Oracle's Enterprise Storage Webcast Series Register now to watch Oracle's enterprise storage webcasts and learn how you can improve storage efficiency, cut costs, and simplify data management. ORACLE'S ENTERPRISE STORAGE WEBCASTS Is Unstructured Data Mission-Critical? With the advent of unstructured data sources, many enterprises are finding their data models are broken and their ability to implement analytics, except on standalone systems, at a standstill. The analytics systems of the future will be integrated and end-to-end. They will deploy purposed-aligned storage, recognize data retention needs, and align those needs with cost. This webcast will discuss an integrated end-to-end data model, its implications on data center storage systems and networking, and how we expect this model to evolve in the near future to allow Oracle customers to optimize the value derived from all of their data. Taming the Digital Media Explosion – How One Customer Delivers Archive-as-a-Service The explosive growth of unstructured data combined with new compliance and data retention requirements are injecting change into enterprise strategies for long term data storage. In this webcast we will discuss what factors in the enterprise business ecosystem are driving the need for comprehensive, long-term digital archiving strategies. We look beyond regulatory compliance and corporate governance to see how the explosive growth of digital media assets in the enterprise is causing CIOs and IT staff to re-think their long term storage strategies. Discover how one Oracle customer, T3 Media, is using Oracle hardware and software behind a state-of-the-art, Archive-as-a-Service offering to solve these problems for the Media & Entertainment industry. Data Center Storage Trends for 2013 The storage issues you're going to face in 2013 are not a surprise. Demands on storage will keep increasing while your budgets keep decreasing. In this webcast, Ravi Pendekanti, Vice President, Systems Product Marketing at Oracle and guest speaker Laura DuBois, Program Vice President, Storage Practice at IDC will discuss the top data center storage trends and how Oracle's new and emerging technologies will help you stay ahead of those ever-increasing challenges. Selecting The Right Storage for Your Enterprise Cloud No matter where you are on your journey to the private cloud, choosing the right storage platform is critical. In this webcast, Oracle's storage experts will discuss the top challenges that enterprises deploying private clouds face, including VM performance, storage efficiency and utilization, and storage management complexity. Learn the essential features and capabilities that you should be looking for in a storage platform as you build your private cloud strategy. The Next Generation of Mainframe Tape Storage The way you manage your mainframe data affects your top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. Now you can have the world's most advanced, most complete optimized storage for your mainframe environment - the new Oracle's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager System 6. Extreme Storage Makeover: How to Upgrade and Modernize Your SAN Architecture With exploding data demands and higher storage maintenance costs, modernizing your storage infrastructure is a fundamental requirement of doing business today. Learn how to upgrade your legacy SAN storage infrastructure to a modern, next-generation system that will help you reduce maintenance and support costs, while improving your storage system's performance, efficiency, and scalability. A Better Way to Access and Archive Data Center Information Donna Harland, Principal Product Manager, Technology Solutions at Oracle discuss how Oracle's Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management is an integrated solution that features enterprise content management, tiered storage, and tiered content management. Quality of Service: A Better Approach to Storage, Explained Changing business priorities cause users and application workloads to change suddenly and frequently. Data volume is expanding rapidly. As a result, storage systems need enable immediate response to these unpredictable demands. Register for this educational webcast to learn how storage Quality of Service (QoS) and other key storage technologies enable the business agility that traditional networked storage systems promise, but have not delivered. Oracle Optimized Storage Strategy Mark Hurd, John Fowler, and Jim Cates discuss how Oracle's exciting storage strategy optimizes data center efficiency, functionality and performance so you can simplify IT and enable business innovation. Find out about our new scalable storage solution for midsize and growing businesses, and how Oracle helps you operate smarter and lower total cost of ownership whether you are running Oracle applications, delivering cloud services, or managing a heterogeneous data center. Inside the Innovation: Meet Oracle's NAS, SAN and Tape Development Leaders Ravi Pendekanti moderates a roundtable discussion with Phil Bullinger, Mike Workman, and Jim Cates where they will delve deeper into key aspects of the Oracle Optimized Storage Strategy that was unveiled in the keynote session. Meet the leaders behind the products, and learn how they are focusing