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

How Will Changes to Java Licensing Impact you?

With the recent changes to Java licensing, now is the time to learn about your options and discuss the Oracle Java footprint within your business.

In this session we will:

  • Review what has changed regarding the licensing of Java SE
  • Discuss the potential impact of these changes to an organization’s licensing liability
  • Examine how Java SE is currently licensed (Processor, Named User Plus)
  • Share recommendations for getting a handle on the Java usage in your organization
  • Explore Oracle products that come with Java

Presenters:

  • David Woodard, Principal Architect
  • Jeff Klemme, Principal Architect

Oracle Workloads in the Public Cloud

What’s going on with Oracle core technology workloads in the IaaS Cloud market? What customer activity are we seeing in that space? What are the opportunities and challenges? How have those opportunities and challenges shifted?

Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist at House of Brick Technologies answers these questions and more, and takes a technical deep dive into Infrastructure-as-a-Service and the cloud market in 2019.

Presenter:

  • Dave Welch, CTO & Chief Evangelist

Optimize Your Oracle Licenses on Amazon Web Services

Many organizations want to consider a cloud strategy for their business-critical Oracle workloads. For most, however, the concern about licensing Oracle in AWS seems like a showstopper. In this session, we discuss your licensing and support options for running Oracle on AWS, and explore ways to cost optimize your Oracle workloads in the cloud. AWS recently released technical innovations that support your ability to optimize the cost of running Oracle on AWS. We discuss how these innovations and services can enable your cloud strategy for Oracle workloads.

Presenters:

  • Nathan Biggs – CEO, House of Brick Technologies
  • Kwesi Edwards – Sr Business Development Manager, AWS

Monitoring and Alerting of Availability Groups

So you have your Availability Groups (AG) configured and everything reports green. Learn how to measure for Service Level Agreement (SLA) compliance! Know when replication is delayed! Get notified when a failover occurs! In this session, we will teach the attendee how to implement proper monitoring and alerting. We will also show you what metrics and reports you should be reviewing regularly to ensure there are no surprises, such as pauses replication or unacceptable delays. For example, we will look at the DMVs, extended event sessions, perfmon counters, SQL agent jobs and alerts. We will show what to monitor in your AG, and how to setup alerting so you know when to take action.

Presenter:

  • Shawn Meyers, Principal Architect

Innovation Through Digital Transformation

Join this live panel discussion with experts at VMworld Europe for up-to-date trends on what’s disrupting the market and how to take your business to the next level. Tune into this interactive Q&A session with world renowned IT and business leaders while they discuss the following:

  • How to declutter and take on today’s most pressing IT priorities
  • The latest technologies, methodologies and best practices for IT leaders
  • How to ensure your organization is primed for 21st century trends from both a business and tech perspective

Presenter:

  • Dave Welch, CTO & Chief Evangelist – House of Brick