Oracle 3rd Thursday Tech Talks

3rd Thursday Tech Talks are for those interested in infrastructure topics ranging from traditional data center to hybrid cloud as well as achieving the most out of Oracle cloud-ready Engineered Systems. The Tech Talks are intended to be technical, educational, and interactive. Attendees to the live broadcast may ask questions to the Oracle speakers who have significant depth of expertise on the topic.

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Beginning Time: 12:00 p.m. ET
Ending Time: 1:00 p.m. ET

Next 3rd Thursday Tech Talk

Maximizing the Availability and Performance of Oracle Engineered Systems – Aug 16

Duration: 1 hour

Aug 16, 2018: Maximizing the Availability and Performance of Oracle Engineered Systems

What Comes with Oracle Engineered Systems covered with Premier Support?

Disruptions in IT systems availability can seriously impact your business. When you choose Oracle Engineered Systems and Premier Support you can also gain access to enhanced support—Oracle Platinum Services—at no additional cost for certified configurations. Oracle Platinum Services can help you maximize the availability and performance of Oracle Engineered Systems with 24/7 remote fault notification, and patch deployment services all at no additional cost. This session will:

Provide an overview of Oracle Platinum Services focusing primarily on Remote Patch Installation
Discuss expectations, roles and responsibilities, certified configurations, scope, etc
Reveal how to begin taking advantage of this service today

SPEAKER:

Rob Grant
Senior Manager,
Engineered Systems Platinum Patching
Oracle Corporation

Rob Grant is a manager in the Oracle Engineered Systems - Platinum Delivery team. He has worked for Oracle Corporation since 1989, starting as a Support Engineer with Oracle 5.1. Rob has held many technical and management roles with Oracle in South Africa and the US. He currently manages the US Based Patching Engineer team and has global responsibility for Platinum Patching during the US day time. Rob lives in Colorado Springs.

On Demand Webcasts

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Overview

Title: July 19, 2018: The Virtues of Private Cloud Appliance vs Self-Assembly

Duration: 1 hour

Available On Demand

Summary

Do you need to get applications to users within hours, not days or weeks? If your organization can not make full use of public cloud due to regulation, security concerns, or bandwidth limitations, private cloud may provide many of the same benefits. But can you afford investing time and valuable resources on integrating and managing infrastructure? What about the risk of getting wrong?

Oracle’s Private Cloud Appliance (PCA) is an Engineered System designed to provide a private cloud infrastructure for Oracle and non-Oracle workloads. Unlike generic, self-assembled infrastructure, the Private Cloud Appliance is engineered together with Compute, Storage, Networking and Virtualization. PCA is simple to use and designed to go from power-on to production in hours. PCA includes virtualization –Oracle VM –at no additional cost, saving you money on licensing. Its built-in Multi tenancy, capacity on demand, Infrastructure as a Service and business continuity capabilities make it the ideal infrastructure for rapid deployment of mixed Linux, Windows and Solaris workloads.

This technical session will cover:

Provide an overview of the Private Cloud Appliance
Discuss key product features and capabilities
Review the positioning within Oracle’s Cloud and on-premises infrastructure offerings

Speaker

Bob Bownes
Principal Product Manager
Oracle Corporation

Bob Bownes serves as a Principal Product Manager for Oracle Linux and Virtualization and has been focused on the Private Cloud Appliance since its inception. Prior to his current role, Bob was an SE responsible for PCA offerings to commercial and Public Sector customers across the US and Canada. With Oracle for 9 years, Bob previously worked for Sun Microsystems. There he worked on the original SPARC systems, the 386i, Sun's first x86 system, and as Sun's onsite resource with General Electric Global Research & Development.

Overview

Title: June 2018: Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance - Optimized for Oracle Database

Duration: 54 minutes

Available On Demand

Summary

In modern business environments, the Oracle database supports key enterprise applications and workloads because that’s where critical information lives. This vital part of your IT landscape deserves a storage solution that is architected for the modern data center —not just something generic. The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance fills this requirement. As a high performance, enterprise-grade NAS solution, ZFS Storage provides simplified management of both storage and data services, an all-flash configuration for extreme performance, unique integration points with the Oracle Database, and tight integration with Oracle Engineering Systems. This technical session will provide an overview of the ZFS Storage Appliance. We will discuss key product features and capabilities, points of integration with the Oracle database and positioning within Oracle’s Cloud and on-premises infrastructure offerings.

