by Bob Lindquist | Jul 16, 2021 | OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
The House of Brick Partner Podcast The House of Brick Partner Podcast is a series of conversations with important partners and clients. The intent of the podcast is to share, educate and advise listeners on best practices for business-critical database platforms.... 
by Nick Walter | Jun 23, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, Licensing, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Executive Update – June 22, 2021 This excellent blog post from House of Brick’s Nick Walter was originally published in September of 2020. Not even three months later, in a release dated December 12, 2020, Oracle released “An Overview and Clarification” for “Real... 
by Bob Lindquist | Jun 17, 2021 | General, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Earlier this year, House of Brick published a joint white paper with AWS – “Oracle Cost Traps and How to Overcome Them with AWS Solutions”. Many of our clients want the benefits of a migration to AWS but have been hesitant about migrating Oracle database workloads. ... 
by Dave Welch | Jun 11, 2021 | General, Licensing, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, VMware, VMware Cloud, VMworld, vSphere
Oracle Support for RAC on VMware – MOS Note 249212.1’s April 29, 2021 Revision and VMware’s June 9, 2021 Reaction. Prior to November 8, 2010, Oracle’s RAC FAQ stated: “There are technical restrictions that prohibit the support of RAC in a VMware environment.” In our... by Bob Lindquist | Jun 10, 2021 | Cloud, Licensing, News, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
The House of Brick Partner Podcast The House of Brick Partner Podcast is a series of conversations with important partners and clients. The intent of the podcast is to share, educate and advise listeners on best practices for business-critical database platforms.... 
by Jeff Stonacek | Jun 8, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Overview AWS provides the option for installing your own operating system (OS) or hypervisor on their physical hosts. While this is not a common way to deploy workloads on AWS, it does provide additional options in certain situations. For those familiar with...