Secure Multitenant Databases and Hosts Using Automated Hardening and Security Frameworks

Learn how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager for securing configurations and checking compliance for databases. Whether you need to meet industry standards, like CIS, PCI-DSS and HIPAA or corporate standards, learn how to use standard and custom compliance checks to protect against threats, providing a secure platform for applications. You will see how to use a holistic approach to protect databases across your enterprise.

In this session, find out how to ensure security compliance with automation

• Meet CIS security standard for databases using CIS benchmark security framework
• Harden insecure services, network configuration, access, authentication, and
• Audit Linux hosts to be compliant with PCI-DSS and HIPAA security standards

This session is designed for security administrators, system administrators and database administrators responsible for managing or improving security practices for databases. This session will include demonstrations and Q & A for you to ask Oracle experts your questions.

Migrate Databases with minimal downtime using Migration Workbench

Learn how to migrate on-premises Database with confidence to Autonomous, to ExaCC, to DBCS bare metal or VM and to Exadata on-premises. Use Oracle expertise built into the migration workbench to evaluate the readiness of database assets to migrate, then use recommended migration technology, and validate results meet expectations. Make migrations secure, efficient, and agile while reducing the risks of human error. Find out how to assess source database configuration, leverage built-in migration technology to transfer data, and validate performance of migrated database.

Use Oracle Enterprise Manager Migration Workbench to:

• Prepare: Evaluate database migration readiness, dependencies, shapes and pre-requisites
• Migrate: Prepare databases for migration, use appropriate migration methods
• Analyze: Validate results, compare performance and configuration to source database

If you are migrating databases within a data center or to the cloud, join this session for insight from Oracle experts. This session will include demonstrations and dedicated time to answer your questions.

Building Custom Database Monitoring Dashboards for DevOps and other dedicated teams

Database monitoring is an artform developed with experience. Having custom dashboards based on specific enterprise or group-wide needs can make what was a task for a strong DBA more transferable. In this session, learn to quickly build and tune Oracle Enterprise Manager dashboards to meet your specific workflows. Scale experienced DBAs knowledge by building appropriate dashboards to support newer DBA team members. Leverage the Enterprise Manager mobile app to get email alerts, and triage issues from the incident page.

• Advantages of custom dashboards
• Setting up dashboards designed for specific workflows
• Sharing dashboards for group-specific tasks

Get your questions answered in this interactive session delivered by Oracle experts.

Manage Databases from Your Smartphone

Learn the tips and tricks for using Oracle Enterprise Manager Mobile App to manage your database and IT environment. With a comprehensive suite of tools, the mobile application will free DBAs and administrators from the console while still having full access to monitoring and triaging database performance and troubleshooting tasks. In this session, learn from the experts on how to take advantage of the Enterprise Manager Mobile app, including:

• Incident notifications
• Quick triaging issues
• Custom mobile landing pages

Announcing Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5

Join Edward Screven, Oracle’s Chief Corporate Architect, and Mughees Minhas, Oracle's Vice President of Product Management, to learn about the new capabilities in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5.

Topics of discussion for this webcast will include:

• Hybrid Cloud Management: Fleet monitoring, management and data movement across the entire IT estate – on-premises and in the cloud including Exadata Cloud@Customer, Exadata Cloud Service, Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer, Autonomous Database, and Oracle Databases deployed elsewhere
• Ops Automation: Enhanced automation and modernization with smart performance analytics, dynamic runbooks, database provisioning, patching, security, and compliance
• Extensibility: Open standards-based extensions for interoperability with 3rd-party ecosystems with REST APIs, custom dashboards, and mobile app

Maximize Performance and Scalability of Enterprise Manager with Self-Monitoring and Near-Zero Downtime Patching Capabilities

Many data centers rely on Oracle Enterprise Manager as their primary management tool for monitoring mission-critical databases and applications. In this session, you will learn how to use new enhancements delivered with Enterprise Manager 13.5 to achieve higher levels of resilience, giving administrators a highly available system for monitoring. This session will review best practices for:

• Configuring Enterprise Manager to scale as needs grow
• Monitoring Enterprise Manager platform health
• High availability guidelines, and troubleshooting Enterprise Manager

Bring your questions to ask the experts during the session or in the dedicated Q&A.

Realtime Federation for Extreme Database Monitoring Across Entire IT Stack

Database monitoring is critical for many companies. This gets more important and more challenging as the number of regions and size of the database fleet grows. Use Federation to get a complete end-to-end unified NOC view of databases across multiple Enterprise Manager instances deployed across regional datacenters, or between business units. IT directors and administrators can now view 1,000s, and even over 10,000 databases across their multiple-region, multiple-business estate. In this webinar, learn how your company can manage as a federated fleet, using Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5

• Advantages of monitoring a federated fleet
• Setting up federated fleet monitoring
• High availability features

In this session, interact directly with the product team to get your questions answered.

