We have now arrived at the end of the largest Oracle OpenWorld ever. Around 45'000 people traveled to San Francisco to exchange on IT and especially Oracle technologies. It has been a great conference with a lot of interesting sessions and several announcements as every year: Enterprise Manager 12c, Exalytics and Oracle Public Cloud.

For my last post on OOW '11, I want to talk about the last session I attended. Who said that late sessions are usually less interesting? I personally was lucky enough to attend a great presentation held by Oak Table member Alex Gorbachev. Alex used ASM to demonstrate how hardware and software fault tolerance mechanisms, especially mirroring, are affected by different parameters such as MTBF.

This has been a long day. It started with gathering some news about Enterprise Manager 12c and finished with a huge concert on Treasure Island. However, the highlight of the day was clearly Larry Ellison's Keynote. Since this afternoon (pacific time), Oracle is officially offering a public cloud integrating an Oracle social network!

In my second blog posting about OpenWorld, I wrote about the Engineered Solutions portfolio that just got enhanced with Exalytics. Today I'm going to focus a bit more on Oracle Database Appliance and how this new box works. I had the chance to go to a session called "New! Database Appliance: secrets revealed", which provided more information on its architecture and functionality. After that I went to a highly interesting use case by Dell on the brand new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c for Cloud computing. But first let's have a look at the Database Appliance secrets...

Oracle OpenWorld's day 2 is now over … with some rain… We had some interesting sessions such as Fusion Middleware, RMAN or NoSQL.

In this OOW 'Road Journal' post, I am going to focus on two of them, introducing a coming Data Center Management solution and giving an outlook on the Oracle Enterprise Linux roadmap.

So the first day of the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over. This introduction day was dedicated to Oracle Users, Oracle Partner Forums, and the Welcome Keynote. It already showed some interesting stuff and finished with a new announcement.

Finally after a 18 hours, door-to-door, journey I arrived at San Francisco for Oracle OpenWorld 2011. My trip started in Basel, with a stop in Paris and then an 11 hours flight to San Francisco. Even with the on-board movies these kind of flights are still quite boring, but the funny things is that I really thought I was flying with "Air Oracle"…