Recap of Raastech's Fusion Middleware and Cloud Presentations @ MOUS

On November 13, 2013, Raastech gave two different presentations at the 6th Annual MOUS Conference at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, MI. The Michigan Oracle Users Summit (MOUS) conducts annual conferences with approximately 300+ attendees and is a representation of four regional user groups; MI-OAUG, SEMOP, BTU, and Hyperion.

Best Practices for Infrastructure Tuning of Oracle Fusion Middleware Components

Arun Reddy, Technical Director at Raastech, explained the common infrastructure best practices for Installations, Patching, Administration, Deployments, and Security.

During the presentation he offered information about planning your environment based on key business factors, implementing the best practices, automating tasks, securing environments, and the need for a backup and recovery plan.

His presentation can be downloaded here.

Cloud Concepts - Everything you Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask

Ahmed Aboulnaga, Technical Director at Raastech, and Javier Mendez, Principal Consultant at Raastech, teamed up during their professed "introductory" presentation on Cloud Concepts.

Ahmed began by describing the confusion and hype associated with Cloud Computing. He also explained how virtualization laid the foundation for the cloud, and the difference between the two. Javier explained the purpose and consumers of Cloud services. He discussed the differences in various service and deployment models.

The presentation offered a great assessment of the pros and cons of cloud concepts.

 Their presentation can be downloaded here.