This is a two-part session that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. One of the most critical aspects of building effective systems is the successful management of unstructured information. The database is no longer only a place to store dollars and cents for accounting purposes. Documents, images, videos, podcasts, etc. must be sorted out…

A database cloud is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. These resources can include servers, storage, applications, and services, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provides the required functionality to enable such a database cloud. You…

Oracle Database security checklists and standards are focused on one database, not 1,000 databases. The significant challenge is when you have 100, 500, 1,000, or even 10,000 Oracle Databases in your organization to protect. In order to protect and securely maintain a thousand Oracle Databases requires an enterprise database security framework and database security program. This session will describe how to implement a database security program with all the necessary components to protect the databases in a large enterprise. The database security program will include configuration management, enterprise database user security, periodic access reviews and controls, routine security patching, and an enterprise database auditing strategy.

Oracle WebCenter is so chock full of goodness, it’s hard to know where to start. Web Experience Management? Content Infrastructure? Social platform? Collaboration spaces? Come to this session to hear how the four pillars within WebCenter are being implemented, as well as the “what” and “why” for your own WebCenter experience.

Mobile devices are a critical means of communication for individuals and organizations today. However, device formats are so varied that delivering a mobile web experience that is easy to use and which engages site visitors is a daunting task for organizations. Learn how to extend your web presence to the mobile channel.

Corporate intranet's around the world have become an instrumental part of everyday business processes within organizations, yet many still have no formal strategy in place to govern their use not only of content but of the relevant supporting technologies. The University of Pretoria has undertaken an information strategy approach to manage content within their organization…

A database is a very resource intensive by its very nature and one of the most resource intensive applications you will ever virtualize. If best practices are not followed, the database will never perform as needed. This presentation will teach the DBA best practices for Virtualizing Oracle/MySQL databases on VMware.

Virtualization technology provides the solution to enable the server partition and consolidation for improving the resource utilization and archiving the great flexibility and high availability. Combining Oracle VM with Oracle RAC provides the Database Cloud ready architecture to consolidate the data center infrastructure. The new Oracle VM 3.0 release not only improved the scalability, but…

WebCenter Portal is a powerful platform for building Enterprise Portals. Come to this session to learn the design and deployment best practices for achieving high performance and scalability in your Portal experience. Product experts will discuss design considerations, deployment do’s and don’ts, and tuning tips to achieve the published benchmarks for throughput, response time, and…

One key way of increasing employee productivity is by bringing together people, processes, and content—providing new social capabilities to enable business users to quickly correspond and collaborate on business activities. Attend this session to hear how Oracle Social Network is  enabling businesses to transform themselves into social enterprises.