Oracle Information InDepth Newsletters, Database Insider Edition, January 2009

INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERS
Database Insider Edition
January 2009

NEWS SECTION

Tom Kyte's DBA Resolutions for 2009
Tom Kyte, Oracle DBA and founder of the Ask Tom blog, gave the Oracle Database Insider his resolutions for 2009 in hopes that other DBAs will follow suit. Read Tom's resolutions.

15 Ways to Cut Costs and Save
Today, more than ever, IT professionals must quantify the value of investments, demonstrate business value, and help their businesses go green—while maintaining quality of service and flexibility for future changes. Learn how more than a dozen of Oracle's technologies and solutions address these challenges by helping you do more with less and cut costs. More...

Forrester Research Talks Oracle Data Masking
In the second of a series of Webcasts on database security, Forrester Research analyst Jonathan Penn discusses why data masking is a cost-effective way to reduce the risk to sensitive data in non production environments such as test or development environments, or when sharing data with business partners.

Oracle Magazine Dives Deeper into Oracle Exadata
Storage bandwidth has limited the performance of growing data warehouses. Read how Oracle Exadata overcomes storage bandwidth limitations and delivers extreme computing power to the HP Oracle Database Machine and the HP Oracle Exadata Storage Server. More...

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TECH DIVE

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Beta Program
Oracle has openings for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 beta testers available. The beta team is interested in recruiting beta testers for all aspects of the database including Real Application Clusters, Advanced Compression, XML DB and more. Organizations with a proven record of technology adoption and good knowledge of Oracle Databases are encouraged to apply.

Visit the beta testing site on the Oracle Technology Network to create a profile. Your profile will be kept on file for 12 months. Due to high volume, you will be contacted only if your profile matches our beta profile criteria. Note: You must hold a current production license for any features or options they would like to test. More...

Harvard Medical Reduces the Time to Run Clinical Trials with Oracle Database 11g in the Cloud
Dr. Peter Tonellato runs the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine at the Center for Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tonellato and his team recently deployed Oracle Database 11g in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, enabling the team to be up and running with innovative genetic testing models in record time. Listen to the podcast.

EVENTS

Oracle Exadata at NRF
January 11–14, 2009
New York, New York
Retail starts at the NRF 98 Annual Convention & Expo. You'll find it all—education, networking, and technology—at Retail's BIG Show in New York City. The convention is open January 11–14 and the EXPO Hall and DESiGN STUDiO January 12–13. More...

DM Review Live Webcast: Even Faster - How a New Model Can Improve Performance
January 14, 2009
9:00 a.m. PT
Bigger isn't always better, but faster sure sounds good in the world of enterprise reporting. In every organization, so much effort is spent fine-tuning databases, optimizing SQL queries, and adding more hardware to expedite the processing and delivery of critical business information. Now, two of the heaviest hitters in the world have combined forces to rewire the hottest industry in IT.
Register for this DM Review Espresso Shot Web Seminar to find out who just partnered with whom to create the fastest, most amazing data warehousing solution to date. More...

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit
January 20–22, 2009
The Hague, Netherlands
The Gartner Business Intelligence Summit examines BI solutions, advice, real and tangible strategies, cutting edge of best practices, and latest tools and technology that will help you develop a more effective BI strategy and improve the performance of your business. More...

TDWI Winter Conference
February 22–27, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada
Join your colleagues for a week of in-depth business intelligence and data warehousing courses presented by the industry's premier educational institute—TDWI. You'll have access to several full- and half-day courses covering a wide range of topics. More...

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