Note from Lionel: My apologies in advance. The content that follows was part of our activities at Oracle OpenWorld. In working through technical difficulties earlier this week, I overlooked this blog and vlog from Logan McLeod. Since it involves some enterprise topics that Direct2Dell readers have asked about, I thought it still warranted being posted. Sorry for the oversight. 

I’m part of Dell’s Global Data Management Services team and our job is to manage all of the databases around the globe, in addition to our data warehouse. That's a pretty enormous responsibility and Oracle plays a significant role in keeping our business running.

Since we're here at Oracle OpenWorld sharing our vision of Grid Computing with customers, I wanted to provide some insight into the scope of database management and what it actually means to a company our size. We manage almost 200 Linux-based Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) databases with Oracle Enterprise Manager.

We oversee just over 1,000 production Oracle database instances globally. Note that I said production—there is more than that in our labs and datacenters supporting all the development work we do. In this vlog, I talk about Dell’s presence at the show and our vision for the future of one the most mission-critical workloads we deploy in our datacenter.
Video in Ogg Theora format.