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Oracle Cloud basics for beginners

Introduction Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everyone is talking about the Cloud but a lot of people are still in the fog with Cloud technologies. Let’s talk about basic features of the Oracle Cloud, called OCI for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. What is(…)

Always free / always up tmux in the Oracle Cloud with KSplice updates

By Franck Pachot . I used to have many VirtualBox VMs on my laptop. But now, most of my labs are in the Cloud. Easy access from everywhere. GCP There’s the Google Cloud free VM which is not(…)

Some thoughts about working with/on AWS

In the last year working with/on AWS has become an almost daily task in my life as a consultant and trainer. From a trainer perspective there is not much to say about it because we use a very limited amount(…)

Rapid PostgreSQL cloning using AWS EBS snapshots

When you go for AWS EC2 instances to host your PostgreSQL deployments and you want to rapidly clone PostgreSQL instances for development or testing purposes you can make use of AWS EBS(…)

Using AWS Storage Gateway as a backup target for PostgreSQL – Cached volume gateway

In the last post we had a look on how you can use AWS Storage Gateway as File gateway to store your PostgreSQL backups safely offsite on AWS(…)

Using AWS Storage Gateway as a backup target for PostgreSQL

In the last post we had a quick look at AWS Kinesis data streams and how you can push data to AWS S3 using(…)

Migrating an Oracle instance to AWS Aurora – 3 – Data replication with AWS DMS

If you followed the last two posts in this little series (here and here) this is the current status of this demo migration project: We have converted the Oracle SH schema and(…)

Running SQL Server on the Oracle Free tier

By Franck Pachot The Oracle Cloud is not only for Oracle Database. You can create a VM running Oracle Linux with full root access to it, even in the free tier: a free VM that will be always up, never(…)

One day training @ Microsoft Azure Cloud Workshop

Today, with my colleague Christophe, we follow the Microsoft Azure Training Day: Data and Analytics @ Microsoft Zürich (Wallisellen to be exact). After a presentation of SQL Server 2019, we begin with the First Lab about(…)

Deploying your own PostgreSQL image on Nutanix Era

Some days ago we had a very good training on Nutanix. Nutanix is a Hyper-converged infrastructure and that means that all is software driven and the system can be deployed on many(…)