Cloud Archives - Bommarito Consulting

Published On - 2014-05-19

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, LawTags: cloud, iaas, paas, saas, state and local tax, tax, taxation

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 yo...

Published On - 2013-11-14

mjbommar Cloud, Infrastructure, ProgrammingTags: aws, pgbench, postgres, rds

Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances

Postgres has finally come to RDS! Want to know how these instances stack up on a naive pgbench test? Below is a table of simple pgbench results taken over a 60 second period. All RDS instances were launched into us-east-1a, and pgbench (9.4devel) was run from an m2.4xlarge in us-east-1a as well...

Published On - 2013-10-29

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, InfrastructureTags: aws, boto, log, monitor, tunnel, vpc, vpn

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...

Published On - 2013-10-28

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Programming, ResearchTags: aws, benchmark, cloud, ec2, hi1.4xlarge, hs1.8xlarge, io, oracle, orion

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 hs1.8x...

Published On - 2013-03-09

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, ProgrammingTags: aws, boto, config, linux, python, ssh

Generating SSH config from AWS hosts using boto

As a consultant and advisor to many firms running on or investigating AWS, I find SSH host and key management to be a constant struggle. From IAM credentials to default OS logins, it’s easy to lose time with constant lookups. What we’d really like is to get a custom SSH config fil...

Published On - 2013-02-12

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, ProgrammingTags: automated deployment, aws, boto, devops, ec2, fabric, oracle

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 Orac...

Published On - 2012-10-24

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Programming, TechnologyTags: aws, cloud, database, ec2, oracle, performance

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 expec...

Published On - 2012-10-09

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, Law, Programming, TechnologyTags: aws, cloud, cloudsearch, eDiscovery, legal informatics, solr

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 10...

Published On - 2012-05-31

mjbommar Cloud, Consulting, TechnologyTags: aws, cloud, database, oracle, oracle transportation management, OTM, rds

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 databa...

Published On - 2012-05-21

mjbommar Cloud, Company News, ConsultingTags: aws, cloud, oracle, oracle transportation management, OTM

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 organi...