Oracle Database PodCasts

Volume Ltd., a new-generation marketing communications agency based in the UK, combines creativity and technology to design and deliver sales campaigns, channel management solutions, online learning applications and knowledge zones. Chris Sykes, managing Director, discusses why Volume migrated from SWL Server to an Oracle Database 11g grid on Windows and how it realized an instant ROI.

Learn how the United States Postal Service is making innovative use of location data for planning and optimization of facility space. Guest speakers Tim Perez from USPS and Steven Pierce from Oracle spatial partner Johnston-McLamb explain how USPS benefits from improved facility planning by visualizing and analyzing spatial data with Oracle Database and Oracle Fusion Middleware MapViewer.

Oracle Partner Elster is a leader in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and integrated metering / utilization solutions for the gas, electric and water industries. Find out how Elster relies on Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to keep costs low while powering its enterprise-class systems.

Listen to this Oracle Database podcast and learn how Starwood lowered risk during a recent application upgrade with Oracle Real Application Testing.

EDS is a leading global technology services company delivering business solutions to its clients. Hear how EDS’ small steps towards the grid has resulted in one of the largest commercial database grids in the world.

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Hear how Intergraph relies on Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Spatial, and Oracle Real Application Clusters to power its applications.

Dr. Peter Tonellato runs the Laboratory for Personalized Medicine at the Center for Biomedial Informatics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Tonellato and his team recently deployed Oracle Database 11g in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environment, enabling the team to be up and running with innovative genetic testing models in record time.

With over 3 million customers shopping in its supermarkets every day, Giant Eagle requires a data warehouse that can support millions of point-of-sale transactions on a daily basis. Steve Mitterder, Technical Services Database Manager from Giant Eagle, discusses how Oracle Exadata has enabled Giant Eagle to dramatically increase its query performance by 25 times.

Author of the Oracle Database Security book, David Knox is part of Oracle’s National Security Group which works exclusively on projects for the US National Security agencies. In this podcast, David discusses cyber-espionage and the steps organizations must take to protect their databases.

LGR Telecommunications supplies custom telecom data warehouses to some of the largest telecommuncaitions companies in the world. To maintain its competitive edge, its data warehouses must be able to deliver extremely fast query response times for very large databases. Learn from Paul Hartley, General Manager, how LGR has been able to address this challenge with Oracle Exadata.

Every month, more that 3.5 million people use WebEx to communicate and collaborate online. Learn how Oracle’s Grid infrastructure including Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle ASM, and Oracle Grid Control enables WebEx to meets is high availability, cost, and future growth requirements.

Aris Prassinos, distinguished member of Motorola's Biometrics Solutions division discusses how Motorola Printrak Biometric Identification Solution has upgraded to Oracle Database 11g using XML DB for maximum flexibility of automated fingerprint and palm-print identification, inkless live-scan stations, and mobile fingerprint capture.

RL Polk is in the business of collecting and interpreting data for the automotive industry. Hear about their experience running Oracle Partitioning, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle ASM, and thoughts on Oracle Exadata.

Sean Bingham from Oracle Support, talks about how My Oracle Support, the next generation support platform, improves quality of service for Oracle Database deployments. Personalized, configuration-specific information is used to help improve the performance, security and availability of your Oracle Database. The service is included for no additional charge with your Oracle Premier Support subscription. Sean will share best practices and tips for leveraging My Oracle Support, to help you get the most value from your Oracle Database solution—helping you to better meet the needs of your own customers.

Alex Fowler is a Director and Data Privacy Specialist at PricewaterhouseCoopers. With extensive hands-on privacy and security management as well as implementation experience, Alex has worked with numerous customers to on data privacy and security in large-scale business environments. In this podcast, Alex shares some of his insights on the data privacy challenges customers face and the Oracle solutions that can help them.