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I've been listening to a lot of LastWeekInAWS podcasts and on Twitter. One of the regular conversations that happens in both is Multi-Cloud, meaning should one use more than one cloud provider for the purposes of making your service more available and/or reducing vendor lock-in. The answer here is almost always ' Dear lord, NO! '.  But, multi-cloud does make sense with some limited use cases. Let's take a look.  Use Case #1: Serving Government Users AWS, Azure, and GCP all offer some type of segmented services specifically for government workloads. If your company's application portfolio includes serving governments and businesses, then deploying to multiple clouds is almost a requirement.  Services deployed to the government cloud are usually separate release schedules than the worldwide GA releases. Updates to data engines, connecting services, and security features all require a more indepth review in order to be certified for use. Therefore, deciding on the bes...

I was thinking about The Cloud  and was struck by all of services that I currently rely upon that are in the cloud.  Here's a list of things I use which are important, but not generally things that one may think of as being cloud-based. Evernote I'm bad at taking notes, but I'm great at dumping what ever silly thing pops into my head in an Evernote document. If I ever need that idea, it's there and searchable. I don't use Notebooks or tags very effectively, but it's nice. Todoist Lots and LOTS of task managment apps. I've tried Outlook, and Remember The Milk, but Todoist provides me a best way to manage my task, while being able to focus on the task, and NOT email. Process looks like this: identify task from Email forward message to Todoist categorize, prioritize, and add reminders and due date lather, rinse, repeat every hour.  Spotify / Pandora / SomaFM What I listen to when I'm doing the above. What I don't listen to is iTunes Ra...

Why Database as a Service standardize and optimze environment  self-service portal for database creation, etc Options for database as a service for creation DBCA Template SnapClone Schema Refresh How much can you do with DBaaS? Schema as a service new optimization with RAT ability to add data-masking ability to automate preliminary and post-scripting full-featured chargeback Making a SnapClone Image from production masking/sub-setting moves it into Test-Master database All other databases are created using Test-Master Rapid Start Kit simplifies the creation of creation steps for the database pools, zones, etc python scripts which call EMCLI commands and a setup or XML config files deploy changes on a global level (many targets) So, Kellyn Pot'Vin is an awesome speaker, and knows a LOT about OEM. She knows so much that I'm going to stop taking notes and just try to listen. Fortunatly, she has uploaded her slides AND a whitepaper on ...