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Your Data Awakens : Delphix Express CloneAttack at OOW
Want a free version of Delphix Express installed on your computer with the assistance of Oracle and Delphix experts? We will be holding #CloneAttack again at Oracle Open World on Oct 27 from 1:30-4:30....
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Live Streaming Oaktable World!
If you can’t make it in person to Oaktable World, check it out via live streaming ! here is the agenda
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Delphix Express : Free version of Delphix available
Delphix Express is available! To get a copy of Delphix Express go to http://pages.delphix.com/Free-Trial-Request.html and put “Express” for your title and I’ll send you the download info. Delphix...
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Oracle Open World: Good News , Bad News
Looking around Oracle Open World this year, it seemed like there was a significant drop in attendees – at least compared to years past or especially compared to Dreamforce. Feels like there is a...
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d3.js
Here is a short video D3 Show Reel from Mike Bostock on Vimeo. Here is a longer tutorial video Data-driven Documents from London Web Standards on Vimeo. You can go through the actual presentation...
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Diff’ing AWR reports
I don’t know if you are ever asked to compare to AWR periods. AWR period comparison is pretty easy if you have access to the two periods in the same AWR repository. AWR in the same repository can be...
View ArticleSteve Jobs : the journey of simplicity
Steve Jobs sets a great perspective on the journey of simplicity. It starts from simple, goes through complexity and ends up in simplicity. “When you start looking at a problem and it seems really...
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Make it easy or die (software is eating the world)
Software is eating the world We see taxis being beaten out by Uber and Lyft. We see hotels being undercut by Airbnb. We see brokerage firms undercut by Ameritrade and Etrade. We see retailers under cut...
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IDC report: Virtual Data 461% ROI over 5 years
read the full IDC report on Virtual Data here. Here are some key sound bites from the report: “Data has turned IT departments into business enablers. Data acts as a tax on IT operations when IT...
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Say DevOps one more time …
Credit: Matthias Weinberger (CC2) What is Devops? As has been noted many of times, DevOps is a term that is hard to define. DevOps is a term that is so easily misapplied in the enterprise that it’s...
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Second wave of cloud migration
photo by Sunova Surfboards A second wave of cloud migration is now happening after the initial hiccups of Reaction to Shadow IT Misaligned Expectations Increased Data Exposure and Administrative...
View ArticleDB2 virtualized on Delphix
Delphix is tightly integrated with PostGres, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server but here is an example of impressively easy workflow with DB2 which can be setup with a few extra scripts.
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Delphix versus Storage Snapshots
photo by Gonzalo Iza This article lists some of the key capabilities that Delphix provides over and above Storage Snapshot based cloning solutions to meet the increasing business demand for Agile...
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Docker Data Containers
photo by www.GlynLowe.com One challenge with Docker is having persistent storage for a container especially when that container gets restarted on another VM host and we want it to point to the same...
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Docker and Delphix architectures
In my last post I showed using Docker and Delphix to support WordPress. I use wordpress for this blog. Works fine on it’s own. It is just me making a few posts here and there. Occasionally there are...
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WordPress and Docker
One of the attractive things about Docker to me, is that I can spin up containers with software that doesn’t affect the rest of my system. I can spin down the container, remove the container, make...
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ASH art on Twitter profiles
What fun to see Top Activity aka ASH artwork on twitter profiles:
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Test Data Management (TDM) – your downfall or triumph?
A recent post on LinkedIn had this image: The problem is as old as development. The tester finds a bug but the developer can’t reproduce the bug so closes it as unreproducible. … but how else can...
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Graphora
I knew I had to try out Neto’s Graphora when I saw that it was a docker container to collect Oracle performance data and send it to Graphite. Graphite has been on my radar as I see and hear about more...
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Yes SQL ! the conference Jan 26 & 27 at Oracle
Wow, this is big – a Yes SQL conference ! Finally ! It’s here ! Yes SQL ! the conference! At Oracle headquarters ! Send me your questions! Have questions about SQL? about No SQL? about Yes SQL? About...
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