I’m sure Oracle DBAs everywhere are keeping their collective ears close to the ground waiting for the official announcement on 12cR2. We still, rightly or wrongly, have a habit of waiting for the 2^nd release of Oracle versions, but that’s for another…

Guys… This year may have been our best VMworld yet! Our amazing staff of data protection and performance monitoring experts came out to Las Vegas and got to really know our customers. We listened to your thoughts on current trends in the data p…

In a previous blog we showed how easy it is to send Docker Counters to Foglight, the next natural step is to alert when something goes wrong. 

A reminder our script was called DockerMonitor.sh and the lines sending data to Foglight were 

echo "TABLE DockerData…

If we’ve learned anything from the cinematic achievement that is all 72 Fast and Furious films, it’s that high-stakes operations can quickly go awry with the slightest technical glitch. Staying ahead of the competition requires agility a...

Scripts agents are an easy way to add to Foglight out of the box monitoring capabilities and can be easily used to send counters from a Docker host to Foglight: 

Step 1 -  Find the commands that get the data.

             The internet is full of examples for using…

Did you know that since 2015 NetVault Backup 10.x and up has support for the AWS Storage Gateway - Virtual Tape Library (VTL). This means you can backup and index directly to the Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier storage using Gateway-VTL with NetVault. T…

Starting with version 12.10, Toad for Oracle will bring the Knowledgebase dynamically into the product’s window. No more having to leave an application to search and find answers outside of the product.   Got an error? No problem. Click on...

The other day I finally made the decision to buy a new pair of running/workout shoes.  I had been debating for a while. But then recently, thanks to Facebook’s ‘On This Day’ feature, I was reminded that my shoes were over 3 ye...

Foglight has a lot of nice nice UI features that users love and enjoy, here are my top 3:  

 1. When you have multiple Foglight installations (QA, Prod etc.) how do you tell them apart? 

    There is an easy way to do so in Foglight by setting the Management…

GDPR is a game-changer for the processing of personal data, but it also has substantial impact on IT operations more generally. This blog is the first in a short series that will explore some of the key areas where GDPR will have an impact on IT operations…

Microsoft Ignite is fast approaching. If you’re attending the conference this year in Atlanta, you’re most likely making a list of booths to visit and sessions to attend. Here’s what you can expect from us this year. Cocktails, Cap...

When managing a robust complicated backup environment, problems often come up in droves and it is hard to manage all of the issues. One of the hardest and most frustrating issues with backups is poor performance. Poor performance is often the cause o…