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Upgrading from OpenLeap to SLES15

Sometimes business plans change and maybe you need to move your OpenLeap 15 Server to the supported version SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. Upgrade is getting really easy with version 15. It can be performed online. So your server does(…)

Patching or reimaging your ODA?

Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often,(…)

EDB EPAS 12 comes with interval partitioning

While community PostgreSQL 12 is in beta quite some time now (currently in beta 3) it usually takes some time until EDB EPAS will be available on top of the next major(…)

SQL Server 2019: Java in SQL Server hard to believe, no?

It has already been a few months that we are testing the next version of SQL Server: SQL Server 2019. I already blogged about a previous version of SQL Server supporting R and Python. With the new version(…)

Feedback on the EMEA Red Hat Partner Conference 2019 in Prague

A few weeks ago I attended the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference for the first time. The Red Hat Conference took place in Prague from June 25th to 27th. If you are interested in Open Source technologies and(…)

Sparse OVM virtual disks on appliances

For some reason, you may need to sparse OVM virtual disks in an Oracle appliances. Even though that feature is present trough the OVM Manager, most of the Oracle appliances doesn’t have any OVM Manager deployed on it. Therefore(…)

Alfresco Clustering – Solr6

In previous blogs, I talked about some basis and presented some possible architectures for Alfresco, I talked about the Clustering setup for the Alfresco Repository, the Alfresco Share(…)

Alfresco Clustering – Apache HTTPD as Load Balancer

In previous blogs, I talked about some basis and presented some possible architectures for Alfresco, I talked about the Clustering setup for the Alfresco Repository, the Alfresco Share(…)

Alfresco Clustering – ActiveMQ

In previous blogs, I talked about some basis and presented some possible architectures for Alfresco, I talked about the Clustering setup for the Alfresco Repository and the Alfresco(…)

Windows Docker containers, when platform matters

A couple of days ago, I got a question from a customer about an issue he ran into when trying to spin up a container on Windows.