by Nick Walter | Sep 24, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Oracle Licensing
Licensing Oracle RAC on AWS is tricky, because Oracle wants to deter people from running it in any cloud environment but their own. While they have not outright forbade support for RAC on AWS, they have made some public statements to attempt to discourage users from... 
by Nick Walter | Sep 3, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle Licensing
by Nick Walter, Principal Architect At House of Brick we are constantly hearing from our customers, and peers in the industry, about the latest tactics Oracle is using to try lock clients into expensive licensing deals. The latest tale to reach our ears is that Oracle... 
by Bob Lindquist | Aug 18, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services Oracle customers have common questions about their licensing options when considering deployment to Amazon Web Services (AWS). These questions usually fall into the following areas: What AWS options are available for Oracle... 
by hobadmin | May 12, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services House of Brick Technologies has been assisting clients with their business-critical applications for over twenty years. In that time, we have seen many changes regarding how database platforms are deployed, licensed, and... 
by hobadmin | Mar 27, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing
Nick Walter, Principal Architect Part Two – Architecting the Environment “How do I architect my Aurora environment?” is a very frequent question I hear from clients who have decided to ditch Oracle and move to Aurora as part of an AWS migration. While the cost... 
by hobadmin | Mar 13, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle
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 main application is an ERP with multiple large Oracle databases for the backend. The Oracle...