Top Oracle Database Security Threats Come from the Inside

Your Oracle databases contain some of your company’s most valuable assets: financial data, customer data, intellectual property, corporate secrets and so on. That means they’ll be among the top targets of cybercriminals—both outside and inside the firewall. The fact that they sit behind your network doesn’t mean your Oracle databases aren’t vulnerable. And with the […]

Should You Outsource Oracle Database Patching and Upgrades?

Upgrades and patches are a primary cause of planned downtime for Oracle databases and the applications that rely on them. Therefore, you need to have a strategy and process for your Oracle database upgrades that minimizes business disruption but does not postpone these essential tasks. Waiting to perform upgrades is likely to increase costs and […]

3 Oracle DBA Strategic Responsibilities to Outsource for Maximum Business Value

Many organizations have limited their Oracle DBA outsourcing to tactical/operational functions like monitoring, backup and patching. But the changing technology landscape is transforming the DBA role and requiring greater expertise. Today’s enterprise data stores are increasingly massive and architecturally complex. They must support e-commerce and other critical applications that are web-based and demand continuous availability, […]

Is Your Oracle DBA a Big Data DBA? 3 Key Skills Can Help.

Does your organization have key Oracle DBA skills that can help you to derive value from big data? And what is “big data” anyhow? Does it just relate to big (like petabyte-sized) databases? Or is there more to it? Besides being simply “big,” big data has two other key attributes: It can also include a […]

Financial Services Spotlight: Risk Data Aggregation and Risk Reporting

The finance, risk and compliance departments of any financial services firm all need fast and comprehensive access to business data in order to measure performance, manage risk and report to regulators and clients. But each department needs a specific view, whether strategic, operational or a combination of the two. Risk data aggregation in particular has […]

MySQL Fabric: The Best of NoSQL and Relational Databases

Oracle Corp. is currently the world’s second-largest software vendor—and it isn’t going to let a little thing like unstructured data stand in its way. With the recent release of its MySQL Fabric technology, which is meant to meet the demands of cloud- and web-based applications, Oracle is positioning itself to dominate the big data landscape. […]

Does Big Data Make Oracle DBAs Irrelevant—or Irreplaceable?

Profiting from big data means changing how your organization views data. Big data is often unstructured, and wringing value from it demands advanced analytics. Does this mean that conventional Oracle DBAs, with their relational database focus, are irrelevant in this new world order? Or do big data challenges make the Oracle DBA role more vital […]

5 Reasons—Besides Cost—to Outsource Your Oracle DBA

Even in this “age of outsourcing,” Oracle database administration (DBA) outsourcing is still often overlooked. Despite some predictions to the contrary the overall percentage of organizations outsourcing their DBA has remained relatively small and stable in recent years. Perhaps this is because Oracle DBA outsourcing is most often treated as a cost-based, tactical decision rather […]