Oracle

April 8, 2014

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Oracle on Cisco UCS : Breaking Records without Breaking the Bank

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 Cisco is back at Collaborate , the great show put in place by IOUG , this year in Las Vegas April 7-...

September 18, 2013

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Cisco UCS Changing the Economics of the Datacenter at Oracle OpenWorld

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Next week at Oracle OpenWorld, I will be giving an abbreviated theater presentation on how Cisco UCS is changing the economics of the datacenter (full presentation below). If you will be at OOW, please stop by the Cisco booth (#1021 – Monday 9/23 @ 12:30pm, Tuesday 9/24 @ 4pm, & Wednesday 9/25 @ 2:30pm) for […]

May 21, 2013

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Trends in the Oracle User Community

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In April the largest conference for Oracle users, outside of Oracle OpenWorld, occurred in Denver.  With 6000 attendees “Collaborate”, the annual Oracle user conference sponsored by IOUG (Independent Oracle User Group), OAUG (Oracle Application User Group) and Quest International, is one of the best events For Oracle users, whether it is Oracle Database or any […]

April 10, 2013

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Expanded Cisco Validated Design Options for Oracle Users

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Collaborate 13, the largest independent Oracle user group (IOUG, OAUG, Quest International) event is the launch point for 3 new Oracle-based, Cisco Validated Designs (CVD).  With the Joint Cisco/NetApp “FlexPod” as the hardware platform, the new CVD’s include: Oracle RAC with Oracle Linux as the operating system Oracle RAC with Oracle VM as the hypervisor […]

April 5, 2013

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When Oracle User Groups “collaborate”, Great Things Happen

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While some may be wary of the number 13, for 3 Oracle user groups (IOUG, OAUG, Quest Intl.) 13 is a measure of success for their joint (collaborative?) conference “Collaborate”, next week in Denver. Now in its 13th year, the 6000 attendee strong Collaborate is the world’s largest independent Oracle user group gathering.  And Cisco, […]

November 9, 2012

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Cisco Validated Designs for Cloud – Part 3 – Flexpod

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Over the past two weeks, Tom Nallen introduced the concept and benefits of the Cisco Validated Design , then Laszlo Bojtos,  illustrated this concept with the Cloud Service Assurance for Virtualized Multi-Services Data Center 2.2 Cisco Validated Design, with a specific emphasis on the integration with Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud . This week I talked with John Kennedy, a […]