Oracle Releases Oracle Solaris 11, the First Cloud OS

Oracle has launched Oracle Solaris 11, the first Cloud OS.which is designed to meet the security, performance and scalability requirements of cloud-based deployments allowing customers to run their most demanding enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds.

Oracle Solaris 11 is the ideal platform to run business-critical enterprise applications in virtualized massive horizontal scale as well as vertically integrated environments on a wide range of SPARC and x86 servers.

The latest release of Oracle Solaris is engineered to provide cloud-scale life cycle management with secure, fail-safe boot environments, safe roll-backs, 4x faster upgrades and 2.5x faster system re-boots, and is leveraging the power of Oracle Solaris ZFS.

Oracle Solaris 11 offers comprehensive management across the entire infrastructure – operating system, physical hardware, networking and storage, as well as the virtualization layer.

“Oracle Solaris 11 is the most significant operating system release of the past decade. With built-in server, storage and now, network virtualization, Oracle Solaris 11 delivers the industry’s first cloud OS. Customers can simplify their enterprise deployments, drive up utilization of their data center assets, and run Oracle and other enterprise applications faster all within a secure, scalable cloud or traditional enterprise environment,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle.

Oracle Solaris and Oracle software applications are designed together, tested together, can be deployed together and supported together to provide faster fail-over, improved reliability and up to 10x better application performance.

Oracle Solaris development teams have worked on co-engineering efforts to increase Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and Java-based application performance, availability, security and manageability on Oracle Solaris.

 “With Oracle Solaris, we have a unique opportunity to support the industry’s largest and leading business software portfolio on the industry’s best UNIX for both SPARC and x86 servers,” said Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of Oracle Product Development. “Working together, our development teams engineer, test and support advanced solutions to our customers’ toughest problems. We are pleased to announce that our key software products—Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Oracle Applications—are available and optimized for Oracle Solaris 11 on SPARC and x86 systems.”

Oracle Solaris 11 delivers “secure by default” features, including start up, role-based root access and low impact auditing for both cloud and traditional datacenter deployments.

New Oracle Solaris 11 enhancements include optimized shared memory management, I/O improvements, integrated resource management and crypto off-load.

As the first fully virtualized operating system (OS), Oracle Solaris 11 provides comprehensive, built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network and storage resources.

New connected cloud management ensures that customers always have the latest Solaris updates from Oracle and proactive services help customers achieve maximum uptime.

Customers can run any of the more than 11,000 applications supported today on Oracle Solaris 11, with guaranteed binary compatibility through the Oracle Solaris Binary Application Guarantee Program.

Oracle Solaris 11 is already in production at over 700 top companies around the world and deployed on thousands of Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances, as well as the Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 and X2-8 and the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems.

New Oracle Solaris 11 Training is available to help customers and partners take advantage of the best-in-class features of Oracle Solaris 11 and upgrade from Oracle Solaris 10 or earlier versions.

Supporting Resources

· Oracle Solaris

· Oracle Solaris on OTN

· Oracle Solaris 11 Training

· Oracle’s Sun Server and Storage Systems

· Oracle Solaris Blog

· Connect with Oracle Solaris via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

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PTCL trains senior managers in new management concepts

Islamabad: Successful participants of recently concluded Management Development Program for senior managers of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) with PTCL Chief Technical Officer (center), Mr. Muhammad Nasrullah, at the PTCL Academy Islamabad after completion of their training.

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Islamabad: Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has successfully trained 30 senior managers through its ongoing dynamic Management Development Program.

“I congratulate our senior managers on this achievement,” said PTCL Chief Technical Officer, Muhammad Nasrullah while addressing participants at the certificate awards ceremony held at the program’s conclusion. “PTCL’s Management Development Program is a major initiative taken for the Company’s organizational and human resource development. It has prepared our senior managers to take corporate leadership roles in the future.”

The program featured leading in-house trainers and training industry gurus -- such as Naeem Bukhari, Zafar Taji, Nadeem Chauhan and Faiez Seyal -- who benefitted the participants their valuable insights on management skills, HR, technology, finance, marketing etc.

Designed in two successive phases consisting of two batches each being conducted through 2011, PTCL’s Management Development Program is targeting to train 50 senior managers of the Company from all over the country. The first phase was completed in March this year, while the second and final phase’s completion is due in December.

“PTCL recognizes its human resource as a real asset and invests heavily in their development through various training activities,” said PTCL Senior Executive Vice President, Syed Mazhar Hussain. “We have a large training infrastructure spread throughout the country. Through successful initiatives like the Management Development Program, we are committed to make PTCL a ‘customer-focused corporate organization’ by undertaking spectacular human resource development.”

