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,…

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: Thursday, June 11, 2015 Cloud ERP systems are about to become smarter, enabling higher worker productivity, organizational efficiency and revenue generation. 'How so' you ask? AI-based ERP systems, working symbiotically with smart wearables, will help identify business opportunities, profile meeting participants, take notes, document decision criteria, update opportunities, and create action items on…

Original Broadcast Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 The dream of a seamless enterprise cloud implementation is getting closer every day. But rather than letting the perfect be the enemy of the good, Oracle is building a massive cloud that takes advantage of the massive speed and scale of Oracle ZS today. We’ll discuss what tools…

The evolution from traditional IT silos to a cloud environment starts with identifying the essential services IT will provide.  Then, rationalize the vendor and technology components to a standardized, manageable set.  Reducing complexity enables efficient consolidation, more automation and faster delivery, all with lower risk and costs.  The Service Catalog is the essential medium for…

The perils of maintaining training and development sandbox environments are wide and varied. Those pains are experienced by almost all businesses. How do you provide hands-on technical training? How do you support a group of IT professionals developing inside an enterprise-class server environment? Providing only one training server or a limited development server is fraught…

In the past three years, private cloud computing has moved from an aspiration to a tentative reality for nearly half of large enterprises.The reason for private cloud adoption is simple – providing competitive business edge through continuous delivery. Providing developers with databases on demand while improving operational efficiency in a consolidated infrastructure is achievable using…

If a system receives information that drives transaction processing, it is sometimes necessary to follow the transaction detail through several stages of processing or through processing steps that may vary depending upon the source data. When processing of a given row is “complete” there are more efficient means than deletion to remove it from consideration…