by Bob Lindquist | Dec 4, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Oracle, Oracle Licensing, Uncategorized
HoB/AWS On Demand Session: Optimizing Oracle Licenses on AWS House of Brick and Amazon Web Services have been partnering for years to help Oracle customers migrate enterprise systems to AWS. During that time, there has been a lot of confusion on the different... 
by Brenda Vair | Nov 6, 2020 | Oracle, Uncategorized
Over the years I have been involved in several Oracle database migration projects where all databases are moving from point A to point B. When doing these moves the TNS naming and the connect strings as a whole are a major pain point. At one client we came up with... 
by Bob Lindquist | Oct 27, 2020 | Licensing, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
This is Part 2 of a two-part blog covering Oracle licensing tools and best practices. As noted previously in our Part 1 post, Oracle sales behaviors with customers have been arduous, even though Oracle still provides enterprise-grade technologies.... by Bob Lindquist | Oct 20, 2020 | Licensing, OpsCompass, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog covering Oracle licensing tools and best practices. Oracle produces a number of very good enterprise technologies, particularly their Database and related Technology stack of products. Companies of all sizes have been running their... 
by Dave Welch | Sep 14, 2020 | Dave Welch, General, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist We were informed by an Oracle partner that Oracle sent out an announcement September 1, 2020 deprecating the option to purchase licenses with two, three, four, and five year terms. Furthermore, the one-year term option has now... 
by Bob Lindquist | 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...