Oracle introduced the new Database Appliance X3-2 March 5, 2013 and it brings some exciting specs and usability that has been greatly anticipated from the community. It further changes the scene from "RAC-in-a-box" to "Virtual Machines in-a-box".. … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko Attending AWS Cloud Conference
Tuesday november 27, 28 & 30 Amazon Web Services will host "AWS re: Invent", their first global customer and partner conference in Las Vegas, USA. "AWS re: Invent" will feature deep technical content on popular cloud use cases, new AWS services, cloud migration best practices, architecting for scale, operating at high availability and making cloud … [Read more...]
WHY AUTOMATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR EVERY SHOP
As physical infrastructure has changed over the years, management and configuration mechanisms have evolved as well. In the old days, large machines were managed by hand in many cases, by expert administrators who understood their configuration intimately. Then, as smaller machines were integrated into the enterprise, management-by-hand became … [Read more...]
Monocle – Can’t Sit Still
Well, it’s been a little over a week since we’ve made our monitoring tools available to the open source community. It’s always a bit interesting to take something used internally and try to package it in such a way that it will be useful to others. I hope those of you who have downloaded Monocle have had an opportunity to … [Read more...]