Databases are essential for many IT processes. Their performance and reliability depends on many factors and it makes sense to use a dedicated tool that helps you to stay on top of things. Monitoring ...

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Enterprise comes to the micro server. Oracle Linux 7 has been released for the Raspberry Pi 3. The release packages Btrfs as the root filesystem on the UEK-branded Linux 4.14 Long Term Support (LTS) ...

At the recent OpenStack Summit, Oracle announced that its captive distributions of Linux and the Xen hypervisor would now support Oracle's distribution of OpenStack. Here's how Oracle described what ...

Whether you're running a home server or building out rack-mount data centers, Linux is the OS of choice for servers, and for good reason. But what distro should you go with? Here are the best choices ...

Oracle has released an update to its cross-platform virtual desktop software, Sun Ray Software 5.2. Sun Ray software provides access to Windows, Oracle Linux, or Oracle Solaris virtual desktops from ...

Microsoft laid out the case for enterprises to ditch Oracle's database system for its own at this week's Data Driven conference in New York City. Exec Judson Althoff detailed a SQL Server 2016/Oracle ...