Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Nov 16, 2011
Pythian continues to have a busy quarter with events right up to the end of the 2011 calendar year.
If you happened to miss us at a past event, email events@pythian.com to reconnect or request a copy of the any of the presentations we’ve made through 2011 or earlier.
Live events
Web events
Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Oct 3, 2011
PYTHIAN NEWS
Live from Oracle OpenWorld Pythian is thrilled to share news of our big win: Oracle North America Titan Award for Oracle Exadata solution that was planned, deployed and is currently managed for online marketing corporation LinkShare in New York.
Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 30, 2011
PYTHIAN NEWS
Pythian and Scalar Decisions today announced a formal partnership providing Oracle customers an unparalleled one-stop shop solution provider in Canada. Combined, we can help Oracle customers develop, fulfill, implement, and manage their whole Oracle solution stack.
Posted by Gwen Shapira on Sep 30, 2011
I’ve attended the Strata conference in NYC last week. Its been many years since I’ve last attended a conference without presenting in it. On one hand, attending only makes for a far more relaxed experience. On the other hand, I missed having random people come up to me and talk about my presentation. I decided to attend the conference since it is considered the foremost data science conference. And I was very much interested in what those data scientists are up to.
Good data scientists combine the abilities of business analysts, statisticians and software engineers. They have the skills, the tools and the mandate to mine and analyze all the data the organization collects to deliver valuable insights to the business and data-based features to the customers of the business. In addition, it is considered the hottest job around. Of course, it is data scientists who mined job postings and job moves to come up with this conclusion, so maybe take it with a grain of salt.
Data-scientists normally work with very large amounts of data, both structured (the enterprise data warehouse) and unstructured (web server logs, blog posts). Since I’m a big fan of big data, I was very curious to see what those data scientists care about.
So, in no particular order – stuff data scientists like:
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Sep 24, 2011
Last Thursday I was invited to the panel organized by Ottawa Chapter of Canadian Women In Technology (CanWIT). I wanted to mention it here as CanWIT sets up very interesting events for women in IT so if you are interested in progressing your IT career, definitely consider their events.
The panel was designed to share the experience of few CIOs and CTOs — how they got into this job and how they developed their career, what the day of a CTO and CIO is like, what challenges they face in their jobs and how those challenges are approached. There were three panel speakers. Hana Pika is the CIO at University of Ottawa Heart Institute, established and rather traditionally-conservative organization when it comes to IT. Wayne MacLaurin is the CTO at Sedari, a startup providing domain registry services. Finally, myself with the official title of CTO but in reality having mixed responsibilities of CTO and CIO and Pythian not being a startup but still very nimble company.
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 21, 2011
PYTHIAN NEWS
Pythian makes deployment of new Oracle Database Appliance even easier with fixed-price offering. Pythian’s EasyMigrate offering gives customers firm pricing and a predictable, streamlined migration plan to get Oracle Database Appliance up and running in the shortest possible timeframe.
Today was a busy day in the news for Pythian, as Oracle released Oracle Database Appliance. Pythian is now offering fixed-price services to migrate to ODA and support it on an ongoing basis. Small and midsized business can leverage Pythian’s Oracle expertise and take full advantage of the cost and performance advantages of ODA.
Here’s the buzz so far:
Will you be at Oracle OpenWorld? Pythian is presenting tips, best practices, real-world experiences and lessons learned at over 8 sessions, including co-presentations with clients Western Union and WWT. If you want to connect with any of our technical, sales or executives team attending send us an email.
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Sep 21, 2011
When I first heard about Oracle Database Appliance and what it does, I got really excited — I saw great potential in this product. When we got our hands dirty and started testing the appliance, I become confident that this product will be a hit. Now it’s finally the time when I can share my thoughts and experience along with other Pythian folks.
This article is targeted primarily on system architects and managers explaining what they get with Oracle Database Appliance as well as what they don’t get.
So what you do get with Oracle Database Appliance
This is why you would want the appliance — if some the bellow solves your headache.
Standard platform — highly repeatable solution
Oracle Database Appliance is the same hardware, same software up to the drivers, components firmware, hardware components revisions and etc — the same for all customers around the world. This means that you are very unlikely to encounter unique infrastructure issues. You will take advantage of all customers’ experience running Oracle Database Appliances in their data-centers. This is similarity to Exadata platform but Oracle Database Appliance has even less variations so more leverage from standards.
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 20, 2011
PYTHIAN NEWS
Pythian is happy to announce today the achievement of three new Oracle PartnerNetwork Specializations bringing the total to seven under our Platinum level membership of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) program.
Now added to the list are Oracle Exadata, Oracle Data Warehousing, and Oracle GoldenGate.
Complementing the added specializations is Pythian’s launch of new Oracle Exadata-focused products and services including an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 migration calculator, Oracle Exadata Smart Flash Cache Monitoring Tool, and an Oracle Exadata Managed Services program that extends the company’s Oracle Exadata-readiness services.
Pythian’s most recent Oracle Exadata clients include a major financial services company in New York and an e-commerce company specializing in data aggregation for the travel industry. Pythian’s Oracle GoldenGate expertise is supporting Western Union currently.
To find out how we can put our specialized Oracle expertise to work for you, contact us, send us an email or call 1-866-798-4426 ext. 2.
Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Sep 15, 2011
PYTHIAN NEWS
In celebration of the company’s 14 year anniversary, Pythian today announced a donation of $30K worth of scholarships to support students in the MIS Program at the University of Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management.
The scholarship will support four Honours Bachelor of Commerce students specializing in Management Information Services (MIS) each year by providing them with a $2,500 scholarship and a paid internship.
Since opening its doors in 1997, Pythian has grown from an ambitious local startup into one of the world’s most respected database services companies. Founder Paul Vallée and team members Marc Fielding, Sylvain Fontaine, and Greg Leger are alumni of the MIS program.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Sep 9, 2011
Isn’t that that time of the year again?
Yes, it is — it’s time for our annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup and of course Oracle is piggybacking OpenWorld with the meetup again! ;)
What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2011
When: Wed, 5-Oct-2011, 5:00pm
Where: Main Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Please comment with “COUNT ME IN” if coming — we need to know the attendance numbers.
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