Join us for an exclusive technology briefing on Oracle’s unique vision for simplifying IT. See how Oracle's engineered systems and storage bring this unique vision to life today. Hear first-hand how Oracle’s ongoing investment in innovation across the technology stack is creating new opportunities for your business. You’ll learn about the latest Oracle announcements:

New Engineered Systems to keep Exadata & Exalogic company

SPARC SuperCluster -- consolidate your Oracle and/or third party software on Oracle's first general purpose engineered system built on a new generation of high-performance Oracle SPARC servers. Oracle Database Appliance -- highly available Oracle database that is simple to deploy and manage from the factory with integrated hardware and software. Oracle Exalytics -- an appliance for better decision making that leverages Oracle's Business Intelligence software in an optimized, ready to deploy, integration of hardware and software. Oracle Big Data -- extract business information from substantial amounts of unstructured data using an integrated hardware and software appliance, including Oracle NoSQL database and Oracle Hadoop software. Oracle Solaris 11 -- enhanced availability, complete, built-in virtualization, unified software administration, additional security and improved data management.
Oracle's Storage for managing all of your data assets

Oracle's 3rd generation Sun ZFS Storage Appliances -- deliver best-in-class performance, efficiency, and Oracle software integration
Pillar Axiom 600 Storage Family -- enables Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) in a box. This SAN based block storage array distinguishes itself with its unique engineered-in Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities. Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression (EHCC) -- a unique Oracle differentiator that dramatically reduces capital expenditure on disk capacity. Available on Oracle's Exadata or any server running Oracle 11gR2 and attached to the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance or the Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System. Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c manages the cloud lifecycle

Oracle EM 12c with Ops Center delivers the industry’s first complete cloud lifecycle management solution. With Ops Center, Oracle EM 12c provides solutions to centralize and automate discovery, provisioning, updating and monitoring of physical and virtual systems.

Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics January:

Hands-on FreeNAS

Michael Dexter will give a hands-on demonstration of the FreeNAS NanoBSD-based Network Attached Storage platform on various hardware and a dedicated LAN. FreeNAS is based on NanoBSD, a FreeBSD sub-project for embedded systems and includes support for the ZFS filesystem, Apple AFP clients, Unix NFS clients, Windows CIFS shares, iSCSI targets and useful niceties such as TFTP support.

Bring any systems that you want to test with FreeNAS, particularly Windows ones as Michael does not have any. You are also invited to bring 2GB or larger flash devices suitable for a bootable image.

Some good questions came out of the PLUG General meeting and you are welcome to mail Michael more in advance: [email protected]

When: TUESDAY, January 17th at 7PM

Where: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue

Food: There is a good chance that food will magically appear. Please bring cash for the tip jar if you plan to partake in it.

See you there!