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Join Oracle at your local IOUG event this Feb, there are many of them. Also, we’ll be participating in Data Warehousing, Database Security and Big Data events, read on to find out more.

Feb 12-17, 2012 – Las Vegas, NV

TDWI World Conference Series

Join Oracle and learn how Oracle’s solution for Data Integration and Big Data continues to set the standard for information integration architectures.

Bridging the Big Data Divide with Oracle Data Integration

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7p.m

Denis Gray, Principal Product Manager, Data Integration

 Nick Wagner, Distinguished Product Manager, Data Integration

http://events.tdwi.org/events/las-vegas-world-conference-2012/home.aspx

Feb 25-26, 2012 - San Francisco, CA

ISSA CISO Executive Forum

 Join Mary Ann Davidson, Chief Security Officer at Oracle, and many more industry thought leaders to explore how to maintain best of breed security for the distributed IT enterprise as perimeter controls and borders dissolve.

https://www.issa.org/ciso/?p=435#2

Feb 27-Mar 2, 2012 – San Francisco, CA

RSA Conference

RSA Conference 2012 attendees will have the opportunity to meet with Oracle Security Solution experts, see live product demos, and more by visiting the Oracle Security Solution Showcase (Booth #2425). Exhibit show floor hours: February 27th, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., February 28th, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., February 29th, 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and March 1, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=139125&src=7259262&src=7259262&Act=10

Feb 28-Mar 1, 2012- Santa Clara, CA

Strata Conference - Making Data Work 

Strata Conference is the leading event for the people and technology driving the data revolution. The home of data science, Strata brings together practitioners, researchers, IT leaders and entrepreneurs to discuss big data, Hadoop, analytics, visualization and data markets.

http://strataconf.com/strata2012

Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) Regional Events:

Feb 14-16, 2012 – Denver, CO

RMOUG (Rocky Mountain OUG) Training Days

RMOUG Training days is one of the largest regional user group conferences in the USA. This is the place to network with local information technology professionals as well as talk to internationally renowned Oracle experts. This year’s schedule includes topics on Oracle Database 11g features, Public Cloud, Oracle Database Appliance, Exadata and Database Security, just to name a few. Visit website for more info. 

http://www.rmoug.org/

Feb 14-15, 2012 – Portland, OR and Seattle, WA

Oregon and Southern Washington Oracle Users Group Meeting.

Topics will include Grid Control 12c, Understanding Big Data and Hadoop and Exadata.

http://www.oswoug.org/OSWOUG/Home.html

Feb 23, 2012 –Redwood Shores, CA

NOCOUG (Northern California OUG) Winter Conference

Located at Oracle Headquarters, the Winter Conference will feature 3 tracks, with a keynote on Big Data from VP of Product Management –Mark Townsend. Topics will include Accelerating Oracle Performance, Oracle Database Security, Best Practices for upgrading Oracle Database 11g, and more.

http://www.nocoug.org/index.html

Oracle Database 11g is now on Google+ !

Adding to our LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook presence, the Oracle Database team has launched a Google+ page. There's already been some open dialog, and plenty of new assets and events posted. Get social and join other members of the Oracle Database world to network, and expand your knowledge of working with Oracle Database. If you're on Google+, add us to your circles! We look forward to seeing you there.

Tell us how we're doing!

We want to keep improving. So feel free to give us feedback on the page, and let us know what topics you would like us to cover more of in the future.

Big Data Essentials: What You Need to Know

Big data is big news these days. But you don’t base IT investment decisions on magazine headlines.

Join us for the Big Data Online Forum to learn the essentials of big data—from the technology underlying it to real-world use cases. Oracle’s Tom Kyte, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, and other industry thought leaders will be on hand to explain how big data can deliver revolutionary insight and competitive advantage.

You’ll get answers to tough questions surrounding big data, including:

• What business insight can big data uncover?
• How do you manage big data?
• How do you integrate big data into decision-making?

Register today for this half-day online event featuring live Q&A with big data experts.

