Is Sun Microsystems still a player in the Data Centre after the merger with Oracle? Do they still have compelling solutions and what are they? Are there advantages to running Oracle on Oracle?

Scalar is pleased to invite Oracle as our guest speaker at a special seminar on Tuesday, November 30th at 3pm at The Rosewater Lounge. In this session you will be provided with the following updates:

1. Oracle and Larry Ellison are dramatically increasing the investment in Sun Servers and Storage Systems.
See how Oracle is committed to doubling the performance of SPARC based systems every 2 years for the next 6 years with Solaris as the foundation. Ron Marshall, Principal Sales Consultant, will review the full line of Sun Servers including the award winning T-Series Chip Multithreaded (CMT) architecture and M-Series as well as Storage Systems like Flash and Unified Storage.

2. Tape is not Out?
See why you need to invest in Sun's tape technology. David Chapman, Senior Tape Sales Specialist, will discuss why you should care about tape, and how Oracle continues to innovate and deliver new tape solutions.

3. The Value of Running Oracle Software on Sun Hardware
See why you should run your Oracle Software on Sun Hardware from a performance and a total cost of ownership perspective including savings on your Oracle software licensing costs. Kevin Mann, Chief Technologist, will show you how innovative Flash technology can dramatically improve the performance of your Oracle Database software environment while saving on power, cooling and space costs.

Speakers:

Ron Marshall
Ron is a Principal Sales Consultant with Oracle Canada and has been working with Sun products and services since 1997. With over 30 years of experience in the Computing Industry, Ron advises customers, sales staff, and partners on system architecture and infrastructure best practices.

David Chapman
David has been in the storage industry since the early 80's. Today with Oracle, his mandate is to promote tape and archive solutions to the end user customer as well as to Oracle's reseller community. Although the uses of tape have changed over the years, it remains a very viable and cost effective solution for all customers.

Kevin Mann
Kevin is the Chief Technologist for Oracle's North American Commercial Hardware Group. Backed with over 29 years of experience in the storage industry, he plays a key role in driving enterprise storage architectures through Oracle's customer base and the adoption of Oracle's ZFS Storage Appliance for the Canadian operation.