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Thursday, August 25, 2011

Oracle Unveils Oracle VM 3.0

Delivers Four Times Better Scalability than VMware at a Fraction of the Cost

Redwood Shores, Calif. - August 24, 2011: Today at an event for customers, partners and industry experts, Oracle announced Oracle VM 3.0, the latest release of Oracle’s server virtualization and management solution.

Oracle VM 3.0 is suitable for all datacenter workloads and features new policy-based management capabilities, advanced storage management via the Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-in API; centralized network configuration management, improved ease-of-use and Open Virtualization Format (OVF) support.

Oracle VM 3.0 is engineered for use with Oracle software and hardware, enabling improved performance, faster application deployment, and improved manageability for Oracle software.

“Customers want to accomplish more with virtualization than just traditional server consolidation. They need virtualization solutions that can help them deploy, manage and optimize the full application ‘stack’ rather than just the servers alone,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Oracle Linux and Virtualization.

“Oracle VM 3.0’s application-driven approach to virtualization makes management of the hardware-software stack easier by enabling customers to deploy, manage and scale applications and resources more dynamically, increasing their operating efficiencies and lowering costs,” he added.

With the centralization of storage management alongside of logical network configuration and management, Oracle VM 3.0 allows administrators to streamline and automate end-to-end virtual machine provisioning for a significant reduction in time and overhead, simplifying IT processes and helping to reduce costs.

Oracle VM 3.0 helps customers deploy enterprise software in a rapid, repeatable and error-free manner with immediate availability of over 90 Oracle VM Templates for Oracle applications, middleware and databases.

“Over time, we expect that enterprises will need to deliver internal IT resources more like an external service provider would, allowing for rapid deployment and efficient management of business critical applications,” said Al Gillen, program vice president, System Software, IDC. “By using application centric virtualization solutions like Oracle VM 3.0, organizations are deploying a strong foundation that will support an operational transformation in their datacenters, when the time is right for their business.”

Oracle VM 3.0 is four times more scalable than the latest VMware offering, supporting up to 128 virtual CPUs per virtual machine, at a fraction of the cost. Oracle VM 3.0 demonstrated support for up to 160 physical CPUs and 2TB memory using Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2 servers.

When compared to VMware vSphere5 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest VMs, Oracle VM 3.0 running Oracle Linux guest VMs is four times less expensive.

Oracle VM is free to download, has zero license cost, and affordable, enterprise-quality support is offered through a simple subscription model per server.

Supporting Resources

About Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest business software company. For more information about Oracle, please visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Oracle Announces 1,000th Installation of Oracle® Exadata Database Machine

Growing Number of Customers Worldwide Transform Performance, Reliability and Scalability of Packaged and Custom OLTP and Data Warehousing Applications

Karachi, 28 July: More than 1,000 Oracle Exadata Database Machines are installed at customer sites in 67 countries across 23 industries to power demanding database applications.

“Customers are turning to Oracle Exadata for a multitude of reasons,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Database Server Technologies, Oracle. “Extreme performance, consolidation, cost savings, enhanced scalability, single vendor support are amongst the broad range of factors that play a part in the selection of Oracle Exadata. Beyond the numbers, Oracle Exadata plays a vital role in helping customers transform their businesses through improved decision-making via real-time intelligence, speeding new products and services to market, and identifying new revenue opportunities through complex analysis.”

The pre-engineered, pre-tested Oracle Exadata systems are helping customers address their IT and business challenges head-on by achieving: Extreme performance of packaged and custom OLTP applications through the use of Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache; Extreme data warehousing performance through offloading intensive query processing to scalable intelligent storage servers using Oracle Exadata Smart Scan; 10x to 15x storage savings by reducing the size of tables or databases using Oracle Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression; Substantial cost savings by consolidating workloads and servers onto a single Oracle Exadata Machine; Simplified database administration and performance tuning; and Faster time to market for new database applications and services.

Oracle Exadata is the only engineered system that supports enterprise OLTP business applications such as Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle’s Siebel CRM, and Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications.

Featuring Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Real Application Clusters and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software, Oracle Exadata provides the software, servers, storage and networking for all database requirements.

Oracle Exadata Database Machine is available in four configurations: the Oracle Exadata X2-2 quarter-rack, half-rack and full-rack, and the Oracle Exadata X2-8 full-rack systems.

Supporting Resources

· About Oracle Exadata Database Machine

· About Oracle Database 11g

· Learn More About Oracle Exadata Customers

· Connect with Oracle Database via Blog, Facebook and Twitter

About Oracle Exadata

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto grids or private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and redundant. With Oracle Exadata Database Machine, customers can reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve performance of all applications, and make better business decisions in real time.

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, visit our Web site at http://www.oracle.com.

