Now more than ever decision makers are faced with difficult choices. A number of factors may be affecting your business, including loss of revenue due to pandemic, shift to remote collaboration, pressure to move to the Cloud, and striving to stay on top of industry and technology changes. Most of these decisions would likely have software licensing implications. Here are a few examples: Move to the Cloud: When choosing between on-premise, hardware hosting provider or Cloud platform, a proper comparison […]
Oracle Software Audits, Microsoft Software Audits and IBM Software Audits can be challenging, time consuming and expensive. Preparation is the key factor. If these items apply to your organization, it’s likely you could soon be audited for non-compliance. 1. Merger, Acquisition or Divestment Software companies like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM know that tracking software assets can be difficult during a merger, acquisition or divestment. When databases get merged and assets combined, licenses are often the last thing on IT staff’s […]
Oracle Software License Questions If you have an urgent question regarding your Oracle licensing or an Oracle audit, please contact Miro right away. We are available to answer your questions during normal business hours, M-F, from 9am to 5pm, EST. Contact Us If you have an urgent question regarding your software licensing or a software audit, please contact Miro right away. Phone: (732)738–8511 Email: info@miroconsulting.com Webchat: Use the chat box on the right Meeting: Schedule a meeting with us Oracle [...]
Oracle announced a High Availability option for use with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) beginning with version 19c. So far, as of Release Update 19.7, Oracle has included these operating systems: Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows. More are planned in the future. Oracle customers can still use the maximum supported 16 CPU threads per instance during normal operations as well as Failover. Rather than using RAC as before, RACless version 19 SE2 customers can use free of charge storage […]
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As mentioned in earlier blog posts I have written, modernizing applications in addition to creating new cloud-native applications is the underlying reason that cloud-computing, containers, and IBM/Red Hat are relevant. While chanting the ‘cloud first’ mantra, consider your strategy to adapt and migrate existing applications to the cloud also. This is the ideal time to modernize these, especially with hybrid cloud or multiple cloud vendors. Rather than migrating to a specific service or one with poor integration that will hamper […]
Active Data Guard can help maximize efficiencies in using your Oracle licenses If your organization has replicas of various databases and is interested in identifying ways to reduce its Oracle licensing requirements and increase performance, it can take advantage of the features of Oracle Active Data Guard. It’s an option for Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (since version 11g). The Active Data Guard program should not be confused with the (for-free, non-licensable feature) Data Guard functionality that was part of the […]
For large companies that utilize Oracle products, one of the main goals often remains sustaining both manageability and cost. In order to do so, Oracle provides a number of different ways in which to license their products. A range of factors influences which particular licensing model makes the most sense for a given product. What type of environment will this product be used in, such as production, pre-production, or development? Is the user base expanding, contracting or remaining the same? […]
