Events & Webinars

Running Oracle on VMware offers significant benefits to customers worldwide. But it also brings increased scrutiny from Oracle, which may result in the heightened threat of an audit. House of Brick, who on any given day supports more than 50 clients running on VMware against aggressive tactics from Oracle, and attorneys at Crowell & Moring, who represented Mars in the now famous Mars vs. Oracle lawsuit, will offer insights learned from helping defend their clients during Oracle audits. Oracle audit best practices for VMware customers will be explored using these client examples. Architectural, operational, and organizational recommendations for preparing for an Oracle audit will also be shared. You will learn practical techniques you can use in your own organization to prepare for the possibility of an Oracle audit.

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Presenters (US):

• Nathan Biggs, CEO – House of Brick
• Art Beeman, Partner – Crowell & Moring
• Joel Muchmore, Partner – Crowell & Moring

Presenters (EU):

• Dave Welch, CTO – House of Brick
• Heidi Waem, Counsel, Crowell & Moring LLP
• Michelle Linderman, Partner, Crowell & Moring

Oracle and SQL Server databases are licensed very differently than other applications, with many options from which to choose depending on requirements for features, mobility needs, virtualization/consolidation targets, and usage of third-party cloud resources. This breakout session will help you understand the options available to license Oracle and SQL Server database virtual machines. Learn to maximize your database licensing investment while maintaining mobility and minimizing risks of an audit.

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Presenters:

• David Welch, CTO, Chief Evangelist – House of Brick
• Scott Salyer, Director Global Systems Engineering – VMware

Learn key strategies, best practices, and missteps to avoid in migrating from UNIX to virtualized Linux from four customers that have recently migrated. Four companies help VMware deliver this service, so learn from them and find out more of the benefits of migrating off big iron.

Presenters:

• Moderator: Don Sullivan, Partner Solutions Architect – VMware
• Panelist: Mike Stone, CIO & Lead Architect – House of Brick

(Alternate Title: What’s New with VMware Cloud on AWS: July Release)

Find out more about how VMware Cloud on AWS enables organizations to accelerate their cloud migration, seamlessly extend VMware-based software defined data centers (SDDC) to the AWS cloud, get on-demand disaster recovery, and modernize applications.

In addition, House of Brick CEO Nathan Biggs will share a customer POC for migrating Oracle and SQL Server to the VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as discuss Oracle licensing considerations for the VMware Cloud on AWS.

Presenters:

• Nathan Biggs, CEO – House of Brick
• Ivan Oprencak, Director of Product Marketing – VMware

The process of establishing performance benchmarks and baselines is invaluable when it comes to understanding the health of your environment, and becomes even more crucial when dealing with business critical systems. In this session we will provide further insights regarding the importance of effective monitoring and metrics and how they can help you respond proactively to performance issues. We will also discuss best practices for monitoring and metrics as related to physical and virtual servers, storage, and databases.

You’ll leave with a better understanding of key considerations for determining performance baselines and benchmarks; the various categories of metrics and monitoring tools; a list of recommended reports, tools, and software; and best practices for gaining insights into the performance of your business critical systems.

Presenters:

• Jonas Mason, Principal Architect – House of Brick
• Jim Hannan, Principal Architect – House of Brick