Does Data Governance Make You Shudder?
At a recent vendor conference, I found myself talking with a varied group of technology professionals. Two were technology generalists, one was a data engineer, one was responsible for transportation technology at a major university (think autonomous vehicles, traffic sensors, etc.), another was responsible for university student and teacher data (lesson plans, research findings, etc.), […]
SQL Server Contained Databases and Oracle Multi-tenant: Advantages Compared
In short, the main goal of multitenancy is to facilitate database consolidation, while the main purpose of contained databases is to enable isolation and thus portability. Yet each approach addresses both these concerns.
How to Resolve Oracle Database Licensing Issues with Processor Cores in Virtualized Environments
This post focuses on Oracle database licensing by processor core, and explains a common mistakes administrators make when setting up a virtualized Oracle environment.
Why You Should Not Thin Provision Your Production Storage
Thin provisioning is a good option when used in a development environment or other scenario where only test data would reside on the virtual server. But it may not be not a good choice for production environments because of the high potential for downtime and data loss.
How Valuable is Your Data to Your Business?
How well do you protect your database? You may think you are protecting it pretty well, but lets challenge that. Lets apply the same thinking to the database as you would to something more tangible. Precious Personal Possessions Imagine that you live in a gated community. Nobody can get in without passing the guard booth and giving […]
A Simple Way to Improve Data Security
Shrink Your Sensitive Data Footprint Protecting data is hard. Knowing for sure that you have identified and mitigated every vulnerability takes a lot of work and constant vigilance. The more servers you have to harden, the more databases you have to protect, the more work it is, and the more likely you will leave a hole […]
Is The Sensitive Data In Your Oracle Database Really Safe?
Discovering Sensitive Data Oracle has long had strong database encryption functionality and it keeps getting better. But they have been lacking a simple way to identify sensitive data in the database so you know what to encrypt, audit or protect via policies. I thought that might have improved recently with the release of a new database […]
Mind the Gap – Data Security and Teenage Drivers
New Security Assessment Tool — Why it matters? Oracle just released a database security assessment tool (DBSAT) that identifies security vulnerabilities in Oracle Databases. I will be writing about that tool in a coming article but the release got me thinking about how little many companies do to protect their data. Since this was prompted by […]
A Christmas Backup Tale
Don’t let the Backup Grinch steal Christmas I have written about this topic in the past but it seems that it can never be shared too many times. As we approach the holiday season, we don’t want to be recovering data when we should be spending precious time with family and friends. So I will share another […]
Tales of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
Planning for Disaster As we think about the enormous cleanup effort taking place in the wake of Harvey, Irma, and Maria, we are reminded of the importance of planning to keep your business up and running when disaster strikes. In this blog post I share the thoughts of an expert in the field of Business […]
