VP Systems Management Steve Wilson offers highlights of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g's Ops Center's "Converged Hardware Management" approach to managing disparate, heterogeneous systems from applications to disk.

Architect Ludovic Champenois offers an overview of the current and future tooling options for Java EE 6 and his favorite developer features among those options, and provides a glimpse into the future of Java EE 7.

William Ulrich and Neal McWhorter, authors of Business Architecture: The Art and Practice of Business Transformation, cover the basics and discuss the role of business architecture in a changing market landscape.

Oracle Berkeley DB allows developers to link a fully functional, robust data storage library directly into their application. Product manager David Segleau explains how.

SVP Linux Engineering Wim Coekaerts offers a deep-dive into the use cases for Oracle VM Templates as well as the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Linux.

Authors Archie Reed and Stephen G. Bennett discuss their book, "Silver Clouds and Dark Linings: A Concise Guide to Cloud Computing."