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Are you considering Oracle Exadata as a data warehousing or consolidation solution for your organization? Before you go any further, be sure to join Alex Gorbachev, Oracle ACE Director & Pythian CTO at noon tomorrow (EST) as he outlines where Oracle Exadata is the best fit.

• Register Now & More Webinar Details
• Read about LinkShare’s success with Oracle Exadata
• More Oracle Exadata resources
• Hear the project details of Pythian’s successful deployment of Oracle Exadata at LinkShare Corporation in New York, delivering 10x results
• Find out about more upcoming webinars

Please join Pythian for our next series of live and recorded webinars for Q2, 2011.
• Building A 2TB Highly Available MySQL Database
  Thursday, June 23, 2011 12PM – 1PM EST
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• Is Oracle Exadata for You?
  Thursday, Jun 2, 2011 12:00PM – 1:00PM EDT
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• Peering Through the Cloud – The Straight Goods on Oracle Exalogic
  Thursday, July 14, 2011 – 12:00PM – 1:00PM EDT
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Joining live gives you the chance to ask questions directly of our DBA experts.

If you miss a session, you can always check out select recorded webinars below:

Pythian Recorded Webinars:

Is Exadata For You?
Oracle Ace Director Alex Gorbachev, Pythian CTO, looks at Oracle Exadata’s suitability for various environments and what problems it can solve for IT and your business.
Watch now.

Exadata Project Results & Details: LinkShare Implementation
Pythian successfully deployed Oracle Exadata at LinkShare Corporation, and is responsible for the ongoing management of the system. Marc Fielding, Pythian Senior Consultant, and technical lead on the implementation shares the project details in this webinar. Read the related success story.
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Implementing Oracle Exadata – Strategies for SuccessMarc Fielding shares business and performance advantages offered by the integrated technology of Oracle Database Machine and Exadata including reduced costs, shorter deployment time, superior performance, increased functionality and streamlined support.
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HOWTO: Implementing ASM Successfully:
Oracle ASM has been one of the most successful new features since Oracle Database 10g but migrating data to another storage platform represents number of challenges and ASM adds new flavors to DBA responsibilities. For those evaluating this technology, or are on the migration path, in this session, Alex Gorbachev helps plan your migration without having to discover of ASM from scratch.
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Implementing Exadata? Attend Getting Ready for Oracle Exadata: Strategies for Success from Miro & Pythian

Join Pythian’s Marc Fielding for this free webinar on Tuesday April 5, at 1pm ET with Miro Consulting to learn about the significant business and performance advantages of Oracle Exadata including reduced costs, shorter deployment time, superior performance, increased functionality and streamlined support based on real-life experience. This session will lend valuable insight as you begin your Oracle Exadata implementation project.

Pythian has proven experience with Oracle Exadata at LinkShare Corporation in New York. LinkShare is running a multi-site active-active data warehouse using Oracle Exadata, delivering real-time analytics to both internal and external clients. Marc will walk through the highlights of the implementation process, from the initial business case and vendor selection to the final go-live. Topics will include vendor selection, data migration strategies, high availability, data compression, performance tuning, backups, and monitoring. You’ll also hear about implementation issues encountered, their solutions, lessons learned as well as the results of the project, and 10x performance improvements realized by LinkShare.

Register today.

Considering Exadata?

Then join Alex Gorbachev on Thursday April 7 at noon for “Is Oracle Exadata for you.”

Oracle Exadata has become the fastest growing Oracle product in history and every IT manager is curious how it can help their business. In this session we will look at Oracle Exadata suitability for various environments and what problems it solves for IT and business. Based on Pythian’s Oracle Exadata
experience, we will go through the benefits of Oracle Exadata in different deployment scenarios to help you justify the technology for the right projects – data warehousing, OLTP, database consolidation as well as
hybrid environments.

You should come into this session with a general idea of the platform. The session will be structured by presenting a business or IT problem and whether Oracle Exadata can solve it and how. As examples, Alex will review several cases when Exadata is a great solution and when it doesn’t fit well.

