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Ron Ekins

Ron is an Oracle ACE Director and certified Enterprise and Cloud Architect with over 30 years of experience of design, development, and delivery of large IS projects. Ron works within the Office of the CTO as a Principal Solutions Architect advising customers on the use of Oracle technologies.

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Oracle

Purely Technical

Accessing External Data Using FlashBlade S3 Object Storage from Oracle 19c/21c

This article demonstrates how to access and query external data stored in FlashBlade S3...

3 min / By Ron Ekins

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database

Perspectives

Oracle Database Troubleshooting and Problem Resolution with Storage Snapshots

Over recent years, we’ve seen an explosion in data growth, driven by the realisation...

5 min / By Ron Ekins

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oracle cloud infrastructure

Purely Technical

How to Replicate FlashBlade S3 Objects to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

This article walks you through how to replicate an on-premises FlashBlade Object Store bucket...

5 min / By Ron Ekins

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Purely Technical

Run Oracle 19c on Kubernetes with NFS Storage

See how to use Portworx proxy volumes to present external NFS storage to a...

3 min / By Ron Ekins

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Purely Technical

Protect Oracle Backups from Ransomware and Other Threats

See how to use FlashBlade and SafeMode to protect critical Oracle RMAN database backups...

4 min / By Ron Ekins

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Purely Technical

Running Oracle Database 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx

See how to rapidly deploy an Oracle Database 19c on Kubernetes with Portworx persistent...

3 min / By Ron Ekins

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Purely Technical

Using Autofs with Oracle RMAN and dNFS on Pure FlashBlade

See how to use autofs to manage access to FlashBlade NFS shares for use...

3 min / By Ron Ekins

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Purely Technical

Docker, Oracle 12c and Persistent Storage

Introduction During DockerCon 2017 Oracle announced support for Oracle 12.1 Database docker images –...

4 min / By Ron Ekins

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Oracle 12c Online Database Move

Purely Technical

Oracle 12c Online Database Move Datafile

How to use the new ‘ALTER DATABASE MOVE DATAFILE’ feature to move data files online to...

3 min / By Ron Ekins

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