Tag: azure
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U.S. Bank Migrated 119 TB from Exadata to AWS: Here is the Full Story

The story published on October 20, 2026 was compelling. U.S. Bank, under a hard data-center-exit deadline, moved four management reporting databases from an on-premises Exadata system to Amazon RDS for Oracle. The migration was real, the numbers were public, and the engineering deserves credit. But the public write-up was, by its nature, a migration how-to.…
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Oracle Database Security Central

If you already run Audit Vault and Database Firewall and just found out Oracle now calls something “Database Security Central,” this post answers the question you probably have first: is this a new thing to buy, or is it what AVDF becomes? Since this question tends to come with two more attached to it, I…
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Managing TDE Encryption Keys Across a Hybrid Data Guard Estate: External Keystores and Cross-Region Key Replication

When your primary lives on on-premises Exadata and your standby sits in a different region or cloud, the hardest part of Transparent Data Encryption is not the encryption itself. It is deciding where the master key lives, how both sides reach it, and what happens to that key when you fail over. This is the…
