Oracle refers to “agile” business intelligence due the fact there are no on-premise infrastructure, on both BI tools and database, which speed up the whole implementation process. In addition, on BICS you don’t need to buy perpetual or one/two year term licenses for BI tool, instead of that, BICS price…

Oracle Exadata has picked up popularity in recent years as each generation has become more capable and feature-rich. Exadata is the number one choice for any Oracle architecture where extreme performance, reliability and consolidation is the key. At Cintra, we have been working with many customers helping them migrate to…

Whenever you’re building your own Private Cloud or want to make use of a public cloud service, the de facto standard has always been Linux. However, what do you do if your applications are only certified on SPARC platforms, or your in-house skill sets revolve primarily around Solaris? With the…

Oracle Exadata represents the most capable and powerful converged system on the planet for consumer businesses. While most people are familiar with flash cache and storage cells, Cintra occasionally runs into a few features with which even the most experienced Database Machine Administrators are not familiar. Here are a list…

Larry Ellison kicked off Oracle Openworld on Sunday with a typically engaging presentation, which focused largely, as we all expected, on Oracle’s cloud offerings.