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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

February 5, 2011 by theis

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...]

Filed Under: Amazon Web Services, Configuration Management, hosting, Infrastructure Tagged With: automation, high availability, linux

June 17, 2004 by cedwards

New whitepaper: The DBA Disaster Diary – Double Failure

Most organizations running Oracle today are thinking about availability to some degree.  For many, it is to their great dismay that they find that average availability is no higher after implementing a high-availability architecture such as RAC or dataguard.  Paradoxically, many organizations find that their availability numbers actually get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, News & Events, Oracle Tagged With: data guard, high availability, rac, real application clusters

February 23, 2004 by cedwards

New whitepaper: High availability without breaking the bank

Oracle’s RAC-centric marketing sells Oracle short by ignoring a broad spectrum of huge advances in 9i and 10g. These features, including logical standby (part of DataGuard), streams, improved multimaster replication, flashback query, Cross-platform transportable tablespaces, improved RMAN (including the pipe interface), constitute the great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Jeremiah Wilton's Oradeblog, News & Events, Oracle Tagged With: data guard, high availability, oracle streams, rac, real application clusters, RMAN, transportable tablespace

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