Why you should consider cloud - today.

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:44:16 -0300

Okay. You open this post, I have your attention for perhaps 1 minute tops, and I hope your are not scrolling down doing some fast pace reading.

I’ll not tell you that migrating to cloud you will save budget compared with on-premises architectures, because sometimes this is not true. I’ll not say to you that 4 cents per gig is a great value, because when you multiply this by a million or a trillion (petabytes) you will have a problem in your hand.

What I will tell is why, seriously, you need to think about cloud today. Dont leave it for tomorrow. Spent 3 minutes here with me, today. Lets go?

Wanna know what is truly great and awesome in cloud computing? Okay. In five years (or maybe next week), you a senior IT professional is talking with your child, who works in the IT field too, remembering the “golden age”, the “good old days”, the “old school”. Here is what you guys will talk about:

-- Hey son, when I have your age, someday my manager enters my cubicle yelling at me (because someone yell at him/her) “We need to make this servers available today!!We already have the code, some beautiful and colorful app that will engage 5 times more customers to us, and we need to deploy the infrastructure today”. What I think? If everything is already bought, this means a lost night/dawn/morning, 2 maybe 5 grams of caffeine, high levels of cortisol and my job will be:

unbox everything and mess with the datacenter
physically install servers, firewalls, network load balancing, cabling, and make then receive an AC power for the very first time
if anything explodes, all lights are green and everything is 5 by 5, time to install and configure everything, OS, firewall rules, storage, networking, latest patches and testing testing, testing.
if everything is good, I should now have 2 maybe 3 servers, available to receive the code. Is 11AM, my boss is yelling at me again (not his/her fault, its a critical moment), but, after 12 hours, I am a hero and our new and colorful application is running flawlessly.

-- What??? 10 hours dad? And you weren’t fired?

-- No son, I was a hero. How would you do all of this today?

-- 5 clicks, 15 minutes work, being pessimist.

In 2006 when AWS launch EC2 the game starts to change my friends. IT and Business start to make amends, walking hand to hand with each other. IT is not “that bad place, with really mean people that everyday says NO to me”..now the IT are the good guys..the “do” guys. Why? Because you dont need to spend 10 hours anymore. with 10 clicks, and minutes you’ll have the job done. Its amazing right?

Okay. Some of you know are thinking “but I have a virtualized environment”, I run a hypervisor. I have templates and automation to do this work in minutes too.

Well, what about your farm’s capacity? Do you have enough cores, ram and disk to deploy something that become a reality today? You need to make annual capacity planning, buying and making all this capacity available for someday, perhaps, consume it?

If you are not able to expand your farm today, but your competitor can, how it can affect your business goals? In a world of today, now, this second, you can really wait hours/days/weeks to get your infrastructure ready?

Virtualization is great. Virtualization change the game in the past. But on-premises virtualization dont have a *very* important thing. Hyperscale. You need a thousand cores today? Okay. You need 2TB of memory today? Okay. You need 800TB of disk today because someone thought that deploy a giant hadoop cluster today is a good idea? Okay.

Cloud providers are buying, in a scale of millions, brand new servers, disks, cpus, researching and developing new PaaS and SaaS offers. Everything to make your IT department a business best friend.

Cloud is not just about savings. Cloud is about overcome competition. Cloud is not a place were everyone is happy and you should be happy there too. Cloud is a tool. And you should consider use this tool. Today.

See you!

Wow - time goes by

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 19:02:53 -0300

Wow - 4 months and no news from us?

Yeah, we know. Sometimes life take you the hard way, and days, weeks, months just pass in a blink of an eye.

But we are back to business! New knowledge, new understanding, new topics, new certifications..

See you soon!

Hang.

Why you should, and should not, worry about the new era of inteligent databases

Sun, 24 Sep 2017 16:33:23 -0300

These days I feel like an terminator movie, with Ciberdyne working really hard to make Skynet a cient being - to become inteligent.

We all know that some activities are a best fit to automation, reason why we spend hours learning phyton or perl. If you gain your daily bread by executing scripts, loading data into the database, creating users, increasing tablespace sizes, making basic health checks - YES - you need to step up and advance in your Oracle DBA game. The machines are getting smarter on a dailly bases, you should grow smarter as well.

So, in my opinion, what activities will not be feasible to the machines in the short, perhaps medium run? Performance analysis, deep troubleshooting, installation cenarios that escape from the next-next-finish rule, Database architecture, Data migration and consolidation…things that usually people have to think and design more (using the 80/20 plan/execute rule) will not be played by the machines in the short run.

If your performance analysis in done by the dbms_sqltune - you need to worry too :)

As always feedbacks are always welcome.

See you around,

Hang.

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Why you should consider cloud - today.

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Why you should, and should not, worry about the new era of inteligent databases