I am back

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It's been a very long time not coming here, about 2 years and half ... and I missed it big time.

Now I moved to Oracle Systems (formerly Sun Microsystems) on a role support-programmer mixed, within RPE (Revenue Product Engineering) on the Extra Care team, with focus on Solaris, Engineered Systems with Solaris, ZFS Storage Appliance and Ops Center. I'm very happy since my job is closer to development, something was looking for since some years now.

A cycle closes, full of good experiences, learnings and miles!!! lots of miles, hotel nights, Engineered Systems installations and migrations!

Went up and down, all over the continent, helping customers to adopt Exadata, Exalytics and SuperCluster . Was a very exciting time, meeting very interesting people within Oracle and outside!

What's ahead of the road? since less travel will mean more time available, you may expect more new content here! fresh, maybe with different perspective now that I'm getting into the inner workings of Solaris/Linux and storage.

I'm very excited and looking forward to resume contributing a little to this huge sea of knowledge!!!

Stay tuned!

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First pervasive-post

Today I'm writing this post from a Samsung Galaxy, my hand sized tablet, camera included, microphone and lots of fun.

I have been busy this year and that is thanks to the tremendous success of the Database Machine/Exadata.

Traveled all over the caribbean and south america, plus my first OOW experience as Oracle employee: always exciting!

Bandeja Paisa / Paisa "tray" - Medellin, Colombia


Sao Paulo Subway System

Oracle Open World 2011

Oracle patchset 11.2.0.2 released (and docs updated)

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***Sep 13th, Patchset has been released***

Today Oracle released latest patchset for Database Server 11g2: 11.2.0.2 which packs some very interesting improvements and new features; for now, release covers Linux x86 and x86_64, with download measuring near 5Gb(!) .

Also updated all documents for release 11.2, in order to reflect improvements introduced by 11.2.0.2. You can see on following picture a New Features addition

From now on you will see full distribution instead of a patchset (MyOracle Support Note 1189783.1 ), that's why seven ZIP files are listed for download. First two belong to database/RAC: p10098816_112020_{platform}_1of7.zip and p10098816_112020_{platform}_2of7.zip.




If you're looking for Grid Infrastructure then you must download file p10098816_112020_{platform}_3of7.zip.

For client and gateways, download p10098816_112020_{platform}_4of7.zip or p10098816_112020_{platform}_5of7.zip files respectively.

You want to update Examples? then file p10098816_112020_{platform}_6of7.zip contains what is needed.

Finally, you may want to de-install, then is needed file p10098816_112020_{platform}_7of7.zip.

See Oracle 11.2 documentation library

Cheers!



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Back home and writing

After a few trips abroad and very interesting projects with vip-big customers & new features that demanded lot of time and concentration ... I'm back!

Want to share with you some goodies from my trips ... and advice.

Trinidad & Tobago: be aware of displicent and slow service, lot of chinese places.

Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: try Feijoada at Rondinella Rest. (Av. Atlantica, Copacabana Beach); if you go alone, ask for 1 person sizing ... you won't regret!!

Awesome, Oracle enters the Hardware arena!!!

Yeeeesss,!!! Larry Elison is releasing right now at OOW2008, which is the first attempt to enter the hardware market, in partnership with HP, offering which is the greatest improvement on Database technology, with improvements on performance that range from 10x minimum, Exadata establish a milestone for Oracle and the IT Industry.

This product, which he labels as a "Database Machine", has been under development (secretly of course) for 3 years, and proposes adding inteligence to the storage and multipling the storage capacity.

Packed with Oracle software, up to 168Tb on disk storage, 64 CPU cores provided and assembled by Hewlett Packard; results are astonishing, with benchmarks showing improvements on performance by x28 and hardware space savings that may make a hot-sell product, maybe as hot as the iPod, all proportions.

After this great surprise, I think this OOW2008 has been a breakthrough, I franquly need to recover the breath...

For DBAs, Storage Managers and SysAdmins... there is another toy we must learn, and master.

Stay tunned, here at OOW2008, San Francisco.

Intel offers Time travel at OOW2008

I'm writing online at the keynote with Paul Otellini, after the strong commitment signal expresed by Oracle that Intel is their preferred platform.

He is introducing us to a brief historic recount of CPU, Business (example FedEX) and Animation (example Dreamworks) milestones.

The core idea is a perspective of accelerated demands our computing systems are facing, and succesfully achieving through the improvements the chip makers are offering to the market, specially Intel. The summary shows that Intel is helping to do more within the same time, which in perspective may be interpreted as a "slowing" time effect.

Shared with us the benchmark results for the brand new Xeon 7400 which with his 6 cores and capabilities for working concurrently with up-to 16 sockets, overpasess the Xeon 5400 and Itanium products. The commercial spot is "Oracle runs better on Intel".

Revealed next innovation steps on Itaniun Tukwila and Xeon Nehalem EX, with count above thousands of millions of transistors.

Intel support to multicore exploit coulnd't be more encouraging, they've developed and are offering a tool to discover the parallel oportunity on current application's code.

Enterprise Cloud is a task that Oracle and Intel pretend to tackle in tandem. With deep cooperation among them, that goal seems already done, and we may see fruits from that tree quite soon I guess.

Stay tunned, I'll continue this OOW2008 covering

Oracle New Releases at OOW2008

Charles Philips (President) and Chuck Rozwat (EVP Product Development) have released what seems the next evolution step for Collaboration Suite: Oracle Beehive, which promises to tackle the collaboration fragmentation problem, once and for all. What means for us DBAs? that me may administer in the future:
1) more infrastructure that today is serviced by Microsoft or Lotus products
2) more data growing into our storage infrastructure

Also announced the availavility of a new update for 11g, which is internally labeled as 11.1.0.7 for Linux, with this Oracle continues improvement of their flagship product.

Low at the tech stack, they showed improvements to Oracle VM and their commitment to Linux. Must say Oracle is pushing hard with their VM offer, even with 'orthodox' meassures like no-certification for non Oracle VM solutions; we honestly expect to see that strategy difuse over time.

Stay tunned

My first podcast

Starting today, I will be releasing bi-weekly podcasts.

Today is just an "introduction" test (download podcast).

Hope you hear and like them...