Posted by Yury Velikanov on Sep 19, 2011
Last Thursday I spent in Melbourne presenting two of my papers for Australian Oracle User Group Victorian members. I received a very warm welcome in that beautiful city.
The first part of the day I spent in one many coffee shops, enjoying fantastic coffee, working and watching how the stream of people changes during the day. I wonder how it is possible that Australia’s two biggest cities are so different! The difference is quite difficult to describe. You should visit these sites to feel it yourself!
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Posted by Vanessa Simmons on Aug 8, 2011
It’s a busy summer at Pythian, with our continuing wave of speaking sessions at upcoming community and regional industry events.
Coming to a city near you, watch for Pythian presenting hot Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server database topics:
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Posted by Yury Velikanov on Jul 10, 2011
Hello Community!
In this post:
- InSync11 – Oracle Conference!
- RAC SIG ANZ – way to find each other!
- Other ways to find your RAC SIG ANZ fellows!
InSync11 – Oracle Conference!
This post is addressed to all RAC SIG members who is planning to participate in the InSync11 conference this August in Sydney Australia! InSync11 is organized by Oracle Community for Oracle Community and is one of the biggest Oracle technology dedicated events in Australia and New Zealand region. If you are in the area by August 16th and haven’t considered participating yet, you should! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from others, listen to experts from around the world and meet face to face people from your networks (including RAC SIG).
RAC SIG ANZ – way to find each other!
There are 130 members from Australia and New Zealand region in RAC Special Interest Group today! I am sure that many of the members will participate in the InSync11!
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Mar 30, 2011
I’m very excited to announce this somewhat old news — we have a brand new Oracle ACE at Pythian — Yury Velikanov. Fantastic addition to Pythian’s team of ACEs and ACE Directors — Fahd Mirza, Gwen Shapira, Jared Still, Christo Kutrovsky and myself. If you want to know more about Oracle ACE Program, the latest issue of Oracle Magazine has an article written by the fellow Oracle ACE Mike Riley — Everything Is Coming Up ACEs!.
I’ve known Yury for a while as I met him online on Oracle-L many years ago. The world is small and after living on different continents (North America and Europe), providence put us together on the third continent — Australia. As I was building our Australian business in Sydney, it took me a year to convince Yury to join Pythian. But I tell you it was worth the efforts!
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Posted by Yury Velikanov on Aug 31, 2010
Hello folks,
If it happens and you are in and around the Sydney area 1-2 weeks from now then you might be interested in taking part in the following events:
The first event is organized by Oracle Community in Sydney (sponsored by Pythian), during the next Sydney Oracle Meetup. The good news is that you can have free beer and pizza to recharge your batteries after a working day and have a good discussion with Oracle professionals in friendly environment.
- a – RAC, Grid, Cloud or on the way to Oracle Cloud
Wednesday 8 September 2010 17:30 p.m. to 19:30 p.m.
Usually, there are not many full day Oracle-related events happening in Sydney. More good news is that another one is coming soon. Attend and hear about new products and features from Oracle themselves and win a Car Navigator (as one of the lucky Pythian’s employees did at last Oracle event in Sydney recently :)
- b – Oracle’s Next Generation Data Centre Summit 2010 – Sydney
Thursday 16 September 2010 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
See you around,
Yury – a DBA from down under
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Feb 26, 2010
A couple weeks ago I did a short blog post about SAN storage failures and how people are blinded by all the bells and whistles that are supposed to make storage arrays 100% reliable and failsafe. My conclusion was that there is no way to avoid storage failures, and that a better way is to anticipate those failures and be ready to handle them with minimal service impact.
I referenced a wake up call from a CTO of an Australian hosting company. Let me quote it again:
The outage, blamed on an IBM storage array, saw the company’s chief technology officer promise “significant changes to the way we deploy and manage our storage environment”.
