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Ken Jacobs Discusses Oracle Database 11g at COLLABORATE 07
"The hallmark of Oracle is to be first—to innovate, to be unconventional," Ken Jacobs told the packed Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) audience at COLLABORATE 07 in Las Vegas on April 16. "Oracle Database 11g," he said, "continues this tradition."
Jacobs, a 25-year Oracle veteran and vice president of product strategy, reviewed 30 years of sustained database innovation and was then joined on stage by Andy Mendelsohn, Oracle's senior vice president of database and server technologies.
"What motivates us to innovate is helping customers with improved quality of service, lower cost, simplified management, and enhanced security and regulatory compliance," said Mendelsohn.
Enhanced security is where it all began for Oracle. "The CIA was one of Oracle's first customers," Jacobs said. "I helped open the Washington DC Oracle office, so I like to say that I have a lot of friends in the spy business."
"Today," added Mendlesohn, "Oracle plans to provide data classifications, encrypted data, secure tape backups, and secure deployments with our Oracle Configuration Pack, Oracle Database Vault, and Oracle Audit Vault—which is now in beta testing.
"Recovery is important, too," said Mendlesohn. "The most common problem is human error, so we introduced Oracle Flashback. With Oracle Database 11g, we're planning Oracle Flashback Transaction and Oracle Flashback Data Archive, which we call Total Recall."
Growing data volumes are another issue customers face. "I remember when a gigabyte was considered large," Jacobs said, "and now our customers are managing multiple terabytes of data."
Oracle Information Lifecycle Management optimizes data storage costs and performance. "Oracle has been partitioning data for over 10 years," Mendlesohn said, noting that it's key to managing data across storage tiers and ageing of information. "In Oracle Database 11g, we plan to offer new compression technology, reference partitioning, interval partitioning, and complete composite partitioning."
Oracle also introduces new technology with Oracle Database 11g, such as Oracle Secure Files. "We're breaking the performance barrier for storing and manipulating files such as documents and presentations with file-system-like performance inside the database," said Mendlesohn.
"The whole process of change can be very expensive," Mendelsohn said, and according to Jacobs, "New change assurance capabilities in Oracle Database 11g should help preserve order amid change."
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