It seems like I can't go online without seeing an anti-Oracle rant against their cloud solutions. Apparently Wall Street is disappointed that Oracle hasn't migrated a big portion of their customer base to the cloud. Not everything belongs on the cloud! We seem to be living on cloud nine as far as moving to the [...]
If you haven't moved your database from a traditional server structure to the cloud, 2019 is your year. The time is now. Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure has gone from Generation 1 to Generation 2, and the pace of change has been incredible. It's changing so fast that you can't even keep up. If you're running a [...]
Cloud computing has come a long way in recent years, but we still sometimes run into issues where different clients have different versions of the same cloud software. And different versions mean different features. It's like going to a grocery store chain in Oklahoma City and then talking to friends in Denver who shop at [...]
One of our clients, the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS), needed to buy some new hardware and do a hardware migration. Some changes in licensing requirements and the need to be in full compliance were motivating the switch. Their internal team priced out options for the hardware migration but also priced out options for [...]
One question we get from time to time is whether or not our managed services work the same on cloud-based IaaS—Infrastructure as a Service—and as a PaaS—Platform as a Service—set ups as they do on on-site hardware. The short answer is yes, they do work the same. It doesn't affect our services or offerings at [...]