Oracle Database PodCasts

Listen as Kerry Osborne discusses complimentary use cases of Hadoop and Oracle Exadata. Enkitec is now using Oracle Big Data Appliance to help customers with PoCs and Hadoop training. Oracle Partner, Enkitec, has over 100 Exadata implementations.

Satish Zalavadia, Senior DBA at Bank of America describes how Oracle Advanced Compression and Secure Files helped them accommodate future data growth by reducing their database storage footprint by 50% saving them money and improving query performance. Bank of America was troubled by the fact that LOB data was increasing the size of their database exponentially with longer database operations and manageability tasks. With their clients projecting volume increases over 50% per year, concerns over the impact to the size and cost to their backup and restore footprint triggered a plan of action to accommodate data growth with Oracle Advanced Compression. It reduced their database size by 50%. The huge reduction in storage utilization meant that no additional storage was needed to accommodate data growth in the first year as their clients introduced more applications running against the database. In addition, clients saw an 80% improvement of query results as a result of storing LOB data in Secure Files.

Marcelle Kratochivil, Ace Director and CTO of Piction Digital Image systems talks about why Oracle Database is best for storing and handling unstructured data. Marcelle shares her experiences of working with unstructured data and the role Oracle Database has been able to provide in helping her customers meet storage, scalability and security requirements.

Steve Lytle, Senior account executive at Nokia Location and Commerce, discusses Nokia and Oracle's long-term partnership, delivering mapping data for use with Oracle products.

Stuart Carr, Managing Director at Passoker talks about the market and opportunity for online gaming and how they turned to e-DBA to implement a solution that would meet the business needs. James Anthony, Technology Director at e-DBA will discuss some of those challenges and the role that Oracle NoSQL Database plays to help meet the scalability, low latency and reliability requirements they needed.

Infocrossing, senior DBA, David Fitzjarrell, describes Oracle Database best practices for high availability and the challenges managing remote data centers to protect his customers single most important asset - their data.

Land O'Lakes senior DBA, Joe Cornell, describes the circumstances that lead to their deployment of Oracle Advanced Compression in their OBIEE environment which improved general ledger query performance up to 14 times faster and reduced their overall storage footprint by 50% with zero impact on their users.

Sreekanth Chintala, Database Strategist at Dell Corporation shares his experiences using Oracle Real Application Clusters to consolidate over 1,200 database servers in Dell's data center.

Waters Corporation, a world leader in developing innovative, analytical scientific instruments, discusses their use of Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) and Oracle Database 11g on Windows to develop a new scientific data management system, UNIFI. Iosif Igna, Technical Architect at Waters, explains how UNIFI met its design goal to store 10+ million items with flexibility to scale from one to 1000 users, while reaching project performance service levels.

Listen in as Anand Akela, Senior Principal Product Director, Oracle talks with Sudip Datta, Senior Director, Oracle Enterprise Manager Product Management, about the paradigm shift for deploying database applications and services to the cloud faster through Database-as-a-Service.

With the advent of big data, NoSQL databases are finding a role in the enterprise. Join Oracle Director of Product Management, Dave Segleau as he explains what they are, when (and when not) to use them, and then discusses Oracle's own enterprise-ready offering - Oracle NoSQL Database.

Learn how a Major Financial Institution used Oracle SQL Developer for their migration project. Shridhar Dave, a Senior DBA shares his experience with how Oracle SQL Developer helped covert code 10X faster, reduce resources with multi-DBMS knowledge and simplify their entire migration process to Oracle Database 11g.

IT managers need to efficiently manage their storage infrastructure to manage costs, yet continue to deliver extraordinary application performance. The Advanced Compression Option of Oracle Database 11g provides a robust set of compression capabilities that enable IT managers to be successful. Tune into this special podcast, recorded live at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 to learn how OLTP Table Compression reduces your storage costs and increases database performance.

Tune into this special podcast recorded live at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, to hear Surren Partabh, CTO of Core Software Technology Support and Services at BT Operate, a division of British Telecom, share his organization's experience to consolidate and deploy Database as a Service. Learn how BT Operate transformed it's complex and growing database environment with Oracle technologies to deliver cloud-based database services to over 13,500 IT professionals around the world.