by Gianni Ceresa | 26 May 2021 | Cloud, Graphs, Infrastructure
Oracle publicly announced the availability of the A1 compute instance in their cloud offer with the introduction of the Ampere Altra ARM v8.2 cpu. ARM cpus aren’t new and we all (probably) have them without knowing (mobile devices are often powered by ARM cpus,...
by Gianni Ceresa | 18 August 2020 | Conferences, Infrastructure
Thursday, August 13 2020 I had the chance to present a session for the Oracle Analytics Summit. It was a shared session with Christian Berg and the topic was the benefits and the path for an OBIEE to OAS upgrade. I believe the topic can interest many of you, having an...
by Gianni Ceresa | 11 May 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
I already wrote about Jupyter and JupyterLab which is my standard sandbox environment nowadays. There is even a blog post about how to install JupyterLab in an OCI Compute instance. But, JupyterLab is a single-user environment: how can you have the same for multiple...
by Gianni Ceresa | 26 March 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
End of February I attended Analytics and Data Summit 2020 in Santa Clara where I presented 2 sessions and a hands-on lab. Delivering a hands-on lab is a double challenge: content and environment. Not only you have to prepare the content, including the lab with all the...
by Gianni Ceresa | 1 February 2020 | Infrastructure
More than 4 longs years ago OBIEE 12c was released. After then nothing much happened, and there were even some (fake) rumours it was the end of the development of the product. The future was Oracle Analytics Cloud. But Friday 31st January 2020 something new finally...
by Gianni Ceresa | 6 January 2020 | Cloud, Infrastructure
I wrote about setting up a JupyterLab sandbox in an Oracle Cloud Compute Instance not long ago. Now that I have it, I obviously want to use it for some experiments with Machine Learning and graphs. For that I often use an Oracle database as source for my data, and...
