Events & Webinars

Events

Live Webinar | Avoid the Common Oracle Cloud Migration Pitfalls

With House of Brick and Cirrus Data

In this webinar, Jeff Stonacek, Chief Technology Officer for House of Brick, and Mark Greenlaw, Vice President of Market Strategy for Cirrus Data, will discuss best practices for Oracle migrations and common challenges.

 

Jeff Stonacek will review how organizations migrate their business-critical applications from a technical standpoint and how to overcome the licensing hurdles. Mark Greenlaw will explain how businesses can migrate their Oracle database while the application is in use, accelerating the migration and avoiding business disruption.

Webinars

Virtualization: The Key to Approachable disaster Recovery

Be prepared to look at disaster recovery planning with a 360 degree view for the enterprise and SMB space, and walk away with technical ideas you can begin to implement immediately. During this presentation, we will discuss disaster recovery planning considerations and partnerships. We will also walk through technical solutions that provide a way to use virtualization and storage strategies for an approachable DR solution.

Presenters:

  • Jim Hannan, Principal Architect; House of Brick
  • Chris Vacanti, Senior Consultant; House of Brick

LICENSING DATABASES ON VSPHERE WITH CONVERGED AND HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORMS

Discover the complexities of licensing database technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server and PostgreSQL on VMware, with particular emphasis on modern converged and hyper-converged platforms. It’s vital to ensure your virtual machines stay compliant with your database vendor’s license requirements. Join us to learn about the business and financial risks involved if you don’t have a solid plan in place for compliance, as well as explore strategies for controlling and/or reducing costs and limiting organizational risk.

Presenter:

  • Nathan Biggs, CEO; House of Brick

pNUMA & VNUMA… Save Your Large SQL Instances from Certain DoomA!

There’s more to NUMA than physical boundaries in your server hardware. This session will dive deep into pNUMA & vNUMA settings within vSphere, Windows & SQL Server to aid you in getting the settings right to maximize performance. Rob & Shawn will have a group discussion session at VMworld, and this webcast will review highlights of that session, as well as present testing details that went into the lab work around NUMA and SQL.

Presenters:

  • Shawn Meyers, Principal Architect; House of Brick
  • Rob Girard, Technical Marketing Engineer; Tintri

Virtualizing Databases to Consolidate Licenses and Reduce Costs

The prospect of virtualizing your business critical applications can raise concerns about security, availability, and control, because of the impact these applications have on your daily business processes. There are several benefits, however, to a database virtualization initiative.

Join Sayers and House of Brick to dive into the best practices for database virtualization to see how it can positively impact your business.

Presenters:

  • Dave Welch, CTO & Chief Evangelist; House of Brick
  • Bill Tohtz, Chief Architect; Sayers