by Nick Walter | Apr 8, 2021 | AWS, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, vSphere
AWS this week announced a new service to streamline application server migration to the cloud. The AWS Application Migration Service is an evolved version of their existing CloudEndure offering with some nice enhancements for manageability and auditability. My first... 
by Nick Walter | Oct 13, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
by Nick Walter, Principal Architect and Joe Grant, Principal Architect At House of Brick we field a multitude of questions from our partners and clients about Oracle licensing pitfalls and traps. In some recent conversations a new wrinkle on an old danger, Proprietary... 
by Nick Walter | Sep 24, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Oracle Licensing
Licensing Oracle RAC on AWS is tricky, because Oracle wants to deter people from running it in any cloud environment but their own. While they have not outright forbade support for RAC on AWS, they have made some public statements to attempt to discourage users from... 
by Nick Walter | Sep 3, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle Licensing
by Nick Walter, Principal Architect At House of Brick we are constantly hearing from our customers, and peers in the industry, about the latest tactics Oracle is using to try lock clients into expensive licensing deals. The latest tale to reach our ears is that Oracle...