Mythics Blog

Articles from 2018

• From ‘Cloud First’ to ‘Cloud Smart’

  By Mark Johnson, posted on Friday December 21, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Mythics Consulting , Oracle Cloud , IT Infrastructure , ITaaS

  Connect with Mark Johnson on LinkedIn! Many government agencies adopted a “Cloud First” policy for their Information Technology in the hope that they would get better service,… Read more

• Mythics Oracle OpenWorld 2018 Preview - #MythicsatOOW

  By Chris Richards, posted on Monday October 15, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Security , Oracle Cloud , Oracle OpenWorld

  Team Mythics has been busy preparing for Oracle OpenWorld 2018, and we are so excited to get to San Francisco! You can find our schedule… Read more

• Forbes- Featuring Mythics - Machine Learning & IT Jobs: Early Lessons Learned From System Monitoring

  By Chris Richards, posted on Tuesday July 24, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Oracle Cloud , Machine Learning , OMC , Oracle Management Cloud

  Rebroadcast from Forbes Article by Chris Murphy – Oracle (July 24, 2018) Article: Machine Learning And IT Jobs: Early Lessons Learned From System Monitoring Featuring an… Read more

• Mythics Celebrates a “Golden Anniversary” of Oracle Specializations

  By Mark Johnson, posted on Wednesday May 23, 2018
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Oracle Cloud , Oracle Database , Security , Engineered Systems , Public Cloud , Oracle Partner , OPN , Oracle Solaris , Oracle E-Business

  Connect with Mark Johnson on LinkedIn! Every day, Information Technology departments are becoming more critical to the business of their organization. To increase their focus on the… Read more

• Do You Know Your IT Consulting or MSP’s Net Promoter Score?  Here is Why You Should

  By Brian Meincke, posted on Monday April 9, 2018
  Tags: Net Promoter Score , NPS , Quality , IT Consulting , Managed Services Provider , Best Practices , Client Feedback , Customer Excellence

  Here is why you should.  When you evaluate a prospective services provider, how do you truly know they’ve got what it takes to deliver the… Read more

• A Self-Driving Database by Oracle

  By Jayson Nowlen, posted on Friday April 6, 2018
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , PaaS , Oracle Database , Cloud Computing , OCI

  A Self-Driving Database by Oracle By:  Jayson C. Nowlen Oracle is revolutionizing data management with the introduction of the world’s first "self-driving" database on March… Read more

• Handle High-Demand Workloads with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  By Brent Seaman, posted on Friday March 23, 2018
  Tags: OCI , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , PeopleSoft , PeopleSoft HCM , PeopleSoft Payroll , Oracle UaaS , Oracle , Cloud

  Organizations are adopting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) at an increasing pace.  Why?  It outperforms other cloud infrastructure available on the market today, and OCI is… Read more

• Eliminating Cloud Lock-In

  By Mark Johnson, posted on Friday February 16, 2018
  Tags: Mythics Consulting , Oracle Cloud , Oracle , Cloud Computing

  Eliminating Cloud Lock-In I often hear from customers who are doing an analysis of various cloud vendors to determine which one is “right” for their… Read more

• Your Neighbor in the Public Cloud

  By Erik Benner, posted on Friday February 9, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Oracle Cloud Infrastructure , OCI , Mythics Consulting

  Connect with Erik Benner on Twitter! Running your workloads in a Public cloud is very similar to living in an apartment building, a lot of the maintenance… Read more

• Solaris 11.4, a Secure OS to Power Your Cloud

  By Erik Benner, posted on Wednesday January 31, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Security , SPARC , Solaris , Oracle Solaris , Mythics Consulting , IT Security , Solaris 11.4

  Connect with Erik Benner on Twitter! When I discuss cloud, I often talk about what the cloud should do and not where it runs. First… Read more

• Oracle Cloud VM Images Patched for Spectre and Meltdown

  By Jonathan Hult, posted on Friday January 26, 2018
  Tags: Oracle Cloud , Oracle VM , Cloud , Cloud Computing , Oracle , Security , Spectre , Meltdown , Mythics Consulting

  The Oracle Cloud teams have developed and deployed new Cloud VM images in response to the Intel processor design flaws leading to vulnerabilities CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre… Read more

• Solaris+SPARC is Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) Free

  By Erik Benner, posted on Wednesday January 24, 2018
  Tags: Oracle Database , Security , SPARC , Solaris , Mythics Consulting , Oracle , Meltdown , Oracle Hardware

  Connect with Erik Benner on Twitter! Worried about the security of your data?  Did you know that SPARC+Solaris servers are not only Meltdown free, but also the… Read more

• Public Cloud and Security

  By Mark Johnson, posted on Tuesday January 9, 2018
  Tags: Oracle , Cloud Computing , Cloud , Security , Oracle Hardware , Public Cloud , Hybrid Cloud , Mythics Consulting , FedRAMP

  Connect with Mark Johnson on LinkedIn! Government Information Security Officers are rightfully concerned about security of their data and systems and this week’s revelations of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities at… Read more

• Is Your New Year’s Resolution To Move Your Applications to the Cloud? Achieve that Goal with Mythics

  By Chris Richards, posted on Wednesday January 3, 2018
  Tags: Cloud , Cloud Migration , Move and Improve , Oracle Cloud , PeopleSoft , Amazon Web Services , Oracle Applications , Mythics Cloud Consulting , ITaaS , Oracle E-Business Suite , Oracle EBS , Oracle PeopleSoft , E-Business Suite

  As we enter the New Year our customers are continuing to accelerate their adoption of moving applications and critical systems into public and private clouds. … Read more