"All components listed in the reference configuration have been tested together by Oracle, reducing the need for customer testing and the time-consuming and complex effort of designing and deploying a stable configuration." -- Ferhat Hatay

 The Oracle VM blade cluster reference configuration described in this paper provides a complete and fully tested virtualized stack that can reduce deployment time by weeks or months while also reducing risk and improving application performance.

This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle VM blade cluster reference configuration. 

"Imagine what gains your organization could have by asking basic questions and reviewing your familiar processes before setting up even the most fundamental E2.0 technologies to support them!" -- John Brunswick

"The success of all business processes depends on the availability of accurate master data. Clearly, the solution to this problem is to consolidate all the master data an organization uses to run its business." -- David Butler

Oracle ACE Douwe Pieter van den Bos shares his thoughts on "IT Strategies from Oracle" in this Google translation of his original Dutch post.

Just in time for the holidays! Roddy Rodstein's epic 354-page manual is now available in a single pdf..