features, and better data management. Tom Haunert, Oracle Magazine editor in chief, talked with Chris Mason, director of Linux Kernel Engineering at Oracle, about this Linux kernel release.

An Identity Management Evolution

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:00:00 -0800

Amit Jasuja, vice president of development, identity and security products, talks with Oracle Magazine's Caroline Kvitka about the recent release of Oracle Identity Management 11g.

Better Tools for Business Processes

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:00:00 -0800

Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite 11g delivers social BPM capabilities; user-centric, business-friendly tools; and a unified process foundation. Hasan Rizvi, Senior Vice President, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java development, provides details about Oracle's next-generation BPM suite.

Open for Business

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:00:00 -0800

Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven talks about the importance of open source and open standards.

Deploy Oracle Applications on Mobile Devices with Citrix Solutions

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:00:00 -0800

Chris Fleck, vice president of community and solutions at Oracle platinum partner Citrix, discusses how users can access Oracle applications on their mobile devices with the Citrix Receiver.

Oracle and Sun, Engineering from Applications to Disk

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:00:00 -0800

John Fowler, executive vice president of systems at Oracle and former executive vice president, network systems, at Sun, sat down with Oracle Magazine Senior Managing Editor Caroline Kvitka to talk about Oracle's acquisition of Sun, what it means for customers,and merging technologies.

Clouds Bring Agility to the Enterprise (Part 2 of 2)

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:00:00 -0800

Sushil Kumar, vice president of product strategy and business development at Oracle, discusses Oracle's cloud computing objectives, Oracle's offerings in this space, and what's on the horizon.

Clouds Bring Agility to the Enterprise (Part 1 of 2)

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:00:00 -0800

Sushil Kumar, vice president of product strategy and business development at Oracle, talks about the latest developments in cloud computing. He discusses service and deployment models, and cloud computing drivers and inhibitors.

Building a Better Database Machine

Oracle Corporation — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:00:00 -0800

Oracle Exadata V2 is twice as fast as the first release, and the Sun Oracle Database Machine is the first for online transaction processing (OLTP). Juan Loaiza, senior vice president of systems technology at Oracle, talks about Oracle Exadata V2 and the Sun Oracle Database Machine.

Better for Business (Part 2 of 2)

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 -0800

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 answers customer questions and lowers costs. Tom Haunert, Oracle Magazine editor in chief, talked with Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies at Oracle, about the recent release of Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Better for Business (Part 1 of 2)

Oracle Corporation — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:00 -0800

Memory Matters: Performance-critical applications rely on Oracle's in-memory databases.

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:00:00 -0800

In-memory databases provide applications with real-time responsiveness and high throughput. Caroline Kvitka, Oracle Magazine senior managing editor, talks with Marie-Anne Neimat, vice president of development at Oracle, about Oracle's newest in-memory database offerings.

Plugging It In Part 2

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 -0800

Eclipse is a popular integrated development environment (IDE), and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse enhances productivity for Eclipse developers. Tom Haunert, Oracle Magazine editor in chief, talked with Duncan Mills, senior director of product management, Oracle, about the recent release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11/g.

Plugging It In Part 1

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 -0800

Eclipse is a popular integrated development environment (IDE), and Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse enhances productivity for Eclipse developers. Tom Haunert, /Oracle Magazine/ editor in chief, talked with Duncan Mills, senior director of product management, Oracle, about the recent release of Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse 11/g.

A Clean View of Data Part 2

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:00:00 -0800

Pascal Laik, Oracle's vice president of master data management (MDM) products, discusses Oracle's comprehensive MDM solution.

A Clean View of Data Part 1

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:00:00 -0800

Pascal Laik, Oracle's VP of MDM strategy, talks about Master Data Management

Enterprise 2.0 Evolves

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 -0800

Oracle Vice President of Product Management Vince Casarez provides an update on Enterprise 2.0 and Oracle WebCenter Suite.

Rolling Out SQL Developer

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:00:00 -0800

John Young, lead DBA at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, talks with Kris Rice, director of development for Oracle SQL Developer, about why Enterprise Rent-a-Car uses Oracle SQL Developer, how the product was rolled out, and Oracle's response to feature requests.

The Future of Data Centers

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800

Oracle Magazine Senior Managing Editor Caroline Kvitka talks with Oracle CIO Mark Sunday about next-generation data centers and green computing.

Support for Cloud Computing

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:00:00 -0800

With Oracle's recent announcement that customers can license Oracle software to run on Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) environment, Oracle Magazine Senior Managing Editor Caroline Kvitka sat down with Sushil Kumar,senior director of database availability, manageability, and performance at Oracle, to learn more.

Origins of a .NET Developer

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0800

Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert talks with .NET developer (and Oracle Magazine columnist) Mark A. Williams about his past, present, and future working with Oracle Data Provider for .NET and Oracle Developer Tools for .NET.

