posted February 15, 2019, 4:30 PM by
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…
posted February 12, 2019, 10:55 AM by
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…
posted January 25, 2019, 3:43 PM by
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Oracle Security Best Practices in EC2 and RDS for the DBA
Many House of Brick customers who I speak to are very excited about the possibilities of running Oracle in AWS, either on EC2 or leveraging the…
posted September 14, 2018, 9:49 AM by
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
I recently worked with a client who was using AWS RDS Oracle for the first time. They, like a lot of organizations familiar with managing Oracle databases in on-premises environment, had a fairly robust backup methodology…
posted July 27, 2018, 12:31 PM by
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…
posted July 13, 2018, 5:43 PM by
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In 2006, House of Brick pioneered the use of virtualization technology for enterprise-class Oracle applications when we helped one of the largest restaurant chains in the U.S. deploy their Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware. That helped…
posted June 19, 2018, 4:33 PM by
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….
posted June 15, 2018, 11:50 AM by
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
When it comes to messaging coming from the Oracle sales team on how to properly license their software, the misleading information is nothing if not predictable. With a hat tip to the Britney Spears album of…
posted June 7, 2018, 5:31 PM by
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…
posted April 13, 2018, 5:09 PM 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…