by Julian Boneham | Nov 30, 2018 | AWS, Azure, Cloud, Julian Boneham
I work for a Managed Services Provider (MSP). We own a UK-centric network, multiple datacentres and have many teams of highly skilled technical staff who manage customer systems which are hosted on our infrastructure. We have over 1000 customers and it’s...
by Julian Boneham | Sep 12, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Data, Julian Boneham, SQL Server
The launch of SQL Server 2008 created a significant turning point where Microsoft customers could be confident their critical applications would operate in a scalable and resilient environment. End-users and application developers alike started to use SQL Server 2008...
by Julian Boneham | Oct 12, 2017 | Data, Julian Boneham, Strategy
Let’s be honest, unless you are a large enterprise, justifying and maintaining an in-house DBA team is expensive and difficult. Databases are however mission critical components and making sure that they are secure, operational and tuned for performance is a...
by Julian Boneham | May 18, 2017 | Data, Julian Boneham, Strategy
You’ve decided to outsource the support of your databases, you’ve shortlisted several database managed services providers that have the right technical credentials and the price is right, what could possibly go wrong? Well quite a lot actually, remember you are...
by Julian Boneham | Nov 24, 2016 | Cloud, Events, Julian Boneham, Oracle
Oracle ISV Cloud: a candid view Yesterday evening (23/11) I attended an Oracle event in London aimed at their ISV (Independent Software Vendor) partners and I was expecting to be heralded with a lot of Oracle rhetoric around the growth of their customer base and...
by Julian Boneham | May 24, 2016 | Julian Boneham, Oracle Licensing
It’s that time of year where Oracle and its Partners scrabble around frantically trying to close off as much revenue as possible by the end of May. All Oracle end-users will be used to getting the “deal of a lifetime” if they sign now and this means Oracle...
