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Never thought THIS would happen! I realize that it's been an incredibly long time since I've last posted here, but I have a plethora of reasons - and no, it's not because an AI agent has taken over my job. Helping run events for the Analytics and Data Oracle User Community (AnDOUC), including my latest … Continue reading Reports of My Blog’s Demise Are Premature →

As part of Tech Field Days Cloud Field Day last week, I spent a whole day at the Google Cloud Moffett Place campus in Sunnyvale, CA to experience what I can only describe as drinking from an information firehose as our Googler hosts explain everything Google Cloud enables - file / block / object storage, … Continue reading There’s No Gen AI Easy Button. But Google Cloud Helps. →

Just wanted to give everyone who saw my prior blog post from Tech Field Day's recent Edge Field Day #2 gathering some interesting news about one of our presenters, StorMagic. They've recently made public their new tool called Edge Control that's a reasonably-priced and simple tool for managing and configuring storage and hardware at the … Continue reading Controlling Far-Flung Edges: StorMagic Edge Control →

Edge computing continues evolving exponentially, and it's never been more obvious after I served as a delegate for Gestalt IT’s Edge Field Day #2 (EFD2) in Santa Clara, CA. After returning home from Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas just a few weeks back - more on my experiences here - I had the … Continue reading Edge of Tomorrow: Tech Field Day EFD #2 →

It's been over a week since I got back from Oracle Cloud World 2023 in Las Vegas, and it's taken me that long to process and digest everything that happened there. Along the way, I presented three times and sat for some brief interviews on Oracle technology. And even though Gen AI could write this, … Continue reading At Oracle Cloud World 2023, Gen AI Could Write This →

If you've followed me on social media, you probably have already heard that Beyond Tech Skills, the podcast I co-hosted since January 2021 with my colleague and excellent friend Liron Amitzi, just wrapped up our final episode. While that's unfortunate - especially for our loyal listeners, whom we appreciate immensely! - we had an amazing … Continue reading Talking Is Easy. Interviewing Is a Lot Harder. →

I’ve finally had a chance to catch my breath from the last few weeks - I've been planning out some new Oracle meetup events in the Chicagoland area, and in between all that I've been working on learning about and experimenting with the latest public release of Oracle Database 23c - so it's been like … Continue reading SFO, By Way of Sacramento: Storage Field Day 25 →

Winter Is Here. As I wrap up my technology-advocacy-related travels for 2022 and plan out my (hopeful!) schedule for 2023, it's a perfect time to reflect on the successful rebirth of the Oracle ACE Program this past summer. The new team that Jennifer Nicholson, our program's key liaison, has put together in just a a … Continue reading Keeping a Reborn Technology Advocacy Program Robust? That’s Up To Us Oracle ACEs. →