by Cameron Cameron, Senior Consultant
At House of Brick, we’ve been virtualizing Oracle RAC on VMware for over twelve years. The technology is reliable. Of course, prerequisites and best practices exist in a virtual deployment, just like they do with…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
There has been some interest from House of Brick customers running on x86 Solaris about migrating to Linux. Unlike Sparc Solaris, where there is an endian conversion to move to an x86 platform, x86 Solaris…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services (HoB) and Perry Peterson, Technical Business Development Manager (AWS)
Amazon recently posted a blog announcing availability of AWS RDS on VMware for production use.
Perry Peterson of AWS, and Bob Lindquist of HoB, provide an overview…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
We note with sadness the passing of Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd. We offer our sincere condolences to Mark’s family, his associates, and Oracle Corporation and its team members.
In my mind, Mark’s legacy at…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In his first Oracle Open World keynote address in 2019, Larry Ellison made an announcement that few outside the inner circle of VMware and Oracle considered possible. Just prior to showing the slide in the image…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Building the Business Case
“How do I move off Oracle entirely?” is probably the most frequently asked question I get when helping clients with Oracle licensing cost reduction projects or audits. For the last several years, House…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Today at Oracle Open World, Larry Ellison announced what a simulcast VMware blog calls Oracle Cloud VMware Solution (OCVS). I’m thinking Larry announced OVM’s deprecation. But we’ll get to that later. Here’s what…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Firefighter’s Retirement System of St. Louis sued Oracle executives and Oracle’s board on May 8, 2017 over allegations of conflicted and self-serving actions, in causing Oracle Corporation to pay an inflated price for…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
Through the years, I have been assigned to several projects that can be considered large migrations. Some were just database migrations, but many of them included a variety of different applications. Other examples of…
Aamir Syed (@sqlevo), Senior Consultant
SQL Server keeps data pages in memory for quicker access rather than reading from disk every time. Now, keep in mind that Page Life Expectancy doesn’t prove or disprove anything on its own. It’s simply…
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