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.
Oracle License & Audit Risk
Oracle Audits – Everything You Should Know
Oracle Audit Defense
Oracle Cost Optimization
Oracle License Optimization on VMware
Oracle Database Security
Cloud Services & Modernization
Cloud Migration
Cloud Modernization
AWS Oracle Database
AWS Oracle Licensing
Running Oracle on AWS
License & Compliance Management
Oracle License Management
Security & Compliance Assessment
VMware Cost Optimization Assessment
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure Design & Validation
Integration
Optimization
Performance Tuning
Managed Consulting Services Overview
House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.

Learn best practices for configuring continuous database inventory with automated discovery, unified tracking, and historical snapshots to eliminate audit surprises.
Nick Walter, Principal Architect The Licensing Trap In my role with House of Brick, I get the opportunity to assist many of our clients with
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist This topic reminds me of a session at VMworld 2006. At the last minute, VMware delayed VMworld to
Nick Walter, Principal Architect Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with
Nick Walter, Principal Architect In my role with House of Brick, I have the opportunity to assist many of our clients with migrating their business-critical
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist Update – July 26, 2019: VMware KB 51491 originally published vSphere 5.5 Extended Support as available for one
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist New Class Action Filings Against Oracle’s Executive Leadership There are two recent and related class action lawsuits against
Learn how Active Data Guard licensing works, what triggers it, the cost per license, and how to avoid accidentally activating ADG on your standby database.
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO This blog post is the latest in a series of articles that House of Brick is providing, which use quotes and
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO Over the past four years, House of Brick has seen tremendous growth in our license services line of business. Throughout this