Oracle Database Management Strategic Directions

1. Best Practices for managing Oracle database servers.
2. Oracle Fusion Middleware products like J2EE, ADF, XML, BPEL, SOA, Web Services, Discoverer...).
3. Oracle Application Servers and Apache.

I was pretty busy at the Collaborate 07 conference organizing the Select Magazine expert Panels. Select Magazine is constantly rated as one of the key benefits of being a member of the IOUG. The goal of putting on the expert panels was to bring together recognized experts in emerging technologies. The expert panels below brought together tremendous dialogue and discussion between the expert panels and the attendees. Below is a summary of the expert panels.

Summary

Oracle Security Best Practices
Moderator: Steve Lemme
Panelists: Arup Nanda, Jack Brinson, Tammy Bednar, Dan Norris, Jeff Paddock
Sunday, April 15, 2007, 5:15pm – 6:30pm, Reef C
This panel of expert series will bring the Oracle product team on security and customers together to address best practices on Oracle security across all tiers of the Enterprise.

Topics will include:

• Enterprise Security across all tiers
• Different security models
• Tying all security components together (Database Vault, Audit Vault, and Identity Management)
• Access Control Lists
• Policy driven security
• Data protection using encryption and data masking
• Security monitoring and scanning
• Technical skills required for the new Security environment
• Transition steps
• Skill sets needed for the Security DBA
• Future direction in Oracle security

Oracle Grid Control Best Practices
Moderator: Ken Jacobs
Panelist: Alex Gorbachev, Gaja Krishna Vaidyantha, Rich Niemiec, Leng Tan, Martin Pena, Arup Nanda
Monday, April 16, 2007, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Reef C
This panel brings together Oracle Grid experts as well as customers to take a look at best practices for managing enterprise multi-tiered environments.

Topics will include:

• Enterprise Infrastructure Management (managing database, middle-tier infrastructures and applications)
• Thoughts to consider when moving to Grid
• Grid layout considerations
• Managing heterogeneous database environments
• Lessons learned
• Using Grid with plug-ins to manage additional app servers and SQL Server and DB2
• Best practice considerations for Grid

Oracle XML Best Practices
Moderator: George Trujillo
Panelists: Brad Brown, Geoffroy de Lamalle, Jinyu Wang, Ravi Murthy and Gaja Krishna Vaidyantha
Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 6:00pm-7:00pm, Reef C
Are you facing the increasing demands for building SOA infrastructure, adoption industry XML standards, publishing reports over the Internet or handling unstructured data? If so, the XML expert round table session will be your excellent starting point to learn about the existing XML technologies. This panel will discuss use cases where XML plays a key role in the business applications, the XML best practices, lessons learned and the future strategy. The session also provides a good venue for you to ask questions to our XML Experts from the Oracle Product team, IOUG XML experts and customers.

Topics will include:

• XML best practices for data storage
• XML best practices for data transformation
• XML query best practices
• XML validation best practices
• XML publishing
• Searching XML
• XML Database Management (replications, streams, administration)
• XML for integration (AQ, DB WS)
• Optimizing large scale XML operations

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