Educational Workshop - Friday, Nov. 4, 2011!

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UNYOUG Event
Friday, November 4, 2011

Buffalo State College
Butler Library BL210
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Buffalo NY 14222

Area Map: http://www.buffalostate.edu/pdf/campusmap.pdf


Presentations:

Oracle Virtualization
   Roddy Rodstein, Mokum Solutions, Inc.

Evolution of Enterprise Storage for Relational Databases
   Robert Ball, Symantec

ECC APEX Project
   Lisa Palombo, ECC

Symantec High Availability and Storage Management for Databases
   Sai Mukundan, Symantec

Discussion: What's New from Oracle OpenWorld
   Steve Van Hall, Oracle


First 20 attendees through the door will receive Oracle flash drives!

Agenda:

  8:00   -      9:00   Registration and Networking, Continental Breakfast

  9:00   -      9:10   Welcome

  9:10   -      9:40   Oracle Appliances and Grid 12c Discussion

  9:40   -     10:40   Oracle Virtualization

10:45   -    11:45   Storage Essentials

11:45   -    12:30   Lunch

12:00   -    12:30   ECC APEX Project

12:30   -     1:30   Symantec for Databases

  1:30   -     2:15   Demos

  2:15   -     2:30   Break

  2:30   -     3:15   What's New from Oracle OpenWorld

  3:15   -     3:30   Raffles, wrap-up


Parking:
You will not need to display a parking pass, but you must park in Lot M.  See Area map.  It is quite a walk to the Library, but a shuttle runs every 8 minutes beginning at 8:30 AM.

Registration:
A continental breakfast and lunch is provided.  We need a count of persons attending to properly plan for this event.  If you are planning to attend, please pre-register for the meeting here:  http://www.unyoug.com/register.php.

Membership & Fees:
UNYOUG membership is $20 per year.  This event is free for members and non-members, courtesy of Symantec Corporation!

Thanks!

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Evolution of Enterprise Storage for Relational Databases
The how and why for provisioning virtualized, disk-based solutions
Robert Ball, Symantec
Joe D'Angelo, Symantec
In this session attendees will be given an introductory primer to the various disk-based storage technologies available on the market today and how they have evolved from local, direct-attached RAID arrays to the more advanced SAN and NAS controllers.
Included with the discussion will be a brief look under the hood of what exactly is required to effectively provision storage from the spindle to the file system for disparate application and database workloads.  Additional topics to be covered include a comparison of the current disk subsystem manufacturers and how best to leverage both hardware as well as software-based utilities to maximize database performance and management efficiency while effectively controlling cost.

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Symantec High Availability and Storage Management for Database Environments
Sai Mukundan, Symantec
This session will cover Symantec solutions and tools to provide high availability, optimize the storage environment, and enable capacity planning processes. Topics covered include availability solutions for Single Instance Oracle and Oracle RAC database environments, database backup and recovery, database consolidation, and storage management solutions.

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High Availability and Storage Management Demos
Sai Mukundan, Symantec
This session will go over demos of some of the Symantec High Availability and Storage Management solutions. We will dive into specific use cases around multi-tier application availability, fast failover for Single Instance Oracle, database snapshots for backup, off-host processing and recovery; and space-optimized database copies for replicating from primary site to secondary site.