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Learn best practices for configuring continuous database inventory with automated discovery, unified tracking, and historical snapshots to eliminate audit surprises.
Nick Walter, Principal Architect & David Woodard, Principal Architect It’s been discussed and speculated about for a while, and on September 1st Oracle announced Standard
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect At House of Brick, we specialize in virtualization and cloud computing for business critical applications. This gets us involved in
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In Part 1 of this blog, published in June of last year, we discussed the value of having I/O baselines
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect I was at SQL Saturday #397 in Omaha earlier this month and sat in on an excellent session on “SQL
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect When Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.4 was released it did not yet support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, however Oracle recently
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have had the privilege this year of working with our partner EMC in providing Oracle-focused technical sessions around the world.
Unfortunately, many of our clients are surprised to find they are in fact using database features like Advance Compression. Features like this are easy to
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the most asked questions concerning running Oracle Databases in a virtualized environment is: “How do we present the
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Overview In part one of this post, we described the high level concept of using Oracle’s new cross platform incremental backup
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist A review of Gartner’s November 24, 2014 “Oracle’s Licensing Policy for Server Virtualization Is a Substantial Audit Risk” Paper.