Oracle Magazine, July/August 2017
All the deep dive tuning and performance work all the spinning up instances the time it takes to understand how the new release handles things and explain how its different thats high value time consuming work that DBAs dont have to do when the database is in the cloud Paul Zajdel Vice President Meta7 ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2017 47 just click a box and add additional capacity or a new feature and now youre paying for it Zajdel says Robert Dawson a master consultant at Meta7 agrees that its easy to go overboard Hes been guilty of it himself adding extra database instances one day to test a governance issue and discovering he added more than Meta7 had contracted for Services are like Chiclets he says You just want to grab a handful Next says Dawson you will also need discipline when setting up automated processes Weve really enjoyed the automation that cloud deployments offer You can build out consistent tightly integrated application environments and then start them up and shut them down when you want he says But it works out only if you bring discipline early on For example Meta7 spent time developing a standardized specification for its Oracle Database Cloud environments For the next database we need theres no install Theres no configuration Theres no setting up anything says Dawson You just deploy it 2 Expect Resistance With the change to the cloud as with any change in technology there will be resistance within the organization Meta7 consultants quickly recognized the institutional resistance to cloud computing because theyd seen it in their early implementations of
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