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Revamping Database infrastructure to a right-sized IT environment with Primesize
Catholic Education South Australia (CESA) utilized Primesize to provide an environment review of their databases. CESA were able to identify IT resources that could be optimised; this enabled them to reduce the cost of operations and position themselves for a long term cloud strategy. Learn more about their experience with BCS, featuring Phil Proctor, CIO, CESA.
Database management and support to meets the increasing needs of Hill-Smith Family Estates clients
Hill Smith Family Estate (formely Yalumba), is one of Australia's most historic family-owned winery, was facing the challenge that their enterprise software solution was exclusively on-premise.
Reflecting on 2022: Creating value in new and innovative ways.
A new year brings a rested and fresh perspective, we believe that the best part of our job is getting it right for our customers and celebrating their wins, as their successes is how we determine our success.
Unlocking Business Excellence through Cloud Managed Services
In an era defined by digital transformation, Australian organisations are recognising the pivotal role that Cloud Managed Services play in enhancing operational efficiency, fostering innovation, and driving sustainable growth. This white paper explores the compelling reasons why organisations in Australia should adopt Cloud Managed Services and how these services can translate into tangible business benefits. It also walks through the top reasons why organisations hesitate on making the move.
We’re locals: BCS is expanding around Australia
After 18 years in the making, we’re now excited to formally announce our expansion into the Perth and Brisbane regions with the
From Tape Robots to backups in Azure Cloud
Catholic Education South Australia (CESA) have been working with Blue Crystal Solutions in a variety of ways for over 15 years, with initial engagement surrounding the management of the on-premises databases. Previously, CESA’s data moved from disk to tape. This tape was stored in large tape libraries which required the development and maintenance of database robots. When a specific tape needed to be checked, replaced, or moved, the tape robot would find and retrieve the specific tape from the library.
Zero Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching
Patching is an important activity that needs to be done for security and functionality reasons. If you have Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19.8 with 19c databases, then you’ll want to know more about the new Zero Downtime Oracle Grid Infrastructure Patching feature.
3 options for Oracle backup in Azure Blobfuse
Database backups are essential in helping protect your data from corruption or deletion and should be a critical part of any business continuity or disaster recovery strategy. Backups enable your database to restore to a point in time within the configured retention period, being the perfect insurance policy.
Your journey to optimising cloud costs starts here.
Sometime, sooner or later, if it hasn’t happened already, someone is going to ask, “How did my AWS costs get so high?” Followed by “I don’t understand what all these charges are for!” “Someone needs to explain them to me”
Oracle Database auditing with Oracle unified auditing
For any company requiring auditing requirements for their Oracle databases they should consider using Oracle's unified auditing. And, accordingly to our Oracle Specalist and Client Delivery Lead Brad Smith, here's why:
Rollback option for migration to AWS RDS instance using DMS
Oracle Database Migration Planning When planning for migration of Oracle databases, there are a number of considerations, one of the most important
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