OCS (Oracle Collaboration Suite) is a legacy Oracle Middleware offering that was used by a team of researchers to run a KM (Knowledge Management) Portal for DoD (US Dept. of Defense) experimentation. While the team was amongst the beta users and the experience ground-breaking, over time OCS showed it…

Organizations of all sizes face challenges in keeping track of users of Information Technology systems. Siloed applications, cloud based services and legacy systems make it difficult for managers to know "who has access to what". In this session, we will demonstrate Oracle's solution to managing this informatio…

During this deep dive, the speaker will walk you through many database deployments scenarios, explain their pros and cons and demonstrate how to decide on HA architecture that's most appropriate for your project. We will start from learning how to define and quantify high availability requirements as well as…

This presentation will focus on the Oracle Clusteware/RAC Installation and Management by using a 16-node 11.2 installation. We will talk about design consideration including pre-reqs, hardware and network setup. We will go over all the Clusterware/RAC installation steps with screenshots. We will then focu…

This session gives an overview of best practices and tools to diagnose performance problems. The focus of the presentation is the platform Linux on z.

If you have been working with Oracle UCM and Site Studio, Oracle’s acquisition of FatWire has introduced some uncertainty. Are you unsure what “web experience management” means for your company? What is the proper path for my existing Site Studio sites? How can I best utilize WebCenter Sites in my…

An overview of High Availability Solutions with MySQL with case studies of customer deployments in the field

Understanding the ‘TRUE’ High Availability (HA) requirements for the systems is the most critical component in providing and configuring the desired HA for the application. Business and IT must have a common understanding regarding the cost associated with the expected HA. The associated cost and the ‘TRU…

This is a two-part session that will take place on Monday and Tuesday. Database shrinking can be overwhelming. Don’t let this feature intimidate you; let it become a powerful friend! This session describes why shrinking is needed and just how to go about using it. Being forewarned and forearmed will decrease…