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
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AWS Oracle Database
AWS Oracle Licensing
Running Oracle on AWS
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Oracle License Management
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VMware Cost Optimization Assessment
High Availability & Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure Design & Validation
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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.
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant In part 1, I introduced a story that illustrates the impact of internal dynamics on Oracle performance and licensing costs. I
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant House of Brick consultants have a unique perspective into organizational cultures, their Oracle database environments, and the impact this has on
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect A couple of weeks ago one of my coworkers, Dave Welch, published a great blog post about Oracle licensing terms.

SUPPORTS CUSTOMERS IN MANAGING COMPLEX ORACLE LICENSING House of Brick Technologies (HoB), the leader in the virtualization and Cloud Computing for business critical systems, announced
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant In part one, I covered how Oracle’s recent price increase for its Standard Edition database may drive some users to
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant Recently Oracle has dramatically increased the price of its Oracle Standard Edition database. Because of this price increase, many observers
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect The dream of active/active datacenters is becoming more of a reality. One issue for this type of architecture is how
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist House of Brick has become the industry’s lightning rod on the topic of licensing Oracle technology running on
Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant In this article we are going to cover how to create a VMware workstation to be used to install the Oracle
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In this blog we would like to take a look back at 2015. A lot happened this year. I will