Cloud

New PostgreSQL service in OCI

PostgreSQL, an open-source relational database management system, offers robust features and capabilities for data storage and management. Deploying PostgreSQL within the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a scalable and reliable environment. In this guide, we’ll explore the process of setting(…)

Test OpenShift 4 at low cost in Azure

If you want to learn and test OpenShift 4 (the last release is 4.14 at this time of writing), you may not want to go straight with the installation of a full cluster. Using the OpenShift Service of a cloud(…)

Larry Ellison – Oracle’s Vision for the future

Generative AI changes everything Larry Ellison kicked off his keynote by delving into Artificial Intelligence, particularly focusing on ChatGPT. The phrase is sure to become famous “About a year ago OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT 3.5 and much to the shock of(…)

OCI: Automate your Oracle Cloud Database software releases deployment (db-home)

As part of a very exciting project around Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer (aka. ExaCC) technology, we wanted to rollout in an automated manner the database software aka. ORACLE_HOME on ExaCC database clusters (aka. VM cluster). However, we rapidly identified(…)

Troubleshoot cloud-unit “Error: Invalid cloud-config schema: user-data” @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

While applying what seemed to be a minor update, we managed to “break” our cloud-init automated OCI compute instance deployment process. This blog describes how to quickly troubleshoot & debug your #cloud-config on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (not so different from(…)

An overview of “Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration” event by dbi services

Is the Oracle Cloud a hot topic for you? dbi services organized an event about the Cloud today in Lausanne: "Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: everything for an efficient migration".

Oracle Zero Downtime Migration : Offline logical database migration from on-premises to Autonomous DB 

I have recently written a blog introducing the Oracle ZDM (Zero Downtime Migration) tool : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/zero-downtime-migration-zdm-to-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-oci/ I have also done some tests performing an offline logical database migration from a database running on an OCI(…)

Windows Server container on an AKS cluster

A few weeks ago I participated at the dbi services bootcamp. All new employees are gathered for a refreshment of dbi services best practices. This is also an opportunity to ask questions directly to our CEO(…)

Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

The question to migrate or not to the Cloud comes more and more often now. There are some added values to go to the Cloud as analytics capabilities, scalability and flexibility, cost saving, no dedicated hardware and its related maintenance,(…)

Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service

In a previous blog I demonstrated how to migrate an Oracle database from AWS to Oracle OCI using Data Guard. But what if you want to migrate to the Oracle Cloud, but don’t have a direct connection between the(…)