Tag: Database

Oracle Expands Its Global Data Center Footprint

Alan Zeichick, Director of Strategic Communications for Oracle, wrote in Forbes about Oracle’s expansion of its global data center footprint and the Cloud regions that Oracle has been opening worldwide.

A Quick Introduction to Oracle Exadata X8

Juan Loaiza, Oracle Executive Vice President, gives a quick overview of Exadata X8 capabilities for OLTP, analytics, cloud, and Autonomous Database.

Exadata has been on the market for over 10 years, and today it is an extremely successful product. It runs many of the most mission-critical applications in the world, including petabyte warehouses, critical financial and e-commerce platforms, complex business applications, and massive database consolidations.

Oracle Announces Availability of Functions-as-a-Service Platform

On August 1, Oracle announced the general availability in all commercial regions of Oracle Functions, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's functions-as-a-service (FaaS) platform.

Exadata Database Machine Security
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Security configuration and features are available at many levels in Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Attend this session and learn security fundamentals directly from Oracle Development. This session will focus on the storage and OS layers with an overview of the database-layer security options and best practices. We will outline necessary requirements for system maintenance so…

SPARC/Solaris Webcast: Securing the Data Center: From the Web to the Core
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Security is important today more than ever. We’ll talk about how attacks actually occur and technologies that can prevent or mitigate their effectiveness. Featured Speaker: Scott Lynn, Product Line Director, Oracle Solaris Product Management

Eliminate Oracle Database Wait-times with AWR Intelligence and All-Flash Storage
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Database I/O wait events can dramatically slow down your business-critical OLTP applications and add continual stress to your life as a DBA. Your ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint the top I/O culprits and address them with a high performance storage infrastructure improves the responsiveness of your Oracle Database and applications you’re responsible for. Join this…

Leverage Oracle Analytics Cloud and Autonomous Data Warehouse Within HR

Dhvani Sheth, Solution Engineer at Oracle, showed how Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can provide useful data analysis and visualization to HR departments. Hiring the right people requires a lot of time, money, and effort. However, hiring the wrong people can be just as costly, if not more so. Without using data analytics to make data-driven decisions, HR departments may be prone to hire based on a cognitive bias that they aren’t aware of. Instead of using traditional techniques, HR can use data analytics and visualization to find patterns within large volumes of data to make insightful hiring decisions for the company.

Departmental Reporting with Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse

David Huffman, Solution Engineer at Oracle, explained to users how Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Oracle Analytics Cloud can provide organizations and analysts with insights into accurate, comprehensive data.

Using Oracle Analytics with the Autonomous Data Warehouse

For the airline industry, flight delays are a serious problem. This problem ultimately cripples customer satisfaction and retention, wreaks havoc on schedules, and reduces revenue. What if airlines could move past expensive, time-consuming, legacy IT approaches? This could help them harness their data to better analyze, understand, and mitigate flight delays. Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse can help them do exactly that.

Strategies for Integrating Oracle Databases with Open Source PostgreSQL

There may be times when it makes sense to consider an open source-based DBMS like Postgres along side your Oracle databases. The session will cover how to migrate from Oracle to Postgres, quickly and without risk, by taking advantage of automated tools to analyze and convert definitions, tables, views, stored procedures and indexes.