Highway Africa News Agency (Grahamstown)
David Muwanga
20 September 2007
Kampala — Oracle, a United States of America based software Development Company has launched its upgraded 11G data management system in Uganda.
"Up to today we had the Oracle 10 version but this has been upgraded to 11G that has got the ability to store and manipulate unstructured data, video pictures with a good format and has got the ability to provide disaster recovery of data," said the company's senior sales consultant for Europe, Middle East and Africa Mark Ashdown.
Ashdown said all the performance, availability, reliability and security have been enhanced and can manage data for both large and small corporations.
"The new biggest data base stores 1000 telepbytes of data that we are releasing to the World this month."
The product was launched in Kenya on September 18 and launched in Kampala on September 20. On 17th October 2007 Oracle willlaunch in Nigeria, Lagos, - on 18th October in Windhoek, Namibia - on 19th November will be launching in Tripoli, Libya. A statement issued on Thursday in Kampala said that the Oracle Database is the only database designed for grid computing.
With more than 400 new features, 36,000 person-months of development, and 15 million test hours, Oracle Database 11G is making the management of enterprise information easier than ever; enabling customers to know more about their business and innovate more quickly.
Oracle Database 11G that is available on the Linux platform delivers the next-generation of enterprise information management, helping customers tackle the demands of rapid data growth, changing environments, and the need to deliver higher quality of services while reducing and controlling IT costs.
"Oracle Database 11G continues the focus on grid computing by enabling grids of low-cost servers and storage to deliver fast, scalable and reliable data processing, supporting the toughest data warehousing, transaction processing, and content management, environments," said Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle.
It provides customers with increased capabilities to help meet their broad range of data management needs.
Oracle has also introduced four new options for Oracle Database 11G Enterprise Edition that include Oracle Real Application Testing, Oracle Advanced Compression, Oracle Total Recall and Oracle Active Data Guard.
Many organizations want to take advantage of database and operating system upgrades, and also make hardware and system changes to meet the needs of the business. Oracle Real Application Testing helps customers reduce the time, risk and cost of testing such changes in their IT environment, in a controlled, cost-effective manner.
New compression capabilities for all types of data mean that compression ratios of 2x to 3x or more can now be achieved with Oracle Advanced Compression. Coupled with new partitioning capabilities, Oracle Advanced Compression can be used to deploy Information Lifecycle Management strategies in the database without application changes, further reducing overall storage requirements.
Oracle Total Recall enables administrators to easily maintain historical archives of changed data for compliance and business intelligence. Oracle Total Recall provides a secure, efficient, easy-to-use and application-transparent solution for long-term access to changed data.
Oracle Active Data Guard can be used to enhance the performance of production databases by offloading resource intensive operations such as queries and backups to a single physical standby database. So the return on investment for a physical standby database is greatly increased as it can be used for both disaster protection and enhancing the overall quality of service of the production environment.
Beyond these new options, Oracle Database 11G also delivers a broad range of new features and enhancements to improve enterprise information management. Oracle Database 11g features improved file storage performance, increased security functionality, significant performance enhancements to Oracle XML DB, enhanced OLAP and data warehousing capabilities, and others.
The statement said that Oracle Database 11G Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition and Standard Edition One are generally available today on Linux x86.
"Oracle Real Application Testing helps customers reduce the time, risk and cost of testing such changes in their own information technology environment in a controlled, cost effective manner," says the statement issued on Thursday at Sheraton hotel. Oracle Total recall enables administrators to easily maintain historical archives of changed data for compliance and business intelligence.
Oracle Active data guard can be used to enhance the performance of production databases by offloading resource intensive operations such as quarries and backups to a single physical standby database.
Beyond the new options, Oracle database 11G also delivers a broad range of new features and enhancements to improve enterprise information management.
It says that Oracle Database 11G delivers superior performance, scalability, availability, security and ease of management on a low-cost grid of industry standard storage and servers.
"Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners," says the statement.
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