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House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.
Introduction I recently had the opportunity to work with a client that needed to remove some unused disks from Azure. The guest operating system was
For years, I worked in a Unix/Linux command line on a daily basis. Lately however, my work is more strategic than operational, so I work
Oracle licensing on AIX and PowerVM is uniquely complex. Learn how LPARs, processor pools, and Oracle’s partitioning policy affect your license count.
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect I recently completed an engagement where the client was interested in moving from on-premises hardware to the public cloud. The
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.
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect I recently ran into an interesting issue with Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure (GI). We were building several three-node clusters for
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Oracle Spatial and Graph is a product that allows for the storage and processing of geospatial objects inside of the
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Currently, the most common licensing metrics for purchases of core technology products are the following: Processor – Per-core licensing based on
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect In a recent migration activity using Oracle Data Pump, we ran into problems with table permissions on the target database.
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Renaming a volume group is a fairly straightforward process, assuming that the volume group is not the root volume group.