Agenda 10:00 a.m. Keynote: Big Data: Are You Ready?
Tom Kyte, Senior Technical Architect, Oracle 10:30 a.m. Big Data Panel Discussion
Michael Olson, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudera
Mark Townsend, Vice President, Database Product Management, Oracle
John Akred, Senior Manager, Technology R&D, Accenture 11:00 a.m. Acquiring Big Data
David Segleau, Director, Database Product Management, Oracle 11:30 a.m. Organizing Big Data
Jim Steiner, Vice President, Database Product Management, Oracle 12 noon Analyzing Big Data
Jean-Pierre Dijcks, Senior Principal Product Manager, Database Product Management, Oracle 12:30 p.m. Conquering Big Data
Helen Sun, Director, Enterprise Architecture, Oracle 1:00 p.m. Closing Session—A Gartner Perspective on Big Data
Merv Adrian, Vice President, Research, Gartner

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
All rights reserved.

Live Webcast
Learn Best Practices for Database Consolidation onto Private Clouds
Thurs., January 26, 2012  10am PT / 1pm ET

Database consolidation onto the right private cloud architecture can alleviate the challenges caused by traditional, inefficient environments. Benefits include higher quality of service, lower costs, and reduced complexity.

Join Oracle experts Willie Hardie and Mark Townsend as they explain the business case for a private database cloud and describe the architectures that best suit your business and IT requirements.

You will learn how database consolidation onto private clouds can help you:

• Achieve greater consolidation for higher return on investment
• Reduce complexity with standardization and fewer configurations
• Increase quality of service and lower IT costs

This is your opportunity to ask questions and learn about consolidation best practices onto private clouds.

Register for this live Webcast

CallSource deploys Oracle Database Appliance with a few mouse clicks--and experiences great results with a highly available database solution that monitors and manages itself out of the box.

In the video below Jason Scinocca, Chief Technology Office of Callsource reports that:

“It’s incredibly simple.  The appliance itself manages, monitors, optimizes, and tweaks itself.  With the appliance I no longer have to have a consulting group and/or a person on staff to manage."

Live Webcast:  Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle Exadata

Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:00am PT / 1:00pm ET
In today’s competitive environment, your systems need to be available 24/7, 365 days a year. When systems are down, you run the risk of dissatisfying customers, incurring penalties, and, most importantly, losing revenue. Attend this Webcast to learn how Oracle’s maximum availability architecture for Oracle Exadata Database Machine will help protect your systems from unplanned outages, and provide both high availability and data protection at the lowest cost and complexity. You’ll learn how to:

• Achieve the highest levels of database availability at the lowest cost and risk
  
• Implement the industry’s most-stringent data protection solutions
  
• Adopt MAA post deployment operational best practices for Oracle Exadata

Learn how to prevent downtime and data loss and get the most out of your Oracle investments.

Register today!

Maximum Availability. Lowest Cost and Complexity.

New Engineered System and Oracle Big Data Connectors Help Unlock the Value of Enterprise Big Data News Facts

• Oracle  announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Appliance to help customers derive maximum business value from Big Data.
• Oracle Big Data Appliance is an engineered system of hardware and software that incorporates Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop with Cloudera Manager, plus an open source distribution of R.
• Running on Oracle Linux, the system also features Oracle NoSQL Database Community Edition and Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine.
• Oracle today also announced the availability of Oracle Big Data Connectors, a software product that helps customers easily integrate data stored in Hadoop and Oracle NoSQL Database with Oracle Database 11g.
• Together with Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle Big Data Appliance with the Oracle Big Data Connectors software delivers everything customers require to acquire, organize and to analyze Big Data within the context of all their enterprise data.

Read the full press release

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Happy New Year! Here are upcoming Oracle events in January 2012

Jan 17, 2012 – New York, NY

NYOUG Winter 2012 Training Session, 9-5PM @ St. John’s University

Visit http://www.nyoug.org for agenda and abstract.

