Your Exadata Program at Oracle CloudWorld 2024

Oracle DatabaseWorld at CloudWorld (OCW) 2024 will open its doors soon, welcoming you to Las Vegas with a rich collection of great content. The Oracle Exadata Core Technologies product management team has prepared a set of learning sessions on Exadata, Exascale, AI Smart Scan, Hands-on Lab, and demo booth, all of which can be found in the CloudWorld Session Catalog.

10:00am to 7:00pm

Meet the Exadata Core Technology Product Management Team at our Engineered Systems demo booth – Alex Blyth / Maruti Sharma / Shankar Natarajan / Carlos A. Ortiz / Chris Craft

Oracle Database Directions [SOL3644]

Andy Mendelsohn’s fingerprint has marked every Oracle Database release since version 4. Find out why he believes Oracle Database 23ai may be the most important Oracle Database release ever. Of course, the new name is a big clue as humankind begins its AI journey, but there’s even more to 23ai than just AI. Join Andy as he showcases the most exciting database innovations you’ve seen in decades, and take a peek into what’s coming next, such as Autonomous Database advancements and a growing list of multicloud partnerships.

Generative Data Dev and App Dev [KEY3607]

Join Juan Loaiza, executive vice president of database technologies at Oracle, as he shares a concrete and achievable strategy for developing enterprise applications by generating the data logic and application logic rather than hand-crafting them.  Oracle calls this Generative Development.  AI is the cornerstone of this innovation, but there is so much more.

7:30am to 6:00pm

Meet the Exadata Core Technology Product Management Team at our Engineered Systems demo booth – Alex Blyth / Maruti Sharma / Shankar Natarajan / Carlos A. Ortiz / Chris Craft

Oracle Exadata Exascale Architecture and Deep Dive [LRN2955]

Oracle Exadata Exascale is the next-generation software architecture for Exadata. Exascale unites state-of-the-art features, including intelligent remote direct memory access (RDMA) memory and PCIe flash caching, SQL and AI Vector Search offload with hyperelastic resource pooling, and multitenancy and consolidation characteristics. Exascale evolves Exadata into a loosely coupled and extremely flexible platform ideal for running Oracle Database workloads of any size and lifecycle stage. Exascale introduces powerful capabilities, including Exadata Volumes, and entirely reimagined Snapshots and thin clones. Discover the latest technology powering Exadata on-premises and in the cloud.

Hands-On for High Database Performance with Exadata Exascale and Exadata 24.1 [HOL2962]

If database performance is your top concern, join us to try out the key performance features available in Oracle Exadata, including space-efficient snapshot clones with Oracle Exadata Exascale, Exadata Smart Scan, Exadata Smart Flash Cache, and Storage Indexes that will help you achieve your performance goals.

Extreme Performance and Availability in PayPal’s Hybrid Database Cloud [LRN3304]

PayPal has deployed one of the world’s largest enterprise hybrid clouds for its mission-critical workloads. Leveraging Oracle Exadata to ensure unparalleled performance and seamless scalability, PayPal also requires 5x9s availability and sub-millisecond response times. Key to its success is an architecture that uses Exadata performance through multitiered caching options, distributed storage, and tools providing on-demand capacity to meet the ever-growing business demands. Join PayPal as they detail the core architecture and solutions used to ensure they meet their goals and lay the foundation for deploying Database 23ai—setting the stage for AI Vector Search and JSON Relational Duality to power their next-generation applications.

8:30am to 1:30pm

Meet the Exadata Core Technology Product Management Team at our Engineered Systems demo booth – Alex Blyth / Maruti Sharma / Shankar Natarajan / Carlos A. Ortiz / Chris Craft

AI Smart Scan—Vector Search Innovations on Oracle Exadata [LRN3343]

Oracle Exadata System Software 24ai includes the all-new AI Smart Scan to help accelerate Oracle Database 23ai AI Vector Search queries and applications by up to orders of magnitude faster. We reveal the benefits Exadata offers to deliver AI at any scale, any complexity, and any number of users. Exadata AI Smart Scan parallelizes and offloads AI-specific processing to deliver extremely low-latency AI vector searches. Join Exadata product management and discover how Oracle Database and Exadata AI Smart Scan help enable next-generation applications. 

Oracle Exadata Architecture and Internals Deep Dive [LRN3004]

Oracle Exadata is the world’s most advanced platform for Oracle Database deployments on-premises and in the cloud—capable of running all modern database workloads, including AI Vector Search, JSON, Spatial/Graph, relational, OLTP, data warehousing and analytics, and more. Exadata combines unique and intelligent software with state-of-the-art hardware, including leading-edge remote direct memory access (RDMA) memory caching, PCIe flash, and cloud-scale RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). New capabilities introduced with Exadata Exascale unite all the benefits of Exadata with cloud traits to cement Exadata as the best platform for all Oracle databases. Take a deep dive into the latest generation of Exadata hardware and system software

Maximum Availability Architecture Internals for Exadata On-Premises and Cloud [LRN3328]

Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) is the high availability standard for Oracle Database. When deployed on Oracle Exadata, in the cloud, or on-premises, databases experience increased data protection and uptime, with built-in protections and capabilities not found on other platforms. Listen as Exadata product management showcases these internal capabilities—including online updates, data corruption protection, security, network resilience, and platform observability. We also discuss the new Exadata Exascale architecture and its incorporation with the MAA. Join us as we uncover these capabilities and discuss best practices and recommendations you can implement to achieve the highest levels of database availability.