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IOUG Webcasts - May 16, 2018


Oracle Database Appliance – Integrated, Seamless Back-Up to Cloud
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Central

Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system that saves you hundreds of hours with rapid deployment and simplified system and database patching while providing the best out-of-the box database performance because the Oracle database team designs it. The next evolution of Oracle Database Appliance guides you to Oracle Cloud backups.

Just think, database backups to the Cloud mean they are secure before they leave your site with encrypted backups over encrypted network streams. You can meet your archive compliance policies easily with Oracle’s Archive Cloud service. Oracle Database Appliance integrated backup knows what files to backup and with a single command can restore and recover your database.

Join us to understand the new features and benefits the Oracle Database Appliance offers with on-premises and hybrid cloud back up architecture.

Speaker: Tammy Bednar, Sr. Director, Product Management, Oracle Database Appliance

Bio:
Tammy has worked in the computer industry for more than 30 years and her experience ranges from coding applications in ADA, to product management for many Oracle solutions including her current area of focus and expertise - Oracle Database Appliance.

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Emulate Legacy Sun SPARC Servers: Mitigate Risk and Improve ROI
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Central

With options to emulate legacy Sun SPARC hardware on an x86 server or in the cloud, Charon-SSP enables customers to preserve mission-critical applications, mitigating risk of unplanned downtime and improving ROI. This webinar will address a number of benefits of SPARC emulation:

  • Modernize business by eliminating legacy hardware and providing a modern x86 or cloud environment for legacy applications
  • Reduce the costs associated with aging hardware, including costly maintenance, high utility fees, and the costs associated with unplanned downtime
  • Experience enhanced capabilities in the cloud over on-prem (ex: additional storage, CPUs, disaster recovery, etc.)
  • Significantly reduce risk of downtime due to hardware failure
  • Expand business to the cloud with SaaS cloud offering
  • Gain potential performance improvements over original hardware platform

The top 3 customer takeaways:
  1. Preserve your legacy software investment
  2. Eliminate costs associated with legacy hardware
  3. Reap all the benefits of modern infrastructure

Speakers:
Sandy Levitt, Senior Sales Engineer, Global Alliances & Channels, Stromasys
For the past four years, Sandy Levitt has been a senior presales engineer at Stromasys, focusing primarily on the Charon-SSP Sun SPARC emulation solution. She currently works as a senior sales engineer on the Global Alliances and Channels team, providing technical expertise for Stromasys partners. Prior to joining Stromasys, Sandy spent 27 years at DEC/Compaq/HP, where her work focused on supporting Tru64 Unix on Alpha. Sandy holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gus Mavritsakis, Western Area Sales Manager, Stromasys
Gus Mavritsakis has spent over 25 years in software sales with extensive expertise in client needs and analysis and a consultative approach to software and application sales. Prior to joining Stromasys he worked for several large software companies , including Cisco, SAS and Oracle, selling a cross-section of solutions for application development, capacity planning, business intelligence and deployment to the cloud. At Stromasys Mr. Mavritsakis is the Western Area Sales Director working with a variety of industries helping them extend the life of their legacy systems through virtualization and migration to the cloud. Mr. Mavritsakis holds a BA in Business from Ryerson University, Toronto.

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