IOUG Member Town Hall and "Changing the Security Access of the Privileged User"

IOUG Member Town Hall and "Changing the Security Access of the Privileged User"

IOUG Member Town Hall and "Changing the Security Access of the Privileged User"

Original Broadcast: 5.8.13
Featured Speaker: John Diamond, Principal Solutions Architect at Entuity  

Oracle Enterprise Manager has made tremendous advances in managing the critical technologies that interact to ensure application availability and performance. But an important piece is missing—the network. Without information about how the network is supporting your crucial applications and databases, you’re left with a major risk—a blind spot in service delivery.

Entuity, a global leader in enterprise network management, integrates with Oracle Enterprise Manager (11g and 12c) to add network events and status data, as well as an integrated view that individual solutions can't match. 

Entuity includes a unique feature for logically grouping network components that support specific business functions or geographies. Network services can be designated as Oracle Enterprise Manager targets and, when combined with other targets such as servers, databases, and applications, they can provide a complete systems view of service delivery. This powerful association allows users to better monitor application health by detecting potential network problems that may be affecting application service delivery. 

Join us for a live demo, where you’ll learn:

• The importance of the network in supporting business critical application availability and performance

• How the Entuity integration to Enterprise Manager can add network events and status to other EM targets to provide a comprehensive view of application service delivery

• How to proactively spot problems and decrease MTTR by eliminating blind spots in application delivery chain

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Original Broadcast: 5.1.13
Featured Speaker: Victor Mejia, Chief Executive Officer, VLM Systems

After completing this workshop, attendees will understand the concepts, and deploy enterprise applications in minutes using Oracle VM Templates, Zero-Downtime Kernel updates, and migration strategies to implement and manage public and private Oracle Clouds.

Strategies taught in this session:
* How to deploy Oracle applications quickly and easily with Oracle VM Templates
* Oracle Linux Zero-Downtime Kernel Updates with Ksplice
* Live Migrations of Oracle VMs
* Coverting from VMware to Oracle VM
* Monitoring of Oracle Cloud structure and Management with Oracle 12c Grid Control

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Original Broadcast: 4.17.2013
Featured Speakers: Catlin Gordon, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, EMC and David Robertson, Principal Corporate Systems Engineer, EMC

Discover best practices for using Data Domain systems to boost your Oracle backup and recovery with 50% faster backup and reduced impact on server and network resources. This session details the options for deploying Data Domain systems to gain faster, more efficient backup and disaster recovery of your Oracle databases. In addition, learn how DD Boost for Oracle RMAN is the only solution that provides DBAs complete control of backup and disaster recovery.

 After this session you will be able to:

Objective 1:
 Leverage best practices for implementing Data Domain systems to gain 50% faster Oracle backups.
 
Objective 2:
 Learn from expert presenters about how DD Boost reduces the impact on the network and Oracle server.
 
Objective 3:
 Discover how Data Domain Boost for Oracle RMAN gives DBAs complete control of backup and disaster recovery.

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Original Broadcast: 4.2.13

Featured Speaker: Suzanne Strasser

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c provides a rich set of metrics for monitoring database health and alerting when problems are encountered. In this educational webcast we will demonstrate the steps needed to set up and customize metrics monitoring in OEM to meet the needs of your business. We will also cover the use of management repository views to access historical metrics data for performing additional analyses and graphics presentation outside of OEM. Join this webcast to learn how to:

• Identify and describe the steps needed to implement administration groups / template collection associations in order to customize monitoring requirements for various targets based on the needs of your business;

• Build queries using the OEM management repository views to extract metric data for historical analysis, trending, and graphing; and

• Identify how OEM uses rollup tables to summarize metric data on an hourly and daily basis.

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Original broadcast: 3.26.13
Featured Speaker: Bryan Vongray, Senior Principal Technical Support Engineer,  Global Product Support, Database: RAC

RACcheck is designed to be a proactive self-service method for customers to perform Health Checks on their RAC systems.  RACcheck validates and provides system specific feedback on configuration issues, Best Practices and Success Factors within a user friendly HTML report.  The overall Goal of RACcheck is to reduce the number of reactive issues with RAC by providing proper knowledge of configuration issues, Best Practice and Success Factors and how these "potential issues" can impact the target system.

