Despite the best efforts of DBA’s everywhere, eventually every organization experiences unplanned downtime from system failure. The difference between the response of successful organizations and those that suffer disastrous consequences is how they prepare for these situations. A strong backup and recovery strategy can mean millions of dollars in difference. Make sure your organization is…

Come listen to the Cloud Experts of the Cloud Computing SIG leadership discuss all the new Private and Public Cloud initiatives announced at Oracle OpenWorld (OOW). In this 2nd part panel discussion on Oracle Public Cloud (OPC) and Hybrid Cloud, we will provide strategic and technical details to the various cloud offerings that was announced…

Customers across the enterprise have adopted the on-premise private database cloud and embraced database-as-a-service. Oracle technology is constantly evolving and adapting and Oracle Public Cloud is moving at lightning speeds across the IT industry. Security concerns between the private and public cloud has been the inhibitor for public cloud adoption, but significant advances have been…

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Release 5 is available now and will help customers simplify their journey to cloud by managing their hybrid estate as one. This latest release of Oracle Enterprise Manager delivers new enhancements that manage, migrate, test and deploy applications and databases across hybrid clouds, with 100% reuse of existing management tools and…

Storing database backups off-site is critical for your enterprise to be disaster ready. To reduce application downtime, stored data must be accessible 24x7. Enter the Oracle Database Backup Service. Storing backups in the Oracle Cloud provides a great alternative to more expensive and resource consuming data protection and remote vaulting capabilities. Its pricing and operational…

Perhaps, if you have been living under a rock on a far distant planet, void of anything technical and perhaps, if the internet is not delivered directly to your home, work, phone or car then perhaps, just perhaps, you have not heard of the IT rage known as ‘Virtualization’. The more likely scenario, however, is…

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 mining functions and R. Oracle extends the Database to an analytical…

The Italian Ministry of Labor and Social Policy (MLPS) is a branch of the Italian government responsible for all labormatters, including employment policies, promotions, worker protection, and social security. In its evolution towards a digital government, MLPS is streamlining and simplifying its administrative processes. MLPS has embarked on a data-driven journey to redefine business models…

Oracle has recently released a new big data product. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph offers a set of analytic services and data models that support Big Data workloads on Apache Hadoop and NoSQL database technologies. Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph includes two main components. A property graph database with 35 built-in graph analytics…

With more and more malware attacks each minute, well-publicized and costly data breaches, device proliferation, and individuals profiting from the misuse of valuable data, protecting your Oracle Database data end-to-end has never been more critical. Join experts from the Oracle Managed Cloud Services team and Oracle’s ZFS Storage team to learn about key considerations and…