By Ayanna Kirton, Staff ReporterILLUMINAT, ONE of the region's largest information technology and communications companies and authorised distributors of Oracle technology products in Jamaica, launched the Oracle Database 10g at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, New Kingston, yesterday.
The Oracle Database 10g is the first database designed for enterprise grid computing, a flexible and cost-effective way to manage enterprise information. It aims to cut management costs while providing a high quality service.
SIMPLIFIED INSTALLATION
In addition to numerous quality and performance enhancements, Oracle Database 10g significantly reduces the costs of managing the information technology (IT) environment, with a simplified installation, greatly reduced configuration and management requirements, and automatic performance diagnosis.
These and other automated management capabilities help improve and simplify the task of database administration and data developer productivity and efficiency.
Maurice McNaughton, Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPSCo.) and one of the presenters at yesterday's launch, said in the current environment, technology department heads were being called upon by top management to enable improvements in the overall operations of their companies. The CIO said he welcomed technological developments such as Oracle's new data base system which he expected would help to curb increased technology costs and help to increase company efficiency.
Senior manager for Oracle Corporation's product management team of the distributed database and grid technologies, Bob Thorne, said the new Oracle database represented a change in the approach to database administration. He said the new database would help maximise server utilisation while decreasing staffing and maintenance, which some companies said, amounted to 75 per cent of their technology budgets.
In his presentation, Mr. Thorne outlined the advantages of the Oracle 10g for small businesses and large corporations, most notably, its ability to enable businesses to use fewer systems resources more efficiently, access these resources on demand, and respond faster to changing business priorities, while realigning IT resources as any changes occur.
