POSTPONED - Will be rescheduled to 2010 

Jeremiah Wilton is coming over to the Netherlands to tell about his experience as Amazon.com first DBA-er in his new seminar. He still has a very good relationship with Amazon so he is willing to share his knowledge in his very new seminar "Deploying Oracle on Amazon Web Services".
Click below to see his YouTube Announcement :-)

Jeremiah Wilton is now Director, Education and Emergency Support Services with Blue Gecko, Inc., Seattle, Washington, United States

Jeremiah Wilton has over fifteen years of Oracle database administration and systems architecture experience. As Amazon.com’s first database administrator, he helped lead Amazon.com’s database group from the pre-IPO period through the company’s years of exponential growth.

He now directs education programs and emergency support services for Blue Gecko, a leader in remote database administration and managed hosting for Oracle, Oracle Applications and MySQL.
Jeremiah is a recognized expert in scalability, high availability, stability and complex recoveries. He also teaches the Oracle Certificate Program at the University of Washington and independent seminars on a variety of Oracle subjects. In 2001 at Oracle Openworld, Oracle Education honored Jeremiah as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world.
Jeremiah is a member of the Oak Table, has presented at numerous conferences and user group meetings including Oracle Openworld and UKOUG, and is the author of a variety of technical whitepapers and articles. His publications are available at www.ora-600.net.

Watch Jeremiah announce his seminar here on YouTube! In Dutch !!!!

And view here the English version.

Day 1, 15 June 2009:

Deploying Oracle on Amazon Web Services

If you say the words “Cloud Computing” frequently in meetings and at the workplace, your colleagues will realize that you are very intelligent, and you will be promoted.  In addition, cloud computing improves upon traditional hosted infrastructure in many ways.  Deployment of new host resources takes only minutes. Applications can scale up quickly without costly hardware upgrades. 
In this one-day seminar we will learn the pros, cons and details of deploying Oracle databases on the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud. We will also learn how to leverage Amazon’s Web Services to maximize performance and availability using features such as RMAN, Data Guard, ASM and RAC.

Day 2, 16 June 2009:

Building Amazon: Scaling to Infinity with Zero Downtime, Experimental Infrastructure and No Sleep

Between 1996 and 2006, Amazon's Oracle infrastructure migrated from a single database on local disks to hundreds of instances on a massively distributed infrastructure, all with almost no downtime.  How did we do it without sacrificing our health, sanity and relationships?  No comment.   But Amazon's challenges in the areas of scaling, availability and stability are similar to those that many Oracle customers face every day, just on a bigger scale and with greater frequency.  In this seminar, learn how moving from a single centralized database, to a loosely coupled, highly distributed infrastructure can improve scalability, availability, and DBA sanity. Additionally, we will cover topics such as recovering a database during a riot while breathing teargas, successful deployment of Netapp Filers while standing in ten cm. of water, and how Amazon's office dog policy once conflicted with a visit by the vice president of the United States.

 If you have any further questions please feel free to email annette.herruer (at) miraclebenelux.nl or call her at +31 6 41788142.