Oracle has been a long time member and supporter of The Linux Foundation. In the Part 1 of our podcast series, we sat down with Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation to hear his thoughts on Linux community in general and some of the challenges it faces.

This is Part 2 of the Podcast with Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of Linux Foundation. In this second podcast, you will hear his thoughts on Oracle's participation and contributions to Linux as well as understand his perspective on the goals of The Linux Foundation and where it is headed.

In this podcast you will hear about what it is and how you can access and benefit from this community work we have done.

In this podcast you will hear from key kernel developers as they highlight important Linux community projects.

In this podcast, Oracle's John Renko and Chris Kawalek discuss how BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is enabling modern work routines and how Oracle can help make working securely from anywhere a reality for your organization.

Oracle offers a number of ways to accelerate deployment of enterprise applications and infrastructure. In this podcast, we will cover two very important solutions - Oracle Validated Configurations and Oracle VM Templates. Oracle Validated Configurations are pre-tested, validated architectures spanning software, hardware, storage, and network components published as documented as best practice geared toward deployment of infrastructure and Oracle Database. Oracle VM Templates provide an innovative approach to deploying a fully configured software stack by offering pre-installed and pre-configured virtual machine images that cut down the deployment time from weeks and days to hours and minutes,. Deploy your applications and infrastructure faster and accelerate your time to market with Oracle solutions.

Securing systems and operating systems hardening is a first step in achieving application availability and data protection,thereby ensuring confidentiality and mitigating risk for an organization. Listen to this podcast and hear from James Morris, the lead security developer for the Linux kernel as he explains how you can ensure the security of your Linux environment.

Oracle is committed to bringing latest innovations to customers faster than any other Linux vendor. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R.2 is based on upstream stable kernel 3.0.3. Here are some of the key features you will hear about in this podcast:

*Latest Btrfs and OCFS2 file systems

*Resource isolation using cgroups

*Secure and lightweight OS Isolation using Linux containers

*Transcendent memory (tmem, cleancache, zcache, frontswap)

Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 is even better optimized for Oracle hardware and software which can handle high disk and network I/O, large memory, many sockets and has debugging and diagnostic tools required for mission critical datacenter deployments.

Virtualization provides significant cost savings by allowing otherwise underutilized resources to be time-shared between multiple virtual machines. While efficient techniques for optimizing CPU and I/O device utilization are widely implemented, time-sharing of physical memory is much more difficult. As a result, physical memory is increasingly becoming a bottleneck in virtualized systems, limiting the efficient consolidation of virtual machines onto physical machines.

Transcendent Memory (tmem for short) provides a new approach for improving the utilization of physical memory in a virtualized environment by claiming underutilized memory in a system and making it available where it is most needed.

If this sounds interesting, you are in the right place. You will hear directly from the developer, Dan Magenheimer, Sr. Kernel Engineer for Oracle, about the details of this technology and how it can help you utilize memory more efficiently.

Data growth and increasingly complex data centers are the key drivers in the heightening pressure for organizations to validate data. The risk of undetected data errors-errors that may not be noticed until the data is needed-can have negative impact on an organization's productivity and competitiveness in the marketplace. Listen to this podcast to hear how Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux and Oracle Storage Networking products powered by QLogic are responding to this challenge with data integrity implementations based on the T10-PI industry standard.