Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Oracle Exadata Sessions at Openworld 2010
Time 10:30 AM PT, come meet folks like Robert Stackowiak, VP BI at Oracle and author of upcoming book on Exadata V2, Richard Niemiec, former President of IOUG, Andy Flower, current President of IOUG, Arup Nanda, DBA of the year 2003 and many other Oracle experts!
General Session: Why Standardize on Oracle Database 11g?
Oracle Senior VP Andy Mendelsohn covers the benefits of upgrading to Oracle Database 11g. Learn how customers are reducing IT costs and increasing quality of service for all their enterprise applications.
Monday, September 20 11:00 a.m. Moscone North, Hall D, Session ID: S318964
Oracle Exadata Customer Panel: OLTP and Consolidation Deployment
Hosted by Oracle VP Tim Shetler, this customer panel will cover the online transaction processing (OLTP) and consolidation experiences of Oracle Exadata customers. The conversation will be wide-ranging, addressing performance, installation, management, application design, and DBA experiences. The session also includes an open Q&A in which attendees can interact directly with Oracle Exadata customers.
Monday, September 20 3:30 p.m. Moscone South, Room 307, Session ID: S316819
Oracle Exadata Customer Panel: Deployment Experiences with Extreme Performance
In this session, customers from across the spectrum of industries, applications, and geographies discuss their experiences deploying Oracle Exadata. The conversation will be wide-ranging, addressing performance, installation, management, application design, and DBA experiences. The session also includes an open Q&A in which attendees can interact directly with Oracle Exadata customers.
Tuesday, September 21 1:00 p.m. Moscone South, Room 307, Session ID: S316818
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Security: Defense in Depth
Securing information transparently and cost-effectively has never been more important. Attend this session to learn the latest on Oracle Database 11g security, from encryption and access control to the latest Oracle Database firewall solutions. This session is lead by Vipin Samar, Oracle's VP of Database Security.
Monday, September 20 3:30 p.m. Moscone South, Room 103, Session ID: S316986
Better Together: Oracle Database, Oracle Exadata, and Oracle's BI Solutions
Learn how to get the most from Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle's BI applications by running them with Oracle Database and Oracle Exadata. In this session, you learn how Oracle Exadata improves BI users' experience with improved performance, as well as how Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition takes advantage of other Oracle Database features to improve security, enhance analytical content, and simplify manageability.
Tuesday, September 21 2:00 p.m. Moscone West L3, Room 3016, Session ID: S318290
Grid Consolidation Creates the Database Cloud
Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) and Oracle's grid infrastructure enable the consolidation of multiple applications on low-cost server and storage grids, providing unbeatable fault tolerance, performance, and scalability. This session, led by Oracle product manager Bob Thome, demonstrates how Oracle technology delivers key cloud capabilities, providing elastic database services that can be provisioned on demand in minutes.
Tuesday, September 21 11:00 a.m. Moscone South Room 308, Session ID: S317091
Learn more about this year's rich Database track at Oracle OpenWorld.
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Sun Oracle Database Machine for Data Warehousing (Sep 30)
Speaker: Jean Pierre Dijcks - Data Warehousing Product Mgmt, Oracle
Abstract: On September 15 Oracle announced the second generation of its Database Machine, making an already strong data warehousing product significantly stronger. The new version runs on Sun hardware and offers important new features. Available in full rack, half rack, quarter rack, and basic unit configurations, the Sun Oracle Database Machine can add value at many data warehouse size levels.
The Sun Oracle Database Machine runs on Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and has new features such as:
Smart Flash Cache memory for ultra-fast IO - Reaches 50GB/second on a full rack system (not even counting gains from compression) Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression - Maximizes data capacity and reduces scan times: think 500GB/second IO Offloaded Data Mining Scoring - Moves CPU-intensive operations from database servers to Exadata storage servers In-Memory Parallel Execution - Caches full tables in memory across nodes: foundation of new TPC-H world record There is plenty more we have not listed above, so come to this TechCast and learn about this major new product!
Web Conference: Link: https://conference.oracle.com/imtapp/app/cmn_jm_hub.uix?mID=158101510
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Oracle Exadata II - OLTP Database Machine with SUN Hardware
The Exadata Database Machine Version 2, made jointly by Oracle and SUN. It is pitched as the world's fastest machine for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP). Thus is meant for mixed mode loads. It is interesting that Larry, when announcing he Exadata I, last year said that OLTP system have 70% query load. Thus, Exadata 2, is a combination of faster query and write, to target the OLTP and hybtid loads on the large databases.
Exadata 2 uses the industry standard H/W components along with the FlashFire technology from Sun. The Exadata 2 requires Oracle 11g R2 and Oracle Exadata Storage Server Software Release 11.2. Larry claimed that the Sun Oracle Database Machine Version 2 is twice as fast as Version 1 for data warehousing. Oracle (and HP) will no longer make the Exadata 1 now.
The Sun Oracle Database Machine now is not confined to data warehousing applications. The difference is the addition of Exadata Smart Flash Cache based on Sun FlashFire technology to deliver extreme performance and scalability for online transaction processing (OLTP). Thus you can now have say Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) and your Oracle BI Data Warehouse, all on the same Exadata 2 and the new hardware can handle mixed workload.
Exadata Version 2 will be available in four models:
> full rack (8 database servers and 14 storage servers),
> half-rack (4 database servers and 7 storage servers),
> quarter-rack (2 database servers and 3 storage servers) and
> a basic system (1 database server and 1 storage server).
All four Exadata configurations are available immediately to the customers. Larry said that with the Sun Oracle Database Machine, Oracle customers can store more data and search data more than ten-times faster without making any changes to applications.
Here is the Hardware and Software stack for Exadata 2
Sun's FlashFire memory cards enable high performance OLTP
80% Faster CPUs - Intel Xeon (Nehalem) processors
50% Faster Disks - 600 GB SAS Disks at 6 Gigabits/second
200% Faster Memory - DDR3 memory
125% More Memory - 72 Gigabytes per database server
100% Faster Network - 40 Gigabits/second InfiniBand
Raw disk capacity of 100 TB (SAS) or 336 TB (SATA) per rack
Software from Oracle
Features the world's first flash-enabled database - Oracle 11g Release 2
Hybrid columnar compression for 10-50 times data compression
Scans on compressed data for even faster query execution
Storage Indexes to further reduce disk I/Os
Offloading of query processing to storage using Smart Scans
Smart scans of Data Mining models in storage servers
Applications running on the Sun Oracle Database Machine achieve up to 1 Million I/O Operations per Second to Flash Storage
Sunday, September 13, 2009
HO Oracle Database Machine v/s OLTP Database Machine

YADM - (Yet another database machine), this time it is an OLTP machine to be announced on Tuesday - Sep 15. See the details here "Announcing the World’s First OLTP Database Machine with Sun FlashFire Technology "






