PTOUG

Securing data is one of the most critical and business-sensitive issues faced by IT security architects and database administrators. Oracle offers solid solutions for implementing high-end database security policies.

This hands-on workshop offers customers a technical overview of the following Oracle 10gR2 and 11g security products:
- Advanced Security Option – network encryption, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), Tablespace-level data encryption, encrypting backups using RMAN
- Database Vault – provides separation of duty and lockdown capabilities against privileged database users
- Audit Vault – provides centralized audit collection and reporting capabilities for Oracle and selected non-Oracle databases
- Enterprise Manager Data Masking Pack – provides numerous built-in and customizable scrambling/masking functions for ensuring that sensitive production data is not visible within staging or test environments

Since seating is limited, please RSVP by July 21, 2008. 

This is a hands-on workshop.  Participants are provided with an overview of all of Oracle’s database security products listed above.   Each participant is provided with collateral containing all slides, lab exercises, and VMWare image used in the workshop.

Please contact Linda Johnson if you have any questions

Eliminating Database Downtime when Moving to Oracle 10g - featuring customer Overstock.com
GoldenGate Software Web Seminar
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST

Join GoldenGate Software and customer Overstock.com for this one-hour webinar event for companies who need to upgrade their business-critical systems running on Oracle 8i or 9i — but can’t take significant downtime.

Location: Blueridge Conference room, Building 5 (Creekside), Cisco Systems, RTP, NC 27709

Sponsored by Texas Memory Systems and Burleson Consulting

Our NCOUG Spring TechBlast continues in our tradition of finding the very best Oracle experts to maximize your learning experience. Join us at Cisco on Friday May 2nd for our spring Oracle TechBlast. 

Don Burleson will present his top-rated talk on Oracle 11g SQL Tuning Secrets.
 
Texas Memory Systems - Presentation on RAM SAN Solid State Disks (SSD) and Oracle

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to “tune in” to the new secrets in Oracle software and explore SSD as a storage option.

12:30 - 1:00 PM - Networking
1:00 - 2:00 PM -  11g SQL Tuning Secrets - Don Burleson

This presentation examines real-world techniques for improving the speed of SQL queries with a focus on the new Oracle11g SQL tuning features. The topics will include the new SQL workload replay, fully automatic SQL tuning, the “result cache” hint, new Oracle parameters that affect SQL performance, and changes to the new Oracle11g CBO costing approach.

2:15 - 4:30 PM - Understanding the Storage Impact on Oracle - Should you look at Solid State Disks? - Jamon Bowen (Texas Memory Systems)  
 
To reserve your spot, e-mail Harry Conway at: ncoug@remote-dba.net
 
Directions:
* I-40 to the Davis Drive (Exit 280).
* At the ramp signal, turn left (South) onto Davis Drive.
* Proceed 3.5 miles on Davis Drive to Kit Creek Road intersection.
* Turn right onto Kit Creek Road. You will see Cisco sign here.
* Take the 2nd left, the building is Creekside (building number 5).
* Sign in with the receptionist.

Managing the Enterprise with Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control

Wednesday, March 5th @ 2:00 p.m. EST
For registration please click here.

Conference Details

Webcast Link
Web Conf ID/Key: 101819594/grid
Audio: 888-794-4691 Password: grid

Spanning applications, middleware, and database management, Oracle Enterprise Manager unique “top-down” approach enables Information Technology (IT) departments to focus on what matters to the business - greater agility, better service quality and lower operational costs. Oracle Enterprise Manager enables its customers to manage their applications from top to bottom - from monitoring service levels to proactively isolating business exceptions before they escalate, and remediating issues at any level of the IT stack.

Join Oracle Product Development for this live ninety minute presentation to learn how Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control can help you manage your heterogeneous enterprise environment.

The following areas will be covered during this presentation:

• EM Grid Control Overview
• Customer Examples
• Best Practices & Roadmap
• EM Demonstration
• Q&A with Product Development

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 16 — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire all outstanding shares of BEA for $19.375 per share in cash. The offer is valued at approximately $8.5 billion, or $7.2 billion net of BEA’s cash on hand of $1.3 billion. “We expect this deal to be accretive to Oracle’s earnings by at least 1-2 cents on a non-GAAP basis in its first full year after closing,” said Oracle President and Chief Financial Officer Safra Catz.

We will be sharing laptops and will have some laptops available in case some of you do not have 2MB of memory. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

There will be a 11g and Fusion Middleware event on January 29, 2007 in Charlotte at the Doubletree in South Park. Check out the agenda at the link below.

You can register for this event at:
http://www.oracle.com/dm/08q3field/11004_ev_fmw_11g_charlotte_jan08.html

Please let me know if you have any questions or your plans have changed as to your attending the workshop. We look forward seeing everyone.

Please contact Linda Johnson if you have any questions

Application Express Customer Workshop
11/28 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle APEX data and application development functionality.  Customers will have hands-on experience creating a table from a spreadsheet and building a sample application referencing this data.

Enterprise Single Sign-On Customer Workshop
11/27 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle eSSO functionality and architecture.  Using the administration component, customers will have hands-on experience setting up single sign-on for sample Web, Host and Client/Server applications.

BPEL PM Customer Workshop
11/29 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of SOA & BPEL PM and provide hands-on experience using JDeveloper and BPEL PM (how to build a notification process). Also included discussion using BPEL PM in Ebusiness or PeopleSoft environments.

BPA Suite Customer Workshop
11/28 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of SOA & BPA Suite and provide hands-on experience with BPA Suite (how to build a process model). Also included discussion using BPA Suite with BPEL PM.
  
BI Publisher Customer Workshop
11/27 @ 2pm
This workshop will give customers a quick overview of Oracle’s BI Technology Solution and provide hands-on experience building reports with BI Publisher.

Oracle Security Overview
12/05 @ 2pm
Learn how Oracle can help guard your brand reputation, inspire customer confidence, and protect your profitability. This 2-hour webcast is geared towards IT professionals, Enterprise Architects, CISO/Directors of Security, and Database Managers.The following topics will be discussed: 1. Reduce online fraud and simplify user login issues with Single Sign On   2.  Automate Employee Onboarding/Offboarding with Identity Management 3. Protect your sensitive database data from unauthorized use 4. Simplify management of structured and unstructured content  5. Streamline Compliance efforts using automated tools· 
   
Please contact Linda Johnson for registration information.

Check back often for updates and announcements.

Monster.com
Topic : Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB)
Date : Wednesday, 24-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Keith Majkut - Director of Engineering, Marketing Automation Systems

Amazon.com
Topic : Oracle Data Warehouse (70 TB), Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Partitioning Option, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Linux, Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM)
Date : Friday, 26-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Diane Lye, Director, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

R.L. Polk
Field Reference Forum
Topic : Oracle Database 10g, Oracle RAC 10g, Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g, Oracle Clusterware, Oracle Data Guard 10g, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Recovery Manager, Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Portal, Oracle Discoverer
Date : Wednesday, 31-OCTOBER-07
Time : 9:00 AM PT (12:00 PM ET,6:00 PM Central European Time)
Speaker : Doug Miller, Director Database Development & Operations

Contact Chris D. Bahr (Technology Sales Manager) to register:
w 704.423.1437
c 704.299.0265

Virginia Oracle Users Group Conference
October 4 & 5
Doubletree Hotel Charlottesville
Charlottesville, Virginia
Registration is now available at www.voug.org