Steve Kilgore

Principal Product Manager

Steve has over 30 years of IT experience dating back to the early 90’s at Sun Microsystems. He ran a successful consulting company for 16 years with several Fortune 500 clients, and managed global field operations for an ISV who partners with not only Oracle but also AWS, Microsoft, Google, and others. He’s also worked on the customer side managing cloud environments from multiple vendors. At Oracle, his focus is on Database Cloud Services and how they compare across all cloud platforms.

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Recent Blogs

Thinking of Migrating an Oracle Database Workload from Exadata to AWS ...

In this blog we offer some points you may want to consider prior to choosing to undertake such a migration. These include: 1) Nature and criticality of your Oracle Database workload 2) Manual effort required to tune and maintain your environment 3) Cost

2024 Year in Review – Exadata Database Service and Base Database ...

2024 has seen many groundbreaking new announcements for Oracle Database services in the cloud. As we wrap up the year, it’s a great time to look back and recap these key announcements as we prepare for even more innovative advances in 2025.

Comparing Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Amazon clouds for ...

This blog takes the next step and applies a framework to Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Amazon clouds, assuming the starting point is a business-critical Oracle database on-premises. With this information, you can narrow the list of viable clouds and proceed to a more detailed comparison.

Don’t Be Fooled by Misleading Data Egress Announcements

We take a closer look at the Disaster Recovery (DR) scenario we mentioned previously, i.e. the impact of Data Movement charges on the cost of maintaining a second copy of a critical database for DR purposes.

Don’t Be Fooled by Misleading Data Egress Announcements

Recent announcements in response to the European Data Act have led some to conclude that major Cloud Service Providers (CSP) have eliminated Data Movement and Data Egress charges, but in the ways that matter most to companies running their business in the Cloud on an ongoing basis, that’s not true.

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