Recent Posts by Gilson Melo

For decades, Oracle has provided a robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for SAP applications and customers. For over 30 years, SAP and Oracle have worked closely to optimize Oracle technologies with SAP applications to give customers the best possible experience and performance. The most recent certification of SAP Business Applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure makes sense within the context of this long-standing partnership. As this blog post outlines, SAP...

In an exciting addition to the Oracle Cloud ecosystem, Bacula Enterprise now connects natively to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Bacula is a highly scalable, modular enterprise backup and recovery solution that has a wide range of features designed for medium and large organizations. What makes this latest development for Oracle Cloud even more interesting is that Bacula offers unique cloud interaction tools. For example, with Bacula you can perform the following tasks: Back up...

It was a very exciting time at Oracle OpenWorld this year! There were lots of great keynotes regarding further advancements in cloud technologies and database, and packed sessions with a ton of new announcements about Oracle Cloud services in general. Now is a great time to recap some of the major SAP highlights that we presented at Oracle's main conference in October.  Oracle provides robust, scalable, and reliable infrastructure for SAP applications running in demanding...

The industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, offers best-in-class services for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), with deployment options ranging from the public cloud to the ability to consume cloud services in your own data center. By reducing IT complexity, Oracle Cloud helps organizations increase agility, drive innovation, and transform businesses. Starting in June 2018, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure virtual machine shapes are...

We are pleased to announce the availability of PlateSpin Migrate support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Micro Focus offers PlateSpin Migrate which is an industry-proven workload migration solution enabling customers to migrate their servers to Oracle cloud over the network. Here is a quick overview from Micro Focus on migrating servers to Oracle cloud with PlateSpin Migrate. To read the full instructions on the migration process, download the best practices white paper from...

Imagine a situation in which you are trying to connect into your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure instance but either you forgot which key you used or, for some unknown reason, your opc user SSH key got corrupted or deleted. It might be scary at first, but the process to recover an opc user SSH key on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is easier than you think. So if you get a "Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic)" error when trying to connect via SSH, follow this...

Users who migrate or integrate on-premises services with a cloud provider like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure usually use IP Security (IPSec) technology to create an encrypted tunnel between environments to transfer data or integrate applications. Using IPSec technology, such as Openswan, enables users to avoid exposing data and applications to the public internet. The goal of this post is to clarify the Openswan and Libreswan IPSec technologies. Openswan is a well-known IPSec...

In today's world, having a secure, encrypted, point-to-point channel through which your data can travel from a specific location to the cloud contributes to a safer solution if you want to avoid breaches and data loss. There are different ways to allow multiple locations to establish secure connections with each other over a public network, such as the internet-like user-based-authentication VPN, IPSec site-to-site technologies, and other third-party application options. This...

ZeroDown™ Software provides a rapid pathway to true multi-cloud environments with absolute business assurance.  Guest post by Bob Aoki from ZeroDown Software. We are pleased to announce the availability of ZeroDown™ Software on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to enable companies to deploy and manage their apps on Oracle private, hybrid, or public clouds. This blog examines how and why ZeroDown’s solution is such an important enabler for accelerating customer adoption...