Following the session you should be able to assess your own situation and the potential for an Oracle Exadata deployment, learn the scenarios in which Oracle Exadata is an especially good fit, and learns situations where an Oracle Exadata implementation might not be justified.

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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CIOs, VP of Ops, Directors of IT, DBA Managers, anyone migrating to Oracle Exadata or a looking for a high performance data warehousing, consolidation solution. Oracle employees who are working with clients implementing Oracle Exadata will also find the above sessions of value.

More information on Pythian’s Oracle Exadata services & further resources can be found at www.pythian.com/exadata.

Watch this short video to hear firsthand from Jonathan Levine, LinkShare COO on LinkShare’s experience with Oracle Exadata or read the related customer success snapshot.

Please join us for one of our upcoming Q1 webinars. This post will be updated as new webinars are added. Sign up here if you wish to be notified when new sessions are posted.

ORACLE:

Back by popular demand is Marc Fielding, showcasing our LinkShare implementation project success. Register below for an upcoming date. If you’re looking for a bit of Oracle Exadata 101, Marc’s first webinar, Implementing Exadata, Strategies for Success, can be found here. Be sure to bring your questions to the session.

Oracle Exadata Project Results & Details: LinkShare Implementation
LinkShare is running a multi-site active-active data warehouse using Oracle Exadata, delivering real-time analytics to both internal and external clients. Marc Fielding, a senior member of Pythian’s Consulting Group and lead consultant on the project will walk through the implementation process, from the initial business case and vendor selection to the final go-live. Topics will include vendor selection, data migration strategies, high availability, data compression, performance tuning, backups, and monitoring. Learn about implementation issues encountered, their solutions, lessons learned as well as the results of the project, and performance improvements realized by LinkShare.

February 24 – Register Now
March 9 – Register Now
March 23 – Register Now

MYSQL:

Building A 2TB Highly Available MySQL Database
This webinar, led by Danil Zburivsky, Pythian MySQL DBA & Team Lead, will showcase a real-life example demonstrating how mature MySQL database software is and what an experienced DBA can expect from a large MySQL deployment. The project plan included setting up a highly available clustered infrastructure & disaster recovery site for MySQL and how the application was migrated to MySQL from a legacy database platform on OpenVMS. The session will also outline the business project overview and requirements, HA options with MySQL, architecture and implementation, disaster recovery and backup challenges.

March 24 – Register Now

If you have a topic idea you’d like one of our experts to explore, please send your suggestions to Vanessa Simmons, Director of Marketing.

This is just a short blog post to spread the word about the upcoming webinar organized by Embarcadero with fellow member of OakTable Network — Jonathan Lewis and Kyle Hailey — Ultimate SQL Tune-off.

Kyle and Jonathan are on my list of the most respected Oracle performance experts and I could only imagine what they can deliver joining the forces. I’ll allow myself to quote the opening of the webinar as it sounds really interesting:

According to Jonathan Lewis, there is a basic strategy to writing efficient SQL, but it requires knowledge of the data, the metadata, and the intent of the query.

Jonathan will start with the basic principles of efficient data access and then show different ways of analyzing the data. He’ll then describe a graphical approach to finding the most efficient access path for a query and then apply the method to a problem he recently saw with one of his clients.

But wait… is there more than one way to skin a cat? Kyle Hailey thinks so, and he’s not afraid to let Jonathan know it!

Kyle’s fancy footwork will include his own approach to Visual SQL Tuning (VST) with some ring side support from DB Optimizer XE. Hitting below the belt? You be the judge.

The webinar is on June 10, 2010 at 11AM Pacific / 2PM Eastern.

Just a quick announcements…

If you didn’t manage to attend my presentation, Oracle 11g ASM — The Evolution, during RMOUG or other conferences, you have a chance to see it online today. I’m doing it a web-cast at RAC SIG. It’s today, 4-Mar-10 at 12:00pm EST (9:00am PST).