Live Event: OTN Architect Day: Cloud Computing - Two weeks and counting
- by Bob Rhubart
In just two weeks architects and others will gather at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood Shores, CA for the first Oracle Technology Network Architect Day event of 2013. This event focuses on Cloud Computing, and features sessions specifically focused on real-world examples of the implementation of cloud computing. 
   
     When: Tuesday July 9, 2013              8:30am - 12:30pm 
    Where: Oracle Conference Center             
                        350 Oracle Pkwy             
                        Redwood City, CA 94065 
   
  Register now. It's free! 
  Here's the agenda: 
   
     
        
        8:30am - 9:00am 
        Registration and Continental Breakfast 
       
        
        9:00am - 9:45am
      Keynote 
         21st Century IT | Dr. James Baty VP, Global Enterprise Architecture Program, Oracle  
          Imagine a time long, long ago. A time when servers were certified and dedicated to specific applications, when anything posted on an enterprise web site was from restricted, approved channels, and when we tried to limit the growth of 'dirty' data and storage. 
          Today, applications are services running in the muti-tenant hybrid cloud. Companies beg their customers to tweet them, friend them, and publicly rate their products. And constantly analyzing a deluge of Internet, social and sensor data is the key to creating the next super-successful product, or capturing an evil terrorist. 
          The old IT architecture was planned, dedicated, stable, controlled, with separate and well-defined roles. The new architecture is shared, dynamic, continuous, XaaS, DevOps. 
          This keynote session describes the challenges and opportunities that the new business / IT paradigms present to the IT architecture and architects. 
         
       
        
        9:45am - 10:30am
      Technical Session 
         Oracle Cloud: A Case Study in Building a Cloud | Anbu Krishnaswami Enterprise Architect, Oracle  
          Building a Cloud can be challenging thanks to the complex requirements unique to Cloud computing and the massive scale typically associated with Cloud. Cloud providers can take an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) approach and build a cloud on virtualized commodity hardware, or they can take the Platform as a Service (PaaS) path, a service-oriented approach based on pre-configured, integrated, engineered systems. This presentation uses the Oracle Cloud itself as a case study in the use of engineered systems, demonstrating how the technical design of engineered systems is leveraged for building PaaS and SaaS Cloud
        services and a Cloud management infrastructure. The presentation will also explore the principles, patterns, best practices, and architecture views provided in Oracle's Cloud reference architecture. 
         
       
        
        10:30 am -10:45 am 
        Break 
       
        
        10:45am-11:30am
      Technical Session 
         Database as a Service | Michael Timpanaro-Perrotta Director, Product Management, Oracle Database Cloud  
          New applications are now commonly built in a Cloud model, where the database is consumed as a service, and many established business processes are beginning to migrate to database as a service (DBaaS). This adoption of DBaaS is made possible by the availability of new capabilities in the database that enable resource pooling, dynamic resource management, model-based provisioning, metered use, and effective quality-of-service controls. This session will examine the catalog of database services at a large commercial bank to understand how these capabilities are enabling DBaaS for a wide range of needs within the
        enterprise. 
         
       
        
        11:30 am - 12:00 pm
      Panel Q&A 
         
          Dr. James Baty, Anbu Krishnaswami, and Michael Timpanaro-Perrotta respond to audience questions. 
         
       
     
   
  Registration is free, but seating is limited, so register now.