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Executive Solution Session

Tuesday, October 4 | 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Novellus Theater

CERN Achieves Oracle Database Scalability and Performance Built on NetApp
Looking for solutions that can help you cut IT costs in half? Interested in using 65% to 80% less storage so you can free up resources for innovation? Looking for a flexible and efficient foundation for building cloud? Would you like to defer your data center expansion? Want to gain competitive advantage by accelerating your time to market? If any of these ideas are intriguing to you, join NetApp cofounder Dave Hitz and Eric Grancher from CERN in this session to learn more about how storage efficiency technologies can help you achieve outstanding cost efficiencies and accelerate your business performance.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research in fundamental physics. Supporting its business of making groundbreaking innovations such as the World Wide Web, its data center includes the database with the highest number of rows in a single table known in production: approximately 2.5 trillion rows in a table supporting the particle accelerator.

Building on experiences at CERN, this presentation goes beyond the use of Oracle and NetApp® technologies to share details of how CERN is leveraging innovative solutions to optimize storage efficiency and database performance. Join this session to learn how NetApp in critical Oracle environments at CERN enables the teams in their quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe.

About the customer: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centers for scientific research in fundamental physics. At CERN, the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments—particle accelerators and detectors—are used to study the basic constituents of matter—the fundamental particles to learn about the laws of nature.


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Dave Hitz, Founder and Executive Vice President Read Full Bio

As executive vice president, David Hitz is responsible for the future strategy and direction of NetApp. Dave Hitz and James Lau founded NetApp in 1992 with a desire to simplify storage the way Cisco simplified networking. Dave and James believed that general-purpose computing systems were too complex, so they built dedicated devices called appliances. These appliances were designed to handle one thing well: storage.

Prior to 1992, Dave worked as a senior engineer at Auspex Corporation, an enterprise storage solutions provider, where he was responsible for file systems and microkernel design. He also held engineering positions at MIPS Computer, focusing on file system and I/O subsystem design for the System V kernel development effort. Before his career in the computer industry, Dave worked as a cowboy, getting valuable management experience by herding, branding, and castrating cattle. Dave documented these and other formative business experiences in his autobiography, "How To Castrate A Bull, Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business."

Dave holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and electrical engineering from Princeton University.

Eric Grancher, Database Services section Leader, CERN Read Full Bio

Eric Grancher leads the database services section in the CERN IT department — supporting databases related to mission critical assets such as particle accelerator and experiments events that drive CERN's research into fundamental physics. Since joining CERN in 1996, Eric assumed responsibilities in IT to work on RAC application scalability with Real Application Cluster, storage scalability for databases as well as high-availability architectures. Prior to joining CERN, he graduated as engineer at the French school "Telecom ParisTech" and with an MSc at "Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon". Eric has been an OakTable member since April 2005 and has specific interest in database applications and performance. Eric is a frequent speaker at industry events and Oracle community forums to share his vision, strategy and experience in managing and driving unique Oracle databases.

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Interview with Dave Hitz

Understanding Cloud Computing and Datacenter Storage
Dave Hitz, Founder and Executive Vice President Read Interview


Free Discover Pass

Request an Oracle OpenWorld Discover Pass compliments of NetApp. Discover Pass benefits include access to keynotes, Executive Solution Sessions, Exhibition Halls, and much more. Passes are available while the supply lasts and require a demo, technical, or executive meeting at the NetApp booth. Email the NetApp VIP Team and write Free Discover Pass in the subject line.


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NETAPP AROUND THE WORLD

NetApp is currently ranked among the top 20 Great Places to Work in all 9 countries around the world where Best Workplace rankings are offered.

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NETAPP IN THE COMMUNITY

NetApp supports strategic partnerships that help make our global communities better, stronger, and more vibrant places in which to live, work, and do business.

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NETAPP AND GREENING INITIATIVES

NetApp protects and preserves our environment today and for future generations through energy efficient products and good environmental stewardship.

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FUN FACTS ABOUT NETAPP

  • Over 1 billion people benefit from clouds built on a NetApp Platform.
  • NetApp Customers save $429,000 hourly; $3.76 billion annually.
  • Some of Oracle On Demand runs on NetApp.
  • Petabytes of NetApp storage support Oracle development.

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