Here's the latest information on the session schedule and content for Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Los Angeles on October 25, 2012. Registration is open, but seating is limited.
When:
Thursday October 25 12, 2012
8:30am – 5:00pm
Where:
Sofitel Los Angeles
8555 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Agenda
Time
Session Title
Room
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Welcome and Opening Comments | Bob Rhubart
Beverly Ballroom
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Engineered Systems: Oracle's Vision for the Future | Ralf Dossmann
Oracle's Exadata and Exalogic are impressive products in their own right. But working in combination they deliver unparalleled transaction processing performance with up to a 30x increase over existing legacy systems, with the lowest cost of ownership over a 3 or 5 year basis than any other hardware. In this session you'll learn how to leverage Oracle's Engineered Systems within your enterprise to deliver record-breaking performance at the lowest TCO.
Beverly Ballroom
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Monitoring and Managing Applications in the Cloud | Basheer Khan
Oracle offers a broad portfolio of software and hardware products and services to enable public, private and hybrid clouds to power the enterprise. However, enterprise cloud computing presents new management challenges, that need to be addressed to realize the economic benefits of cloud computing. In this session you will learn about the methods and tools you can use to proactively monitor your end-to-end Oracle Applications environment in the cloud, define service-level objectives, gain insight into your end users, and troubleshoot performance problems from a single console.
Beverly Ballroom
10:30 am - 10:45 am
Break
10:45 am - 11:30 am
Breakout Sessions
(pick one)
Cloud Computing - Making IT Simple | Dr. James Baty
The road to Cloud Computing is not without a few bumps. This session will help to smooth out your journey by tackling some of the potential complications. We'll examine whether standardization is a prerequisite for the Cloud. We'll look at why refactoring isn't just for application code. We'll check out deployable entities and their simplification via higher levels of abstraction. And we'll close out the session with a look at engineered systems and modular clouds.
Beverly Ballroom
Innovations in Grid Computing with Oracle Coherence | Ashok Aletty
Learn how Oracle Coherence can increase the availability, scalability and performance of your existing applications with its advanced low-latency data-grid technologies. Also hear some interesting industry-specific use cases that customers had implemented and how Oracle is integrating Coherence into its Enterprise Java stack.
Hollywood Room
11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Breakout Sessions (pick one)
Enterprise Strategy for Cloud Security | Dave Chappelle
Security is high on the list of concerns for many organizations as they evaluate their cloud computing options. This session will examine security in the context of the various forms of cloud computing. We'll consider technical and non-technical aspects of security, and discuss several strategies for cloud computing, from both the consumer and producer perspectives.
Beverly Ballroom
Oracle Enterprise Manager | Perren Walker
This session examines new Oracle Enterprise Manager monitoring, administration, and management features for Oracle Exalogic. It focuses on two management themes: cloud management related to virtualization and applications-to-disk management. For private cloud management, it discusses virtualization management features providing an enhanced set of application deployment capabilities enabling IaaS as well as PaaS interactions. Then from an end-to-end perspective, it covers the specific capabilities and—where applicable—best practices for machine, cloud, middleware, and application administration.
Hollywood Room
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch
Beverly Ballroom Lounge
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Panel Discussion - Q&A with session speakers
Beverly Ballroom
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm
Breakout Sessions
(pick one)
Oracle Cloud Reference Architecture | Anbu Krishnaswamy
Cloud initiatives are beginning to dominate enterprise IT roadmaps. Successful adoption of Cloud and the subsequent governance challenges warrant a Cloud reference architecture that is applied consistently across the enterprise. This presentation will answer the important questions: What exactly is a Cloud, why you need it, what changes it will bring to the enterprise, and what are the key capabilities of a Cloud infrastructure are - using Oracle's Cloud Reference Architecture, which is part of the IT Strategies from Oracle (ITSO) Cloud Enterprise Technology Strategy ETS).
Beverly Ballroom
21st Century SOA | Jeff Davies
Service Oriented Architecture has evolved from concept to reality in the last decade. The right methodology coupled with mature SOA technologies has helped customers demonstrate success in both innovation and ROI. In this session you will learn how Oracle SOA Suite's orchestration, virtualization, and governance capabilities provide the infrastructure to run mission critical business and system applications. We'll also take a special look at the convergence of SOA & BPM using Oracle's Unified technology stack.
Hollywood Room
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Break
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Roundtable Discussion
Beverly Ballroom
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Closing Comments & Readouts from Roundtables
Beverly Ballroom
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Networking
/ Reception
Beverly Ballroom Lounge
Note: Session schedule and content subject to change.