During this 1 hour educational Webinar, you will:
 - Gain a fundamental understanding of Best Practices and Success Factors
 - Learn the features available within RACcheck
 - Observe a live demo of RACcheck

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Originally Broadcasted: 3.7.13

Costs  Increasing numbers of users, devices, and applications require real time concurrent access to ever larger amounts of enterprise data.  To keep pace with these rapidly changing business needs, IT infrastructure has transformed to leverage faster networks, multi-core CPUs, and server virtualization technologies to scale operations.  But storage hasn’t kept pace with these new requirements.  In fact, storage is frequently found to be the bottleneck.  This session will deliver a technical deep dive on how Violin Memory eliminates that IO wait by substantially improving storage latency, CPU utilization, and by extension per-CPU software license costs.  ‘The Violin Effect’ not only saves per-CPU software license and datacenter floor space costs, but also makes virtualizing Tier 1 databases a reality.

Featured Speaker: Bryan Wood, Solutions Architect, Violin Memory

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Originally Broadcasted 3.5.2013

If you’re like most DBAs, you may have gotten blamed for application performance issues at one time or another. Maybe the root cause of a problem did originate in the database, but maybe it didn’t. It can be difficult to tell—especially when communication among the application, storage, virtualization, and database teams isn’t in perfect sync.

In this educational webcast, we’ll explore how you can get the true full picture of the entire environment, without putting in the manual work native tools require. You’ll learn tricks to:

• View enterprise-level performance at a glance
• Identify servers and resource areas where performance degradation originates
• Diagnose and resolve issues quickly with drill-downs and built-in expert advice
• Automate performance metric analysis and responses for fast issue resolution
• Use built-in workflow functionality to craft solution templates unique to your environment
• Ensure complete coverage with the lowest possible overhead

Featured Speakers: Jason Hall, Manager, Systems Consulting, Dell and Scott Stone, Senior Product Manager, Foglight for Oracle, Dell

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Originally Broadcasted: 2.27.2013

Featured Speaker: Jordan Meyer, Principal Consultant, Rittman Mead

Interested in what to do with the vast, unstructured social data on sites like Twitter and Facebook? This presentation will help you discover how to combine social network data, advanced analytics and visualization to find important patterns in the social web. Demonstrations will use Oracle R and Oracle Business Intelligence with real-world data sets to perform tasks including: acquiring social network data, identifying important members of a network, detecting communities, monitoring sentiment and sharing your analysis through OBIEE dashboards.

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Originally Broadcasted: 2.20.13

The Cloudera Impala project is for the first time making scalable parallel database technology, which is the underpinning of Google's Dremel as well as that of commercial analytic DBMSs, available to the Hadoop community. With Impala, the Hadoop community now has an open-sourced codebase that allows users to issue low-latency queries to data stored in HDFS and Apache HBase using familiar SQL operators.
This talk will start out with an overview of Impala from the user's perspective, followed by a presentation of Impala's architecture and implementation, and will conclude with a comparison of Impala with Apache Hive, commercial MapReduce alternatives, and traditional data warehouse infrastructure.

Featured Speaker: Justin Erickson, Product manager at Cloudera for Impala, HDFS, HBase, and part of Hive

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Originally Broadcasted: 2.06.13

DBA’s rely on enterprise storage for availability and SLAs.  Once the storage servers begin reaching the IO limit, implementing the next SAN can be very costly.  In this webinar STEC Director of Systems Architecture Gurinder Brar and Chief Solutions Architect Bruce Moxon will present how DBA’s can utilize server side SSDs and Oracle ASM for significant cost savings, easily migrate read workloads to servers, provide faster reads, and extend the life of SAN.
Key benefits of the solution to be presented include:

•  Significantly faster DSS query processing time
• Deploys in minutes with no changes to the application 
• Maintains all existing backup, data protection, and high availability policies
• Offloads extensive read workloads from storage arrays for better utilization
•  Extends the life of existing storage infrastructure

