About House of Brick
House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.
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House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have had the privilege this year of working with our partner EMC in providing Oracle-focused technical sessions around the world.
Unfortunately, many of our clients are surprised to find they are in fact using database features like Advance Compression. Features like this are easy to
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist A review of Gartner’s November 24, 2014 “Oracle’s Licensing Policy for Server Virtualization Is a Substantial Audit Risk” Paper.

Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have been meeting with customers all around the world recently and talking commiserating with them about their experiences dealing with
Dave Welch, CTO, Chief Evangelist and David Woodard, COO About a year ago, some joint customers of Oracle, VMware, and House of Brick began to
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Oracle Corporation’s Tom Kyte did a keynote at Oracle Open World 2006 in a very large hall at
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist Over the last six months I have participated in several in depth interviews and email exchanges with Rob Mitchell

Swingbench is a Java based load generator for Oracle. Swingbench can be used to perform stress testing. The Swingbench package can be downloaded from here:
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist There is some discord and significant misinformation in the Oracle community as to what the contractual obligations are associated
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist A few weeks ago an industry colleague asked me that question. My answer was immediate: enhancements around VMDK. This