Over the last couple of years we've experienced a global shortage of Raspberry Pis. The reason has been the COVID19 pandemic and Oracle building the largest Rpi cluster (that we know of). It's still hard…
Why SD-WAN?
Over the last few years, we hear more and more the term "SD-WAN" (Software-defined Wide-Area Networking). When we speak to customers we usually get the following question: What are the differences when compared to traditional…
Tips and Tricks Running Network Throughput Tests on…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers a broad catalog of compute shapes with different sizes and types. Each shape determines the number of oCPU, memory, and network bandwidth that will be allocated to an instance. For…
OCI Network Considerations with E3 instances
In the previous blog, we talked about the new AMD EPYC shapes and the freedom to configure your instances without having a fixed instance catalog. The new E3 shapes that we announced bring new levels…
OCI E3 Instances and Flexible Shapes
Oracle recently announced the launch of its Standard E3 instances based on the 2nd generation of AMD EPYC. The code name for this new offering is AMD Rome. Note this is currently available in specific…
Connecting Libreswan VPN to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Many people have questions about the different ways to connect to OCI. Having in mind how open is the Internet you would probably want to secure the communications between your on-prem environments and the cloud.…