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Oracle VM Videos On YouTube

By adam.hawley on November 17, 2009 12:36 PM

As my boss, Wim Coekaerts pointed out on his blog yesterday, there are a number of good, educational videos covering Oracle VM on YouTube, including coverage of some topics for Oracle VM 2.2 (the latest release). Very easy to find,...

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Virtualization for 'Cloud' vs. "Traditional" Virtualization

By adam.hawley on November 10, 2009 1:35 PM

My, my...I just looked back and it has been almost exactly 6 months since my last post to this blog. The time has gone fast as we've been working hard on a number of things here ranging from the Virtual...

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Oracle VM Blog: Oracle Buys Virtual Iron. Excellent.

By adam.hawley on May 13, 2009 11:05 AM

As you can imagine this is a very busy, very exciting day for me, but I just wanted to take a second between meetings to mention that today we announced Oracle's acquisition of Virtual Iron. Since the acquisition has not...

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Oracle VM: A Peek Into the Future

By adam.hawley on May 7, 2009 12:42 PM

I haven't been blogging the last couple of weeks as I've had some internal deadlines, but luckily you've seen some good content from others on the Oracle VM team, including Honglin's entries below. This time, I want to call your...

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Oracle VM: Part 3 - Where Does Guest VM HA Fit-in Versus Other HA Software: HA Cluster Software and Guest VM HA

By adam.hawley on April 3, 2009 5:26 PM

This is part 3 of my series on HA techniques up-and-down the stack and how they relate to use of Oracle VM’s Guest VM HA features. This installment talks about HA cluster software or “clusterware”. For databases, of course, Oracle...

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Part 2: Where Does Guest VM HA Fit-in Versus Other HA Software: RAC and Guest VM HA

By adam.hawley on March 26, 2009 4:22 PM

As part 2 in this series of blog entries about HA techniques in a virtualized environment, I’m going to focus on considerations when thinking about using Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) with- (or without) Oracle VM HA. For databases, Oracle...

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Top-Down Application...and Virtualization...Management

By adam.hawley on March 26, 2009 1:29 PM

Was just reading an article over at Virtual Strategy Magazine entitled "Taking the Server Out of Application Management" by Jasmine Noel. She makes some good points that align with what we're seeing and hearing as well -- that virtualization management...

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Where Does Guest VM HA Fit-in Versus Other HA Software? Part 1: About Guest VM HA

By adam.hawley on March 20, 2009 12:06 PM

Customers ask us about Oracle VM and its guest HA / auto-restart functionality in the context of how it is best used in relation to other HA technologies available “up the stack” and I thought that it might be useful...

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Allow Me to Introduce Myself: Adam Hawley, Director of Product Management, Oracle VM

By adam.hawley on March 20, 2009 11:37 AM

First, I join Monica in welcoming you to our new Virtualization Blog and I look forward to maintaining a dialog with you on topics relating to virtualization in the industry, at Oracle, and with Oracle VM in particular. We'll be...

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