Oracle Linux and Virtualization Tux Tech Talks

Overview:

Title: A better way to manage infrastructure and automate IT tasks

Duration: 30 minutes

Description:

Most businesses today have a combination of on-premises, cloud, and edge infrastructure, running diverse workloads on bare metal servers, virtual machines, and containers across Kubernetes clusters. They are looking for management and automation software to run on-premises and cloud-based management services to handle the complexity.

In this session, we'll explore how a single Oracle support subscription can help businesses unlock software solutions and cloud services that help customers increase business value and manage mission-critical workloads across on-premises and multicloud infrastructures.

Topics will include:

• Provisioning across on-premises and multicloud
• Automating VMs and Container deployments
• Meeting high availability requirements
• Managing software inventory
• Updating and patching infrastructure
• Reporting security compliance status
• Optimizing performance
• Q&A

Register now to take advantage of this opportunity.

Featured Speakers:

Simon Coter

Director of Product Management, Oracle Linux and Virtualization

Julie Wong

Product Management Director, Oracle Linux

Overview:

Title: How to increase security and simplify application deployments with KVM

Duration: 25 mins

Description:

In today's fast-paced environment, having the right technology solutions in place is critical for success. Join us to discover how you can minimize the risk of cyber attacks on virtual environments and use ready-to-go templates to streamline your deployment process, saving time and resources. Whether you're an experienced IT professional or new to virtualization, this webinar will provide valuable insights and tips for increasing the security and efficiency of your virtual environment. Register now to take advantage of this opportunity.
Topics will include:

• Advantages of open source KVM and virtualization manager
• How to increase the security of your VMs and avoid application downtime due to reboots
• Where to get Oracle Database KVM templates and how to use them
• Demo: how to easily move a VM from VMware vSphere to KVM

Overview:

Title:Oracle Linux State of the Penguin - Navigating Cloud Scale, Automation and Security Across the Infrastructure

Duration: 29 mins

Description:

In this session, our two technology experts exchange ideas and examine:

• Infrastructure at scale and pushing the boundaries of scalability, performance and stability, on-premises and in the cloud.
• The evolution of automation and how it is changing how solutions are developed and delivered
• The expanding role of security across the infrastructure
• A new solution for optimizing application performance on Linux platforms

Overview:

Title: Benchmarking the Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel

Duration: 24 mins

Description:

Oracle Linux offers a choice of two kernels: the Red Hat Compatible Kernel (RHCK), and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK). While both kernels are 100% application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the UEK has been optimized to make the Oracle Database run faster. The optimizations often benefit non-Oracle workloads, as well. Join us in the webinar to:

• Understand which workloads benefit from UEK
• Learn how to benchmark for performance
• Discover the benefits of the UEK

Featured Speakers:

Ken Ellis

Sales Consulting Director, Oracle

Ken has been at Oracle for over 11 years. He has served in both engineering and management roles for Oracle’s licensed software, along with Open Source solutions. Ken often works with clients as they review technology options and helps them quantify the impact of their technology decisions.

Peter Laudenslager

Director Product Marketing, Oracle

Overview:

Title: How to create a secure remote work environment

Duration: 24 mins

Description:

The post-pandemic reality for enterprise IT is now settling-in. Business executives need to give workers the ability and flexibility to work from any location. Remote work has gained permanent traction and has become the new norm.

Attend this Tux Tech Talk to -

• Learn how to address and manage remote worker risk exposure
• Understand how to address remote desktop IT security and data governance mandates
• Discover how to use VirtualBox to instantiate corporate-approved, encrypted VMs
• See a live demo of how you can automate the creation and distribution
• Q&A

Overview:

Title: 5 ways to simplify your digital transformation

Duration: 42 mins

Description:

Without the right foundation many digital transformation (DX) projects keep growing in complexity and end up failing. What criteria are you using to ensure your technology investments actually help achieve your business goals?

Join our panel discussion to learn from an IDC analyst about their research and recommendations for implementing successful DX projects.

Topics covered:

• Trends in Enterprise Business Applications
• Acceleration through hybrid cloud infrastructure
• A solid foundation for digital transformation
• 5 recommendations on how to simplify your DX projects
• Q&A

Overview:

Title: How to Deploy Oracle Database in Minutes Using Templates

Duration: 43 mins

Description:

Do you want to simplify your Oracle database installation? Watch this Tux Tech Talk on-demand session to learn how to deploy complex applications like Oracle Database 10x faster using Oracle Linux KVM.

Overview:

Title: How to migrate from VMware vSphere to Oracle Linux KVM

Duration: 45 mins

Description:

Find out how to automate the migration from other proprietary hypervisor solutions to open source Oracle Linux KVM managed by Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM).

Overview:

Title: Five simple steps to switch from RHEL and CentOS to Oracle Linux

Duration: 30 mins

Description:

We regularly get asked by customers how to switch from CentOS to Oracle Linux, particularly for the business-critical workloads where enterprise support matters. Oracle Linux is 100% application binary compatible with RHEL, so a simple switch is all that is needed. Join this webinar to meet the experts as they show how to switch in five simple steps.

Overview:

Title: Oracle Linux State of the Penguin Webcast

Duration: 43 mins

Description:

Please join Wim Coekaerts, Oracle Software Development SVP and Linux Foundation Vice Chairman, to learn what’s new with Oracle Linux, both on-premises and in the cloud. Attendees will learn about the latest product updates, roadmaps, community contributions, and developer-focused activities.

Overview:

Title: Why is KVM winning over VMware vSphere?

Duration: 59 mins

Description:

The choice of a virtualization platform determines your application stack performance, scalability, security and directly affects your overall cost. VMware has been a popular choice for virtualization, and offers the ESXi hypervisor and vSphere virtualization platform. 

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source option. KVM is part of Linux® and is gaining market share and becoming the standard for many cloud vendors.

Watch this video to learn about the advantages of KVM over VMware. Topics include:

• Complexity comparison
• Performance and scalability
• Management solutions
• Software licensing advantages
• Demo how to easily move from vSphere to KVM
• Q&A

Overview:

Title: Automate and speedup your security patching with Ksplice on prem and in the cloud

Duration: 19 mins

Description:

Ksplice allows system administrators to install critical patches with no downtime and increase the security and availability of their infrastructure

Learn how Ksplice can help:

• Automate your patching
• Speed up updates and CVE patching
• Reduce operational cost
• Improve security of the OS
• Improve availability by eliminating patching downtime

Overview:

Title:Improving Security of DevSecOps environments

Duration: 25 mins

Description:

Watch this on-demand webcast to learn how Oracle's cloud native infrastructure can help your DevSecOps programs.

Overview:

Title:Working remotely with business-critical applications, securely and rapidly

Duration: 18 mins

Description:

Now more than ever, it is critical for businesses to enable their remote employees to continue working with critical applications securely and deliver uninterrupted business services to customers.

Enabling remote workers with full access to their work environment is key to maintaining their safety and productivity. Many applications can be accessed simply through the internet and a VPN connection.

But what about those business-critical restricted applications?

Overview:

Title:New ESG research analyzes today's IT challenges

Duration: 38 mins

Description:

Did you know that 78% of organizations have business-critical workloads running on Linux and 83% use Oracle databases and/or apps?

Join us to learn what IT leaders identified as their top goals and challenges in optimizing their most important workloads in a recent ESG survey.

ESG and Oracle experts will discuss the survey findings and recommendations on how to address issues including the complexity of hybrid environments, cybersecurity threats, increasing availability and performance while managing support and cost.