Educational Workshop - Friday, July 20, 2012!

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MCC Office for Workforce Development

UNYOUG Educational Workshop Day
Friday, July 20, 2012 9:00AM - 3:30PM (breakfast & registration start at 8:30AM)

Monroe Community College - Brighton Campus
R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center
Empire Room

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Presentations:

Exalytics
Steve Van Hall, Oracle

Big Data
Bryan Grenn, Oracle

MAA & Database Consolidation on Exadata
Ray Dutcher, Oracle

Scripts and Tips



Agenda:

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Networking, Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 Welcome

9:15 - 10:15 Exalytics

10:15 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 11:30 Big Data

11:30 - 12:15 Lunch

12:15 - 12:45 Scripts and Tips

12:45 - 1:45 MAA & Database Consolidation on Exadata

1:45 - 2:00 Break

2:00 - 3:00 TBD

3:00 - 3:15 Raffles, wrap-up

**Free Parking, please park in Lot M.**

Registration:
A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. We need a count of persons attending to properly plan for this event. If you are planning to attend, please pre-register for the meeting here: http://www.unyoug.com/register.php.

Membership & Fees:
UNYOUG membership is $20 per year. The event is FREE for members, $10 for non-members.
* Fees are waived for those between jobs! *

Thanks!

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Exalytics: Engineered Solution for Oracle Business Intelligence
Steve Van Hall, Oracle

Exalytics is an engineered solution from Oracle that includes memory-centric hardware platform, in-memory technology from TimesTen, and Oracle’s Business Intelligence foundation Suite. This is another example of Oracle’s strategy for engineered hardware and software solutions. Steve will describe the platform and benefits derived from using an engineered solution approach to business intelligence.

Steve Van Hall is a Master Principal Sales Consultant and certified Oracle Enterprise Architect. He has been with Oracle over 7 years, after close to 7 years at BEA systems, a few at CA, and started his career at Eastman Kodak (16 years). As an Oracle Enterprise Architect Steve works with Oracle Core Technologies and the rest of the Oracle eco-system to ensure that Oracle customers have well-rounded and comprehensive solutions from Oracle.

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Big Data and How it is Changing our Field
Bryan Grenn, Oracle

Big Data is coming to a Data Center near you! Bryan will give a background of why big data is becoming such the buzz around the industry. He will talk about where all the data is coming from, and how companies are using it. He will cover the current technologies for working with big data, and then where Oracle fits into the big data picture.

Bryan Grenn has been an Oracle DBA for 20 years, consulting at different companies in the Rochester Area. He has been the Technical chair for UNYOUG for a number of years giving presentations. He avidly blogs and tweets (link on unyoug.com). Most recently he worked as enterprise architect implementing a very large application utilizing the Oracle tool set. He is currently a Principal Exadata Sales consultant at Oracle.

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MAA on Exadata & Database Consolidation on Exadata
Ray Dutcher, Oracle

Ray will give a high-level on the Exadata Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) configuration and note how it is designed to tolerate unplanned outages of all types, providing both high availability (HA) and data protection. Exadata MAA also minimizes planned downtime by performing maintenance in a rolling fashion. Finally an overview of database consolidation on Exadata with details on a project that included consolidating databases for Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel, Oracle Peoplesoft and a data mart on to an Exadata quarter rack. These topics are intended to initiate an open Q&A discussion!

Ray Dutcher has been at Oracle 18+ years serving in Oracle Field Support, the Oracle Center of Expertise and since 1999 in the Server Technologies High Availability Systems group across various products. The HA Systems group covers the full technology stack and identifies, tests and documents MAA best practices across the stack. Ray has published and collaborated on numerous MAA projects and white papers and consulted with customers. The past 3 years he has been working on MAA Oracle Applications in Exadata environments projects.