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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

September 21, 2010 by jwilton

A Cloud over San Francisco for OpenWorld 2010

Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is just bursting with big cloud-related announcements this week.  As I prepare to present on the Amazon cloud at OOW2010 on Thursday (http://bit.ly/aSKdIQ), I thought I would highlight two of the biggest cloud-related announcements of the week. Exalogic We all know about Exadata, Oracle’s hardware-based storage-optimized … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, Oracle, Oracle Applications Tagged With: amazon, cloud, EC2, exalogic, openworld

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

March 2, 2010 by rharwood

EC2 persistent boots with pivot root

Amazon recently allowed Elastic Block Store to boot persistent images. However, there are two concerns I have with the method. * The EBS boot volumes must be EBS Snapshots, which cost more than regular EBS volumes. (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing) * The EBS boot volumes currently do not work within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services Tagged With: busybox, busyroot, ebs volume, EC2, persistent boot, pivot root

February 2, 2010 by cedwards

Jeremiah Wilton published in the latest Oak Table press book!

"Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table" was just released and it features our own Jeremiah Wilton's thoughts on running Oracle on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). As an official Amazon Web Services partner, Blue Gecko has adopted EC2 as a primary database hosting platform, and Jeremiah is leading the charge. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News & Events, Oracle Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, EC2, Oracle DBA

December 27, 2009 by cedwards

s3fox does not create valid export manifest files

S3fox provides a handy utility for creating import manifest and signature files; however, it doesn't seem to properly create export manifests.  In fact, it seems like it only creates import manifest files.  The version I used was 0.4.8. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, EC2, export/import

May 4, 2009 by cedwards

Running Oracle in the Amazon EC2 Cloud

This is a subject I have much interest in and something we are working on very hard at Blue Gecko; Amazon is positioning itself as an Oracle partner and leader in the Oracle/cloud space and I want to know anything I can about what other people are doing, which is why this presentation was not what I was hoping it would be. The gentleman presenting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, Oracle Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, collaborate 09, EC2

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