First Exadata Virtual Conference - Jan 19-20, 2012 Concluded

The First Exadata Virtual Conference held on Jan 19-20, 2012, was a great success and attended by about 300 attendees per session... There were 6 sessions spread over two days in Webcast Format...
If you attended it, please provide us your feedback via this survey.

Happy New Year!  Exadata SIG announces the First Exadata Virtual Conference on Jan 19, Jan 20 (Thur/Friday) 2012. The two day event will be 2 PM to 5 PM EST each day.

Registration url:  (please register for each day separately)

Jan 19  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/885760088

Jan 20  https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/702427145


Day 1  - Jan 19, 2012 - Thursday  1:30-5 PM EST     Conf kick off at 1:30 PM ET  (Arup/Vinod)

Speaker 1> Phil Stephenson – State of Exadata 2012   - 2 PM ET

Speaker 2> Jim Czuprynski - Exadata Database Machine: Understanding Why It Works As Well As It Does   3 PM ET

Speaker 3> Anuj Mohan -  Top Exadata features you need to know.   4 PM ET

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Day 2 – Jan 20, 2012   Friday    2-5:30 PM ET    5-5:30 PM - Attendee Feedback and closing session (Shyam)

Speaker 1> Stephen Holder – Smart Scan    2 PM ET

Speaker 2> Kevin Courtney - Exadata Customer Case Studies: Key Considerations when Planning and Executing a Complex Database Consolidation  3 PM ET

Speaker 3> Andy Colvin - Surviving Exadata Patching     4 PM ET

Oracle Exadata Virtual Conference 2012 (Friday Jan 2012)

Announcing the Exadata Virtual Conference - 2012 on Friday, Jan 20

Exadata SIG along with IOUG is organizing the First Exadata Virtual Conference on Jan 20, 2012. This Virtual only conference will be conducted via day long Web Conference session on Friday Jan 2012. Here are the suggested topics to invite speakers from Customers, Implementer and Oracle:


>Introduction to Exadata / Or Product Roadmap
>Decision process or getting ready for Exadata
>Exadata case study for DW, for OLTP or for DW Consolidation
> Exadata Patching process and support tips
>Other topics like Resource manager, HCC case study etc..
>Multi appliance shop e.g. Exadata + Exalogic, including multi vendor shop experiences like Exadata, Teradata, Netezza etc


Please send your proposals as email to Arup@proligence.com including Title, Abstract, Bio abd Level of Audience (Intro, Intermediate, Advanced). You can also post your interest and suggested topic in the Linked Group for peer comments. We will soon provide the link for attendee registration. It will be free to attend. We request you to become free member of Exadata SIG via http://OracleExadata.org to get all the information about this event.

Oracle Openworld 2011 Announcements, what do you think?

Oracle Openworld 2011 made a lot of announcements specially around the "engineered" systems or the Exa-Line of products and related appliances. Here is a list (may not be complete!):

• Oracle Database Appliance
• T-4 SPARC SuperCluster
• Exalytics - BI Machine
• Oracle BI Machine
• Oracle Big Data Appliance

Please provide your opinion on these products, detailed comments can be left here:

Exadata SIG session at Oracle Openworld on Oct 2, 2011

Come to Moscone West on Oct 2, 2011 (Sunday from 9-5 PM PDT)

Session ID: 27260
Name:  Vinod Haval
Title:  IOUG: Oracle Exadata  A Real Life Example

Session ID: 09105
Name:  Rizwan M.K.
Title:  IOUG: ExaFamily  the magic wand for the Aging application infrastructure

Session ID: 31460
Name:  Arup Nanda
Title:  IOUG: Exadata for Oracle DBAs

Session ID: 27261
Name:  Shyam Nath / Vinod Haval
Title:  IOUG: Exadata Customer Panel

Session ID: 29221
Name: Andy Flower
Title: The Impact of Exadata in Your Business Environment

Session ID: 27280
Name:  Jan Klokkers
Title:  IOUG: Oracle Exadata Database Machine for SAP software

Oracle Openworld - Exadata SIG Meeting on Tue Oct 4, 2011 at 11 AM PDT Moscone West L3 Overlook 3B

Oracle Openworld - Exadata SIG Meeting on Tue Oct 4, 2011 at 11 AM PDT Moscone West L3 Overlook 3B


This session is IOUG Exadata SIG meeting open to all current and prospective Exadata SIG members. 
You will learn all about the SIG's year round activities, monthly webcasts and education library and so on. Come and network with the Exadata SIG board, Oracle Development and Product Management and with fellow  SIG members. Ask a question about the recent announcements about Exadata and related products or ask the fellow users about their experiences on Exadata.

Database Appliance from Oracle

Oracle today (Sep 21) announced a Database appliance  which is a two server cluster with 24 cores of CPU, 96 GB memory per server and upto 12 TB of storage.  In speculations of the Oracle Webcast today by Mark Hurd, Andy Mendelshon etc., the product was anticipated as Exadata mini or little brother of Exadata, targeted at the Mid-market (SMB), who either cannot afford Exadata or do not need one yet. This little brother weights 160 lbs!

The driving goal here is to keep the product simple and provide Oracle Appliance Manager. So finally Oracle uses the term "appliance" which is used to shy away from as Exadata was not meant to be plug and play. The interesting concept is that customers can license as many cores they want with some restrictions like same number of cores on each server (up to 24 in the box). I believe this is new to Oracle too.  The CPU cores drive the cost of the Oracle RDBMs license usually so this can be game changing.  The appliance runs Oracle Linux (OEL) and can used used as RAC.  It can run one powerful DB instance or multiple say your Dev, Test and QA instances.

So how does it compare with Exadata entry level say 1/4 RACK? While a 1/4 RACK is 60 cores of CPU and 72 TB or storage, the DB appliance is only 24 cores (with ability to license a subset of those) and 12 TB of storage max. It is meant for up to 4 TB databases. Oracle will not license Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) or the Smart Scan with this box. Thus some of the "secret sauce" of the Exadata has been preserved. The DB appliance does come with the solid state disk (4 x 73 GB) for improving the redo performance.

With an entry level price for hardware in the range of $50,000, it is could appeal to the mid-market companies. The box will support 11g (11.2.0.2) to begin with.