Trademarks

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Qubee conducts Pakistan’s largest viral video competition ever

Qubee, the newest WiMAX entrant in the Pakistanibroadband promote, recently conducted ‘Spurt-em-up’, a viral video struggle that received nationwide participation. The activity involved 9 major educational institutes ofPakistan, including, IBA, Bahria, FAST-NU, IQRA, PAF-KEIT, KSA and NAPA among several others. During a span of 45 days, over 5,000 of Pakistan’s youth participated from 9 different cities includingKarachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Multan, Gujranwala,Hyderabad,Baden,Faisalabad and Jhelum.

Over 360 videos were submitted, of which 52 certified for prizes. The grand prize of the struggle, PKR 100,000, was won by Taha Kirmani from Bahria University (Karachi), whereas the runner-up prizes of the newly launched Apple iPads were won by Mr. Hasan (Institute of Business Management, Karachi) and Saad Mahmood (SSUET- Karachi).

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Oracle Announces New Oracle Exastack Program for ISV Partners

Oracle Exastack Program Enables ISV Partners to Leverage a Scalable, Integrated Infrastructure to Deliver their Applications Tuned and Optimized for High-Performance
Redwood Shores, CA – June 28, 2011

News Facts

Enabling Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle Partner Network (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications to end customers, Oracle today introduced Oracle Exastack Ready, available now, and Oracle Exastack Optimized, available in fall 2011 through OPN.

The Oracle Exastack Program focuses on helping ISVs run their solutions on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud - integrated systems in which the software and hardware are engineered to work together. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. Leveraging the new Oracle Exastack Program in which applications can qualify as Oracle Exastack Ready or Oracle Exastack Optimized, partners can use available OPN resources to optimize their applications to run faster and more reliably – providing increased performance to their end users.

By deploying their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, ISVs can reduce the cost, time and support complexities typically associated with building and maintaining a disparate application infrastructure - enabling them to focus more on their core competencies, accelerating innovation and delivering superior value to customers.

After qualifying their applications as Oracle Exastack Ready, partners can note to customers that their applications run on and support Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud component products including Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, Oracle Database and Oracle WebLogic Server. Customers can be confident when choosing a partner’s Oracle Exastack Optimized application, knowing it has been tuned by the OPN member on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud with a goal of delivering optimum speed, scalability and reliability.

Partners participating in the Oracle Exastack Program can also leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready and Oracle Exastack Optimized applications to advance to Platinum or Diamond level in OPN.

Oracle Exastack Programs Provide ISVs a Reliable, High-Performance Application Infrastructure

With the Oracle Exastack Program ISVs have several options to qualify and tune their applications with Oracle Exastack, including:

Oracle Exastack Ready: Oracle Exastack Ready provides qualifying partners with specific branding and promotional benefits based on their adoption of Oracle products. If a partner application supports the latest major release of one of these products, the partner may use the corresponding logo with their product marketing materials: Oracle Solaris Ready, Oracle Linux Ready, Oracle Database Ready, and Oracle WebLogic Ready. Oracle Exastack Ready is available to OPN members at the Gold level or above. Additionally, OPN members participating in the program can leverage their Oracle Exastack Ready applications toward advancement to the Platinum or Diamond levels in the OPN Specialized program and toward achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status.

Oracle Exastack Optimized: When available, for OPN members at the Gold level or above, Oracle Exastack Optimized will provide direct access to Oracle technical resources and dedicated Oracle Exastack lab environments so OPN members can test and tune their applications to deliver optimal performance and scalability on Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle Exastack Optimized will provide OPN members with specific branding and promotional benefits including the use of the Oracle Exastack Optimized logo. OPN members participating in the program will also be able to leverage their Oracle Exastack Optimized applications toward advancement to Platinum or Diamond level in the OPN Specialized program.

Oracle Exastack Labs and ISV Enablement: Dedicated Oracle Exastack lab environments and related technical enablement resources (including Guided Learning Paths and Boot Camps) will be available through OPN for OPN members to further their knowledge of Oracle Exastack offerings, and qualify their applications for Oracle Exastack Optimized or Oracle Exastack Ready. Oracle Exastack labs will be available to qualifying OPN members at the Gold level or above.

Partners are eligible to participate in the Oracle Exastack Ready program immediately, which will help them meet the requirements to attain Oracle Exastack Optimized status in the future. Guidelines for Oracle Exastack Optimized, as well as Oracle Exastack Labs will be available in fall 2011.

Supporting Quotes

“In order to effectively differentiate their software applications in the marketplace, ISVs need to rapidly deliver new capabilities and performance improvements,” said Judson Althoff, Oracle senior vice president of Worldwide Alliances and Channels and Embedded Sales. “With Oracle Exastack, ISVs have the ability to optimize and deploy their applications with a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them accelerate innovation, unlock new features and functionality, and deliver superior value to customers.”

“We view performance as absolutely critical and a key differentiator,” said Tom Stock, SVP of Product Management, GoldenSource. “As a leading provider of enterprise data management solutions for securities and investment management firms, with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, we see an opportunity to notably improve data processing performance - providing high ‘quality golden copy’ data in a reduced timeframe. Achieving Oracle Exastack Optimized status will be a stamp of approval that our solution will provide the performance and scalability that our customers demand.”

