Upcoming Webcast: 4 Ways to Optimize Your Identity Management with Virtual Directories

I’ll be joined by Alex Petrushko from our partner Identigral to talk about how Oracle Virtual Directory can improve your identity management implementation. Alex will be speaking about how a large telco provider used OVD to reduce time it takes to deploy new applications.
The webcast will be live at: Nov 19, 2009 12:00 p.m. [...]

Oracle OpenWorld Blogger Meetup Info

Alex Gorbachev has taken the organizer reigns of the traditional OpenWorld blogger meetup from Eddie Awad, who won’t be traveling to SF this year. Keeping it in the Oracle ACE Director family I guess.
With help from the OTN team (once again, we’ve got the bar tab covered), Alex has announced the details:
When: Tue, Oct. 13, [...]

Worth Seeing – The Pythian OOW09 Diaries

Oracle Open World, for this year, is done/is a wrap. A good presentation of the atmosphere can be seen on the "The Pythian OOW09 Diaries", on YouTube, were Alex Gorbachev placed a series of interviews he conducted in The OTN Lounge, which as always was a good place to hang out, meet other people and enjoy [...]

OOW 2009 – Thursday

My Unconference presentation slot was at 10:00 and in addition to Kevin Closson’s 9:00 slot being cancelled, I noticed that there was absolutely no one in ‘my room’ so it looked like a presentation fell through due to lack of attendees Not a promising start and there definitely needs to be an improvement to [...]

OOW 2009 – Swag Round-up

I’ve been trying for weeks to get a picture of me wearing the jacket you receive when you’re made an ACE Director but it’s proved trcky so I brought it over with me this week and wore it one day so Marco could take the photo. Unfortunately we didn’t get round to it so here [...]

OOW 2009 – Wednesday

I always had Wednesday and Thursday in mind as rest days, compared to the first three days and it almost worked out that way. There was certainly even more socialising although whether that was truly restful is debatable
I kicked off Wednesday by attending "HA DBA Roundtable: How Do You Make DBA’s Highly Available?" at [...]

Alex Gorbachev at Oracle Open World 2009: Speaking Schedule | Pythian Group Blog

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OpenWorld Update

Found out yesterday that I will in fact be making the trip to OpenWorld, which is rapidly approaching, October 11-15.
So now, I’m looking to fill my dance card with keynotes, sessions, both unconference and scheduled, and meetups. Any suggestions? Let me know in comments.
One thing I never miss is the blogger meetup, which will be [...]

Oracle Database 11g Release 2: Flash Cache and Exadata V2

So, if I would wonder what is the purpose of this almost "hidden" feature called flash cache and were this came from (also see my post Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – Flash Cache), now I know. I didn’t have the chance to follow Mr. Ellison’s launch event, but reading Alex Gorbatchev’s blog post on the Pythian [...]

.NET Developers Turn to ODP.NET

Alex Keh, principal product manager for .NET on Oracle Database, discusses next steps for .NET-on-Oracle Database developers following Microsoft’s recent announcement of desupport for their OracleClient provider.

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