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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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,…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
Next week House of Brick is hosting a webinar, Straight Talk on Business Critical Applications in the Cloud, as part of the From IT Ops to Cloud Ops BrightTalk Summit. A description of my presentation…
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