Collaborate 15 - IOUG Cloud Track

It's April, and Collaborate 15 is upon us again.  For myself this event has approached at the speed of a bullet train, I'm still trying to get my act together.  For many of you, I'm sure your well prepared with your schedules all figured out, and a clear list of what your hoping to learn and take back to your workplace.

My personal dilemma is how to pick from all the great sessions available, for almost every time slot I have three or more sessions in mind that I must choose only one to attend.  I'm not sure if everyone has that problem, but at least a few people I have spoken to does.

Again this year I was lucky enough to be on the IOUG conference committee, and helped lead the Cloud Computing track.  In this role we help pick which topics and sessions will be in the track, and narrow down the presenters from those submitted in October of 2014.  I think we have curated a great selection of presenters for 2015, narrowing the 74 submissions down to 21.  As Cloud Computing is a somewhat broad topic, we have tried to cover a wide range of topics from external to internally hosted clouds, virtual computing from multiple vendors, and cloud tools.

I've very excited about all the sessions, but would like to highlight a few here.

• Monday 12:45pm - Reef F - 463 Stack Attack - a hands on lab where you get to install OpenStack and test out automated virtual server build.
• Monday 3:15pm - Banyan D - 598 "What Do You Think Database as a Service Is..." - a roundtable discussion with seasoned industry experts on cloud computing, ?aaS what does it mean, what do you get.  Come ask your questions.
• Tuesday 9:45am and 2:00pm - Reef F - 162 Building DBaaS and 270 Best Practices for Oracle on VMWare - both great sessions covering Oracle database on VMWare automation in the morning, and then tuning and best practices in the afternoon.
• Wednesday - 8:00am, 2:45pm, and 4:00pm - 460 Your own private cloud, 464 Self-service private cloud EM 12c, and 656 Private cloud with Oracle RAC 12c - sessions on three different ways to build out and create your own internal cloud with Oracle products.
• Monday 10:30am - 649 Migrating Enterprise application to the hybrid cloud; Wednesday 9:15am - 530 Oracle Databases on Oracle's public cloud - two great sessions on making the jump to databases in the public cloud.

I can't highlight every session or topic here, but we tried to cover a wide range of topics.  If you are running virtualized systems internal to your company, automating databases deployment with OEM or other tools, or making the jump to public cloud providers I think we have sessions to meet your needs.

Check out the cloud track in the on-line session scheduler http://collaborate.ioug.org/page/scheduler

Just filter on the track "Cloud Computing".

If you have any questions just look for one of the IOUG conference committee members in the black t-shirts with the cards on the back.