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Database Sessions You Can’t Miss at Oracle OpenWorld 2008
Oracle OpenWorld 2008 gives you the opportunity to join Oracle Database experts from product management and Oracle's customers, user groups, and partner communities to learn more about Oracle Database 11g and how it can benefit your organization. See some of the Insider’s top picks at this year’s conference, taking place September 21-25 in San Francisco, California:

1. Extreme. Performance. Larry Ellison’s Keynote
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle
Wednesday, September 24, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Larry Ellison discusses the software industry in Wednesday's Oracle OpenWorld keynote. More...

2. Best Practices for Oracle Database: Information Management in the Enterprise
Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice president, database server technologies, Oracle
Monday, September 22, 5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Moscone North, Hall D

As head of database development, Mendelsohn will be hosting the Database stream, and will present a general session for database business on Monday, September 22, at 5:15 p.m. He’ll provide an update on the current release of Oracle Database 11g and some of the great new functionality, as well as information about topics such as best practices for upgrades, achieving maximum availability, lower cost of database management in the enterprise, building a secure data management solution, adopting grid computing, effective data warehousing architectures, and information management in the enterprise. E-mail Andy Mendelsohn and let him know which database topics you'd like him to cover. More...

3. Oracle Database 11g for Data Warehousing
Ray Roccaforte, vice president, server development, Oracle
Thursday, September 25, 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Moscone South, Room 103

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data quality—all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. In this session, learn about the newest enhancements and customer experiences with Oracle Database 11g for data warehousing. More...

4. Oracle Database 11g: Next-Generation Performance and Scalability
Sushil Kumar, Oracle; Juan Loaiza, Oracle
Monday, September 22, 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Moscone South, Room 103
Oracle Database technology leads the industry in performance and scalability. Oracle Database instances power a majority of the world's most demanding environments and continue to build and lead across industry benchmarks. In this session, you will learn how the new capabilities of Oracle Database 11g can speed your application performance, further improve the scalability of your database environment, and help you meet the unprecedented demands being placed on your IT infrastructure. More...

5. Oracle Grid Computing 2.0: A Preview
Aiman Al-Khammash, Oracle; Annie Flint, Oracle; Bob Thome, Oracle
Monday, September 22, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m., Moscone South, Room 306
Grid 2.0 will include a new grid infrastructure that dramatically extends the benefits of Oracle Grid Computing. This session covers this new infrastructure, which will greatly simplify the management of a cluster, propelling grid computing to a mainstream architecture. New quality-of-service capabilities will make meeting performance objectives in a shared infrastructure environment easy and automatic. The session also introduces exciting new storage management features that extend the benefits of Automatic Storage Management to all files. More...

6. Anatomy of Data Breaches: How They Occur and How to Protect Against Them
Vipin Samar, Oracle
Tuesday, September 23, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Moscone South, Room 103
With data breaches at record highs, protecting private information about customers, employees, and citizens has become a must for businesses and governments worldwide. Most data breaches occur from inside the firewall—lost backups, stolen accounts, malicious employees, application vulnerabilities, and more. This session looks at data breach scenarios and shows you how to transparently protect your data from the inside out. More...

7. Low-Latency, Scalable Cache Grid Using Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Cache
Susan Cheung, Oracle, and Marie-Anne Neimat, Oracle
Wednesday, September 24, 9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m., Moscone South, Room 305
This session provides an overview of Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Cache grid technology. The Oracle Database option provides a low-latency, scalable relational database grid in the middle tier and is uniquely suitable for applications where blazingly fast access to relational data is business-critical and the ability to scale out cache instances reliably and transparently is crucial. This session is for database application developers seeking to improve application response time without rewriting their application. More...


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