Part one was all about the business drivers and technical challenges faced when building a database consolidation platform. Database consolidation is all about sharing infrastructure, so part two is about the design choices that are available... An important architectural decision when consolidating databases is that of where the shared infrastructure should diverge. If we assume … Continue reading Database Consolidation Part 2 – Shared Infrastructure Design Choices →

Database consolidation has been a big trend in the industry for a while now. You can see this if you read the IT press, or if you listen to the relentless procession of people queueing up to talk about the "cloud". I saw it in my time at Oracle, where we had an increasing number … Continue reading Database Consolidation Part 1 – Business Drivers and Technical Challenges →