by hobadmin | 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 hobadmin | Aug 26, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Bob Lindquist, Client Services Director and Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect The Journey of Oracle & Google Cloud House of Brick has worked with Google for many years, advising on the best ways to run Oracle workloads in Google Cloud. We... 
by hobadmin | 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 | Jul 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Dave Welch
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist It’s at once both a relief and unsettling to tell your professional services client, “We’re sorry. But we’re feeling the need to hijack this engagement. You have no backup. Yes, we understand ops is going through the motions.... 
by hobadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Cloud, Cloud Computing, Oracle
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist and Nick Walter, Principal Architect On June 14, 2020, Oracle published Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Support on Third-Party Clouds–An Overview and Clarification. It attempts to list reasons why Oracle doesn’t... 
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...