Featured Speakers: Gurinder Brar, Director of Systems Architecture, STEC and Bruce Moxon, Chief Solutions Architect, STEC

Originally Broadcasted: 1.29.13

The explosion in volume, variety and velocity of information is creating new opportunities in the era of big data. With better information integration and governance for big data technologies, you can turn your data into trusted information that can be leveraged to find new insight and to answer questions that in the past were beyond reach. Join us as our panel of experts share case studies and their expertise to help you understand which best practices to prioritize and focus on, including data integration, data quality, data lifecycle, data security, MDM and more.

Featured Panel:

Jeff T. Pollock, Program Director, Product Management, Information Integration
Aarti Borkar, Program Director, Product Management, Lifecycle Management
Brian Vile, Program Director, Product Marketing, Security and Governance
Alex Bentley, Program Director, Product Management, IBM 

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Originally Broadcasted: January 9th, 2013
Featured Speaker: Gwen Shapira, Senior Consultant

From tracking customers in online stores to tweets and blog posts,
unstructured data is rapidly growing and businesses are looking for ways to analyze it. In this presentation, I will explain why storing and processing unstructured data is a challenge best answered by specialized systems such as Hadoop, I will dive into how Hadoop works and why it is such a scalable solution for managing unstructured data. And I will show how to integrate Hadoop with existing DWH systems on Oracle to allow using the data in existing BI tools and reports.

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Turbo Charge Your BI Implementation – A technical guide to extracting maximum power from your BI solution

Featured Speaker: Zahid Akhtar, Specialist Leader, Information Management at Deloitte

Originally Broadcasted: January 3rd 2013

This presentation will cover performance tuning approach and key principles for tuning a BI solution but a deep dive into Oracle Database Tuning and OBIEE server tuning.  The presentation will cover two use cases; 1 for a large and 2^nd for a small size implementation and how to modify available OS, Database and OBIEE parameters to extract maximum system performance and response.

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Originally Broadcasted: December 18th 2012

Microsoft SharePoint represents one of the fastest growing technology products of all time. Customers like SharePoint because it makes collaboration easy as sites can be created without IT's involvement. However, with this ease-of-use comes the explosion of sites containing content that IT eventually has difficulty managing. Factor in limited records management functionality and organizations may be faced with 100s of unmanaged sites containing orphaned content.  Join us for this webcast as we discuss use cases for SharePoint and why those use cases do not include enterprise content management. You will also learn how SharePoint and Oracle WebCenter can be integrated so that the benefits of each system can be leveraged but WebCenter becomes the system of record for enterprise content. Come hear how organizations are utilizing this integration to improve governance, compliance and security.

Featured Speaker: Jason Lamon, Senior Marketing Associate,Fishbowl Solutions- Oracle WebCenter partner

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Originally Broadcasted: December 17th 2012

This session covers Amazon's top selling Oracle Database book by Rich Niemiec, Oracle 11g Release 2 Performance Tuning book, and what's inside.  It is technical and also contains around 30 tech tips to put in your arsenal including:  a little Oracle history, interval partitioning, invisible indexes, function-based indexes, top 25 initialization parameters, flush buffer cache, SQL performance analyzer, xplan, table joins, extended statistics, exadata, grid control, bind peeking, v$ & x$ scripts, AWR Report, block dumps, latches & mutexes, and some system ratings guides.

Featured Speaker: Rich Niemiec, Oracle Ace Director

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This session will cover how best to leverage the WebCenter REST API and create cross-device compliant mobile and desktop applications using a single code base. We will review web-based frameworks like Jquery mobile, Zepto, Sencha Touch, Phonegap, Appcelerator & Adobe Air. Learn how these frameworks can enable content from WebCenter to be pulled, synced, and even stored locally for when instant access to content without internet access.

