While traditional data warehouses excel at sourcing data from enterprise applications, they usually fail at handling the volume, velocity and variety of data for modern analytics applications relying on Big and Fast Data. Instead of modeling these data sources into a system that doesn't fit, let's apply a new software design pattern to analytics: microservices. Microservices are…

The session will go over understanding the value of Big Data Tools (Kafka/R/Cassandra/Spark/Cloudera) and how to integrate and best use those tools within the Oracle environment of Oracle DB, Hyperion Planning and OBIEE.  We will review the reasons for integration, how to integrate, and integration best practices.    We will also view a demo integration of…

Attend this technical session to learn how Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud Service address the high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) requirements of business-critical databases. Learn simple ways to protect on-premises databases using Oracle Recovery Manager backups to the cloud or Oracle Active Data Guard replication to the cloud for real-time…

Are your skilled DBAs spending time installing software and applying patches instead of growing your business? Come to this session to learn how PayPal moved from manual execution of homegrown scripts for Oracle Real Application Clusters installs and patching to leveraging the power of Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack. Oracle Real Application Clusters provisioning moved…

This presentation will cover Oracle’s Acceleration, especially with the Oracle Cloud, and the Cycles of Innovation in the world.  We'll also look at a case study of We’ll then look at the current Acceleration of the Cloud, the Big Data Revolution and some of the Big Data Solutions out there including Oracle’s Big Data Solution. …

Management has decided to go to the Cloud. Now what?

For the past couple of years, Cloud along with Big Data has become the go to buzz-word in technology circles. Cloud has moved from being a promise to reality. How do you go about migrating and integrating the traditional on-premise database to the Cloud?

This presentation will focus on strategies to migrate your Oracle database ecosystem to the Cloud. Whether you selected the Oracle Cloud or Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, there are various tools & techniques that are well suited to do this work. The planning and selection of tools & techniques will depend on the size of the database, the network connectivity, availability/outage requirements & resources available. Best practices and real-world examples will be shared so the Cloud migration can be done with confidence.

Oracle offers data scientists and those with an Oracle background who are interested in learning data science the opportunity to perform highly sophisticated analytics on humongous data sets without requiring years of specialized study and arcane knowledge acquisition. Using Oracle Big Data Discovery, Oracle Big Data SQL, and Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop complement…

We walk through the end-to-end process of provisioning an Oracle Compute Cloud instance from scratch - adding storage, defining firewall rules, creating a private key, and connecting through SSH and VNC. Then we do the same thing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2. Speed of provisioning is one of the benefits of the cloud, so…

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s on-premises management platform, providing a single pane of glass for managing backup and recovery of Oracle deployments, whether they are in your data centers or in the Oracle Cloud. Through deep integration with Oracle’s product stack, Oracle Enterprise Manager provides market-leading management and automation of backup and recovery for Oracle applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and…

With the increased adoption of the Cloud, security professionals often face the challenge where they have to apply security controls efficiently for databases both on-premise and in the Cloud. This session will address the challenges related to managing audit data collection and encryption keys in hybrid scenarios, by maintaining the audit data and encryption keys…