by Mohammad Inamullah | Apr 21, 2022 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Cost Management, GCP, OCI, Optimization
It’s a match made in heaven. When planning a move to the cloud, methodical migration planning can help any company reduce and optimize its go-forward footprint – and hence, cost – in the cloud. This has two important effects – reducing the...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Apr 19, 2022 | Cloud, OCI, Oracle Cloud
Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) continues to evolve as new services and capabilities are added. We’ve assisted many of our clients navigate their move to various cloud platforms. For several of my Oracle-heavy clients, OCI has turned out to be a...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Jun 22, 2021 | OCI, Oracle Cloud
In the coming weeks and months, I’ll be posting a series of articles on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The “Gen 2” OCI is Oracle’s definitive platform for key IaaS and PaaS services around compute, database, storage and other key...
by Mohammad Inamullah | May 21, 2021 | Audit Defense, Compliance, General, Virtualization
In a word: Yes. Oracle’s “Processor” definition requires customers to license all cores on all processors where Oracle programs are “installed and/or running“. The “running” part is easy to understand. The...
by Mohammad Inamullah | Apr 29, 2021 | General
Is Oracle’s “Processor” license definition technically flawed? If yes, then what are the implications for license calculations, and the infamous “installed and/or running” language? How would this impact licensing on systems where Oracle...