Speakers

Cindy Swearingen
Principal Product Manager, ZFS
Oracle Corporation

Cindy is a principal product manager on the ZFS storage product management team. She has worked with the ZFS engineering team since 2003 in a variety of roles that include evangelizing the merits of ZFS storage internally and externally.

Greg Drobishr
Principal Software Engineer
Oracle Corporation

Greg is a Principal Software Engineer with the Oracle storage team. He has experience working with application integrations, solutions development and performance characterization with Oracle ZFS.

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May 2018: Hybrid Cloud Architecture Patterns Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: May 2018: Hybrid Cloud Architecture Patterns Duration: 52 minutes Available On Demand Summary When it comes to the generational shift towards cloud computing, most organizations believe there are two choices: either stay on-premise with existing infrastructure architectures and strategies or re-write applications for cloud native technologies and services. With such a stark contrast, many organizations are struggling with how to handle mission critical, legacy applications in the cloud. This discussion presents a third option: leverage Cloud Adjacent Architectures to bring legacy applications and assets closer to the cloud. This option presents organizations an easy way to modernize complex, critical applications without sacrificing the control. We will discuss principles, review examples, and show how this strategy presents organizations with a more measured approach toward IT transformation. Speakers Seth Hurley Manager Enterprise Systems Architects, Oracle Enterprise Architecture Certified Oracle Corporation Seth Hurley is a Manager of Enterprise Systems Architects for Oracle. Seth helps Fortune 1000 companies through generational transformations. His background in virtualization, cloud computing and enterprise architecture allow him to advise customers on the best way to adopt large amounts of technology and business change within complex organizations. Seth holds a BS in Computer Science. Rick Morreale Oracle Enterprise System Architect Oracle Corporation Rick Morreale is an Oracle Enterprise System Architect responsible for designing commercial business system architectures for customers to support ERP, PeopleSoft, E-Business Suite, SAP, BI/DW, CRM, RDBMS, database consolidation, among others. He leads discovery processes to identify business and technical requirements and address all aspects of capacity planning and analysis, system design, business case creation (including Total Cost of Ownership) of Oracle Cloud and Engineered Systems including backup, network, disaster recovery needs. Andrew McCallion Oracle Enterprise System Architect Oracle Corporation Andrew McCallion is an Oracle System Architect designing complex global infrastructures. He is a subject matter expert in SaaS deployments with an emphasis on architecting Hybrid Infrastructures that are scalable, cost effective, performant and secure. With significant in-house experience, across leading financial and retail institutions, Andrew brings real world customer perspective and hands-on knowledge to the discussion.
April 2018: Optimizing Oracle Database Performance Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: April 2018: Optimizing Oracle Database Performance Duration: 51 minutes Available On Demand Summary Oracle databases are at the heart of many of today’s business solutions and overall performance is often largely dependent on database performance. This session will provide best-practice recommendations that Administrators and Architects can follow for optimizing the performance of Oracle database. You will learn how to identify key performance indicators, classify relevant workloads, and analyze AWR reports to make meaningful improvements to Oracle performance. The session will focus primarily on transactional workloads with some discussion of data warehouse workloads. Speaker Costel Toba Master Principal Engineer Cloud & Infrastructure Costel Toba is an Oracle Master Principal Engineer on the Oracle Cloud & Infrastructure team and is an Oracle Certified DBA. In his 12 years at Oracle he has worked with Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Data Security, and has been part of the Oracle Engineered Systems SWAT Specialists Team. Costel often sits on panels with Oracle experts, both customers and colleagues, to find innovative and financially sound solutions for the most challenging IT problems. He presents regularly for regional and international Oracle customers.
March 2018: Database Infrastructure Decisions that Lay a Foundation for Cloud Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: March 2018: Database Infrastructure Decisions that Lay a Foundation for Cloud Duration: 51 minutes Available On Demand Summary Oracle’s Exadata system was designed to help customers focus less on their infrastructure and more on their core business. Exadata’s unique design implements database intelligence in storage, CPU, and networking to deliver higher performance and capacity at lower costs than other platforms. Exadata runs all types of database workloads including Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Data Warehousing (DW), In-Memory Analytics as well as consolidation of mixed workloads. This session will provide an overview of the Exadata’s design and discuss its advantages in both on premises and cloud environments. Speakers Jim Rauchut Enterprise Systems Architect Oracle Corporation Jim Rauchut is an engineer in the Engineered Systems group covering cloud and infrastructure architecture. Jim has been with Oracle since Feb 2010 as part of the Sun acquisition, where he worked since 2000. Nick DiBlasi Master Principal Systems Architect Oracle Corporation Nick DiBlasi has been working in Oracle Database related technologies for 25+ years, specializing in high availability architectures and database performance. Nick has worked with the Exadata database machine since its inception and has lead Exadata workshops for hundreds of customers. Nick holds bachelors degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science.
February 2018: GDPR - Validating Security by Design for an Oracle Database Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: February 2018: GDPR - Validating Security by Design for an Oracle Database Duration: 51 minutes Available On Demand Summary Will the Next Outage Make or Break Your Career? ‌ Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, offers a new approach to database protection—one that virtually eliminates data loss and backup overhead. The appliance provides databases with sub-second recovery points and continuously validates backups for assured recoverability. This session will provide a technical overview of the recovery appliance and its design elements and will explain the technology that allows it to eliminate the shortfalls in legacy backup and recovery solutions. Join us to learn how you can better recover from your next outage. Speaker Fuad Arshad Principal Systems Architect Oracle Corporation Fuad Arshad has been working in Oracle Database related technologies for 18+ years and is currently a principal systems architect for Oracle. His primary focus is providing customers with Database and Recovery related solutions. Fuad is the co-author of the Practical Oracle Database Appliance Book and has written articles for IOUG Select Magazine. Fuad holds a BS in Management Information Systems and currently lives in the Chicago area.
January 2018: Planning for a Successful Migration to Oracle Infrastructure Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: January 2018: Planning for a Successful Migration to Oracle Infrastructure Duration: 53 minutes Available On Demand Summary Over the last decade, Oracle has helped many customers move from legacy server environments to current Oracle platforms. While every migration effort is different, customers are finding that re-platforming off-the-shelf ISV solutions and database environments to current Oracle infrastructure can lead to significant cost savings. This session will outline considerations for completing a successful migration, discuss tools that that can be used, and provide suggestions for mitigating risk. Speaker Jan Brosowski Principal Systems Architect Oracle Corporation Jan Brosowski is a principal systems architect for Oracle Systems. He is responsible for developing secure customer-specific architectures and operating models for both SAP and Non-SAP systems, accompanying the projects from the requirements specification process to going live. Brosowski holds a Master of Business and Engineering degree and has been working for over 15 years with business information systems in different roles.
December 2017: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture: Applying the Best Practices Blueprint to Your Environment Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: December 2017: Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture: Applying the Best Practices Blueprint to Your Environment Duration: 50 minutes Available On Demand Summary Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is Oracle's best practices blueprint based on proven Oracle high availability technologies, expert recommendations and customer experiences. The goal of MAA is to achieve optimal high availability for Oracle customers at the lowest cost and complexity. Join us to learn how you can apply MAA to your environment. Speaker Kyle Ohme Team Lead, Oracle Architecture Cloud & Infrastructure Kyle brings an architecture discipline when solving complex customer problems that is business value focused delivering clear actionable plans that are not only transformational, yet- financially mindful and actionable to companies across North America. Throughout his tenure at Oracle, Kyle has been involved with SPARC systems, Engineered Systems, Storage, Applications, core Oracle technology and cloud architecture teams. Kyles focus is helping customers understand how to consume cloud technology and make the complex transition between a traditional heavy hands on infrastructure focus to a long term predictable consumption model.
November 2017: Solaris Continuous Innovation: Modernize without the Risk Webcast November 16 Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: November 2017: Solaris Continuous Innovation: Modernize without the Risk Webcast November 16 Duration: 50 minutes Available On Demand Summary Solaris is evolving — version 11 delivers more effective cloud, security, and open standard capabilities than ever. We’ll show you how easy it is to implement Solaris features and capabilities into your data center and how your business-critical applications can excel on the industry’s leading platforms — including Oracle SPARC, Fujitsu SPARC, and x86. Speaker Scott Lynn Director of Product Management, Operating Systems Oracle Corporation Scott Lynn is responsible for Oracle Solaris product management. He has more than 20 years of experience building enterprise class systems and more than 30 years of experience programming. Scott joined Oracle in 2003 as part of the Database Kernel team. He was principally responsible for Large Objects (LOBs) and one of the principle designers and engineers of Oracle SecureFiles, a file system in the database. In 2011, he joined the Solaris Kernel Development Team as an engineering manager. In 2013, he took over Oracle Solaris Product Management. He is now responsible for Oracle Linux customer communications, Ksplice and Oracle Solaris product management.
October 2017: Oracle SPARC: Understanding the Whole Portfolio Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: October 2017: Oracle SPARC: Understanding the Whole Portfolio Duration: 53 minutes Available On Demand Summary Which Oracle SPARC is Right for Your Next Project? Oracle’s latest M8 SPARC/Solaris Servers and Engineered Systems deliver dramatically better performance than x86 and with so many to choose from there is one that is right for your use case. Join us for an overview of the Oracle SPARC portfolio and learn how Oracle's MiniCluster and SuperCluster engineered systems are architected, integrated, tested, and optimized to work with Oracle Database and applications. Oracle's SPARC M7 and M8 Midrange and High-End servers offer unmatched efficiency for deploying enterprise workloads and the industry's highest level of security to protect against malicious attacks. Oracle’s SPARC S7 servers extend the most advanced enterprise computing platform into scale-out applications and cloud infrastructure. Oracle's newly refreshed SPARC Model 300 service extends the SPARC platform to Oracle Cloud. The latest SPARC M8 architecture adds significant differentiation over commodity x86 and converged infrastructure. We'll help you determine which Oracle SPARC system is right for your next project. Speaker David Hitchcock Enterprise System Architect Oracle Corporation David Hitchcock recently celebrated his 28th anniversary with Sun/Oracle. Dave is an Enterprise Systems Architect with the North American Infrastructure Sales Engineering team. His primary areas of expertise are large scale consolidations and leading complex multi-discipline teams that map customer's Business Goals and Objectives to solutions utilizing Oracle Cloud and on premise solutions. Dave has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Mathematics, Masters of Science work in both Mathematics at Morehead State University and Mechanical Engineering at University of Cincinnati.
Other Webcast and Virtual Seminars Oracle Database Recovery In Action - Virtual Seminar Available On Demand Read more Overview Title: Oracle Database Recovery In Action - Virtual Seminar Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes Available On Demand Summary If your system were to crash, how much data or time would you lose to restore it? Oracle has reinvented database protection with a ground breaking solution that's completely integrated with Oracle Database and eliminates data loss exposure for all databases without impacting production environments. During this seminar attendees will gain firsthand knowledge of Oracle’s Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance's capabilities and a deeper understanding of how it standardizes Oracle Database protection and recovery across the enterprise. Speakers Chris Craft Senior Director, Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure Oracle Corporation Chris Craft is the Engineering leader for the Database Solutions Group in North America. This team is focused on Oracle Database technologies including Real Application Clusters, Data Guard, the Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), Exadata and ZDLRA. Kevin Kish Oracle Enterprise Architect Oracle Corporation As an Oracle Enterprise Architect, Kevin develops proof of concept evaluations for Oracle Exadata and Oracle ZDLRA. designed to resolve specific critical challenges including High Availability and Disaster Recovery architectures. Prior to Oracle, Kevin managed eBusiness Suite implementations directing the in architecture design, instance control, backup planning and DR requirement definitions.
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