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Author: Dave Welch

Dave Welch

Founding Partner, CTO and Chief Evangelist, Dave Welch is House of Brick’s Oracle Licensing practice lead. He specializes in Oracle enterprise license assessment, audit defense, enterprise infrastructure assessment, Business Continuity options, performance, scalability, and system architecture. Dave has been involved in the reduction and/or reallocation of millions of dollars of hardware and software budget. His mission-critical Oracle DBA experience began in 1994. Dave has been a prominent voice in the industry for the implementation of Business-Critical Application workloads on VMware virtualization technology. He is also a former Oracle University RAC instructor.

Discovering Risk in Your Cloud

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

The Oracle RAC Dilemma – Part III

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part III: The HA Feat RAC Will Never Pull Off Real Application Clusters had always been the high availability king.

The Oracle RAC Dilemma – Part II

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part II: Four Operational Best Practices In this post, we discuss four RAC operational best practices for shops that have

The Oracle RAC Dilemma – Part I

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part I: Four Criteria for Introducing or Keeping RAC VMware vSphere High Availability can provide significant levels of high availability

vSphere 5.5 Extended Support Ends in September 2020. Now What? Or So What?

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist Update – July 26, 2019: VMware KB 51491 originally published vSphere 5.5 Extended Support as available for one

Oracle Lawsuits Don’t Appear to Influence Financial Analysts

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist Tactical Law Group’s Pam Fulmer does the non-attorneys among us who work in the Oracle licensing industry a

Business Continuity and Security On-Prem and in the Cloud: Moving Beyond Technique

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Have you ever noticed that just about 100% of grade school through high school musicians are capable of

VMworld 2014 U.S. – Thursday August 28

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist SEC2238 Security and Microsegmentation in the SDDC – 10:30AM Srinivas Nimmagadda – VMware manager in NSX project.

VMworld U.S. 2014 – Wednesday August 27

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist VAPP2389 Use Storage Virtualization to Protect Business Critical Functionality with vSphere and Oracle Extended Distance Clusters – 1:00PM

VMworld 2014 U.S. – Tuesday August 26

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist General Session – The “SMP FT” Session – 9:00AM It’s Christmas, Easter, and my birthday all rolled into

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