30 Jul
Earlier this year, Blue Gecko designed and implemented an Oracle EC2 solution for Sage Manufacturing, an Oracle E-Business Suite customer. Download the white paper here, and read how Blue Gecko leveraged the flexible, cost-effective Amazon EC2 platform to improve Sage’s Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure.
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19 May
Blue Gecko and Sentrigo are co-presenting a webinar on database security in the cloud. Jeremiah Wilton will present strategies for deploying databases in the cloud, and Andy Feit, Sentrigo’s VP of Marketing will present technical strategies for securing databases in the cloud.
Don’t miss these two industry leaders discussing the future of database infrastructure and security! The Webinar is scheduled for Thursday, May 27, 1pm EST, 10am PST. You can sign up here.
19 May
Blue Gecko and Sentrigo are co-presenting a webinar on database security in the cloud. Jeremiah Wilton will present strategies for deploying databases in the cloud, and Andy Feit, Sentrigo’s VP of Marketing will present technical strategies for securing databases in the cloud.
Don’t miss these two industry leaders discussing the future of database infrastructure and security! The Webinar is scheduled for Thursday, May 27, 1pm EST, 10am PST. You can sign up here.
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30 Apr
Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to add and remove computing services on demand. You pay for only what you use. There are no contracts and no fees other than usage charges. It works exactly like an electricity bill. When you need more servers, you add them. When you need more storage, you add it. When you don’t need these things anymore, you simply remove them. Read the full article…
29 Apr
Here’s a great article on database security in the cloud published in eWeek by Slavik Markovich, founder of Sentrigo.
The truth is, Slavik’s article has great advice for anyone considering hosting their application with any third-party provider. When you don’t own the infrastructure, you lose some control no matter how the service is marketed. Read the full article…
26 Apr
The next Seattle Amazon Web Services User Group meeting is Tuesday, April 27. For more details, go to http://www.sawsug.com/.
26 Apr
The next Seattle Amazon Web Services User Group meeting is Tuesday, April 27. For more details, go to http://www.sawsug.com/.
21 Apr
Without completely copying everything our Oracle on EC2 Licensing page, I wanted to provide a quick overview of Oracle Processor licensing for EC2.
Oracle can be licensed on Amazon EC2, but we have to translate processor use to core use to determine licensing costs. Where bare-metal processor licensing uses a CPU socket to define a processor, EC2 instances use cores. Oracle has provided a metric of 4 cores = 1 socket, rounded up to the nearest 4 cores. So, a small instance with 1 core would require 1 socket (1 core rounded up to 4), or one processor license. An extra large instance with 4 cores would also require 1 socket – same as a small instance. Read the full article…
21 Apr
At Collaborate this week, I received a lot of questions regarding support and certification for Oracle on Amazon Web Services. After unraveling a few of these questions, I realized that the difference between “certification” and “support” has become quite confused. I thought a quick explanation might help, because the difference is not really that subtle and definitely important. Read the full article…
17 Apr
The Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud is rapidly gaining acceptance as an enterprise-class Oracle platform. In this virgin territory, Oracle professionals need a complete understanding of cloud computing concepts and architectures. This session addresses the basics, and goes further, providing guidance on how best to optimize and configure Oracle for performance, stability and manageability in the cloud. Gain a complete understanding of:
We look forward to seeing you at the event!
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