by Dave Welch | Dec 16, 2020 | Oracle Licensing
December 16, 2020. Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Executive License Consultant, Chief Evangelist I have two anniversaries that I celebrate annually back-to-back: December 16th & 17th. Don’t tell my wife I actually wondered aloud in a client licensing workshop today which... 
by Dave Welch | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized, VMware, VMware Cloud, VMworld
Many organizations have discovered that they overshot in their migrations to the cloud by not enabling a hybrid cloud model. It was my privilege to moderate the Bright Talk hybrid cloud session at VMworld 2019 U.S. The webcast is more relevant now than ever. Central... 
by Dave Welch | Sep 14, 2020 | Dave Welch, General, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist We were informed by an Oracle partner that Oracle sent out an announcement September 1, 2020 deprecating the option to purchase licenses with two, three, four, and five year terms. Furthermore, the one-year term option has now... 
by Dave Welch | Aug 3, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle Licensing, SQL Server, VMworld
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Hello everyone. Allan Hirt from SQLHA (Blog | Twitter) and I will be co-presenting session HCP1634 “Licensing Oracle and SQL Server on vSphere” at VMworld 2020 this September. I will be focusing on Oracle while Allan will be... 
by Dave Welch | Jul 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dave Welch
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist It’s at once both a relief and unsettling to tell your professional services client, “We’re sorry. But we’re feeling the need to hijack this engagement. You have no backup. Yes, we understand ops is going through the motions....