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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? But too few really understand how beneficial—and painless—breaking up with Oracle Database support can be. When was your last database health check? Ready to make a seamless exit from Oracle? Neither have we.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Furthermore, if the operating system pattern is Linux Oracle Enterprise, the architect would use that pattern first in its design unless technical constraints made the consumption of this pattern suboptimal to accomplish the solution’s goal. Claire LaVelle is a principal consultant QSA for Verizon Cyber Security Consulting group.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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