Tag: Database & Technology

The Changing Role of the Modern DBA - Part 2: New Skills for Security

This article is part two of a six-part series by editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'.

Moving to the Cloud? Here are a Few Questions to Ask

By Michael Messina, Senior Managing Consultant, and Sridhar Avantsa, Director, Oracle Infrastructure Services, Rolta AdvizeX, Cloud Managed Services If you are in any IT role, you are probably part of teams and/or initiatives that want to move your organization to the cloud in whole or in part. We were a member of a large team at Rolta-AdvizeX that…

An IOUG Member Perspective on 'Behind Every Cloud Transformation, Theres Well-Functioning IT'

Enterprise IT responsibilities are growing the number of applications, and the amount of data being managed is continuing to grow. The release of the ‘2018 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey: Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT’ attempts to examine IT support groups from the IOUG, Quest and OAUG user communities. These communities are made up…

The Changing Role of the Modern DBA - Part 1: The New Cloud Era

This article is part one of a six-part series developed as a collaborative effort between the editors of IOUG SELECT and Big Data Quarterly on 'The Changing Role of the Modern DBA'. 

Oracle Database Recovery in Action
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Original Broadcast: December 19, 2017 Join us to discuss a new and ground breaking approach to protecting and recovering your Oracle Database. We’ll look at: • Why integrating data protection with databases, applications, infrastructure and cloud matters• Why general purpose backup systems fall short for Oracle Database protection • Why DBAs prefer Oracles Zero Data…

Blockchain? What the Heck is a Blockchain, Anyway?

Blockchain or Blockchain as a Service? If you are like me, the use of the aforementioned sentence ender is the correct punctuation mark. To be clear, I didn’t immediately recognize the technology. However, if I said the word Bitcoin (aka cryptocurrency), you would likely recognize the name. Blockchain is one of the driving technologies behind…

2017 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey Full Version
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2017 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey Final

Sharding Database Infrastructure Horizontally: Sharding in Oracle 12.2 - Part 1

“Sharding” is something many of us have heard a lot about in various database engines, including Oracle’s NoSQL Database. Recently, Oracle announced Oracle Database 12c Release 2 which added various new features, one of which is database native “Sharding." In part one of this three-part article series, we will cover this new feature in depth. Starting with the Oracle Sharding architecture and its components, then moving on to deployment and management of the sharding configuration.

Unleash Your Devops Strategy by Synchronizing Application and Database
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Original Broadcast: November 15, 2017 Many IT organizations are re-thinking the way they develop and deploy applications so they can more easily meet the demands of their business and to meet the expectations of their customers. For an increasing number of these organizations, this means the adoption of a DevOps strategy to help streamline the…

The Data Lake Challenge

The time has arrived for the Data Lake to come of age. We now have the technology to build a vibrant and productive solution which can evolve a company into an agile data-driven organization. Data Lakes provide us with the ability to deploy cost effective data stores which can cross organizational data barriers and store…