Jan 19, 2012 – Reston VA

Oracle Public Sector 11g Database Hands-On Workshop

The Oracle 11g New Features, Hands-on Workshop, which is designed for DBAs, Developers, Architects & Administrators, will focus on the following new and enhanced features: Partitioning for Performance & Manageability, Advanced Compression for Lower Cost, Oracle Database Manager Diagnostic & Tuning for Easier Manageability & Performance Turning. Sign up here.

Jan 23, 2012 – Blue Ash, Ohio

GCOUG Presents “Tom Kyte Day” at Oracle Corp, 9987 Carver Road, Suite 250.

For more information and agenda visit the GCOUG website. http://www.gcoug.org/

Jan 24, 2012 – Long Beach, CA

SOCOUG Presents “Oracle 2012 Winter Conference and Tech Expo” at the Westin

Featured speaker Tom Kyte, topics include Big Data, Oracle Database Appliance and more. Check http://www.socoug.org/ for more information

Jan 25, 2012 – Irvine, CA

SOCOUG Training Day with Tom Kyte

Don’t miss your chance to attend SoCOUG’s 1st Annual Training Day event being hosted by Oracle legend, Tom Kyte. This is a unique opportunity to hear updates and insights in an intimate setting as Tom provides a deep-dive look! into the world of Oracle Database! For more info and signup - http://www.socoug.org/

Jan 26, 2012 – San Diego, CA

Oracle Customer Showcase Forum – Hotel Palomar 8am-3pm, San Diego, CA.

During this interactive event, attendees will hear from Oracle guru Tom Kyte and also have an opportunity to network with Oracle solutions experts, partners and business associates!

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to gain new insights and meet with members of the Oracle community to discuss implementing a comprehensive platform for your business and IT processes–connecting strategy with success across the enterprise.Sign up here

Please plan to join us Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM PST

for our LIVE Webcast: 

Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture and Oracle Exadata

Maximum Availability. Lowest Cost and Complexity.

In today’s competitive environment, your systems need to be available 24/7, 365 days a year. When systems are down, you run the risk of dissatisfying customers, incurring penalties, and, most importantly, losing revenue. Attend this Webcast to learn how Oracle’s maximum availability architecture for Oracle Exadata Database Machine will help protect your systems from unplanned outages, and provide both high availability and data protection at the lowest cost and complexity. You’ll learn how to:

• Achieve the highest levels of database availability at the lowest cost and risk
  
• Implement the industry’s most-stringent data protection solutions
  
• Adopt MAA postdeployment operational best practices for Oracle Exadata

Register now to learn how to prevent downtime and data loss and get the most out of your Oracle investments.

Technologist of the Year awards recognize individuals in key roles for their extraordinary efforts and contributions to enterprise technology solutions. Global winners are selected for early-adopter and groundbreaking uses of Oracle technology and for defining their roles in a way that makes the industry take notice. Check out all the Oracle Excellence Awards 2011 winners in the January/February 2012 online issue of Oracle Magazine.

CRN.com, a leading resource for IT solution providers, has named the Oracle Database Appliance the best enterprise appliance of 2011:

“Oracle has combined the high-end hardware it acquired in the deal for Sun Microsystems, with its Oracle Database 11g, and brought to market a trailblazing appliance aimed at value-added resellers and SMBs. With up to 12 TB of storage, dual Intel Xeon processors and price of $50,000 (with a pay-as-you-grow model), the Oracle Database Appliance delivered by far the best enterprise appliance of the year.”

The Oracle Database Appliance is a simple, reliable, and affordable solution that helps customers to:

• · Save time and money with plug-and-go deployment, automated management and single vendor support.
• · Eliminate deployment risk with a fully integrated and tested database appliance.
• · Replace inefficient, aging servers with the latest, most advanced database infrastructure.
• · Seamlessly scale with pay-as-you-grow software licensing that eliminates the hassle, cost, and downtime usually associated with hardware upgrades.

