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Parnian Taidi Product Marketing Director   A specialized supplier of cloud, application, database, and infrastructure management services, Blue Crystal Solutions (BCS) helps clients cost-effectively architect, orchestrate, migrate, and support cloud workloads. Headquartered in Adelaide Australia, BCS has been providing information technology services to clients across industries and levels of government since 2004. I recently met …

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Current tech industry challenges • Extremely large number of objects that are managed in LDAP directories. • Requirements for un-usually high write performance in addition to high search performance. • Need for a directory infrastructure that is elastic and can grow with business without huge up-front investment • Maintaining a number of isolated directories in …

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Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager is a server virtualization management platform that is based on the open source oVirt virtualization solution. Oracle announced the General Availability of OLVM in June 2019, and subsequently adopted it  to replace its Oracle VM virtualization product that is based on the Xen hypervisor technology.  Oracle VM 2 Premier Support ended …

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Moving to the cloud is no longer just an idea, or something to worry about later. Here are our top 10 reasons to consider a move to cloud, straight from the BCS engine room. 1. Cost efficient Our first benefit of moving applications to the Cloud could be huge for your business’ bottom line. Moving …

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Private, public, and hybrid clouds are different ways of deploying infrastructure and applications in a cloud computing model. Public clouds are services owned and operated by a third party and are the most common type of cloud. All hardware, and supporting infrastructure is managed and owned by the cloud service provider. With public clouds, advantages …

Public, Private, Hybrid: Your choice of Cloud Environments explained Read More »

When Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g and Oracle Database 11g Premier Support and Error Correction Support ended and underlying hardware Oracle Exalytics X5-4 was nearing end-of-support, users electing to continue with these versions were faced with purchasing Extended Support, which would only provide an extra three years of support for an additional yearly …

Migrating OBIEE 11g from Exalytics to Oracle Analytics Server on X8 Servers Read More »

Are you seeking: Reduced risk to your business? Fast response to changing business demands? Agility to maintain your workloads through dynamic cloud landscapes? Cost optimisation and operational efficiencies? Simplistic and effective High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions for your business-critical workloads? If you’ve answered yes to any of the above, then you’ve come to the …

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Innovative digital services, curve altering business ideas through AI/ML-led experiences are becoming more and more prevalent in IT solutions. And this is exactly where BCS are focusing. We’ve opened our thinking around how we can drive thought leadership, disruption and rethinking around how we can take our client’s business performance to the next level. We’re …

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The end date for Extended Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is little more than 12 months away – 12th of July 2022. Organisations need to review the extent of their deployed on-prem or IAAS SQL Server 2012 instances to ensure upgrade paths or contingencies are planned. Overview of SQL Server Product Lifecycle Microsoft supports …

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It is important for organisations to understand the best ways to maximize advantages and minimize risks of a move to the cloud. There are many great benefits of moving to a cloud environment but it can be a major commitment. Key considerations for your public cloud migration plan are:   What To Migrate The greatest …

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