Winter 2022 Virtual Workshop

Date: Thursday February 24, 2022

Time: 9:00am-11:15am

Location: Virtual Event

Map Link and Directions: Virtual Event

Parking: Virtual event

TCOUG Check In: None (Please register)

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Autonomous Database Completely Simple, Simply Complete

Autonomous Database builds upon the foundational layers......


Robert Greene, Sr. Director Product Management (Oracle Corp.)

Securing Recovery in a Data Driven Digital World - ZDLRA

Don't pay the bad guys for YOUR information! Vulnerabilities and ransomware are hot topics as of late.....

A few of the differentiating traits we will cover rely on architecture based on Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance include:

1. Secure communication channels

2. Use of strong authentication

3. Segregation of credentials

4. Surface exposure reduction

5. Secure wrapping of the Operating System

6. Partitioning

7. Fully redundant hardware design

8. Camouflage of files

9. Encryption of data " at rest" and "in transit "


Kevin Kish, Oracle Sales Engineer (Oracle Corp.)


Workshop Sponsors

Detailed Agenda

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

09:05AM CST Message from our Sponsor - Collier IT

09:10AM CST Autonomous Database completely simple, simply complete by

Robert Greene, Sr. Director Product Management

Autonomous Database builds upon the foundational layers of the Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure to transfer database lifecycle responsibility to Oracle, add more automation, improve pay-per-use consumption, increase ease of use and ultimately deliver the lowest TCO. Autonomous Database is suitable for all new database applications and as an upgrade target for many existing databases. In this session we will review real world adoption constraints while discussing how Autonomous Database delivers its value add along with a practical overview of how-to setup a complete self-service environment for easy adoption. Session will involve some slides and an in-service walk thru of the topics being discussed.

10:00AM CST Break (10 minutes)

10:10AM CST Securing Recovery in a Data Driven Digital World–ZDLRA by

Kevin Kish, Oracle Sales Engineer

  • Don't pay the bad guys for YOUR information! Vulnerabilities and ransomware are hot topics as of late and we expect this to continue in the limelight as attacks become more automated and potentially more destructive. These often-public events, and now board room discussions, involve reprioritizing strategies around recoverability, operations, security, and social education. One of the most effective countermeasures to protect your data and combat this risk is to make the backup infrastructure invisible, reducing its exposure to attacks. In this session we’ll be discussing what Oracle offers to be an invisible tool in your ransomware recovery protection and the use cases behind it.

  • A few of the differentiating traits we will cover rely on architecture based on Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance include:

  • 1. Secure communication channels

  • 2. Use of strong authentication

  • 3. Segregation of credentials

  • 4. Surface exposure reduction

  • 5. Secure wrapping of the Operating System

  • 6. Partitioning

  • 7. Fully redundant hardware design

  • 8. Camouflage of files

  • 9. Encryption of data " at rest" and "in transit "


11:00AM CST Closing note by the TCOUG President, Suresh Sikharam


About the Speakers

Robert Greene - Sr. Director Product Management (Oracle Corp.)

Robert Greene leads Product Management for Oracle’s Autonomous Database Service for both Dedicated Infrastructure and Cloud@Customer deployments. Robert has over 25 years of experience in building and managing engineering and product management teams that deliver distributed database technology across a diverse set of implementations from Object Oriented, to NoSQL and Relational.

Kevin Kish, Oracle Sales Engineer (Oracle Corp.)

Marcos Arancibia is the Product Manager for Oracle Machine Learning, working with Machine Learning in the Oracle Database and on Spark. He develops product strategy, roadmap prioritization, product positioning and product evangelization, helping define the product roadmap for Oracle Machine Learning. Before joining Oracle in 2010 he spent 13 years at SAS Institute Inc., from Country Manager in LAD to Regional Data Mining lead in the US. He holds a bachelor's degree with additional courses in the master's degree, both in Statistics from UNICAMP in Brazil. He has Certifications from Stanford on AI and Machine Learning, and from the University of Washington on Computational Neuroscience.

Suresh Sikharam - President TCOUG, Enterprise Data and Systems Architect

President, TCOUG

  • Suresh has over 24 years of experience in Database Development, Architecture, performance tuning Oracle and SQL applications.

  • Mentor, Team Lead, People manager, with experience leading many technical teams to success in software development and CI/CD space using Git, BAMS, Puppet, Flyway.

  • Technical team lead Data Science projects.

  • Currently leading strategic efforts in the Enterprise Data and Systems Architecture.

  • Broad and deep knowledge in AWS, GCP and Azure ecosystems.