Oracle Database News
Oracle Database PodCasts
  • Why You Should Attend ODTUG KScope13
    In this Oracle Database podcast, host Markus Weber is joined by Monty Latiolais, President, ODTUG, and Kellyn Pot'Vin, who is responsible for the database track at KScope13. They provide great insights into what you can expect from attending this year's conference. Listen to all of it to get a registration code for a $100 discount!


  • Heidelberg Reduces Storage Consumption 50% with Oracle Advanced Compression
    Listen as Mr. Sven Lareum, Product Manager and BI Expert at Heidelberg, the world's leading service and solution provider in the print media industry describe the five-figure cost savings they realized with Oracle Advanced Compression in their SAP environment to reduce storage consumption by 50% and dramatically improving database operational performance for a return on their investment in less than 5 months.


  • IOUG President Discusses Collaborate 13
    John Matelski, president of the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG), discusses the highlights of COLLABORATE 13 in Denver,CO (April 7-11).


  • Starwood Hotels Transforms Business in Real-Time with Oracle Exadata
    Listen as Arup Nanda from Starwood Hotels and Resorts describe how Oracle Exdata Database Machine transformed their business to deliver real-time market data and on-demand reports that allowed them to react quickly to changing market conditions while reducing IT infrastructure costs.


  • Verizon chooses Oracle TimesTen Over Home Grown Solution for Real-Time Fraud Detection
    Verizon Wireless replaced its home grown fraud detection solution with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database creating a real-time architecture that offers high availability, disaster recovery, enterprise level support and tight integration with Oracle Enterprise Manager for automatic synchronization with their Oracle Database.


  • Radio Systems Supports Growing Global Business with Exadata
    Listen to hear about how Radio Systems Corp deployed Oracle Exadata with Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Demantra Demand Management and Oracle iSupplier to create a high performance infrastructure supporting the company's aggressive growth targets.


  • Procter & Gamble Gain POS Insight for Better Decision Making
    Listen to this podcast to find out how Procter & Gamble deployed Oracle Exadata to improve the performance of their data warehouse queries, reduce storage consumption, eliminate support overhead and concerns, and deliver better business insight to the company.


  • Enkitec Customers Integrate Hadoop and Oracle Exadata
    Listen as Kerry Osborne discusses complimentary use cases of Hadoop and Oracle Exadata. Enkitec is now using Oracle Big Data Appliance to help customers with PoCs and Hadoop training. Oracle Partner, Enkitec, has over 100 Exadata implementations.


  • Bank of America Slashes Storage Footprint 50% With Oracle Advanced Compression
    Satish Zalavadia, Senior DBA at Bank of America describes how Oracle Advanced Compression and Secure Files helped them accommodate future data growth by reducing their database storage footprint by 50% saving them money and improving query performance. Bank of America was troubled by the fact that LOB data was increasing the size of their database exponentially with longer database operations and manageability tasks. With their clients projecting volume increases over 50% per year, concerns over the impact to the size and cost to their backup and restore footprint triggered a plan of action to accommodate data growth with Oracle Advanced Compression. It reduced their database size by 50%. The huge reduction in storage utilization meant that no additional storage was needed to accommodate data growth in the first year as their clients introduced more applications running against the database. In addition, clients saw an 80% improvement of query results as a result of storing LOB data in Secure Files.


  • T-Mobile Secures Enterprise Data with Defense-in-Depth Security for Oracle and non-Oracle Databases
    T-Mobile USA provides wireless voice, messaging, and data services throughout the United States and protects sensitive enterprise data with Oracle Database defense-in-depth security solutions. Alex MacKnight, principal architect of corporate information security, explains how they use Oracle Database Firewall, Oracle Advanced Security, and Oracle Data Masking to secure sensitive data across the organization in both Oracle and non-Oracle databases.


  • SquareTwo Financial Enables Compliance and Fast Growth with Oracle Database Security
    SquareTwo Financial, a leader in the $100 billion asset recovery and management industry, enables fast growth and regulatory compliance with Oracle Database Security defense-in-depth solutions. Hear J-T Gaietto, manager of information security, discuss how they use Oracle Database Firewall, Oracle Data Masking, and Oracle Advanced Security.


  • Columbia University Secures PeopleSoft Financials with Oracle's Transparent Data Encryption
    Columbia University, the oldest institution of higher learning in New York, protects sensitive data in Oracle's PeopleSoft Financials using Oracle Advanced Security with transparent data encryption. Hear, Nick Caragiulo, manager of database administration, discuss how Columbia helps address internal and regulatory requirements for encryption of data at rest and in motion.


  • Alpha Natural Resources Improves Performance 5x
    Alpha Natural Resources deployed Oracle Exadata in order to reduce cost and complexity and drive a 5x performance improvement. ANR is now able to deliver greater user satisfaction and a nimble business model that is highly scalable for the future.


  • Piction talks about storing and tuning Unstructured Data and Multimedia in Oracle Database
    Marcelle Kratochivil, Ace Director and CTO of Piction Digital Image systems talks about why Oracle Database is best for storing and handling unstructured data. Marcelle shares her experiences of working with unstructured data and the role Oracle Database has been able to provide in helping her customers meet storage, scalability and security requirements.


  • Nokia provides Oracle Spatial and Graph customers with integrated location and mapping capabilities.
    Steve Lytle, Senior account executive at Nokia Location and Commerce, discusses Nokia and Oracle's long-term partnership, delivering mapping data for use with Oracle products.


  • Passoker and e-DBA talk about Oracle NoSQL Database for web-based gaming
    Stuart Carr, Managing Director at Passoker talks about the market and opportunity for online gaming and how they turned to e-DBA to implement a solution that would meet the business needs. James Anthony, Technology Director at e-DBA will discuss some of those challenges and the role that Oracle NoSQL Database plays to help meet the scalability, low latency and reliability requirements they needed.


  • Oracle Exadata and the Agile, High Performance Organization
    Dr. Mark Gold of Accenture discusses Oracle Exadata Database Machine's capacity to transform an infrastructure and help organization's achieve Extreme Performance through an agile or cloud based data center.


  • ADNOC Distribution Achieves 20x Performance Gain on Exadata
    ADNOC Distribution markets and distributes petroleum services within the United Arab Emirates. ADNOC has streamlined data transactions and increased system performance by 50& through an upgrade to Oracle Exadata Database Machine.


  • IOUG President Discusses Upcoming Oracle OpenWorld
    John Matelski, president of the Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) discusses what's in store for attendees at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco (September 30 - October 4). Listen to hear what's in store for you at this important user group show!


  • Pennsylvania government improves family life quality with Oracle Database 11g, Exadata and Microsoft .NET
    The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare houses and administer services that provide care and support to Pennsylvania's most vulnerable citizens. Tune in, as David Frye, IT manager at the agency, discusses how running Microsoft .NET applications on Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Exadata have provided high-performing and simplified solutions for managing their IT systems.