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Is there tax in the cloud?

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: May 19Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Law No Comments

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...

Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Nov 14Categories: Cloud, Infrastructure, Programming No Comments

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)...

Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 29Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure 9 Comments

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...

AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 28Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Infrastructure, Programming, Research 1 Comment

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...

Generating SSH config from AWS hosts using boto

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Mar 09Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Programming 1 Comment

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Feb 12Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Programming No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 24Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Programming, Technology No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: Oct 09Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Law, Programming, Technology No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: May 31Categories: Cloud, Consulting, Technology No Comments

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...

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

Author: Michael BommaritoOn: May 21Categories: Cloud, Company News, Consulting No Comments

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...

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