Is there tax in the cloud?

Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce?  Do you provide SaaS services like “cloud-based applications” or “web applications?” What state are you headquartered in?  What states are your servers located in?  What states are your customers in, even if for just a moment? Depending on your answer to the

By |2014-05-19T19:19:17-04:00May 19th, 2014|Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Law|0 Comments

Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels

While many Amazon Web Services resources with "state" have CloudWatch sensors available, AWS VPCs and tunnels unfortunately do not.  If you're ever in need of a solution to monitor and log the status of VPC tunnels back to another data center or office, my gist below will be right up your alley.   It uses

By |2013-10-29T08:42:01-04:00October 29th, 2013|Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure|9 Comments

AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results

Benchmarking I/O with Oracle ORION is an important part of planning, baselining, and performance-tuning Oracle environments.  I've previously provided ORION results for the hi1.4xlarge SSD-backed instance class, and based on some recent work, I wanted to provide an update for the newer hs1.8xlarge instance class.  Below you'll find hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results with the following

By |2013-10-28T19:33:07-04:00October 28th, 2013|Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Programming, Research|1 Comment

Automating Oracle Database deployment with Amazon Web Services, fabric, and boto – SEMOP Talk, Feb 12, 2013

I'll be giving a talk tonight on automated Oracle database deployment at the SouthEast Michigan Oracle Professionals (SEMOP) Meetup Group. While I'll be following up on this post later, I wanted to share the slides and Github repository for participants to follow along: Automating Oracle Database deployment with Amazon Web Services, fabric, and boto from mjbommar Github

By |2013-02-12T17:02:23-05:00February 12th, 2013|Cloud, Consulting, Programming|0 Comments

Oracle ORION I/O benchmark results for AWS EC2 hi1.4xlarge instance type

  In a typical Oracle database implementation, you'll want to baseline or benchmark your storage.  The storage team will hand over, and you'll run a battery of tests using software like bonnie++ or ORION.  You'll make sure that the results are in-line with requirements and expectations.   What if you are implementing said database on

By |2012-10-24T00:09:41-04:00October 24th, 2012|Cloud, Consulting, Programming, Technology|0 Comments

Legal Informatics with AWS CloudSearch – Slides for tonight’s AWS Michigan meetup

  Tonight, Eric and I will be presenting back-to-back talks at the AWS Michigan meetup (hosted by the Tech Brewery this time).  Eric will be detailing a large Matlab HPC experiment we ran this summer to optimize parameters for a trading strategy; this one is a great AWS case study, as we crunch 10B inputs

By |2012-10-09T09:50:29-04:00October 9th, 2012|Cloud, Consulting, Law, Programming, Technology|1 Comment

OTM in the Cloud: Hosting Architectures, Part 2 – 1+RDS

  In our last post on cloud architectures, I covered a simple one-node Oracle Transportation Management instance on Amazon Web Services using EC2.  This OTM cloud hosting configuration is well-suited to a development environment and is a very inexpensive option for teams that have on-staff database administration skills.   For teams that do not have the

By |2012-05-31T18:36:06-04:00May 31st, 2012|Cloud, Consulting, Technology|0 Comments

Upcoming Series: Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) in the Cloud

  I wanted to update readers to let them know of an upcoming post series on Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) in the cloud. Oracle Transportation Management is a powerful solution for businesses or 3PLs that need to take control of their supply chain planning and execution.  While many organizations continue to run OTM in a

By |2012-05-21T13:36:32-04:00May 21st, 2012|Cloud, Company News, Consulting|0 Comments

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