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…

The benefits of knowing your data before embarking on a BI or big data project are endless. Sure you can buy a tool to help with this. Or you could use R, an open source tool. This session will dig into methods for using R to connect to your data source to see visual and…

After 10 years of existence the cloud industry would have you believe it is a mature stable industry that is safe and secure to take your business too. Yet the secret of the insiders in the know is Caveat Emptor, or in English Buyer Beware. We will discuss the state of the cloud today, Lessons…

After 10 years of existence the cloud industry would have you believe it is a mature stable industry that is safe and secure to take your business too. Yet the secret of the insiders in the know is Caveat Emptor, or in English Buyer Beware. We will discuss the state of the cloud today, Lessons…

There is a strong perception among ORACLE DBAs that Hadoop is a "thing" for developers. One can't use it effectively, unless he or she is is a decent Java programmer, able to write sophisticated MapReduce jobs. Nothing can be further from the truth! Hadoop is all about managing data, so, of course, it still needs…

  By introducing In-Memory column store, Oracle Database In-Memory (DBIM) significantly improves the performance for analytic queries as well as mixed workloads.  Come to this session to learn Oracle Database In Memory under the hood:  the dual format memory architecture and configuration, how the data is populated into In-Memory column store and  it helps query…

  By introducing In-Memory column store, Oracle Database In-Memory (DBIM) significantly improves the performance for analytic queries as well as mixed workloads.  Come to this session to learn Oracle Database In Memory under the hood:  the dual format memory architecture and configuration, how the data is populated into In-Memory column store and  it helps query…

DW & BI databases are growing ever bigger while analytical users continue demanding fast performance. While Exadata may be a great solution, not everyone can afford such a capital investment. Oracle ACE Bert Scalzo will highlight simple yet effective methods to utilize flash based storage technology to significantly improve performance with the least cost, effort…

Big Data analytics furnishes actionable information to help make business decisions. E.g., "Which of our products got four stars rating on social media in the last quarter?” Producing actionable information requires both Big Data as well as Master Data i.e., products, customers, usually stored in Oracle database. This technical session describes Oracle Datasource for Apache…

Cloud solutions continue to expand into the mainstream with obvious material value for businesses that have historical focused on on-premise solutions. With all major concerns for security in the cloud addressed by bank grade encryption, the question is now, how much of the on-premise software can be migrated to the cloud and how can it…