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
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.
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO The trend in the storage industry towards all flash arrays is a welcomed development. The cost of flash storage has finally
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction The use of all-flash arrays is increasing all the time. House of Brick has definitely seen an uptick in the
David Woodard, COO A little over a week ago I was fortunate to have an opportunity to attend SQL PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle, which
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect Scenario: Virtualized 8TB Data warehouse, daily ETL extending multiple GB/day. Enterprise storage system with 4 dedicated controllers and
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect This blog post covers the setup and configuration of Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB version 1.x) in part 1 and
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect Most DBAs will agree that good performance monitoring and troubleshooting should include OS metrics – in addition to traditional tools

Monitor AIX and Linux systems with NMON. Track CPU, memory, and database metrics for SQL Server and Oracle.
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Tech Target’s Beth Pariseau asked for my opinion on Oracle’s recent Nimbula purchase announcement. She then posted an
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist As we move forward, there are more layers in the system stack. Virtualization is being introduced for a whole