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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Part 2 – OCI Contract Types
This article is part of our 10-part series on Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This article is basically a summary of the contract types available to OCI customers, as described in the Oracle PaaS and IaaS Universal Credits Service Descriptions document (pages...
read moreCost Reduction and Cloud Migration Planning
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 actual spend on cloud...
read moreOracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Part 1
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 natural choice. I...
read moreSeries on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
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 infrastructure services. We will...
read moreIs Oracle’s “Processor” licensing definition technically flawed?
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 "installed" part isn't. After all, who has ever heard of a...
read moreOracle Cloud Licensing – NoCOUG Journal – Part V, VI
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 software is not actually...
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