Advisory: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and the General Data Protection Regulation

whitePaper | June 3, 2023

As organizations continue to increase their cloud investments, the challenge of reducing and optimizing cloud costs has become bigger than ever before. According to various surveys and state of cloud reports, enterprises typically waste around one-third of their cloud budgets due to multiple inefficiencies and planning failures. Regardless of their cloud maturity, most organizations identify cloud cost optimization as a key challenge.

whitePaper | January 22, 2020

Record numbers of businesses are investing in as-a-Service (XaaS) infrastructures and moving parts (or all) of their IT infrastructure to public clouds. Many of these same businesses are moving their databases to the cloud as part of this trend. Why? The promise of the cloud is easy setup, simplified management, guaranteed availability, and on-demand scalability all at a knowable price with no surprises. In the minds of companies moving their database to the cloud, this translates to a one-and-done decision that comes with a low overhead: database instances, on demand, with little to no oversight or hassle. You probably can even reduce the number of DBAs on staff! But is it true? In reality, cloud providers provide an excellent resource for creating and maintaining cloud database infrastructure, but do not provide the necessary technical expertise that gets the best business value out of your database. It is a company’s responsibility to develop, implement, and optimize the architecture that most serves their business goals.

whitePaper | October 18, 2022

In the mad dash to the cloud, organizations have turned their application environments into a miscellaneous mess. Whether it be private, public or on-premise, organizations are leveraging heterogenous application hosting environments as they transition to the next phase of cloud computing: The multi-cloud.

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

This guide presents an opinionated view of Google Cloud security best practices, organized to allow you to adopt or adapt them and then automatically deploy them for your estates on Google Cloud. This document can be useful to you if you are a CISO, security practitioner, or risk or compliance officer.

whitePaper | August 8, 2022

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whitePaper | December 29, 2022

Building a cloud application is like building a house. If you don’t at least acknowledge the industry’s best practices, it may all come tumbling down. In the construction industry, principles to ensure a building is constructed effectively are documented in the International Building Code. In the realm of cloud infrastructure, Amazon has pioneered the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The Framework is something like a building code