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
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
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
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
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
As I mentioned on Monday, I'll be starting a series of posts on Oracle Transportation Management (OTM) in the cloud. In the first stage of these posts, I'll be covering the set of feasible architectures given the infrastructure offerings at Amazon Web Services. And, as you might expect, we'll be starting with the simplest
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
You may have noticed that I keep talking about eDiscovery consulting and legal search in the cloud. I've covered searching the Supreme Court with new technologies in analytics and the cloud, making certain types of emails searchable on Amazon's cloud, and even eDiscovery and the cloud at a high level. While these posts are
In my last post on CloudSearch and eDiscovery, I described something like “Google” for eDiscovery emails. FedEx or DropBox your data to an eDiscovery service provider like myself, and rest assured that you’ll soon have a powerful, web-based user interface for searching and visualizing your digital discovery materials. As a technical follow-up to
In the last post on AWS CloudSearch, I provided a tutorial on the creation of a simple CloudSearch domain for Supreme Court decisions. This walkthrough described the steps of creating a domain, configuring access policies and indexing, populating the index, and using the search API. We were left with a functioning case search database.
