As prices for flash storage arrays begin to drop we expect to see a shift away from storage arrays based on spinning disk drives, especially when the effects of deduplication, compression, thin provisioning and lower power requirements are factored in to enterprise cost calculations.  Some arrays already on the market have an effective capacity greater…

DBAs have had manual systems for migrating data between storage tiers for many years. But now, Oracle Database 12c and Oracle FS Flash Storage System provide powerful new techniques. This session compares and contrasts the Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) Heat Map and Oracle FS Flash Storage System Heat Map features, and details how and when…

Original Broadcast: March 8, 2016 Database I/O wait events can dramatically slow down your business-critical OLTP applications and add continual stress to your life as a DBA.  Your ability to troubleshoot and pinpoint the top I/O culprits and address them with a high performance storage infrastructure improves the responsiveness of your Oracle Database and applications you’re responsible for.  Join this session to…

By addressing the database performance issues that are commonly caused by poorly performing storage, flash storage is poised to rapidly replace traditional hard drives in the enterprise data center for applications such as Oracle databases. In this webinar, we use examples to demonstrate how radically the database performance can be improved when using a Kaminario…

Original Broadcast: 10.7.2014 By addressing the database performance issues that are commonly caused by poorly performing storage, flash storage is poised to rapidly replace traditional hard drives in the enterprise data center for applications such as Oracle databases. In this presentation we will use examples to demonstrate how radically the database performance can be improved…