Featured Speaker: John Sim, Senior Software Consultant

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Originally Broadcasted: December 12, 2012

Jailbreak /ˈjālˌbrāk/:
"To get out of a restricted mode of operation." - PCMAG.com

Featured Speaker: Daniel Young, Manager of Enterprise Database Administration at Indiana University

As organizational and operational costs continue to increase and technical funding seems to dwindle, all organizations must do more with less. Come and see how Indiana University has harnessed the power of database virtualization to jailbreak the DBA! Utilizing the practices of standardization, automation and consolidation, listen how the University provides highly successful, fully virtualized, enterprise class Oracle services to over 120,000 students, faculty and staff. 
 
During this webinar, you will discover how Oracle Databases, running atop VMware virtualization technologies:
 
• Reduced Administrative Database Errors and Overhead    (Standardization)
• Fostered Reusable and Repeatable Database Processes  (Automation)
• Unshackled Database Administrator Productivity              (Consolidation)
 
Please join us as we contemplate how these guiding principles have allowed University Database Administration staff to focus on the important and not the mundane, even amidst head-count reductions and learn how you too can Jailbreak the DBA!

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Originally Broadcasted: December 5th

Cloud applications have changed how we think about and work with our customer data, However, these systems have also significantly complicated getting real-time reports that we rely on to make sound business decisions. What you really need is a solution that enables real-time reporting across Cloud and your SQL-based on-premise systems!
Progress DataDirect has created a way to improve application efficiency, as well as enable your Oracle and other ODBC/JDBC applications to have SQL Access to your Cloud Applications.
Join us for a webinar where we will present a demo of Oracle SQL Developer, in conjunction with Database Gateway for ODBC (DG4ODBC) connecting to Salesforce.com – just as you would connect to SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, or any other relational database, with a SQL application!
Register today to learn:
• Why Cloud application data is difficult to include in your existing reporting tools.
• How to Make your Cloud Applications data look like Oracle
• How to get more value out of your Cloud tools

Don't miss this opportunity to discover how Cloud data and Oracle data can communicate with one another more efficiently.

Presented by: Sumit Sarkar

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Originally Broadcasted: December 4th 2012

Moore’s law has not stopped.  The growing volume of big data and the drastic reduction in the cost of memory have paved the way for in-memory databases and in-memory computing.  But in-memory does much more than just provides fast performance against big data.  In this session targeted to developers and DBAs in the trenches, you will learn the important architectural trends behind in-memory, the technical benefits and possibilities unlocked by in-memory, and how you can leverage in-memory databases and in-memory computing with your current IT landscape.

Featured Speaker: Doug Martino, Senior Director of SAP’s Data Warehouse Solutions and HANA Platform

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Originally Broadcasted: November 27th 2012

The value of content management goes beyond having good content. Without the ability to easily find and share that content, web pages and other enterprise resources cannot be surfaced to the users that need them. This session will explore the pros and cons of search technologies available to Oracle WebCenter customers including Oracle Text Search, Secure Enterprise Search, and Database search, as well as the search capabilities available from the Google Search Appliance (GSA). We will discuss options for integrating the GSA with Oracle WebCenter Content, and will conclude by sharing use-case details from real-world customers on how the GSA helped optimize their web search capabilities.

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Featured Speaker: Greg Bollom, Director of Software Development

Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware

Raising the Bar with Oracle on Vblock(tm) Systems
Speaker: Samir Shah, VCE

Learn how VCE delivers a pre-engineered and validated converged infrastructure to reduce costs, speed time to value and de-risk Oracle deployments. Gain an inside perspective on harnessing the power of Vblock(tm) Systems to ensure and predictab

Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware

Storage Best Practices for Oracle on VMware
Speaker: Jeff Browning, EMC

Storage is a key component of any virtualized infrastructure. The speaker will discuss storage hardware and software capabilities, and provide a comprehensive set of storage best practices designed to enhance performance, scalability and availability of Oracle databases running in a VMware environment.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware

Oracle Virtualization Best Practices for VMware Support
Speaker: Behrang Mehr, VMware

This session will focus on best practices from a VMware support perspective. VMware support will show attendees how to avoid common mistakes, misunderstandings of configurations and best practices learned from the trenches. Behrang has been an Oracle DBA Senior Engineer at VMware since 2010. He is also an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP).