Mr. Hussain also applauded the efforts carried out by PTCL’s Training & Development Team for making the program an exceptionally beneficial experience for its participants.

MOBILE COMMERCE TO INCREASE, USE OF CELLPHONE FOR DATA TRANSFER INCREASED: ORACLE REPORT

Redwood Shores, Calif. – October 31, 2011

  

“Sixty-nine percent of global mobile phone users report using a smartphone and 47 percent of mobile users have increased their data usage in the past year – a larger percentage than text or voice,” stated a press release issued by Oracle announcing the results of its “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two” report, which surveyed more than 3,000 mobile phone consumers worldwide to examine their mobile phone use habits, interest in new mobile technologies and expectations for service providers.

Pakistan has seen phenomenal growth in mobile phone users touching 110 million while increase in data transfer has also been witnessed.

The survey is a complement to Oracle’s first study, “Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications,” which was released in September 2010.

In 2010, more than 50 percent of respondents thought their mobile phone would replace their camera, MP3 player or GPS device within five years.  By 2011, 43 percent of respondents already replaced their camera, 34 percent their MP3 player and 24 percent their GPS device with their mobile phone.

Consumer demand for apps is growing significantly.  Fifty-five percent of respondents have downloaded a free app and 25 percent have paid for an app on their mobile device.  In addition, demand for apps is spreading from phones to other mobile devices, particularly tablets.  Fifty-seven percent of respondents already own a tablet device or plan to purchase one in the next 12 months, even though the technology is in its infancy.

“Customer demands continue to evolve rapidly.  To maintain a competitive advantage, communications service providers must invest in information technology solutions that provide them the most flexibility and agility, enabling them to rapidly deliver innovative services or to adopt new business models as new opportunities arise, said Bhaskar Gorti, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Communications. 

“Providers also have an enormous opportunity to enhance their customer relationships by engaging with them at every touch point, leveraging their dynamic role in consumers’ shopping experience, and providing valuable information about usage, new services and mobile security,” he added.

More consumers are continuing to leverage their mobile devices for retail activities. Thirty percent of mobile phone users use comparison shop on their mobile device, while 24 percent read customer reviews and 14 percent have scanned a QR code in an advertisement or article.  But, when it comes to shopping for phones, 84 percent of respondents prefer to purchase in store.

While consumers are becoming more comfortable with location-based services and online banking, they have security concerns.  Sixty-eight percent of respondents do not believe, or are unsure, whether information stored or transmitted from their mobile device is secure.  

To access the full report – which delves extensively into mobile phone use preferences, security concerns, consumer purchasing habits, motivations for change and family data plan demand, as well as key differentiators between various global regions – visit

http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/oracle-communications-future-mobile-521589.pdf.

Supporting Resources

·         Oracle Communications

·         Full Report:  Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications – Take Two

·         2010 Press Release:  New Report Shows Mobile Consumers Eager for New Technologies, Still Covet Service and Price

·         2010 Full Report:  Opportunity Calling: The Future of Mobile Communications

·         Oracle Communications on YouTube

·         Oracle Communications on Diigo

·         Oracle Communications on Facebook

·         Oracle Communications on Twitter

·        Oracle Communications on LinkedIn

About Oracle Communications

Only Oracle’s software and systems span the communications industry technology landscape — from carrier-grade servers, storage and IT infrastructure, to mission-critical business and operational support systems and service delivery platforms; from business intelligence applications and retail point-of-sale solutions to the Java platform running on more than two billion mobile and handheld devices.  Oracle helps 100 of the world's top 100 service providers innovate and exploit new business models, build strong, profitable customer relationships, and streamline operations. For more information, visit http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/communications/index.html

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PTCL wins the prestigious Global HR Excellence Award 2011

PTCL Senior Executive Vice President HR, Syed Mazhar Hussain, 

receives the Global HR Excellence Award  by Federal Minister for

Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Faheem.

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has won the prestigious “2nd Global HR Excellence Award 2011” in recognition of its outstanding organizational performance in the telecom sector.

“This award is an acknowledgement of PTCL’s pioneering efforts undertaken to transform our HR policies and practices,” said PTCL Senior Executive Vice President Human Resource, Syed Mazhar Hussain on the occasion. “We have won this award because of the tireless efforts of our HR team, which has demonstrated exceptional commitment towards elevating PTCL to new heights of success by overcoming atypical challenges.”

