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April 23, 2011 by jwilton

Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service.  At Blue Gecko, we occasionally help our customers design and implement S3-based backup strategies. Compared to conventional off site tape vaulting services, the advantages of vaulting database and other backups to S3 are many.  … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, parallel, performance, S3, SQL Server Tagged With: aws

April 22, 2011 by jwilton

EC2 outage reactions showcase widespread ignorance regarding the cloud

Amazon EC2′s high-profile outage in the US East region has taught us a number of lessons.  For many, the take-away has been a realization that cloud-based systems (like conventionally-hosted systems) can fail.  Of course, we knew that, Amazon knew that, and serious companies who performed serious availability engineering before deploying to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, downtime, ebs, elastic block store, elastic compute cloud, ignorance, Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, misconceptions, outage Tagged With: aws, EC2, high availability

March 26, 2010 by cedwards

Oracle E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud

I am scheduled to present “E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud” on Monday, April 19 at Collaborate 2010.  I’ll provide an overview of Amazon Web Services and present a few common use cases that E-Business Suite DBAs in particular might find useful.  If you are an E-Business Suite customer and do NOT have a DR site or struggle … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: amazon cloud, aws, cloud computing, EC2, oracle on aws

March 23, 2010 by cedwards

High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud

Jeremiah Wilton will be presenting High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud at Collaborate 2010 - an updated version of his February RMOUG presentation.  For a preview, you can find both the white paper and presentation slides from RMOUG on our white paper page.  Currently scheduled for Monday, April 19, the session abstract reads: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, Oracle Tagged With: 11g, amazon cloud, aws, cloud computing, EC2, jere, Jeremiah Wilton

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