Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
Although I’m an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect, one has to admit that AWS has an almost overwhelming number of options and a security infrastructure with nearly infinite possibilities. This kind…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect; Nick Walter, Principal Architect; and Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
In this blog we take a look at some trends that we have observed in the industry over the past year, and what we believe 2019…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
SymmetricDS (SDS) is open source software that can be used for Oracle SQL replication from one database to another. It can be configured either unidirectional or bidirectional. Bidirectional invariably means that the user will need…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
The City of Sunrise (Florida) Firefighters Pension Fund sued Oracle on August 10, 2018 alleging Oracle misled investors on cloud sales growth.
Déjà vu? The first class action alleging Oracle’s stock price manipulation through…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
Yesterday, I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a webinar offered by the VMware Cloud on AWS team. It has been an exciting opportunity to work with VMware and AWS, as this offering…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Recently I wrote a blog about AWS’ newly unveiled Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances feature. While a very welcome feature, it was disappointing that the feature was only initially available for EC2 but not RDS….
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Licensing Oracle software products in a public cloud environment has always been an awkward sticking point for enterprises looking to move towards hybrid cloud or public cloud solutions. Oracle software products have traditionally been licensed by…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In November of 2016, I wrote a blog post that followed the announcement by VMware and Amazon about the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS). The subtitle of that blog was “VMware and AWS Announcement…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
At House of Brick we’ve been closely following the latest news stories regarding the recently revealed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affect modern CPU architectures. Meltdown, as first widely reported by The Register, concerns a flaw…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
As an Oracle DBA, I often find it necessary to use X-Windows. For unknown reasons, Oracle has chosen to standardize on X-Windows as the normal installer for their software. Because of this requirement for Oracle,…
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