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 8th 2012 - Oracle on VMware

Virtualization Oracle
Speaker: Mark Achtemichuck and Don Sullivan

The world has moved beyond wondering if critical workloads can be virtualized.  The issue of interest today is how to maximize the benefit of virtualizing challenging workloads like Oracle databases.  This session will take a detailed look at how and why Oracle runs better on vSphere than on hardware, and shows how you can analyze workloads to achieve similar results and be prepared to address typical operational issues.  Mark Achtemichuck (VCDX) is a VMware Performance Specialist, and will dive deeper into how vSphere architectural considerations are related to these key characteristics, and provide guidance on efficiently analyzing and responding to performance issues you may encounter in daily operation.  Don Sullivan is an Oracle Certified Master as well as an Oracle Tier One Specialist at VMware.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 7th 2012 - Oracle on Oracle VM

Simplifying Application Deployment in Cloud Using Virtual Assemblies and EM 12c
Speaker: Kai Yu, Dell Oracle Solutions Engineering

Oracle virtual assemblies provide a great way to simplify the deployment of enterprise-class multi-tier applications and their configuration dependencies. Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder 11gR1 can create Oracle virtual assembly packages by capturing the state of an installed application topology. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c can deploy there assemblies in the cloud resulting in fully operational application stack within minutes. This session will walk you step by step through the Oracle virtual assembly creation process. This session will also demostrate how you can use Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control to deploy an assembly in a self-service cloud built on a Dell platform.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 7th 2012 - Oracle on Oracle VM

Speaker: Ronen Kofman, Director Product Management, Oracle VM, Oracle

Oracle VM has come a long way with great customer interest and analyst recognition. In addition to the application-driven architecture and design to scale, Oracle VM continues to drive integrated management into all aspects of the product. Join us in this session to get a technical deep dive of the latest features in Oracle VM and expanded management support.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 7th 2012 - Oracle on Oracle VM

The RAC Oracle VM Templates and the New DeployCluster Tool on OVM3
Speaker: Saar Maoz, Consulting Software Engineer, Oracle Corporation
The popular RAC OVM templates were refreshed this summer to more optimally support OVM3. A new tool called DeployCluster allows for even faster automation then ever! End to end (including network setup) clsuter build with no Dom0 or Guest VM access. All previously released RAC tempates can be mixed and matches and full backwards compatibility is retained for OVM2 users. Come see for yourself how easy it is to deploy RAC in an OVM2 environment. Demos will be show live as time permits.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 7th 2012- Maximizing your Virtualized Environment with Oracle VM
Speakers: Roger Lopez, Dell

Virtualization has played a critical role in providing customers a solution in consolidating servers, faster deployment, and providing energy efficient datacenters. These value adds can lead to quicker time-to-market solutions, reduced cost and enable automation of many routine tasks. With the introduction of OVM 3.x, Oracle delivers a solution to meet those exact needs. This session will discuss Oracle VM best practices, explores key feature sets found within Oracle VM's new and improved Oracle VM Manager, and explain how to deploy templates, specifically the OVM3 RAC templates. This session will interest architects and system administrators.

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Originally Broadcasted: IOUG Virtualization SIG Online Symposium
November 7th 2012 - Oracle on Oracle VM

Oracle on Oracle VM - Expert Panel
Panelists: Tariq Farooq, Honglin Su, Kai Yu, Mike Ault, Dr. Bert Scalzo

Virtualization is the foundation stone in the cloud computing era. In this session, expert panelists and speakers present, detail and elaborate on a comprehensive concepts overview, insights, recommendations, best practices, current strategies, pros and cons, relevance/role in cloud computing, prevalent/dominant paradigms and technologies and a whole lot more about virtualization as it relates to Oracle DBAs - from the perspective of Oracle on Oracle VM.

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Testing the Bounds of Data Governance

Upgrades, migrations, customizations... With the demands of business, organizations continue to push for more rapid test and development. The pressure to deliver quality applications and functionality is challenging test and development teams to find better ways to streamline and improve their processes. So how can you meet these challenges and improve the quality of your applications and data?