Smarter, Painless, and Predictable Upgrades: Embrace Enterprise Manager 13.5 with Confidence

On-demand

In this webinar, Oracle experts will discuss and demonstrate the technical details of upgrading to Enterprise Manager 13.5, including the best practices, upgrade testing strategies, “Tips and Tricks” and how Oracle can assist with the overall planning, execution, and post-upgrade support for a successful upgrade. While this session will focus on how to install, attendees will learn some of the latest enhancements to Enterprise Manager in the process, including less downtime and a simpler agent upgrade process. We will cover:

• Comprehensive software-only upgrades
• Automated and consolidated EM prerequisite kit
• Single-step adoption of Level-4 High Availability
• Step-by-step agent upgrade process and lifecycle management

Please join product experts who will demonstrate the installation and answer your questions live.

Managing the Converged Database Environment

On-demand

In this webcast we'll show you how to manage Oracle Databases as a part of a diverse on-premise and cloud database estate, significantly reducing management overhead while minimizing risk and improving security.

Learn how the latest Oracle Enterprise Manager advancements provide:

• Automation to scale your efforts supporting provisioning, updates, and security and compliance checks
• Monitoring of single instance, multitenant, virtualized, and converged databases from a single view with interactive screens to quickly identify and diagnose issues
• Extended access with the mobile app and new extensions to view your data with Grafana or your favorite analytics tools

Excel with Enterprise Manager: Get the Best Out of Your Exadata Databases

On-demand

Discover the latest innovations in Exadata systems management to achieve top performance and availability. Migrate, and consolidate critical databases with confidence when optimizing utilization across on-premises, Cloud@Customer, and public cloud deployment models. Learn processes for managing Exadata on-premises and in the Cloud using a single view with ability to visualize your complete Exadata and Database environment from Enterprise Manager. Oracle experts will review best practices to help you optimize all Exadata implementations with the latest updates to Enterprise Manager, including:

• Managing Exadata including latest X8M on-prem
• Managing Exadata Cloud@Customer, Exadata Cloud Service, Autonomous Database
• Migration and consolidation best practices to cloud and on-premises

This session includes live demonstrations, and Q&A where you can get your questions answered by Oracle experts.

Standardize and Automate Database Operations on Exadata

Automate database provisioning to increase efficiency, scale, and security.

Discover how DBAs are scaling database lifecycle processes by rapidly standardizing and provisioning database deployments in their enterprise on Exadata and other platforms.
Learn how to speed development by enabling self-service database environments. DBaaS self-service portals enable organizations like DevOps to create databases on-demand while achieving maximum resource utilization and standardization.

During this session, Oracle experts will describe how to use Oracle Enterprise Manager to automate provisioning for your entire Oracle Database estate including Exadata, Multitenant, RAC, Data Guard, including how to:

• Manage database configuration drift to improve security and performance
• Automate database lifecycle processes, including Multitenant database to scale DBA efforts, reduce human variability
• Enable self-service provisioning for rapid deployment, standardization, and error proof deployments
• Improve storage utilization and performance efficiencies using Snap Clones

This session includes a demonstration, and live Q&A where you can get your questions answered by Oracle experts.

Automating Database Migration to Oracle Cloud, including Autonomous Database, Eliminates Operational Risk

Learn how to automate database migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, including Oracle Autonomous Database to achieve a secure, efficient, agile path to the cloud. See how to assess database configurations, use the appropriate migration technology to transfer data including configurations, and validate performance and results of the migration by comparing with the source database, including periodic data synchronization with production. Use Oracle Enterprise Manager Migration Workbench automation to:

• Prepare: Evaluate database migration readiness, dependencies, shapes, prerequisites
• Migrate: Prepare databases for migration, use appropriate migration mechanism
• Analyze: Validate results, compare performance and configurations to source database

Eliminate risk and manual effort by automating migration of your on-premises database workloads to the Oracle Autonomous Database. For Database Cloud Services, Enterprise Manager helps DBA’s consolidate Databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Join this interactive session to see demonstrations and ask Oracle experts your questions.

Automated Patching and Compliance to Improve Database Security

Learn best practices used by Fortune 500 companies to secure database estates while cutting manual effort for patching, provisioning, updates and compliance using Oracle Enterprise Manager pre-built automation. During this webcast, attendees will learn how to:

• Use automation to stay current with software updates for your database fleet
• Proactively patch and upgrade database environments to address critical security vulnerabilities
• Identify vulnerable assets, prioritize vulnerability regression, and remediation management
• Achieve CIS, STIG regulatory compliance and security business objectives for databases

This interactive session includes live demonstrations and dedicated time to get your questions answered by Oracle experts.