The IOUG Goes to Oracle OpenWorld: Steve Lemme Talks About User Group Day (Part 2)

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800

Steve Lemme, a director of the Independent Oracle Users Group, discusses the organization, its history, and the impact of User Group Day at Oracle OpenWorld.

The IOUG Goes to Oracle OpenWorld: Steve Lemme Talks About User Group Day (Part 1)

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Steve Lemme, a director of the Independent Oracle Users Group, discusses the organization, its history, and the impact of User Group Day at Oracle OpenWorld.

Stirring Up Controversy

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:00:00 -0800

The illustrious Tom Kyte sits down with Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 and stirs things up in this conversation about Oracle OpenWorld happenings, a new approach to publishing, and the trouble with triggers.

Keeping Features Flowing

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:00:00 -0800

Oracle consulting product manager and Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) evangelist Steve Muench talks with Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. Muench waxes eloquent on new Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF 11g features and goes with the flow on various tasks--including the new reusable task flow feature.

Ian Abramson, President of the IOUG: Solving Problems and Integrating Technologies

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Kay Keppler, features editor of Oracle Magazine, talks to Ian Abramson, president of the IOUG, about the organization, how the BEA acquisition will affect the membership, what's interesting at Oracle OpenWorld, and how Oracle's business intelligence acquisitions resonate with members.

Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Preview: Community Happenings

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Oracle Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tom Haunert, and OTN Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, offer a joint preview of developer/DBA community happenings at Oracle OpenWorld 2008.

Building Service-Oriented Security

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:00:00 -0800

Amit Jasuja, Oracles vice president of development for identity management products, talks to Kay Keppler, Oracle Magazine features editor, about the concept of service-oriented security. Find out what it is, the development processes involved, and how your company can get there.

Oracle Middleware Strategy Update: Thomas Kurian - Part II

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Part 2 of a 2 Part Series: What does Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems mean for Oracle's middleware strategy? Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, Development, talks with Oracle Magazine's Caroline Kvitka about the important updates to Oracle's middleware strategy and products, how customers and partners will benefit, and the most exciting aspects of the acquisition.

Oracle Middleware Strategy Update: Thomas Kurian - Part I

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:00:00 -0800

Part 1 of a 2 Part Series: What does Oracle's acquisition of BEA Systems mean for Oracle's middleware strategy? Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, Development, talks with Oracle Magazine's Caroline Kvitka about the important updates to Oracle's middleware strategy and products, how customers and partners will benefit, and the most exciting aspects of the acquisition.

Gorilla Fund Expands Dian Fossey's Conservation Work in Africa

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:00:00 -0800

Longtime Oracle grantee Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International finds support of human population essential to the protection of endangered African mountain primates.

Data Integration as a Service

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:00:00 -0800

Integrating data across multiple tiers just got a lot easier for Oracle customers. Jeff Pollock, Oracles senior director of product management for Oracle Data Integration, discusses the new Oracle Data Integration Suite and what it means for your SOA.

IT Integration and the Fight Against Cancer

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:00:00 -0800

For two years, Dr. John Quackenbush, Professor of Computational Biology at Harvard's School of Public Health, has used a grant from Oracle to integrate clinical and research data to improve diagnosis and therapy for cancer.

Better Enterprise Search

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800

"Within the enterprise, secure search quickly becomes a mission-critical service. People begin to use search engines on a daily basis to access a much wider range of information than they used to..." - Vishu Krishnamurthy, Oracle Senior Director of Product Management for SQL, Text, and XML Development talks with Jeff Erickson, Senior Editor at Oracle Publishing.

Managing the Product Lifecycle

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Hardeep Gulati, vice president of product strategy, Oracle product lifecycle management, product information management, and sales configurator, talks with Caroline Kvitka, Senior Managing Editor at Oracle Magazine, about how Agile Product Lifecycle Management fits into Oracle's technology and applications offerings.

Profit Online Executive Briefing: Greening Your Supply Chain

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800

Rich Kroes, product strategy director for Oracle supply chain management, spent last year raising awareness about the economic and social benefits of a greener supply chain. Hear how Oracle's expertise with data and operational effeciency make the company's solutions perfect for going green.

Hosting Government Systems with Oracle On Demand

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:09:44 -0800

Richard Cirigliano, Oracle Vice President On Demand for Federal Government Practice, talks about how hosted software has fundamentally changed the IT strategy of the US federal government.

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:00:00 PST

Vince Casarez, Vice President of Product Management at Oracle, talks with Caroline Kvitka, Senior Managing Editor at Oracle Magazine, about integrating Web 2.0 capabilities into business processes and how Oracle WebCenter provides a platform for these integrations.

SQL Developments

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:00:00 PST

At Oracle OpenWorld 2007, Oracle product manager Sue Harper talks with Oracle Magazine about the past, present, and future of Oracle SQL Developer.

Keeping It Real

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:00:00 PST

Arup Nanda--veteran Oracle DBA, Oracle technology author, and Oracle ACE--talks with Oracle Magazine about key Oracle Database 11g features (including Oracle Real Application Testing), 'sleeper' features, and why Oracle Partitioning is a popular topic.

