When storage indexes kick in, the number of blocks that need to be returned from the storage cells drop dramatically. Since the storage cells can provide many blocks very quickly most of the time in big accesses is usually loading that information into the compute nodes. But storage indexes don't always kick in the way…

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 Our customer, a US based insurer wished to move their on premise 12.0.6 EBS system to the Oracle Cloud in an as-is migration. In an ideal scenario, we could have upgraded to a supported OS and release and then done the migration but due to the constrained timelines and criticality…

Original Broadcast: April 26, 2017 I've been working to bring Exadata into Walgreens Boots Alliance EMEA since mid 2015. The first workloads are now live and we're planning other ones.    WBA is the world's largest pharmacy-led pharmaceutical company, with nearly 500,000 employees, globally, working in at least 45 countries.    The level of technical…

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017
Exadata has become one of the most popular Database machine recently and I have seen a lot of Exadata customer trying to Implement Exadata themselves. Customers have many reasons to implement Exadata by themselves but most of the time its money, they think it’s too expensive to hire a True Exadata Consultant. It’s important to understand that there is a different between Exadata Migration and Exadata Implementation and If you don’t have skills to implement Exadata in-house, most like your will end up just doing a data migration. Not only, you will not achieve extreme performance from your Exadata Machine, you will not get good return on your investment due to higher utilization of Hardware Resources.

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017 The purpose of this presentation is to provide real-world augmented database migration procedures that allowed us to successfully achieve the migrations of 54 business critical databases to Exadata x5-2 of different sizes and Operating Systems. The presentation will layout the different possible migration technologies that meets the business demands such…

Original Broadcast: April 25, 2017 Security configuration and features are available at many levels in Oracle Exadata Database Machine. Attend this session and learn security fundamentals directly from Oracle Development.  This session will focus on the storage and OS layers with an overview of the database-layer security options and best practices. We will outline necessary…

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service combines the renowned power of the Exadata database platform with the operational simplicity and pay-as-you-grow economics of the cloud. With Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service, you can run your Oracle Databases in the Oracle Public Cloud with the same functionality, performance, and availability experienced by thousands of organizations deploying Exadata…

Part of the November 2016 Exadata Virtual Conference (Day 2) Original Broadcast: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 Exadata Cloud Machine and Exadata Cloud Service extend the customer acquisition and deployment models for Exadata. The Cloud deployment models enable customers to experience the Exadata Cloud on premises or in the Oracle Public Cloud. With these acquisition models,…