their teams to create differentiated NAS, SAN, and Tape solutions for heterogeneous data centers that integrate specific capabilities that enable Oracle software to run faster and more efficiently on Oracle storage. New Scalable Storage Solutions For Midsize and Growing Businesses Jim Cates, Vice President of Hardware Development at Oracle discuss the industry-leading combination of simplified installation and management, high reliability, and seamless scalability. Performance Benchmarking: Is Your NAS Storage Up to the Test Oracle has recently released high-performing results across not one, not two, but three industry benchmarks. But what does this mean for your environment? When storage performance metrics are viewed in some detail, they can give you great insight into the potential service levels of your business. Join us to learn more about how key performance metrics can help you make informed choices in your IT architecture Extreme Database Performance Meets Its Backup and Recovery Match Oracle’s Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is a tested, validated and supported backup appliance specifically tuned for Oracle engineered system backup and recovery. The Sun ZFS Backup Appliance is easily integrated with Oracle engineered systems and provides an integrated high-performance backup solution that reduces backup windows by up to 7x and recovery time by up to 4x compared to competitor engineered systems backup solutions. Rethink Your Data Storage with the Oracle Pillar Axiom - The Intelligent Alternative to EMC For organizations running Oracle software, the Pillar Axiom 600 is an ideal fit for consolidating storage for multiple Oracle Databases or Oracle Applications. It is also a good choice for EMC Clarion customers nearing the end of a lease agreement. Rather than upgrading to the EMC VNX product family, this is the perfect juncture to make the switch to Oracle's Pillar Axiom 600. Simplify Storage Management with Oracle's Latest Software Jim Cates, Vice President of Hardware Development and Michael O'Donnell, Director of Hardware Development at Oracle give an overview of the new, exciting Oracle StorageTek Tape Analytics Software. With Oracle's new StorageTek Tape Analytics software, you proactively capture library, drive, and media performance metrics, getting the insight to ensure the health of your global tape environment. Solving the Storage Challenge for Desktop Virtualization Faced with resource constraints and increasing user demands, most companies have turned to virtualization as a means to better utilize IT infrastructure and meet business needs. Many IT organizations are expanding virtualization efforts beyond servers to their desktop infrastructures. The desktop environment can be complex and often presents its own data protection, manageability and mobility challenges. Join the webcast “Solving the Virtual Desktop Storage Problem” to learn how Oracle's integrated desktop virtualization and storage solution can help you address these challenges head-on. Improve Database Capacity Management with Oracle Storage and Hybrid Columnar Compression Dave Krenik, Storage Solution Specialist and Mark Mulligan, Exadata Pillar Specialist discuss how Oracle's hybrid columnar compression (HCC) feature - which is now supported on Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance and Pillar Axiom 600 - can help customers better manage the lifecycle of data using in-database archiving for OLTP databases and data warehouses. Using Hybrid Columnar Compression in these environments, customers can achieve 3x to 5x reductions in their storage footprints, energy usage and cost by replacing existing EMC and NetApp SAN and NAS storage with Oracle storage solutions. Guide to Storage Consolidation: 5 Pillars for Success Webcast Storage has moved from a dedicated, direct-attached resource to a completely shared resource, because companies wanted to consolidate storage to optimize both management and storage utilization. Unfortunately, this concept of a shared resource and consolidation causes other storage management issues. View this important educational webinar to learn what they are and the 5 must-do's for storage consolidation success. Accelerating Database Test and Development with Oracle Storage Cloning your databases for recovery, development, test, and quality assurance can be demanding on your storage infrastructure. Learn how Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance helps you create test, development, and recovery databases quickly and safely - and using minimal storage. Top Strategies for Protecting Exadata Dave Krenik, Storage Solution Specialist and Phil Stephenson, Senior Exadata Principal Product Manager at Oracle explain the benefits of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, why data protection strategies are so important, and give an overview of the Oracle storage solutions portfolio. Oracle Tiered Storage: Database Performance Tiered Up, Cost Tiered Down Art Licht, director of data center architecture in the Enterprise Solutions Group at Oracle, and Kevin Jernigan, senior director of Product Management at Oracle explain how you can increase database performance, reduce storage costs by 10x, and save data center real estate—all without disrupting daily activities.