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This is the final in a series of three articles on the importance and characteristics of FinOps for managing cloud spend, its business justifications and what it all means for your organization. Click to read the first or second posts. …

Welcome to another episode of the Cloudscape Podcast. On today’s show we are joined by our usual panel of experts, Greg Baker discussing Amazon Web Services (AWS), John Laham discussing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Warner Chaves discussing Microsoft Azure….

OTTAWA, ON, May 14, 2018 – Pythian, a global IT company that helps businesses leverage disruptive data technologies to better compete, announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Vanessa Simmons, Vice President of Business Development…

The end of the year is approaching—the perfect time for your business to review your budget for cloud-based projects for the upcoming year. Today’s biggest cloud providers are offering a similar set of basic services at comparable prices. How do…

Can Oracle rise up to meet Amazon’s success in the cloud? Fahd Mirza makes the case for Oracle Cloud.

This Log Buffer Edition collects and then showers around some of the information-rich blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL.

Comparing Oracle Database Backup Service (ODBS) and Oracle Secure Backups (OSB) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) This is part 3 of a 3 part series on “Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups”. Part 1 covers setting up RMAN to backup…

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups – Amazon Web Services (AWS) This is part 2 of a 3 part series on “Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups”. Part 1 covers setting up RMAN to backup directly to the new Oracle…

Running MySQL in the cloud offers many benefits, including extremely fast provisioning and deployment, managed security, and (mostly) easy operations. But nothing comes for free, and as with all things on this wonderful planet, those benefits come with certain limitations.

I’ve been working on moving a lot of the testing and R&D work I do away from local virtual machines and onto cloud environments, for a few reasons: I can avoid carrying around a laptop all the time, and rather…