Recent Posts by Sanjay Basu

Modern development organizations are increasingly using cloud computing attributes like elasticity, API-driven infrastructure as code (IaC), and native immutability for their DevOps and agile development practices. Through DevOps, organizations are seeing these outcomes: Speed up software development and systems deployment cycles Reduce the time and cost to transform an idea into a finished product Unify agile software development and operations, removing barriers to an...

As a solutions architect, I often support partners who deliver managed IT services to their end customers. Similarly, I work with large enterprises who manage IT for multiple business units. One of the most frequent requests I get is for best practices on how to align Oracle Cloud Infrastructure solutions and Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies with business-specific governance use cases. For enterprise customers, this means having better control over usage costs...

This post was developed jointly with Mohamad Charaf, Oracle Enterprise Cloud Architect. If you have two tenancies in the same region, and you want to copy data that is stored in Object Storage from one tenancy to the other without making the buckets public, this action requires some additional types of identity and access management (IAM) policies. This blog post walks you through how to create these policies. For this example, the source tenancy is named ACMEBMCS and...

The concluding post of this series, in which we mapped Oracle's seven pillars of a trusted computing platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security capabilities, covers a few services that were introduced or enhanced since the publication of earlier posts (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3), along with relevant services from the Oracle Cloud Security portfolio for enterprises. New and Enhanced Features First, let's explore the major new services and features that enhance the security...

This post is the third one in the series in which we are mapping Oracle's seven pillars of a trusted computing platform to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security capabilities. This post covers the rest of the pillars. The fourth and final installment in this series will highlight some security services and enhancements that have been added to the portfolio.   Links to Part 1 and Part 2. 5: Secure Hybrid Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure supports SAML 2.0 federation via Oracle...

When customers are migrating existing applications from on-premises data centers and from other cloud providers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or even when they are building new cloud native applications on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, I often get asked for advice on how they can best secure their applications in a cloud environment. First of all, it is critical that development teams and security teams work in tandem to secure applications as well as the cloud environment....

This is the second part of our blog series where we do a deep dive into the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure security approach. As a recap, we design our security architecture and build security solutions based on seven core pillars. And under each of these pillars, we focus on delivering solutions and capabilities to help ensure our customers can improve the security posture of their overall cloud infrastructure. In the first post, we discussed how we enable customers to achieve...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s security approach is based on seven core pillars. Each pillar has multiple solutions designed to maximize the security and compliance of the platform. You can read more about Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's security approach here. The seven core pillars of trusted enterprise cloud platform are:  Customer Isolation Data Encryption Security Controls Visibility Secure Hybrid Cloud High Availability Verifiably Secure Infrastructure Oracle employs some of the...

In my role as a Solutions Architect, I encountered instances of application slowness across Oracle internal workloads that were migrated to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Andy Herm, Cloud Architect and Jim Sirk, Cloud Network Architect discovered that the application slowness was due to incomplete DNS resolutions. We wrote this blog post to help other Oracle Cloud Infrastructure users troubleshoot and resolve this issue.   Why is This Happening? The issue is related to glibc...