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
Part One – 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…
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…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
The Licensing Trap
In my role with House of Brick, I get the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client and every migration plan is…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
This topic reminds me of a session at VMworld 2006. At the last minute, VMware delayed VMworld to November and moved it from San Francisco’s Moscone West Hall to the Los Angeles Convention…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth
In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client (and every migration plan) is…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical databases to the public cloud. While every client (and every migration plan) is unique, I’ve…
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