To learn more about the Oracle Database Appliance click here.

Here are a few new stories of customers' success with Oracle Exadata

• Asiana Airlines Improves Business Efficiency with Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Asiana IDT selected Oracle Exadata Database Machine to deploy a high-speed BIS integrating and processing more than 12TB of airline reservation, ticket issuance and shipping data from various operational systems. The new platform enables Asiana Airlines to magnify business visibility and maximize revenue through timely and well-informed decisions.

• Digicel Haiti Implements Oracle Exadata Database Machine to Help Meet Business Objectives

To support the company’s growth in subscriber base, implemented a half-rack Oracle Exadata Database Machine X2-2 in July 2011. Analysis and report performance has improved across the board with reports showing response time gains of 16x without any changes. Daily reports are now processed and delivered each morning to assist the business in strengthening and refining their sales strategies and campaigns.

• BNP Paribas CIB Speeds Information Processing with Oracle Exadata Database Machine

  A half-rack Oracle Exadata Database Machine has helped BNP Paribas better manage this data growth and improve system performance. The Oracle Hybrid Columnar Compression feature of Oracle Exadata Database Machine is used by the bank to compress the size of its active data, leading to easier data management and more efficient use of storage. BNP Paribas is achieving 17x greater throughput without any changes to existing applications.
  

About Oracle Exadata Database Machine

The following highlight the success of Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata for Oracle Applications.

• AFG Consolidates Oracle Applications on Exadata

An ROI study on Australian Finance Group (AFG)'s implementation of Exadata — in conjunction with Oracle Linux and Oracle VM on new application servers — has improved system performance and reliability for the company’s Oracle applications. Oracle Exadata has also enabled AFG to realize a wide

range of additional benefits across the business.  Key benefits include:

• Reduced business risk with a 4x reduction in commission processing run time

• Reduced data warehouse loading times by 73%

• Expected to achieve AUS$2.1M in total benefits of 3 years

• Expected to achieve 42% ROI in 3 years and break even in less than 27 months

• IDC Makes the Case for Migrating to Oracle Database 11g

A new IDC white paper, sponsored by Oracle, titled “Maximizing Your Investment in Oracle Application Software: The Case for Migrating to Oracle Database 11g,” November 2011, finds that companies not already running their applications on Oracle Database 11g miss out on key benefits.

“Oracle Database customers who continue to manage their data on Oracle Database 10g or even older versions are failing to take advantage of functionality advances in Oracle Database 11g,” according to the paper’s author, Carl W. Olofson, IDC research vice president, Application Development and Deployment. “There are compelling business, operational, and technical reasons for Oracle application customers to upgrade.”

• Podcast:  Diamond Resorts International Audits Oracle Applications with Oracle Audit Vault

Annually, nearly 1.4 million owners, members and guests enjoy the simplicity, choice and comfort Diamond Resorts International offers through their branded hospitality experience. Challenged with proving the integrity of financial data in their Oracle E-Business Suite and custom applications, Diamond Resorts International integrated Oracle Audit Vault to consolidate, secure and report on audit trials and comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.  Listen to the podcast.

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OTN:  Oracle Database for Enterprise Applications

Avaloq group, a provider of integrated and comprehensive banking solutions, and a Gold level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced it has been named OPN Specialized Database Partner of the Year for EMEA in 2011. This distinction recognises Avaloq’s successful 20 year relationship with Oracle. This award comes only a few months after Avaloq achieved OPN Specialized Partner status for Oracle Database 11g.

The recognition of OPN Specialized Database Partner of the Year for EMEA reflects Avaloq’s long-term commitment to Oracle technology. The Avaloq Banking System is exclusively based on Oracle Database 11g and leverages its built-in features – such as row level security – to provide customer banks with a faster, more reliable, and more secure banking software solution. Avaloq’s new front office offering, consisting of e-Banking, mobile banking and financial planning applications, is also based on Oracle Database 11g.

Congratulations Avaloq Group!

 Read the full press release here