Proffered by Global Media Links and Business Milestones, the Global HR Excellence Awards recognize leading organizations that have achieved excellence in the sphere of Human Resource and Organizational Development.

In the post-privatization period, PTCL’s organizational transformation has been spearheaded by the company’s HR Department, which has played an instrumental role in creating a new momentum and infusing vigor within the organization to bring about a paradigm shift in its organizational culture.

“The Global Excellence Award has increased PTCL’s visibility on Pakistan’s corporate horizon and enhanced its image vis-à-vis our employer branding,” said PTCL SEVP, Syed Mazhar Hussain.

The Award’s judges unanimously selected PTCL for this year’s honor in view of the fast-paced progression of its HR Department, and its exceptional achievements in successfully leading the company’s massive post-privatization transition by introducing HR best practices in a very short period of time.

“Starting with a major rationalization of headcount to introducing a merit culture whereby performance determines the annual salary increments to the employees, our HR department has been at the forefront of our organizational change,” said PTCL Executive Vice President Organizational Development, Shahzad Safdar Khan. “We now place a strong emphasis on the development of our human capital by providing them with numerous learning opportunities that are in sync with our corporate objectives.”

In recent years, PTCL has firmly established its reputation for redefining and realigning the industrial relations paradigm. In line with contemporary business requirements, it has led organizational development and employee welfare by successfully creating a win-win situation, both for the employees and the organization, to emerge as an employer of choice.

Oracle Announces the Immediate Availability of the Oracle Database Appliance

Simple, Highly Reliable, Affordable Database System for Small/Midsize Enterprises and Departments 

Redwood Shores, Calif

News Facts 

· Available today, Oracle announced the Oracle Database Appliance, an easy-to-use, affordable, and highly available database appliance that is built using Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters on a 2-nodeSun Fire server cluster running Oracle Linux. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system of software, servers, storage and networking that offers high availability for a wide range of custom and packaged OLTP and data warehousing application databases. 

· Built using the latest release of the world’s #1 database, the Oracle Database Appliance protects databases from server and storage failures with Oracle Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management, respectively. 

· The Oracle Database Appliance offers unique pay-as-you-grow software licensing for Oracle Database and related software from 2 to 24 processor cores. This allows customers to align their software spend with their business growth without the need for any hardware upgrades. 

· With proactive system monitoring, one-button software provisioning, full-stack integrated patching, and automatic phone home on hardware failures, the Oracle Database Appliance also reduces the cost and resources required to build and maintain a highly-available database system.

· Oracle’s extensive ecosystem of partners offers customers a wide range of horizontal and industry-specific applications that can benefit from the higher availability of the Oracle Database Appliance.

· Additional information on the Oracle Database Appliance will be available during Oracle OpenWorld 2011. 

· Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is being held October 2-6 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. 


Supporting Quotes

· “Companies are spending tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours to buy, build and customize database solutions,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Oracle. “With the Oracle Database Appliance, customers get the power of the world’s leading database in a highly-available system from a single vendor. We’ve taken the risk out of designing and deploying database infrastructures, which makes it ideal for small and midsize companies or enterprise departments that want higher availability for their application databases.” 

· “Oracle resellers want differentiated solutions that can be sold at volume. By combining a dramatically simpler user experience with pay-as-you-grow pricing, the Oracle Database Appliance plays well in this Oracle reseller sweet spot,” said Judson Althoff, senior vice president, Worldwide Alliances & Channels and Embedded Sales, Oracle. 

Supporting Resources

· About Oracle Database Appliance

· About Oracle Database 11g

· Oracle Database Appliance Customer and Partner Quotes

· About Oracle Database Appliance for Partners

· Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter

· Judson Althoff Blog

About Oracle

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Oracle Outlines Plans to Move Java Forward

Highlights Java Technology Innovation and Details Roadmap of Future Java Platform Advancements

JAVAONE, SAN FRANCISCO – October 11, 2011

News Facts

Oracle has outlined plans for the future of the Java platform and showcased product demonstrations illustrating the latest Java technology innovations during the recently held JavaOne 2011.

Hasan Rizvi, senior vice president, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Java, along with Adam Messinger, vice president of Development, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Cameron Purdy, vice president, Development, Oracle, revealed Oracle’s strategy to evolove Java platform.

“Our strategic objectives for the future of Java are to accelerate technical innovation in the Java platform and increase Java technology adoption,” said Rizvi.

“We expect to keep Java vibrant and moving forward through ongoing support for open standards and by working closely with the Java developer community,” he added.

