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Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO Yesterday, I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a webinar offered by the VMware Cloud on AWS team.
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO In 2006, House of Brick pioneered the use of virtualization technology for enterprise-class Oracle applications when we helped one of the
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant In this blog I will examine the effects ‘setall’ and ‘none’ on the Oracle initialization parameter filesystemio_options. This setting is
Nick Walter, Principal Architect Recently I wrote a blog about AWS’ newly unveiled Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances feature. While a very welcome feature,
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO When it comes to messaging coming from the Oracle sales team on how to properly license their software, the misleading information
Nick Walter, Principal Architect Licensing Oracle software products in a public cloud environment has always been an awkward sticking point for enterprises looking to move
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist A Former Professional Life The Product Integration Group was established at a former employer by a visionary president.
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant One common Oracle DBA problem is migrating to new hardware. Typically, the Oracle database will be moved to new hardware,
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect This is part two of an ongoing series discussing the installation and configuration of SQL Server on Linux. Technically
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect This article will be the first in a series that discusses installing and running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux,