Spring 2023 Live Workshop

Date: Thursday June 1, 2023 

Time: 8:30am-4:00pm

Location: Live Event

Map Link and Directions: Great River Energy - 12300 Elm Creek Blvd N. Maple Grove, MN 55369

Parking: On Site 

TCOUG Check In: (Please register) - NOTE: Registration is for the live event there will not be a zoom call

Wifi : provided at the site.


Oracle Cloud at Customer 

Migrating and modernizing Oracle databases and applications on AWS

Database attack surface reduction

Please see the detailed agenda below.


Workshop Sponsors

Detailed Agenda

08:30AM CST        Hot Breakfast

09:00AM CST        Welcome note by TCOUG President, Suresh Sikharam

09:10AM CST        Message from our Sponsor - Collier IT

09:20AM CST        Welcome note from Great River Energy

09:30AM CST        Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer – Session #1

by Paul Collins, Master Principal Solution Architect, Oracle and David Paschall-Zimbel, Senior Systems Engineer, Collier IT.

֎ A look at Exadata Cloud at Customer. 

֎ Reasons companies consider it, where it makes sense, where it may not make sense.

֎ A look at the architecture and operation.

10:20AM CST     Coffee Break

10:30AM CST        Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer – Session #2

by Paul Collins, Master Principal Solution Architect, Oracle and David Paschall-Zimbel, Senior Systems Engineer, Collier IT.

֎ A practical look at implementation, including network configurations, backup possibilities, Database Migration, and monitoring.

11:20AM CST       Lunch and Tour  

12:20AM CST          Finding success in migrating and modernizing Oracle Databases & Applications on AWS – Session #1

by Jason Zolczynski - Vice President, Oracle Applications – Navisite and Srinivasan Bharath Vaidyanathan - Solutions Architect – Navisite.

 

Many organizations across the world have built their businesses on Oracle’s suite of products. The idea of bringing those workloads to the AWS Cloud can seem daunting at first. “How can I embark on an endeavor like this without uprooting my business”. Navisite have been migrating Oracle workloads to AWS since 2012.

 

In this session – Navisite (AWS Premier Consulting Partner with MSP designation) will cover the process of how they help organizations get past the complexities of Migrating/Modernizing Oracle workloads in the AWS Cloud.

            In this session you will learn:

֎ How to refactor Oracle DB and Custom-built Applications to Open Source

֎ How to migrate Oracle Applications like (EBS, JDE, Peoplesoft, Utilities) to AWS

֎ How to uncover the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)

֎ Successful real life case studies and use cases. 

1:10PM CST            Finding success in migrating and modernizing Oracle Databases & Applications on AWS – Session #2

by Jason Zolczynski - Vice President, Oracle Applications – Navisite and 

Srinivasan Bharath Vaidyanathan - Solutions Architect – Navisite.

             

Continued:  In this session you will learn:

֎ How to refactor Oracle DB and Custom built Applications to Open Source

֎ How to migrate Oracle Applications like (EBS, JDE, Peoplesoft, Utilities) to AWS

֎ How to uncover the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt)

֎   Successful real life case studies and use cases. 

2:00PM CST       Tea Break

2:10PM CST            Oracle Database Attack Surface Reduction – Session #1

by Daniel Morgan, ACE Director Alum

Technical Director | Database and Cloud Security, Oracle  Professional Services | Minneapolis, Minnesota US


There is no product you can buy or service you can buy or configure that will meet the dual challenges of compliance and security. A database can pass every audit and fail on security with seconds. A database can resist all attacks and fail an audit.
Oracle’s Technical Director for Database Security, Daniel Morgan, will discuss, in technical detail and with code examples, how sophisticated attacks take place and live demo at least one so that everyone attending understands how real-world attacks actually work.
The two back-to-back sessions will provide those that attend with the background they need to address real-world Oracle Database security issues and will include a substantial amount of material that has never been published and likely never will be.
Also included, some of the new 23c security changes DBAs and Developers need to be prepared to apply to their environments. 

3:00PM CST            Oracle Database Attack Surface Reduction – Continued…. Session #2

     by Daniel Morgan, ACE Director Alum

Technical Director | Database and Cloud Security, Oracle  Professional Services | Minneapolis, Minnesota US                               

3:50 PM CST           Raffle

4:00PM CST            Closing note by the TCOUG President, Suresh Sikharam

About the Speakers

Paul Collins - Master Principal Solution Architect (Oracle)

Paul Collins is a Master Principal Solution Architect at Oracle. He has been with Oracle for 15 years and has 35 years of experience in the IT Industry working with Oracle Products. He started as Programmer Analyst with Oracle Forms 2.1 and Oracle Database version 5. Prior to joining Oracle, Paul worked as a DBA for 18 years using DB versions 6 – 12. After joining Oracle Corporation Paul specialized on Oracle Engineered Systems focusing on the Exadata platform.  For the last 4 years Paul has been an Architect on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team working with government customers. Paul loves to travel and has been to all 7 continents of the world and 46 countries. His Bio picture shows him and his wife in Antarctica. This last continent on his bucket list. 

David Paschall- Zimbel - Sr. Systems Engineer (Collier IT)

David Paschall-Zimbel is a Senior Systems Engineer at Collier IT. He has over 35 years of experience in the IT Industry, starting as a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota.  His current areas of focus include Operating Environments, Engineered Systems, Clustering Technologies (including Hadoop) and Cloud Administration. He maintains Oracle certifications in Exadata Database Machine Implementation, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud, Oracle Cloud Database Migration, and Integration and is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate. In his free time, he enjoys reading, watching anime, and playing the Final Fantasy 14 MMO.

Jason Zolczynski - Director Professional and Managed Services (Navisite)

Jason Zolczynski’s background is directing professional and managed services teams with expertise in enterprise software solutions, custom application development, strategic technology, business development, and solution design. Jason has been a hands-on development consultant, project manager, architect and technology leader.  His experience with Oracle includes Content Management, application development, ERP integrations and automation with a goal of creating successful solutions for his clients.  In his current role at Navisite Jason is responsible for leading a global consulting organization specializing in Oracle applications and cloud solutions (EBS, JDEdwards, PeopleSoft, Hyperion) deployed on a variety of hyperscalers. 

Srinivasan Bharath Vaidyanathan - Solutions Architect (Navisite)

Srinivasan Bharath Vaidyanathan is an experienced Solution Architect (AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner) with 23+ years of industry experience. His skills range from Oracle database, IBM datastage, Unix administration, Windows administration, Peoplesoft administration, Actimize and Incorta. He has enormous experience with Banking Financial clients. He has served as technology architect, partnered with business and internal upstream/downstream teams to deliver strategic solutions.


Daniel Morgan - Ace Director Alum, Technical Director | Database and Cloud Security Professional Services | Minneapolis, MN US (Oracle)

Daniel Morgan is currently Technical Director of Database Security at Oracle and a member of Oracle’s internal Security Tiger Team.   Morgan began his career as an Oracle Database consultant in the mid-1980s working with version 5.1 and is now actively Beta Testing version 23c. His career has included being one of the first Oracle ACE Directors (2007), an adjunct professor at the University of Washington, international travel for Oracle to countries and numerous times speaking at Oracle conferences in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Asia-Pacific Region.


Suresh Sikharam - President TCOUG, Enterprise Data and Systems Architect

President, TCOUG