“As a leading provider of Revenue Intelligence solutions for telecommunications, media and entertainment service providers, our customers continually demand more readily accessible, enriched and pre-analyzed information to minimize their financial risks and maximize their margins,” said Alon Aginsky, President and CEO of cVidya Networks. “Oracle Exastack enables our solutions to deliver the power, infrastructure, and innovation required to transform our customers’ business operations and stay ahead of the game.”

Supporting Resources
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN)
Oracle Exastack
Oracle Exastack Datasheet
Judson Althoff blog
Connect with the Oracle Partner community at OPN on Facebook, OPN on LinkedIn, OPN on YouTube, or OPN on Twitter

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle’s growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners.

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.

Trademarks

Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

PTCL upgrades its telephone exchanges to Latest next generation network technology

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is upgrading its Telephone Exchanges from Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) based technology to latest Next Generation Network (NGN) technology for providing better and improved services to its valued customers.

This is to inform our valued customers that PTCL will start the migration series from Korangi Exchange Area from 3^rd July 2011 till-13 July 2011 to streamline and make the service and Hi-tech, utilizing state of art technology.

The customers of Korangi exchange area are being notified that all those telephone numbers with the prefix series 511 and 513 will be migrated on 3-7-2011 from 1:00 am to 9:00 am, 509 on 5-7-2011 from 1:00 am to 9:00 am, 508 on 7-7-2011 from 1:00 an to 9:00 am and 505 and 506 on 9-7-2011 to 13-7-2011 from 1:00 am to 9:00 am. There will be no change in the existing telephone numbers after the migration. There will be minor change of procedure for activation and de-activation of code barring service and other value added services.

PTCL regrets and apologize for any inconvenience and discomfort caused to its customers during the migration. PTCL assures its customers to keep the outrage time as minimum as possible and to provide its customers with uninterrupted, smooth and leveled services.

For any help or assistance customers can call PTCL help desks or call center agents round the clock, on 1236.

PTCL aims to provide its customers with good quality of service and anticipates the customers support during the migration process.

Monday, June 27, 2011

PTCL joint development project with ML&C Department

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) begins joint development of information and communication technology infrastructure in Military Lands and cantonment offices across the country.

PTCL and ML&C department has taken this joint initiative to automate the business processes by introducing Information Technology and computerization at all levels of hierarchy. PTCL will be connecting all 62 Military Estate Offices (MEO’s) and Cantonment Boards (CB’s) through internet. It will facilitate the cantonments with a mix of its diversified product range including, Premium Internet Bandwidth with end to end fiber connectivity, Premium Business DSL and wireless broad band EVO Services. It will also provide a backbone to ML&C department to run a centralized online system.

Naveed Saeed SEVP commercial PTCL stated,” The primary objective of this automation initiative is to improve efficiency, streamline operations and provide quality services to the people living in Cantonments. The scope of this endeavor includes development of a countrywide multiple technology driven Network infrastructure”. He further added that, “PTCL will provide the optimum and quality services bringing new information highways and futuristic product basket for the residents of cantonments”.

Niaz Malik EVP Corporate Services and Product Development PTCL stated, “This understanding between PTCL and ML&C department is a good step and PTCL would accomplish the project within the stipulated time”. He further added that, “PTCL works as an engine of economic growth for the country by not only exploring new horizons in the arena of information and technology but also extending its network and services to different areas and departments. Thus, it aims for perfection in all fields of telecommunication as it is constantly improving and upgrading its services to ensure customer satisfaction and has the fastest growing network in the country”.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Oracle Health Sciences Delivers Oracle® Argus Safety from the Cloud

Oracle Health Sciences today announced the availability of Oracle® Argus Safety On Demand, a cloud-based version of Oracle’s industry-leading integrated global adverse events management and regulatory reporting solution.

Oracle Argus Safety On Demand provides an advanced and comprehensive adverse events management system that helps life sciences companies enable regulatory compliance, drive product stewardship, and integrate safety and risk management.

“Oracle Argus Safety On Demand enables health sciences organizations to accelerate deployment and time to value for the industry’s leading adverse event reporting and management software,” said Neil de Crescenzo, senior vice president and general manager, Oracle Health Sciences. “Oracle Argus Safety, as delivered via the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud, provides new levels of agility in deploying, managing and scaling the comprehensive solution – all backed by Oracle’s unmatched technical and industry expertise.”

As a cloud application, Oracle Argus Safety On Demand enables health sciences organizations and their contract resource organization (CRO) partners to accelerate deployment, obtain on-demand scalability, reduce IT management resource requirements and gain a more predictable IT spending pattern.

Oracle Argus Safety On Demand is part of a comprehensive portfolio of Oracle Health Sciences Cloud Applications and is powered by the Oracle Health Sciences Cloud.