Original Broadcast: August 5, 2015 Basic topics to be covered include: 1.  Configuration Validation a. Take configuration snapshots & detect changes over time b. Apply configuration changes for compliance c. Download logs for validation & archive 2.  Setup & Upgrades a. Configure storage after initial setup b. Upload upgrade images 3.  Storage Management a. Demonstrate…

Original Broadcast: July 31, 2015 During 2015 BIWA SIG Virtual Conference Oracle Advanced Analytics 12c, delivers parallelized in-database implementations of data mining algorithms  andintegration with R. Data analysts use Oracle Data Miner GUI and R to build and evaluate predictive models and  leverage R packages and graphs. Application developers deploy OAA models using SQL data…

Original Broadcast: July 31, 2015 During 2015 BIWA SIG Virtual Conference The newest Oracle big data product, Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, offers a set of spatial analytic services, and  a graph database with rich graph analytics that support big data workloads on Apache Hadoop and NoSQL technologies. Oracle is applying over a decade…

Original Broadcast: July 30, 2015 During the 2015 BIWA SIG Virtual Conference The Internet of Things or IoT is poised to have a tremendous amount of impact around us. This session will look at  the industry landscape of IoT. The different flavors of IoT will be discussed with use cases from the consumer,  commercial and industrial sectors.…

Oracle Database 12c includes lots of new functionality, some of which streamline management, improve capacity utilization, and increase overall storage performance. If you’re ready to shrink your footprint and improve your application environments, storage optimization will be a key skill set. Join Oracle Database experts Jim Czuprynski, Zero Defect Computing, and Kevin Jernigan, Oracle, for…

Original Broadcast: June 25th 2015 The SPARC SuperCluster M7 platform is radically changing the game in terms of capacity, performance and development speed, and leading the “software in silicon” charge, but how do these innovations affect Oracle Database professionals, and how could you benefit from understanding them better? Whether you’re already using the M7 platform,…

The vast majority of organizations who implement one or more of Oracle’s Business Intelligence applications end up designing their own dashboards, analyses, and visualizations. During this informative session, we will evaluate several dashboards and offer suggestions for extensions and improvements, review dashboard design best practices, and demonstrate cutting edge visualizations. • You’ll learn best practices…

Original Broadcast: Wednesday, May 13, 2015  The Fluitec Wind Tribo-Analytics system is a production application that utilizes multiple Big Data disciplines. This case study presents a real-world application of Big Data and IoT. The techniques and algorithms can be applied to many other industries. From Fluitec: "Wind turbines are expensive to operate. They are remote…

Original Broadcast: Tuesday, June 2, 2015 Oracle’s Virtual Computing Appliance (VCA) provides performance, flexibility and manageability capabilities. In most companies the time between requesting a database and implementing a database can take weeks. Also, in many companies there are databases with different database setups, Operating systems, and environments. The delay in delivering the database and…

Original Broadcast: Thursday, June 4, 2015 Join Dan Vlamis, Oracle ACE Director, as he breaks down the new 11.1.1.9 (terminal 11g) release of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. Expect a fast-paced presentation with a live demo full of both “what” and “why” on as many of the most compelling new features as time allows including:…