Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Get Oracle Database Appliance on Peanuts Rates from Pythian

When I first arrived in Australia, I was so stressed to see mega, urgent, limited supply sales at crash-door prices everywhere at Coles, Woolworths, Harvey Norman and other mega supermarkets. I wanted to go and buy all the stuff as I thought there would be no tomorrow and this is the once in a life time chance.

For instance I wanted to buy hundreds of liters of milk because it was on special rate and they said that it won't last long. Now after almost an year, not only the milk stands at the same special rate as it was before, that lounge, that bed, that TV, that fridge; everything is still at special and on that same rate and even has come down.

But Pythian is not some mega supermarket and we don't do it often, and in fact I have first time seen Pythian selling hardware and they are offering the Oracle Database Appliance at a throwaway price and its not that ever-continuing sale, so if you need it, you need to hurry it up.

Here is what Alex says:

"With Oracle Database Appliance, everything comes ready—you just drop the appliance in the data center, type in the selected IP addresses and run a single command from Oracle appliance manager. Two hours later you have a full-blown RAC cluster with a re-configured database. No network changes. No database storage setup. No server configuration. No compatibility nightmares."
- Alex Gorbachev, Chief Technology Officer, Pythian


More detail is here.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist in Australia

I have been working with Exadata systems for the last two years and have loved every moment of it. Pythian's challenging and learning environment makes it a great experience. I thought of checking my Exadata know-how by attempting the Exadata certification, and thankfully passed it and became Oracle Exadata 11g Certified Implementation Specialist.

Yes quite a mouthful title, but nonetheless a good one. 

I will be writing another post as how to become an Exadata certified professional without using Exadata soon. 

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

My Exadata Sessions at Insync12 Melbourne Australia on 22nd August

Fun with knowledge is on and I will be speaking at Insync12 in Melbourne on 22nd August.  I have two sessions to deliver, both related to Exadata, a technology closer to my heart.

About Insync: The InSync12 Conference and Exhibitor Showcase is a joint event of the Quest ANZ user group – representing JDE and PeopleSoft customers, and the Australian Oracle User Group (AUSOUG) representing the Technology, Development and Applications users.

Hope to see you there.

The conference program is here.