The Future of Oracle DBA Services
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As a leading 24x7x365 remote oracle services provider, dbaDIRECT is obsessed with staying on top of the latest and greatest in anything Oracle. So, like children pouring wide-eyed into a giant candy store, we recently joined over 45,000 other industry professionals at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 in San Francisco with an enormous sense of anticipation—and we definitely were not disappointed.
In particular, we heard a few things on a couple of Oracle’s most advanced database products—Exadata and the Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud—that especially caught our attention. Over half of our client projects involve Oracle databases, and so the news we heard from a number of experts at OpenWorld on these products was especially pertinent to us as Oracle database consultants and, ergo, to our clients.
Oracle Exadata is Here—Are You Ready?
For one, Oracle is pushing the Exadata database machine as the imminent database solution for its customers. Exadata consolidates storage, servers, networking, and software into one pre-engineered machine, merging disparate servers and data stores into one centralized solution. Exadata indeed does a tremendous job at helping organizations collect, store, process, and utilize ever-increasing volumes of data for superior business intelligence; however, migrating to Exadata poses some critical implementation and administrative challenges. Exadata consolidates the traditional means of managing Oracle database implementations via separate IT specialties, and so organizations using or considering Oracle must be sure to have the personnel with the right skills—a mix of database, storage, Linux, and UNIX expertise all rolled into one—available when making the transition to and utilizing Exadata.
Since Exadata was first introduced in 2008, we have been diligent in ensuring we have ample remote Oracle database administrators trained to the highest degree on all of the requisite Exadata skills. With Oracle increasingly pushing Exadata’s widespread adoption, we are more committed than ever to helping our clients take maximum advantage of its ability to handle massive amounts of data and provide superior business performance. Learn how we help businesses do more with Oracle.
Larry Ellison on the Exalogic Elastic Compute Cloud
In his keynote speech at OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduced the Exalogic