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“Make sure you're right, then Go Ahead” - Davy Crocket

Relationships are developed with time, trust, and experience. Claremont's relationship with the Go-Ahead Group is one such example of this.

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Security in the Cloud

If you are looking to host your IT systems in the cloud, security will be high on the list of concerns. It can be a daunting prospect to hand over your data to a cloud supplier,..

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The True Cost Of Cloud

There are many reasons to migrate Oracle systems to a Cloud, but cost is often a key motivation. Cloud providers benefit from economies of scale that they can pass on to..

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How to Ensure System Performance in The Cloud

How robust is Cloud hosting when compared to the reliable and familiar on-premise setup?

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Powering Up The Cloud

Many organisations are apprehensive about moving to cloud and the ability of shared and virtualised platforms to deliver the performance required for a company’s IT systems. How..

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Upgrading to E-Business Suite 12.2 just became more attractive

If you are one of the 80% of Oracle E-Business Suite customers who are on R12.1 and you need to upgrade time is running out. Premier Support for Oracle E-Business 12.1 will only..

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Upgrade to Oracle Linux 7 for E-Business Suite release R12.2

My colleague Kevin Behan recently wrote an excellent article about the technical requirements to upgrade Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to version R12.2, available HERE. A..

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How to upgrade Oracle Linux 6 to 7

Many organisations must soon upgrade to Oracle Linux (“OL”) version 7 or risk running on an unsupported platform. With Premier Support for OL 6 finishing in March 2021, now is the..

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What makes a good DBA?

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We DBAs are a funny old bunch (“Really?!?” I hear you cry – Yes! Really!) – I’m sure we can seem to the untrained outsider somewhat Forest Gumpy (box of chocolates and all that)...

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Configuring Huge Pages For Database on Oracle Linux

What are huge pages anyway? To answer this question we can take the dictionary definition (well, Wikipedia!) for a memory page:

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