Tag: cloud
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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…
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Exadata X11MV: 50% More VM Density and What It Means for Your Cloud Exadata Consolidation Strategy
I’ve been tracking the Exadata Cloud Infrastructure release notes for a while now, and the June 30 entry caught my attention in a way that went beyond the usual quarterly feature list. Oracle has quietly released a new infrastructure generation for Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure that changes the consolidation math for a lot…