Enterprise Web 2.0 Security

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

Oracle Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson talks with Oracle Magazine about Oracle OpenWorld 2007, enterprise Web 2.0 security, flexible data camps, and the "deperimeterization" of the network.

Real Testing, Better Deployments

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:00:00 PST

Architect and answer man Tom Kyte of Oracle Server Technologies and asktom.oracle.com talks with Oracle Magazine about Oracle OpenWorld 2007, Oracle Database 11g, and, mostly, better testing and better deployments made possible with Oracle Real Application Testing.

Warehouse in a box? Understanding the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative

Oracle Corporation — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:00:00 PST

Oracle's Ray Roccaforte, Oracle VP of Database Development for Data Warehousing, Analytics and Business Intelligence Platform, tells customers why the Oracle Optimized Warehouse Initiative is a natural choice for their next data warehousing implementation.

Oracle Coherence 3.3: Extreme Transaction Processing

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:00:00 PST

Cameron Purdy, Oracle Vice President of development and former CEO of Tangosol, speaks with Oracle Magazine's Jeff Erickson about Oracle Coherence 3.3, a leading in-memory data grid solution.

Oracle Application Express 3.0: A Closer Look

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:00:00 PST

Scott Spendolini, CEO, Sumner Technologies, speaks with Oracle Magazine senior editor, Jeff Erickson, about the benefits of Oracle Application Express 3.0 and how it works with the Oracle database. Learn how to get started customizing this powerful tool to meet your business needs.

Asking Tom: What's New in Oracle Database 11g (Part 2)

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:00:00 PST

Tom Kyte, Oracle Vice President, keeper of the Ask Tom site (asktom.oracle.com), and author of the Ask Tom column in Oracle Magazine (among many other publications), speaks with Oracle Magazine editor, Tom Haunert, about managing change, key new performance and manageability features in Oracle Database 11g, how to get ready for Oracle Database 11g, and changes in virtual location.

Asking Tom: What's New in Oracle Database 11g (Part 1)

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:00:00 PST

Meeting Enterprise Needs for Data Storage

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

Ari Kaplan, president of the Independent Oracle Users Group and a senior consultant with Datalink, talks with Oracle Magazine feature editor Kay Keppler about how new storage solutions can help ease the crunch most enterprises face in the need to save increasingly large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Learn how these solutions can help your organization--and learn how joining the IOUG can help you.

Oracle Fusion Middleware: First Glance

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:00:00 PST

Datalink senior consultant and president of the Independent Oracle Users Group Ari Kaplan talks to Kay Keppler, Oracle Magazine feature editor, about the new features and functionality of Oracle Fusion Middleware. Find out how it will benefit the enterprise and what benefits your organization--and independent users--can expect from it.

Change Assurance: Andy Mendelsohn on Oracle Database 11g

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:00:00 PST

Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies at Oracle talks with Oracle Magazine contributor, Rich Schwerin, about new technologies and innovations in Oracle Database 11g. Find out how the new database release helps customers manage the change process, and hear about Mendelsohn's favorite new feature.

Hands-free Management

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:00:00 PST

Business and technology author David Baum speaks with Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert about the "Hands-free Management" article in the July/August 2007 issue of Oracle Magazine. Hear how Oracle customers are using Oracle Enterprise Manager to achieve "top down management" of their applications, middleware, and database.

Catching the Express

Oracle Corporation — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Tony Jedlinski, Oracle Magazine author and editorial board member and the Director of Web Content for the IOUG, talks with Oracle Magazine about his use of Oracle Application Express at the IOUG today and the upcoming Oracle Application Express-based OPEN project.

Journey to the Center of Oracle Fusion

Oracle Corporation — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

David A. Kelly, business and technology author, speaks with Oracle Magazine editor, Tom Haunert, about the "Journey to the Center of Oracle Fusion" feature article in the May/June 2007 issue of Oracle Magazine. Hear how Oracle customers and partners are using standards-based Oracle Fusion Middleware to grow their businesses, integrate with legacy systems and partners, and evolve SOA solutions.

Develop with Choice

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:00:00 PST

Technology author Alan Joch speaks with Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert about the "Develop with Choice" article in the May/June 2007 issue of Oracle Magazine. Learn how Oracle customers, partners, and developers choose their development technologies to build Oracle enterprise applications.

Building a Better Beta

Oracle Corporation — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:00:00 PST

Debbie Migliore, director of beta programs management at Oracle, talks with Oracle Magazine managing editor Caroline Kvitka about the Oracle Database 11g Beta Program. Learn what's new in the Oracle Database 11g Beta Program, how beta testers are selected, what types of testing are used, and much more.

Radiating Intelligence - Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers

Oracle Corporation — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:00:00 PST

David Baum, business and technology author speaks with Oracle Magazine editor Tom Haunert about the "Radiating Intelligence" article in the March/April 2007 issue of Oracle Magazine. Learn how Oracle customers get going with business intelligence today and where business intelligence is going tomorrow.