Today, I stumbled across another article that demonstrates their solution of the storage reliability problem. From Melbourne IT on $18m Oracle revamp:
… to improve the reliability of its operational support systems at a cost of $7 million over three years, which has also seen it switch storage vendors from IBM to EMC. Data corruption that had occurred on its IBM storage systems were blamed for a several day outage experienced at the company’s WebCentral web-hosting business.
So we see that, instead of learning the right lesson, they conclude, “This IBM storage stuff isn’t reliable, EMC sales folks convinced me that they are better. Now my storage will not fail.” The “significant changes to the way we deploy and manage our storage environment” were mere vendor change.
Well, data recovery services will be flourishing!
Posted by André Araujo on Nov 4, 2009
It’s only one week to go now and the program for the AUSOUG National Conference Series 2009 is out. I’ll be presenting on the first day in Perth (Nov 10th) about Oracle Flashback technology.
I’m looking forward to attending the conference in Perth, not only because I’ll be presenting there but also because it’s my first time in Western Australia. All going well my presentation will be honed before the weekend and I’ll be arriving in Perth still this week, on Friday, to enjoy an extended weekend in Perth and Margareth River wine region with my wife before the conference begins.
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Aug 23, 2009
What: SMUG#9 – In-depth MySQL with Arjen Lentz
When: Monday, September 7, 2009 5:30 PM
Where: Please make sure to RSVP (even “Maybe”) so that we know how many are coming!
Sydney Mechanics School of Art
Level 3, 280 Pitt Street
Sydney
02 9262 7300
I’m very excited to announce a very special guest at this user group meeting!
Arjen Lentz is in town doing his Sydney training program 7-Sep to 9-Sep and kindly agreed to drop by and talk about something interesting in the MySQL world – be it a technical topic or the state of the MySQL community eco-system.
For those of you who are relatively new in the group – Arjen has actually kicked-off the Sydney MySQL User Group few years ago. Arjen has been Australia’s earliest MySQL AB employee. He lives in Brisbane and is visiting Sydney for just few days so this is a unique opportunity to meet him personally unless you are a lucky student enrolled into his training program classes that week.
We are starting at 5:30pm with pizza and beer and some mingling around. Around 6:00pm, we should be in the condition to move into a more formal discussion led by Arjen. The finish should be by about 8:30pm.
Please don’t forget to RSVP and answer the question at the RSVP form on what topics would you like to discuss the most.
Looking forward to see many of you there!
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jul 17, 2009
I’ll be in Canberra next week presenting at the ACT Oracle User Group Developer and DBA Seminar Day on Thursday, 23 July 2009. If you are in Australian capital city, I’d be very much looking forward to see you there!
The topic I will be presenting is 11g New Features Out of the Box. I presented it few times already but originally, it’s based on Christo Kutrovsky’s presentation from Oracle Open World 2007. Unlike many presentations on 11g new features, this session will be focused on the enhancements that often go unnoticed and not marketed widely but boost DBA productivity and are available out of the box without much implementations efforts.
I’m most likely coming in Canberra the day before and will do some sightseeing with my family so all suggestions are welcome. That reminds me… Need to book the hotel!
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Jul 14, 2009
What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #8 — Exadata Extravaganza
When: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:30 PM (please, make sure to RSVP yes/no/maybe)
Where: Sydney CBD Join meetup for the detailed location.
The topic for this meetup is quite exciting – Oracle Exadata and everything about it. David Centellas, Senior Database Consultant from Oracle will do technical presentation on Exadata and, after the break, we will have a open forum discussion where two Oracle’s Enterprise Architects, Tim Rubin and Chris Jones, will answer our questions and share thir real-world experience.
Schedule:
- 5:30pm – 6:00pm — Networking with food and refreshments
- 6:00pm – 7:00pm — Presentation on Exadata by David Centellas
- 7:00pm – 7:30pm — Break and informal networking
- 7:30pm – 8:30pm — Open Forum based on real-world Exadata experience with David Centellas, Tim Rubin and Chris Jones
- post even — optional gathering in the nearby pub – it’s Friday night in the end!
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