Oracle Magazine November/December 2012



This issue includes the mix of news, community, customer-focus, and technology stories you've come to expect in Oracle Magazine. This issue's cover story is about IT consolidation, Oracle Applications, Oracle Exadata—and business success.
Here are some highlights from the November/December 2012 issue:

Apps on Oracle Exadata

By consolidating business applications with Oracle Exadata, organizations are simplifying their information technology; lowering costs; and improving system performance, scalability, and reliability. Find out how Praxair and Alliance Data are benefiting by running their applications on Oracle Exadata.


Engineered to Educate, Explore, Engage

Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, MySQL Connect, and several other events took San Francisco by storm, September 29-October 5. This content-focused week offered a wealth of learning and networking opportunities, with a little rock, blues, ska, and alt-country added in for good measure. Relive the conference—or see what you missed—and start planning your trip to San Francisco next September.


Built for Speed 

At Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle unveiled new releases of Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Learn how these engineered systems deliver hardware and software engineered to work together and in-memory, speed-of-thought compute power to private and public clouds.


Interview: Optimized Application Performance

Oracle's Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software enables a true IaaS environment.


Beginning Performance Tuning: Diagnose the Past

Take the next step in diagnosing Oracle Database performance issues.


Ask Tom: On External Table Queries, Data Consistency, and Nothing
Our technologist queries the operating system, locks manually, and uses the right NULL.


Time Capsule

Check out these Oracle conference flashbacks.

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