How to Patch Your Oracle Database Software at Scale with Minimal Downtime

Discover how to leverage Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Database Lifecycle Management to manage software updates at scale across your entire database estate, significantly reducing the time required for maintenance activities. Database Fleet Maintenance is an end-to-end automated solution for patching and upgrading your Oracle Databases. Fleet Maintenance enables DBAs to automate patching of a wide range of database configurations.

This session will explore the benefits of Fleet Maintenance with a demo of the following:

• Using automation for patching infrastructure including Engineered Systems, Exadata
• Single pane of glass for monitoring, managing entire patching, upgrade operations
• Ability to schedule/retry/suspend/resume patching
• Minimum Downtime with Out-of-Place patching

Further information and resources can be found on this blog.

Speed Development with Self-Service Database Provisioning

Learn how to implement a DBaaS portal where the development team is empowered to manage databases on their timeline.

In this webinar, you will learn how to:

• Transition from a DBA-driven model for provisioning to a user-driven model
• Optimize resource utilization, including Exadata environments
• Performance and monitoring DBaaS deployments

In addition to the discussion, you will see a demonstration of building a private cloud and self-service database provisioning.

Validate Database Performance Before Committing Updates, Upgrades, and Migrations

Learn how to run real validation tests before going live with Oracle Real Application Testing.

In this session learn to:

• Avoid performance problems with closed loop automated tuning
• Facilitate accurate consolidation and capacity planning
• Faster and risk-free new technology adoption

This interactive session includes live demonstrations and dedicated time to get your questions answered by Oracle experts.

Database Performance Tuning and Diagnostics Best Practices For On-Premises and Cloud Infrastructure

In this session you will learn best practices for productive database performance tuning using the comprehensive set of Automatic Database Diagnostic and Tuning tools available in Oracle Enterprise Manager.

Join Oracle’s Alfredo Krieg Villa, Principal Management Platform Specialist, who will demonstrate best practices used by DBAs tuning critical databases both on-premises and in the cloud.

Learn tips for effective performance tuning using:

• Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM)
• ASH Analytics for fine-grained and transient analysis
• SQL Tuning Advisor guides database tuning

How to Patch Your Oracle Database Software at Scale with Minimal Downtime

Discover how to leverage Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Database Lifecycle Management to manage software updates at scale across your entire database estate, significantly reducing the time required for maintenance activities. Database Fleet Maintenance is an end-to-end automated solution for patching and upgrading your Oracle Databases. Fleet Maintenance enables DBAs to automate patching of a wide range of database configurations.

This session will explore the benefits of Fleet Maintenance with a technical deep dive demonstration of the following:

• Using automation for patching across infrastructure including Engineered Systems, Exadata
• Single pane of glass for monitoring and managing entire patching and upgrade operations
• Ability to schedule/retry/suspend/resume patching
• Minimum Downtime with Out of Place patching

Automate Your Database Provisioning To Increase Efficiency and Standardization

Join Akshay Sangaonkar, Oracle Senior Principal Product Manager, Abilash Rengasamy, Senior Product Manager, and Timothy Mooney, Director Product Marketing to learn how DBAs are automating provisioning to rapidly create standardized database deployments across on premise and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) data centers. Additionally, DBAs are deploying a self-service portal to enable organizations like DevOps to create databases on-demand while achieving maximum resource utilization and standardization.

During this webcast, we'll review how to use the provisioning automation tools provided by Enterprise Manager on your entire Oracle database estate, including RAC, Data Guard, Exadata, Multi-tenant and more. We will cover:

• Database provisioning and deployment procedures
• Creating provisioning profiles, templates
• Building an on-demand database portal
• Multi-tenant Lifecycle Management on OCI

Secure Your Oracle Database Configuration Using Industry Standard CIS Benchmark

Join Harish Niddagatta, Oracle Product Management, Amol Chiplunkar, Product Development, and Tim Mooney, Product Marketing who will share best practices used by companies to secure database assets and ensure compliance with your security policy. In this session, explore three steps to continuously ensure security compliance of your databases assets:

• Setup security standard for your Oracle Database parameters to enforce your security policy
• Continuous monitoring and reporting of security violations for your Oracle Database environment
• Analyze and remediate security violations
• Multi-tenant Lifecycle Management on OCI

If you are a DBA, attend this session to learn about steps to ensure secure configuration of your databases.