In this webcast, we will review the findings of the (2012 IOUG Test, Development and QA Survey) and discuss the best practices and issues that it highlights. This survey explored the demands and challenges that test, development and QA teams are facing, and the best practices which they are employing to overcome them. Join us for this educational and interactive webcast and receive a copy of the study.

Originally Broadcasted: November 15th 2012

Many businesses demand that their Oracle databases and mission critical applications have 4 nines (unplanned downtime: 52.56 minutes) or 5 nines (unplanned downtime 5.26 minutes) availability per year as the associated loss of revenue can be millions of dollars. Oracle DBAs are looking for solutions that meet the availability challenges with these goals: active / active access to the database across data centers, certified with Oracle RAC and single instance, no additional DBA complexity, dynamic scalability and open to other integrated technology stacks. This webcast will cover the  Virtualization of Extended Oracle RAC environments with EMC VPLEX and provide best practices for meeting Oracle database and application high availability needs.  After viewing this webcast, an Oracle DBA will  have a high availability solution to present to the business for meeting SLAs for business critical databases and applications.

Featured Speakers: Sam Lucido and Kannan Mani

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How to build data security into big data environments
To be competitive, organizations are taking advantage of today's data explosion to grow business while controlling costs and reducing risks.
At the same time, organizations must come to terms with the security challenges they introduce.  Big data environments allow organizations to aggregate and share more and more data — much of which is financial, personal, intellectual property or other types of sensitive data.  

The good news: You don’t have to feel overwhelmed when it comes to securing big data environments. Find out how you can apply the same fundamentals of securing databases, data warehouses and file share systems for securing Hadoop-based environments to prevent data leaks, ensure the integrity of information and automate compliance controls.

You will learn more about:

• Unique challenges of big data environments
• How to prioritize data security for Hadoop environments
• Three tips to improve security in big data environments
• IBM InfoSphere® Guardium® data security and privacy solutions for big data

Featured Speaker: Kimberly Madia, IBM

Originally broadcasted: Nov. 6th 2012

This thought-provoking webinar for developers and DBAs in the trenches looks at the demands Big Data analytics is placing on data management architectures and why they need to evolve. We will examine why new approaches like in-memory databases, columnar data stores, and Hadoop technologies are now feasible for today’s database environment, and the value they deliver to DBAs and developers alike. In this webcast you will discover:

• Why the future belongs to in-memory databases
• Why Hadoop will play an important role in tomorrow’s IT landscape
• Why column databases are a ‘must have’ for analytics and reporting

Featured Speakers:
David Jonker, Director of Big Data SAP & Will Gardella, Senior Director of SAP Research's global Big Data program

Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Jeff Shauer
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Originally Broadcast: 8.15.12

Featured Speaker: James Taylor, CEO Decision Management Services- Keynote Speaker

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Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Balaji Yelamachili, VP Oracle- Keynote Speaker

Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Robert Davis

Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Matt Brandwein, Oracle Corporation

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Oracle Advanced Analytics, Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Big Data, Exalytics- What, Where, When?
Originally Broadcasted: 8.15.12
Featured Speaker: Charlie Berger, Oracle Corporation

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Originally Broadcasted: 8.15.12
Featured Speaker: Bob Sakowiak, Oracle Corporation

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Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Mike Donohue, Oracle Corporation

Originally Broadcasted: 8.16.12
Featured Speaker: Sunil Ranka, FCS

Originally Broadcasted: 8.15.12
Featured Speaker: Shyam Varan Nath, IBM - 2012 BIWA SIG President

Originally Broadcasted: 8.15.12
Featured Speaker: Marty Gubar

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Original broadcast date: Oct. 18th 2012

Listen to Dan and Tim as they kibbutz on what they saw, heard, (and didn’t hear) at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. This recording will feature Dan and Tim’s light-hearted take on Larry’s big announcements and what it all means for the real world of Oracle BI, big data, and analytics.  

