Author Archives: halberenson

Amazon moving off Oracle? #DBfreedom

Posted on January 3, 2018 by halberenson

A bunch of news stories, apparently coming off an article in The Information, are talking about Amazon and Salesforce attempting to move away from the use of Oracle.  I’m not going to comment specifically on Amazon, or Salesforce, and any … Continue reading →

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Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I wanted to make some comments on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), so we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 on 16GB Cloud Databases.  A Service Level Agreement establishes both an expectation between a service provider and a customer of the level … Continue reading →

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16TB Cloud Databases (Part 1)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I could claim the purpose of this blog post is to talk about Amazon RDS increasing the storage per database to 16TB, and to some extent it is.  It’s also an opportunity to talk about the challenges of a hyperscale … Continue reading →

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Amazon Seattle Hiring Slowing?

Posted on December 11, 2017 by halberenson

An article in today’s Seattle Times discusses how Amazon’s open positions in Seattle is down by half from last summer and at a recent low. I don’t know what is going on, but I will speculate on what could be … Continue reading →

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Sonos One

Posted on November 27, 2017 by halberenson

I’ve been a Sonos fan for years, and recently talked about my first experience using Alexa to control older Sonos equipment.  I have one room, my exercise room, that isn’t covered by the Niles multi-zone system.  I was using an … Continue reading →

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Good browsing habits gone bad

Posted on November 24, 2017 by halberenson

We always think that the best protection against web-distributed malware is to exercise caution while browsing.  But what if you aren’t even browsing in the classic sense, and an application renders a malware infested page?  I found out this morning. … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Security, Windows | 8 Comments

Product Launches and Vendor Conferences

Posted on November 23, 2017 by halberenson

My favorite tech conference, AWS’ re:Invent is coming up next week.  I attended the last three as an Amazon VP, and was hoping to attend this year as a customer, but unfortunately can’t make it.  I’ll be streaming the keynotes, … Continue reading →

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Surface Book 2

Posted on November 22, 2017 by halberenson

I picked up my Surface Book 2 (SB2) from the UPS Store last Friday and wanted to provide my impressions. Setup was in the Wow category.  You turn on the SB2, connect to WiFi, answer a couple of questions, log … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Windows | 6 Comments

Where is my Surface Book 2?

Posted on November 16, 2017 by halberenson

This is not a complaint, it is me anxiously waiting for a new device in a way that I haven’t for years.  You see, I have been without a PC for about 6 weeks.  Until then I had my work-owned … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Phone (Part 2)

Posted on November 14, 2017 by halberenson

Does anyone think it was a coincidence that Joe Belfiore’s admission Microsoft’s journey to make Windows succeed on phones was dead came just days after he had announced that Microsoft was bringing the Edge browser to Android and iOS, and had … Continue reading →

Posted in Computer and Internet, Microsoft, Mobile, Windows Phone | 14 Comments