Recent Posts by Bob Rhubart

Webcast: Improving Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Management - May 10Live webcast  Tuesday, May 10, 2011,  9am PT/Noon ET, featuring Victor Alarcon (Senior Supply Chain Coordinator, Ameren) and Mark Peachey (Product Strategy Director, Oracle). (tags: oracle otn alarcon supplychain erp entarch) Announcing the Flash Cache Query Tool for Oracle Exadata | The Pythian BlogA public blog on subject matters of interest to DBAs, by The Pythian Group's remote DBA specialists in Oracle, SQL,...

In Stop Blaming Your Culture, writers Jon Katzenbach and Ashley Harshak offer insight that should resonate with enterprise architects: Organizational cultures don’t change very quickly. Therefore, if you are seeking change in your company or institution, you are most likely to succeed using your existing culture to help you change the behaviors that matter most. Bit by bit, as these new behaviors prove their value through business results, the culture you have can evolve into...

Loraine Lawson: Enterprise Architecture Paying off at Del Monte "Why in the world anyone would want to sit down with an enterprise architect when they spend so much time arguing over the very meaning of their own discipline!" asks Lawson (tags: entarch enterprisearchitecture) Frank Munz: Amazon AWS outage: did the Cloud Fail? "This event teaches us that it is not enough to know how to simply run WebLogic on AWS," says Munz. (tags: cloud oracle amazon ec2) Tim Hall: Perhaps I'm not...

The turn-out for Oracle Technology Network Architect Day in Toronto on April 21, 2011 was  fantastic! I counted maybe 6 empty chairs early in the day, and there were moments when I thought we’d have to bring in more. A big thank you to all who came out to check out the presentations and conversations. A big thank you as well to the speakers (complete list here), including Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap (@carymillsap) who offered a terrific presentation on cloud computing...

The following is a complete list of all presentations from OTN Architect Day in Toronto, April 21, 2011. The New Generation of IT Optimization and Consolidation Platforms as presented by Tim Davis Diagnosability vs. The Cloud as presented by Oracle ACE Director Cary Millsap Application Portfolio Rationalization as presented by Michael Glas Cloud Computing - Making IT Simple as presented by Dr. James Baty Data Center and System Optimization as presented by Michael Glas Rationali...

Dean Halbeisen: Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Secure Backup  The solution includes optimized architectures for deploying Oracle Secure Backup to provide data protection for Oracle Engineered Systems, including Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exalogic, SPARC Supercluster, and Oracle Optimized Solution. (tags: oracle otn architecture hardware backup) Oracle Technology Network Virtual Developer Day: Rich Enterprise Applications - May 3 5 tracks. 15 sessions. All without leaving your...

Kellsey Ruppel: Oracle WebCenter: Adminstration By way of demonstrating the use of FMW Control, Kellsey Ruppel takes you through registering Analytics Collector connection for your WebCenter application.  (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0 webcenter) 21 Apr 2011 - San Francisco, CA - Coherence Special Interest Group Speakers: Reza Shafii, Adam Messinger, Christer Fahlgren, Noah Arliss, Robin Smith. 5:30pm - 8:30pm. 475 Sansome Street, 15th Floor. San Francisco, CA.  (tags: oracle otn coher...

Mark Rittman: Rittman Mead At Collaborate11 – Roundup and Presentations It's no trip to Orlando, but if you missed #C11, Oracle ACE Director Mark Rittman offers this wrap-up. (tags: oracle otn oracleace) Automating Content Migration Projects (Oracle Enterprise 2.0 Blog) Dirking shares a couple of points from Kapow Technologies CTO Stefan Andreason's Collaborate 11 presentation. (tags: oracle otn enterprise2.0) Andrejus Baranovskis's Blog: Practical Guide for Oracle WebCenter PS3...

Robert Annett: Data Integrity and System Design Arnett says: "So why isn't this analysis done on a regular basis to help keep a system healthy? The main reason is simply that it's just too hard for the operations staff to do. Therefore when you're designing a system you should take this into account and enable these kinds of maintenance.tasks. This involves reporting and having tools that can correct sets of problematic data." (tags: softwarearchitecture data) Douwe Pieter van...