Specific topics covered include:
•         Exadata X3 and other BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS
•         Oracle Cloud, Cloud formations, and other weather phenomenon
•         Buzz on BI and Analytics

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Originally broadcasted on: Oct. 19th 2012

This recording will provide details on the changes introduced to Oracle Exadata Database Machine with the Exadata X3 release made during Oracle Open World 2012. We'll review the hardware changes as well as new software features introduced with Exadata version 11.2.3.2.0 that was introduced at the same time. There are many updates on both the hardware and software areas, so prepare for a lot of information to come your way!

Specific topics to be covered include:
•         Exadata X3 and other BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS
•         Oracle Cloud, Cloud formations, and other weather phenomenon
•         Buzz on BI and Analytics

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Originally broadcasted on April 16th 2012
Speakers: Honglin Su and Gregory King

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Originally broadcasted on Jully 11th 2012

Speakers: Honglin Su and Jeff Savit, both with Oracle

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Abstract:

Industry-specific, pre-built data warehouse solutions from Oracle leverage the full set of Oracle's ETL/ELT technologies, Business Intelligence and analytical products.  Solution includes industry standards-based schema, metadata, analytical models, role-based dashboards and reports built for a given industry. Current coverage includes Communications & Media, Retail & CPG, Airlines & Transportation, Utility & Energy, and Healthcare.  These provide a secure and scalable underpinning foundations that are both adaptable and extensible, and maximizing the exchange of information among systems e.g. CRM, and other key data intensive business initiatives. This session provides a glimpse on the Industry-specific Data warehouse offerings from Oracle and their support for analyzing the big sensor data these industries generate because it’s often where tech is most useful and impactful. 

 Take-aways: 

• Oracle’s  Industry-specific data warehouse is a COTS solutions as opposed to build-from-scratch”
• Industry DW solution enables context specific analyzing of industrial big data to maximize investment
• Measurable ROI – Short-term - labor and development cost ; long-term - corporate data underpinning

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BI-Apps 101 - From Installation to Configuration with Devang Pandya

Session will provide overview of BI applications (7.9.6.3) and its different components such as Informatica and DAC and also higlightes overall architecture for BI Applications 7.9.6.3.

Later part will be covering installation steps for each of the components of the BI apps along with required configuration.

 Abstract:

Blue Medora demonstrates Enterprise Manager 12c's ability to monitor and manage highly scalable heterogeneous virtualization environments. The extensibility of EM12c will be demonstrated via a new EDK-based plug-in that provides comprehensive monitoring and management of critical VMware-based virtualization infrastructures.  

In this educational Webinar, Blue Medora offers a case study of:

•      Automatic remote discovery of a production VMware environment
•      Monitoring VMware utilization of CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, and other KPIs
•      and tuning the monitored environment through VMware specific jobs and configuration management to achieve optimal performance infrastructure-wide.

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Agenda: 

Oracle BI 11.1.1.6 New Features

Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2 Code Templates and Heterogeneous Database Access with Bob Griesemer

Products: Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2

Target Audience: DBA's, Database Engineers, ETL specialists, anyone wanting a look at the latest release of the Warehouse builder particularly for accessing non-Oracle databases using the new Code Templates. Users who are familiar with ETL using other tools will benefit from the discussion as well as current users of the previous version of OWB looking to move to the latest release.

Abstract: The introduction will be a brief overview of OWB and Oracle’s direction with OWB and ODI.

Then it will include some discussion of OWB 11.2 vs the previous 11.1 release and the interface changes as an introduction for those who might be using 11.1 now and want to upgrade. The Design Center will be demonstrated to show the new interface and some of the new features added to this most recent release.

Building Next-Generation Predictive Analytics Applications using Oracle Data Mining with Charlie Berger

How to Enhance Performance of OBIEE Tech Stack with Sunil Ranka

Women in Technology – Mentoring Professional Women

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Delivering Value with Big Data and Agile with Ian Abramson

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Securing MySQL with Sheeri Cabral

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 Agenda:

• Organizational Challenges
• Types of virtualization
• CPU Scheduling and Resource Allocation
• What you as a DBA need to know to thrive in a virtualized environment