Java is #1 programming language with 9 million developers worldwide and 80% of mobile developers using the Java platform. 97% of enterprise desktops run Java while more than 3 billion devices have been powered by Java technology including more than 125 million Java-based TV devices.

Oracle announced plans to improve the interoperability between HTML5 and Java technology in order to simplify the development of rich client/server interaction for cloud based applications.

Oracle also announced availability of JavaFX 2.0, an advanced Java user interface (UI) platform for enterprise business applications and the next step in the evolution of Java as a premier rich client platform. Oracle intends to submit a proposal to open source the JavaFX platform as a new project within the OpenJDK Community.

Java EE continues to be hugely popular with increasing developer adoption and over 40 million downloads of Java EE components, including Oracle GlassFish Server.

Java EE 7, the next generation of Java EE, is well underway which will further enhance the Java EE platform for Cloud environments with support for features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity (horizontal scaling).

Rob Benson, Director of Runtime Systems at Twitter, announced that Twitter has just joined both the OpenJDK Community, as well as the Java Community Process (JCP). Twitter will be collaborating with Oracle and the other members of the JCP and the OpenJDK Community to help evolve the Java platform.

IBM, Intel and Red Hat, as well as ARM, GetJar and Harris IT Systems, also demonstrated their ongoing support for Java technology.

        

Supporting Resources

•        Java 7 Celebration Webcast Replay

•        Java at Oracle

•        Planet JDK (JDK developer blogs)

•        Java User Groups

•        Java Source Blog

•        Follow the conversation on Twitter: follow @Java

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

About JavaOne

JavaOne San Francisco returns to the Zone October 2-6, a developer-friendly neighborhood. At the heart of the Zone is the Mason Street Cafe, a block-long playground and lounge bordered by JavaOne hotels (the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Hotel Nikko, and Parc 55 Wyndham).  JavaOne brings experts and enthusiasts together for an extraordinary week of learning and networking focused entirely on all things Java and moving the #1 development platform forward.  With more than 400 sessions covering topics that span the breadth of the Java universe, keynotes from foremost Java visionaries, and engaging activities geared toward developers, JavaOne is the world's most important event for the Java community. For more information, please visit:

www.oracle.com/javaone

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Ufone Gain Profits 57%, Revenues 14% in FY11

Ufone seems to have reported exceptional increase of 57% profits and 14% revenues in Financial Year 2010-2011 due to the fact associated with significant financial savings while in the FY11 , As outlined by Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) Report.

Based on a quotation that profits of Ufone has enhanced to Rs 2.66 billion however revenues increased to Rs 56 billion while in the FY11 ended on June 30. The entire year within evaluation noticeable 10th year of effective functions through Ufone. When compared to the prior yr, the earnings per share (EPS) enhanced to Rs. 6.36 from Rs. 5.20 of a year ago.

Regardless of unfavorable financial circumstances restricting development in Pakistan, still Ufone carried on to update its network with some other improvements as well as enhance performance in smoth sequence which results in top quality of customer satisfaction.

These types of actions, , placed endeavours such as ambitious network co-location keeping significant levels of CAPEX and also inclusion of 1-SIM concept within the areas decreasing stock administration difficulties. Additionally, the users are also helped through increasing IVR, USSD and also online Self Care based platforms with re-engineered techniques lowering turn-around period.

In the past year, Ufone launched a variety of revolutionary services to eye-catching call rates serving the requirements of various users. The youth portion had been additionally increased by way of starting brand new packages and offers e.g. Uth Nonstop Offer, Uth Full Time Mufta Offer and Uth Alaa Offer. These kinds of presents received incredible reputation within the youngsters section adding significant profits. In their initiatives to locate new revenue channels, Ufone utilized new areas concentrating on farm owners (Kissan Package) and also women packages the very first time in Pakistan.

In order to encourage the retailer resulting in higher distance with consumer as well as continuous existence near all households, “Ustar” channel was already released along with “Ushops”.

At present more than 25,000 “Ushops” and “Ustars” tend to be helping the users, which undoubtedly will be the biggest and quite a few efficient network of sales and service factors in Pakistan.

In the ongoing undertakings to accomplish more significant effectiveness, an program between banks and also Ufone Customer Relationship Module (Crm) was created. In acknowledgement on the much better in business advantages, Ufone had been not too long ago graced with Professional Excellence Award by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) on ‘Best Corporate Sector Project’ for Telecom Passive Infrastructure Sharing.