A database cloud is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. These resources can include servers, storage, applications, and services, which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort. Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) provides the required functionality to enable such a database cloud. You…

Oracle Database security checklists and standards are focused on one database, not 1,000 databases. The significant challenge is when you have 100, 500, 1,000, or even 10,000 Oracle Databases in your organization to protect. In order to protect and securely maintain a thousand Oracle Databases requires an enterprise database security framework and database security program.…

Attendees are introduced to the new and improved features of Oracle 11g (both Oracle 11g R1 and Oracle 11g R2) that directly impact application development. Special emphasis is placed on features that reduce development time, make development simpler, improve performance, or speed deployment. Specific topics include: New SQL functions, virtual columns, result caching, XML improvements,…

Many of today’s application interfaces are Web-based and dynamic using the power of relational databases like Oracle and MySQL to provide “live” data on demand. This capability has made modern Web-based applications key to many business processes. But BEWARE; unwitting coding practices may lead to something called “SQL Injection” where someone taking advantage of poorly…

You want to run your database in a high availability configuration, Oracle RAC provides the great solution to achieve the high availability against the server failure. However Oracle RAC license can be very expensive especially if your database is running running on a physical server with a high number of CPU cores. Are there any…

Virtualization technology provides the solution to enable the server partition and consolidation for improving the resource utilization and archiving the great flexibility and high availability. Combining Oracle VM with Oracle RAC provides the Database Cloud ready architecture to consolidate the data center infrastructure. The new Oracle VM 3.0 release not only improved the scalability, but…

One key way of increasing employee productivity is by bringing together people, processes, and content—providing new social capabilities to enable business users to quickly correspond and collaborate on business activities. Attend this session to hear how Oracle Social Network is  enabling businesses to transform themselves into social enterprises.

Oracle continues to raise the bar when it comes to storage, particularly with 11gR2, the Sun acquisition, and Exastack. But now there are are a plethora of acronyms - ACFS, Direct NFS, ASM, OCFS2, QFS, ZFS, SAN, NAS - what exactly do they all mean? In addition to the various types of file systems, exciting…

Oracle continues to raise the bar when it comes to storage, particularly with 11gR2, the Sun acquisition, and Exastack. But now there are are a plethora of acronyms - ACFS, Direct NFS, ASM, OCFS2, QFS, ZFS, SAN, NAS - what exactly do they all mean? In addition to the various types of file systems, exciting…

Data is critical to any organization and many government and commercial organizations store personal and sensitive data such as social security numbers, and credit card numbers in their databases. Today`s computer industry environment involves global collaboration between companies and persons accessing the enterprise database systems to create and maintain applications. Many organizations import some production…