7 expert tips when considering a move to cloud
Your guide to navigating your cloud adoption or cloud service expansion the right way from our cloud expert, Michael Kubik.
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Great News for Oracle Users: 19c Waived-Fee Extended Support continues into 2026
The Oracle 19c Waived-fee Extended Support has been recently extended, giving clients more runway to make crucial decisions about their database systems. The extension, now reaching until April 30, 2026, adds an extra 12 months on top of the previous date, allowing businesses to breathe a little easier before considering the leap to a 23c upgrade
BlueDiamond3 has landed. Here’s all the new features you need to know about our 24×7 monitoring tool.
After 10+ years of innovation, we’re proud to launch the next iteration of our BlueDiamond 24×7 proactive monitoring tool. Changing the IT monitoring game, it’s built to protect your organisation from service outages, bringing proactivity to a whole new level.
Achieving CIS Level 1 Hardening for Linux
This article explores the process of achieving CIS Level 1 hardening for SUSE Linux 15 and Oracle Linux 8, despite the absence of ready-made CIS-hardened images.
Upgrading Oracle TimesTen In-memory Database and Oracle Analytics Server
Oracle TimesTen offers faster response times and high throughput, while Oracle Analytics Server modernizes analytics with AI-powered insights and a user-friendly experience. This technical article focuses on how to upgrade Oracle TimesTen In Memory Database and Oracle Analytics Server and the benefits you can expect.
How to Fail Over and Reinstate Oracle Database on Oracle Cloud
In this article, we will show you how to fail over and reinstate Oracle Database in the cloud. To use the procedure presented in this article, you need two Oracle Cloud database instances.
How to Migrate an On-Premises Instance of Oracle Database to Oracle Cloud Using Data Pump
This article shows how to migrate an on-premises source database, tablespace, schema, or table to an Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment using the conventional export and import functionality of the Data Pump feature of Oracle Database.
Innovate WA and the public sector’s IT challenges
Blue Crystal Solutions was a proud sponsor at Innovate WA, a public sector event with a digital transformation and IT challenges focus, that was held at Crown Resort, Perth on 15 February 2023. Having recently established a presence in WA, it was an excellent opportunity to represent the BCS brand
Zero Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching
Patching is an important activity that needs to be done for security and functionality reasons. If you have Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19.8 with 19c databases, then you’ll want to know more about the new Zero Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching feature.
3 options for Oracle backup in Azure Blobfuse
Database backups are essential in helping protect your data from corruption or deletion and should be a critical part of any business continuity or disaster recovery strategy. Backups enable your database to restore to a point in time within the configured retention period, being the perfect insurance policy.