Mike Sowerbutts
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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.
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,..
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..
How to Ensure System Performance in The Cloud
How robust is Cloud hosting when compared to the reliable and familiar on-premise setup?
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..
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..
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..
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..
What makes a good DBA?
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)...
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: