This presentation will cover Oracle’s Acceleration, especially with the Oracle Cloud, and the Cycles of Innovation in the world.  We'll also look at a case study of We’ll then look at the current Acceleration of the Cloud, the Big Data Revolution and some of the Big Data Solutions out there including Oracle’s Big Data Solution. …

Management has decided to go to the Cloud. Now what?

For the past couple of years, Cloud along with Big Data has become the go to buzz-word in technology circles. Cloud has moved from being a promise to reality. How do you go about migrating and integrating the traditional on-premise database to the Cloud?

This presentation will focus on strategies to migrate your Oracle database ecosystem to the Cloud. Whether you selected the Oracle Cloud or Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure, there are various tools & techniques that are well suited to do this work. The planning and selection of tools & techniques will depend on the size of the database, the network connectivity, availability/outage requirements & resources available. Best practices and real-world examples will be shared so the Cloud migration can be done with confidence.

Oracle offers data scientists and those with an Oracle background who are interested in learning data science the opportunity to perform highly sophisticated analytics on humongous data sets without requiring years of specialized study and arcane knowledge acquisition. Using Oracle Big Data Discovery, Oracle Big Data SQL, and Oracle R Advanced Analytics for Hadoop complement…

We walk through the end-to-end process of provisioning an Oracle Compute Cloud instance from scratch - adding storage, defining firewall rules, creating a private key, and connecting through SSH and VNC. Then we do the same thing with Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2. Speed of provisioning is one of the benefits of the cloud, so…

Oracle Enterprise Manager is Oracle’s on-premises management platform, providing a single pane of glass for managing backup and recovery of Oracle deployments, whether they are in your data centers or in the Oracle Cloud. Through deep integration with Oracle’s product stack, Oracle Enterprise Manager provides market-leading management and automation of backup and recovery for Oracle applications, databases, middleware, hardware, and…

With the increased adoption of the Cloud, security professionals often face the challenge where they have to apply security controls efficiently for databases both on-premise and in the Cloud. This session will address the challenges related to managing audit data collection and encryption keys in hybrid scenarios, by maintaining the audit data and encryption keys…

One of the best classes I took in my eMBA program was one centered on conflict resolution. Most folks don’t know how to handle challenging people and often resort to personal defense mechanisms which don’t always work. This session is built from a page taken from that class and will give key examples and specific strategies for combating…

Joins, sorts and other temp operations are commonly the top performance bottleneck for well-tuned data warehouse and mixed workload databases. Exadata, by default, does not optimize these operations and Smart Flash Cache is not yet used for temp. This session presents a case study of how Amway and Centroid worked together to maximize join and…

It's truly a Mash-up World, and it wouldn't be possible without API's. API's are the front gateway to the outside world for Mobile and Cloud integration.  API Management tools are available to allow organizations to create, deploy, and manage API's for an integrated Application ecosystem.  We'll discuss what makes API's different from SOA and ESB’s,…

In complex application environments, controlling privileged users and restricting direct database access are examples of the security challenges that organizations must solve in order to have a secure and compliant implementation. This session will examine how Oracle Database Vault can be used to mitigate complex security challenges within application environments.  Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle…