Early this year (February 2021) Oracle announce full L2 support on OCI (you can read more here). But what does it mean? Why is really a big deal?.

Obviously all mayor competitor of Oracle are not really interested on speak about L2 support on the Cloud, but when you read a post of Ivan Pepelnjak...

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What is availability?

If you take a look to Wikipedia here, you will see different definitions for availability. Probably the most accurate definition from the I.T. point of view is:

The probability that an item will operate satisfactorily at a given point in time when used under stated cond...

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OCVS VMware on OCI

June 9, 2021, 12:20 pm ocvs oracle cloud oci vmware

If at OpenWorld 2019, it was a quite surprising to hear Larry Ellison announcing OCVS (VMware's solution on OCI), it was no less surprising to know how Oracle had implemented it over their second generation cloud.

Performance is usually one of OCI's strengths and the way their SDN integrates physi...

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Building the Cloud Brick by Brick

June 9, 2021, 12:20 pm

It was 2008 when I started writing my blog "A ojo de Buen Cubero", it started without any other pretense than will serve as a repository / reminder of recipes that were useful to me and almost without realizing it, it was evolve in one of the reference blogs in Spanish in IT sector.

Aodbc grew and...

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Secure ssh Keygen for the Cloud

November 27, 2020, 1:43 pm CLOUD seguridad key

When we create Unix / Linux instances in the cloud (regardless of the provider we usually use), we are asked to use a public / private key set to secure access to the instances. Without this additional protection and only relying on a Login / Password, our systems are vulnerable to dictionary attack...

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