Licensing Oracle Software in Cloud Environments – An Article for the NoCOUG

Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO

I was pleased when invited by the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG) to write an article addressing some of the complexities of licensing Oracle in virtualized and cloud environments for the August issue of the…

An Unusual Problem Starting Oracle Clusterware

Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant

NOTE: The environment described below is SuSe 12/ Oracle RAC 12.1.02.

A few days ago we ran into a really strange problem at one of our sites. We were putting together a test system, and a…

vSphere 6 and Oracle RAC

Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect

Updated on 7/14/17

This week I decided to go back to update this blog. I wrote the blog last year to showcase the new vSphere 6 features for hot adding disks for RAC. The updated screenshots…

VMware Virtualization and the Oracle Audit: What Every Oracle Customer Needs to Know About the “Installed and/or Running” Language of the Processor Definition

Pam Fulmer, Partner, Fulmer Ware LLP

This is a guest blog post written by Pam Fulmer, a partner at Fulmer Ware LLP based in San Francisco. House of Brick has partnered with Pam and her firm many times in helping customers with the…