Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
About a month ago I published a blog post reflecting on a positive and challenging 2016. I also said that a week later, I would publish a new blog looking forward to 2017. Well, becoming a…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Oracle introduced its Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment policy document in 2010. The most recent change on January 23, 2017 comes with a handful of substantial negatives for licensees’ budgets….
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Layman means I’m not an attorney.
Anyone who saw my quote in Nick Budnick’s excellent Portland Tribune piece on the September 15, 2016 CoverOregon settlement would know I’m concerned. I said, “Oracle made out…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
With core counts rapidly increasing per socket (currently we are seeing chips with 20+ cores per socket), Oracle felt they needed to do something about their SE and SE1 licenses, which offered ever increasing capability…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
With the end of the year approaching, I thought that I would take some time to reflect on some key industry events and trends that we have experienced this year at House of Brick. Next week,…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
VMware and AWS Announcement May Crack Open the Window of Opportunity
Over the past two years, we at House of Brick have seen a sea change in the attitudes of companies worldwide toward virtualizing Oracle technology. Whereas…
by Chris Vacanti, Senior Consultant
Recently I had the privilege of co-presenting a webinar titled Virtualization: The Key to Approachable Disaster Recovery, a part of the BrightTalk Storage and Virtualization Summit. In this webinar we discussed how Disaster Recovery (DR)…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Cloning an Oracle database that is running on Pure Storage can be done through Pure’s snapshot and copy technologies. Snapshots are taken of the source database volumes and then copied to the target volumes. There…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
In this blog I will discuss how to manually configure Linux network settings from the command line. While it may sound counter-intuitive to some, it is in my opinion (as well as that of many…
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
In the last of my blogs on Diagnostics and Tuning Pack features, I will be covering the Access Advisor, which can be executed against a SQL Tuning Set. Recommendations by this tool present the DBA with…
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