Wednesday, November 21, 2012

November/December 2012 issue - Oracle Magazine

November - December 2012 Issue


Here are some highlights from the November/December 2012 issue:
Apps on Oracle Exadata
By consolidating business applications with Oracle Exadata, organizations are simplifying their information technology; lowering costs; and improving system performance, scalability, and reliability. Find out how Praxair and Alliance Data are benefiting by running their applications on Oracle Exadata.
Engineered to Educate, Explore, Engage
Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and several other events took San Francisco by storm, September 29-October 5. This content-focused week offered a wealth of learning and networking opportunities, with a little rock, blues, ska, and alt-country added in for good measure. Relive the conference—or see what you missed—and start planning your trip to San Francisco next September.
Built for Speed 
At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle unveiled new releases of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Learn how these engineered systems deliver hardware and software engineered to work together and in-memory, speed-of-thought compute power to private and public clouds.
Interview: Optimized Application Performance
Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software enables a true IaaS environment.
Beginning Performance Tuning: Diagnose the Past
Take the next step in diagnosing Oracle Database performance issues.
Ask Tom: On External Table Queries, Data Consistency, and Nothing
Our technologist queries the operating system, locks manually, and uses the right NULL.
Time Capsule
Check out these Oracle conference flashbacks.