Five Minute Briefing - Oracle
October 20, 2010

Published in conjunction with the Quest Oracle Community (Quest), this bi-weekly publication contains news, market research, and insight for the Oracle ecosystem, as well as Quest news and information. Subscribers also receive Quest ResearchWire, a bi-monthly research report for the Oracle community.

News Flashes

IOUG Member Ray Schonert Contributes to the IOUG Security Study and Wins an iPad

IOUG ResearchWire has announced the winner of the annual Security Study Sweepstakes recently - Ray Schonert, a DBA with Northrop Grumman Corporation. "It's great to win the iPad. I've always wondered if these drawings were random and now I know they are," said Schonert, who has been an IOUG member since 2004.

MENTIS 7 Provides Sensitive Information Management for Oracle Applications and Databases

MENTIS Software, a provider of Sensitive Information Management solutions for enterprise applications and databases and a gold level member of the Oracle Partner Network, has announced the availability of its latest release - MENTIS 7. The new release provides advanced Sensitive Data Discovery capabilities for Oracle applications and database customers to help them document and manage sensitive data locations as well as program and user access levels. Scan results of the discovery process are maintained in the MENTIS 7 metadata repository, providing critical information to IT managers responsible for Oracle security and audit management.

Oracle Database 11g Running on Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 Server Sets World Record TPC-H 3TB Non-Clustered Benchmark Result

Oracle has announced a world record non-clustered TPC-H 3TB benchmark result demonstrating the scalability of Oracle Database 11g running on Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server.

University of Michigan Health System Selects Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Libraries to Preserve and Protect Patient Data

To archive and protect growing amounts of clinical and diagnostic patient data, the University of Michigan Health System, which includes numerous hospitals, health centers and clinics, the University of Michigan Medical School and its Faculty Group Practice, the clinical activities of the University of Michigan School of Nursing and the Michigan Health Corp., has deployed two Oracle StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library Systems.