IBM Power Systems running out of capacity? Here’s why you may not need to buy...
As your business demands more from your IBM Power Systems estate, we can re-architect your platform to free up valuable capacity – and deliver a raft of other benefits, including better performance,...
View ArticleWhy the arrival of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a big deal
There have been some big announcements around the Oracle Cloud recently, not least the availability of a new European region in Frankfurt. We’re really excited about this, because it expands Oracle’s...
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Understanding the Real Differences Between OCPU & vCPU
Architecting comparable IaaS workloads across Oracle, AWS, Azure & Google In arranging cost comparisons for customers across multiple cloud vendors, it became apparent that there are differences in...
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Oracle 12c RAC: New Features
With Oracle 12c now established in most organizations as the standard, we wanted to highlight a few of the lesser-known features of 12c Real Application Clusters: Oracle Flex Cluster: Oracle introduced...
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GoldenGate Studio – Finally a GUI for data mapping
With introduction of GoldenGate Studio, replication solution can be pre-configured and deployment templates can be created by dragging and dropping data services and replication paths to the solution...
View ArticleGot an Oracle-based app running slowly? Here’s your guide to effectively...
We’ve all experienced that frustrating wait while a web page loads or a business application takes an age to process something. Poor user experiences cost your organization money and risk damaging its...
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Oracle Audit Vault: A Primer
So, what is Audit Vault? Audit Vault is one part of Oracle AVDF (Audit Vault & Database Firewall). It consolidates and secures audit event data from one or more Oracle or non-Oracle sources, and...
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Oracle Database Appliance X6-2 S/M: Optimized and Cost-effective Database...
The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X6-2S and X6-2M are two of the latest ODA models released by Oracle which offer greater simplicity, increased optimization and flexibility as well as the ability to...
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Weblogic Thread Monitoring: Your Finger on the Pulse of the Middle Tier
Introduction WebLogic thread monitoring is very important for all slow or hanging application server issues. All WebLogic (middleware) requests are processed by thread pool thus it becomes a very...
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ZFS Storage: All That Flash, All The Time
Back in February Oracle announced its NEW ZS5 Storage Appliance. The ZS5 Storage Appliance was designed to deliver high performance across the board for all applications. Oracle has been building the...
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Low Risk SPARC Refresh: A Primer on SPARC Solaris Migrations
These days every IT department is familiar with x86 server virtualization, a useful strategy to reduce hardware footprints, provisioning time, downtime and increase flexibility and reliability. But few...
View ArticleOracle 12c Multitenant Option – A Database Architect’s Perspective
The Future Do you wonder what the future holds for the principal Oracle Database platform in terms of its RDBMS Architecture? The Oracle Multitenant Architecture is the platform for the future. Putting...
View ArticleCintra Data Masking and Subsetting Solution
Most of us know that Oracle has an option that can be added to Enterprise Edition databases called the Data Masking and Subsetting Pack. This is a powerful solution, typically used to mask data when it...
View ArticleModern Data Security: Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets
Information security has always been a hot topic in the IT industry, however in recent months the focus on this area has further increased. Whether due to national events such as the alleged hacking of...
View ArticleOracle 12c Multitenancy: Pluggable Database Concepts
A few years ago, Oracle released a multitenant database architecture that featured a concept called Pluggable Databases. The basic idea behind this architecture is a set of containers. A multitenant...
View ArticleOracle Public Cloud Bursting: Benefits and Considerations
Some months ago, I migrated a customer’s environment to the Oracle Public Cloud. It was a very straight forward migration, nothing complex, a single instance database that hosts many applications with...
View ArticleOracle Compute Cloud Service (IaaS) New Features
The latest versions of Oracle’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) compute Cloud Service have added a slew of features and functionality that keep improving the capabilities and the performance of the...
View ArticleODA X6-2 Small / Medium: Important New Tools in Our Solution Architecture...
We at Cintra have been fans of the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) platform since it was released in late 2011, seeing it as a great fit for some common use cases among our customers, namely:...
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Oracle 12c: Real-Time Database Operation Monitoring
In the latest release of Database 12c, Oracle has come up with another brilliant feature for performance monitoring: Real-Time Database Operation Monitoring. Real time SQL monitoring was introduced in...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance X5-2: Providing 64TB of usable storage on 8TB...
If you’re not familiar with the Oracle Database Appliance (aka the “ODA”) then you need to be; the ODA is the most successful Oracle Engineered Systems platform in terms the number of units deployed...
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