Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist and Nick Walter, Principal Architect
On June 14, 2020, Oracle published Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds–An Overview and Clarification. It attempts to list reasons why Oracle doesn’t consider any clouds other…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
In a recent blog post, I focused on initial Oracle deployments and the variety of decisions that come with implementing Oracle for the first time. For this article, I plan to offer a deeper…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
If you have regularly followed our blogs in the past, you will no doubt have read Nathan Biggs’ blog about the pending class-action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation. In that blog, Nathan notes that one of the…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
INSTALLING ORACLE WHEN REQUIRED BY COTS APPLICATIONS
Over the last few months, I have had several clients deploying Oracle Database for the first time, which is unusual for me. They were all deploying commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist
Part II: Four Operational Best Practices
In this post, we discuss four RAC operational best practices for shops that have either strategically selected RAC or have been compelled to adopt it.
RAC operational best practices include:
Understand…
David Woodard, Principal Architect
Standard Edition 2 Can be a Great Value
Oracle database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), as well as past editions Standard Edition and Standard Edition 1, can be a great value and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
House of Brick Technologies has been assisting clients with their business-critical applications for over twenty years. In that time, we have seen many changes regarding how database platforms are deployed, licensed, and managed.
Over the…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist
Part I: Four Criteria for Introducing or Keeping RAC
VMware vSphere High Availability can provide significant levels of high availability for many workloads. VMware HA does so without the complexity, fragility, or cost of Oracle Real…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
Given the current economic climate, many organizations are identifying cost cutting options. The fees for Oracle licensing and support are usually some of the largest costs in an organization’s IT budget.
However, there are a…
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
The theme of this blog is, “it’s complicated”. PowerVM is not necessarily complicated to the point where it is difficult to understand, but is complicated compared to other hypervisors when it comes to Oracle licensing. PowerVM…
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