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Jul 24, 2026, 3:00:00 PM

FinOps in the Age of AI: Why Visibility Is No Longer Optional

Jul 7, 2026, 5:00:03 PM

The 7.68 TB SSD That Wouldn’t Provision: An ODA X9-2-HA vs. 12.1.0.2 Standoff

We recently stood up a new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2-HA to host a legacy application whose databases are still on Oracle 12.1.0.2. What should have been a routine..

Jul 1, 2026, 2:30:00 PM

What Is Q-Day, and Is Your Data Ready for It?

What Q-Day is Q-Day is the day a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break the public-key cryptography we run today. RSA, Diffie-Hellman, elliptic curve. That is the math..

Jun 30, 2026, 5:00:00 PM

Real-World Oracle OCI PDB Refresh: Solving Clone Performance Bottlenecks Across Peered VCNs

Jun 25, 2026, 4:44:19 PM

Cross-Version Oracle Database Automation on Oracle Linux

Jun 24, 2026, 3:00:00 PM

Part 3: Lessons Learned - Upgrading a Solaris Non-Global Zone Using the Wrong Zone Image

Jun 23, 2026, 5:00:02 PM

Part 2: Upgrading Solaris Non-Global Zones

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, I covered the process of upgrading the Global Zone from Solaris 11.4 SRU22 to SRU89. Once the Global Zone upgrade was completed..

Jun 18, 2026, 5:08:07 PM

Part 1: Pre-Upgrade Steps and Upgrading the Solaris Global Zone

Jun 1, 2026, 4:28:32 PM

Opus 4.8 Is Here. Is Your Oracle Estate Mythos-Ready?

Last week, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8. In the same announcement, they confirmed that Mythos-class models, the ones currently behind closed doors with Project Glasswing..