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Just back from VMworld, and we're at Oracle OpenWorld this week. Here's the schedule of presentations in our booth. Here are a few sessions that look good and give you an idea of the content, but we're going all day, so check out the whole thing. Link: OpenWorld Speakers - VMware.

10am Tuesday
Running Oracle Databases on VMware Infrastructure: It's Time! - by House of Brick
This session updates the current state of virtualizing enterprise-class Oracle environments through the experiences of an independent Systems Integrator. E-Business Suite customers and all Oracle core technologies customers (especially of Real Application Clusters) can come away with down-to-earth deliverables relating to system stack scalability, performance, support, and the virtualization effort.
(Level: Beginner/Intermediate, Category: DB Technical Deep Dive)

1pm Wednesday
EMC Partner Presentation: Virtualization for Oracle: Extension of System Infrastructure Optimization
Learn how VMware and EMC technologies work seamlessly together to optimize Oracle App 12 landscape, to enhance flexibility and to decouple Oracle App from the hardware infrastructure.
(Level: Intermediate, Category: Storage, Partner)

2pm Wednesday
Virtualizing the Oracle Database with VMware ESX 3.5 and Beyond
Attend this talk to learn about best practices for virtualizing Oracle databases. Specifically, we outline the characteristics of typical Oracle workloads, and give a brief primer on performance optimization for virtualized systems. We then combine these two topics by showing how to tune a database for virtualization, and what features of ESX can help provide maximum value once you've virtualized your Oracle database. We also highlight some of the changes coming in future versions of VMware Infrastructure, and how they will affect database virtualization techniques.
(Level: Beginner/Intermediate, Category: Database, Technical Deep Dive)

11am Thursday
Oracle on VMware: Manage Your Applications Dynamically to Accelerate Service Delivery and Maximize QoS
Learn why customers are increasingly running Oracle DB, Oracle WebLogic, and Oracle Applications on VMware. This talk covers the outstanding performance improvements realized in the latest release of ESX that enables more than 95% of applications to match or even exceed physical performance.  Hear also how customers are leveraging VMware Application vServices to accelerate service delivery, scale dynamically to ensure service levels, and protect all applications with simple availability solutions.
(Level: Intermediate, Category: Applications, Technical Deep Dive)