Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Do you pr...
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 tes...
Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with “state” have CloudWatch sensors available,...
AWS EC2 hs1.8xlarge Oracle ORION benchmark results
Benchmarking I/O with Oracle ORION is an important part of planning, baselining, and performance-tun...
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 ke...
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 Michig...
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 stor...
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 t...
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 Manage...
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 M...