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ook BEAT <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 11g New Features By Robert G. Freeman, with Arup Nanda <strong>Oracle</strong> Press www.oraclepress.com ISBN: 0071496610 Learn how to take advantage of the latest release of <strong>Oracle</strong> Database with <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 11g New Features. This completely rewritten guide from the author of <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 10g New Features details the new features and tools available in <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 11g, including high-availability features, security measures, and business intelligence tools. Author Robert Freeman discusses how to maximize the potential of these capabilities, making the book an ideal resource for decision-makers and IT staff preparing for upgrades or migration. Freeman is an <strong>Oracle</strong> Certified Professional and the author of eight other <strong>Oracle</strong> books. He is an expert in UNIX and <strong>Oracle</strong> Real Application Clusters and specializes in <strong>Oracle</strong> backup and recovery and performance tuning for complex databases. The book includes contributions by Arup Nanda, a frequent <strong>Oracle</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> author. RMAN Recipes for <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 11g By Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda Apress www.apress.com ISBN: 1590598512 Your database is going down. Some or all of your database files will be lost or damaged. Are you ready? Do you know what to do? It’s often said that the one true job of an <strong>Oracle</strong> Database DBA is to be able to recover a database. In RMAN Recipes for <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 11g, authors Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda provide a task-oriented collection of ready-made and example-based solutions to common (and some not-socommon) backup and recovery operations. When the pressure’s on, DBAs don’t have time for long discussions of theory. They need solutions, and they need them now. This book delivers, getting right to the point with quick, easy-to-read, step-by-step solutions that DBAs can implement with confidence. Coauthors Kuhn, Alapati, and Nanda are all experienced <strong>Oracle</strong> DBAs. Kuhn has more than 18 years of experience; Alapati has been working with databases since the 1980s; and Nanda has been an <strong>Oracle</strong> DBA since 1993. Look for <strong>Oracle</strong> books at oracle.com/ technology/books/10g_books.html CISCO SOLUTIONS OPTIMIZE ORACLE DEPLOYMENTS <strong>Oracle</strong> Certified Advantage Partner Cisco Systems has released Cisco Solutions for <strong>Oracle</strong> Deployments, a set of three tested, documented, and validated solutions that together make up an end-to-end network architecture to optimize <strong>Oracle</strong> Applications and <strong>Oracle</strong> Fusion Middleware implementations. Providing elevated application availability, performance, and security; lower application complexity and cost; and reduced deployment risk, these solutions include best practices and deployment guidance for WAN optimization, application and Ethernet switching, firewall access control, and storage switching technologies. Cisco, with the support of <strong>Oracle</strong> product teams, also continues to invest in testing and documenting of best-in-class network solutions for new <strong>Oracle</strong> releases such as <strong>Oracle</strong> SOA Suite and Siebel Customer Relationship Management 8.0. This commitment will reduce risk and shorten deployment times for future <strong>Oracle</strong> customer implementations. ZEND CORE FOR ORACLE 2.0 RELEASED Zend Technologies and <strong>Oracle</strong> have released Zend Core for <strong>Oracle</strong> 2.0, merging Zend Core’s production-quality PHP solution with native integration with <strong>Oracle</strong> Database and PHP support in <strong>Oracle</strong> Application Server. Zend Core provides a certified, high-performance PHP development and production environment based on best practices in configuring and tuning PHP. This version includes PHP 5.2.1, <strong>Oracle</strong>’s new OCI-8 extension, and <strong>Oracle</strong> Instant Client. Zend Core works with <strong>Oracle</strong>9i Database and <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 10g and can be integrated with <strong>Oracle</strong> Database 10g client libraries. It enables interoperability between PHP and Java (and other popular technologies) through an <strong>Oracle</strong> JDeveloper PHP extension. Zend, an <strong>Oracle</strong> partner, supports Zend Core for <strong>Oracle</strong>, which is certified by both <strong>Oracle</strong> and Zend. It includes 28 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER <strong>2007</strong> ORACLE.COM/ORACLEMAGAZINE communityPARTNER NEWS support for a variety of operating systems and Web servers, including <strong>Oracle</strong> Enterprise Linux; Solaris; AIX; Windows; Macintosh OS X; and many versions of Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, and <strong>Oracle</strong> HTTP Server. INGRAM MICRO, TECH DATA EXTEND ORACLE’S REACH TO SMBS More than 400 new value-added resellers (VARs) have joined with <strong>Oracle</strong> in the last year as a result of <strong>Oracle</strong>’s distribution agreements with Ingram Micro and Tech Data. With the expertise, resources, and broad customer base of these two IT distributors, <strong>Oracle</strong> has expanded the community of solution providers offering <strong>Oracle</strong> Database and <strong>Oracle</strong> Fusion Middleware to small and medium businesses (SMBs). <strong>Oracle</strong> has a dedicated team of specialists available through Ingram Micro and Tech Data to provide their reseller channels with technical support and guidance throughout the SMB sales cycle. More than 175,000 SMBs currently use <strong>Oracle</strong>’s technology products. “Tech Data supports tens of thousands of resellers nationwide, and we’ve had tremendous success expanding <strong>Oracle</strong>’s reach in the SMB market,” says Stacy Nethercoat, Tech Data’s vice president of software product marketing. “Our team of dedicated <strong>Oracle</strong> specialists have recruited many SMB VARs, helping to expand the <strong>Oracle</strong> PartnerNetwork.” “Ingram Micro places great focus on helping the channel provide its customer base with the most up-to-date solutions that are designed for the SMB market,” says Jodi Honore, vice president of vendor management at Ingram Micro. “Being able to offer <strong>Oracle</strong> products is just another step in the right direction to providing our channel partners with new ways to generate business opportunities.” FUJITSU FLEXFRAME FOR ORACLE APPLIES GRID COMPUTING DYNAMICALLY Certified Advantage Partner Fujitsu has announced FlexFrame O racle
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