28th Annual International Oracle on IBM z Systems™ SIG and Oracle DB 12c Customer Experiences Conference

Welcome to the IBM Dolce Palisades

Room B350

Agenda

Wednesday April 29, 2015

Time / Session Title / Speaker
8:00 / Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by IBM - Room B390
9:00 / Welcome – Conference Introductions and zSIG / Mike Zechman (SIG)
Gaylan Braselton (IBM)
9:15 / What's new with the new IBM z13 for Oracle workloads / Gaylan Braselton (IBM)
9:45 / Oracle Update / Sandra Skehin (Oracle)
10:15 / Break
10:45 / z/VM 6.3 Performance Improvements for Oracle Workloads / Bill Bitner (IBM)
11:30 to 1:00 / Lunch – Hearth Dining Room
Sponsored by IBM - Main Dining Room
1:00 / Running Oracle Databases in a z Systems Cloud environment / Sam Amsavelu (IBM)
1:45 / Migrating to Oracle 12c database on Linux for z Systems / Thomas Niewel (Oracle)
2:30 / Break
2:45 / ADP Experiences with running Oracle on z Systems / Phil Tully (ADP)
3:30 / Performance Management for Oracle, Linux and z/VM / Barton Robinson (Velocity Software)
4:30 / End of Sessions
5:00 to
7:00 / Reception – Hammond Hall
Sponsored by Velocity Software, Inc.

Agenda

Thursday April 30, 2015

Time / Session Title / Speaker
8:00 / Continental Breakfast
Sponsored by IBM - Room B390
9:00 / Oracle on z Systems CPU Reduction Tips / Mike Zechman (SIG)
Dave Simpson (IBM)
9:45 / Oracle 12c In Memory Database with Linux for z Systems / Sandra Skehin (Oracle)
10:30 / Break
10:45 / Improving Oracle I/O Throughput with Linux on z Systems / David Simpson (IBM)
11:30 / Lunch
Sponsored by IBM - Main Dining Room
12:30 / Oracle zSIG Experts Panel/User Experiences / Mike Zechman, Sandra Skehin, Gaylan Braselton, Dave Simpson, Sam Amsavelu
1:15 / z Systems Support Status / Sandra Skehin (Oracle)
2:00 / Break
2:15 / z/VM Paging with SSD and Flash-type Disks / Bill Bitner (IBM)
3:00 / Oracle Databases on Linux for z Systems - PoC and beyond / Sam Amsavelu (IBM)
4:00 / End of Conference
Thank you for your attendance and participation!

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