Introduction and Background About House of Brick In our over twenty-five-year history at House of Brick, we have worked with thousands of Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL customers on all types of database initiatives related to optimization, performance, business continuity, compliance, and best practices. Our consulting expertise was not just specific to the database engine but also advising Clients how to best utilize the different platforms available for deployment (on-prem, virtual, converged/hyper-converged, and cloud)
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.
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Unfortunately, many of our clients are surprised to find they are in fact using database features like Advance Compression. Features like
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the most asked questions concerning running Oracle Databases in a virtualized environment is: “How do we present the
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Overview In part one of this post, we described the high level concept of using Oracle’s new cross platform incremental backup
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.
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect When we are asked to introduce new database technology or a new architecture at an existing customer site,
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the not so fun jobs for a DBA is the never-ending task of refreshing non-production databases from their
Joe Grant, Principal Architect In keeping with the use of templates, as we did in part one of this post, the next thing would be
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect I recently read about a feature of NetApp called “FlexClone”, which promises instant virtual-to-physical (v2p) cloning of VMDK
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
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