Database Automation

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Action Profile: Mass User Updates

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Goal
Make a change whereby a database user is changed in some way across the enterprise. Properties that might be changed include the user’s password, if the user is locked out, or a change to the privileges of the user.
Use Case
A user’s password has been compromised after it was accidentally posted to a public message board. [...]

Can’t I Just Create a Script To Do That?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The Clarity Action framework is fundamentally a better way to run your existing scripts than what you are likely doing now. Here is why:

You are passing in the exact information your scripts need to do their job. If your script acts on a database the script is run on an active instance of that database, [...]

What is Your Chosen Method of Execution?

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As part of our lives we perform actions to databases all the time. Perhaps the database administrative workload breaks down in the following way in your organization:

Installation of a new database - 10 times / month
Upgrade of an existing database - 20 times / month
Patch installation - 40 times / month
Administration activities - 20 [...]

Clarity 4.5 is here.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

GridApp Clarity 4.5 was formally announced on March 3rd. Here are some links to our recent media coverage:
TechNewsWorld
“‘There are a lot of companies out there focusing on different aspects of data management, but GridApp is really the only one in the last six or 12 months that has realized there’s a lot of work that [...]

Webinar: “Are You Ready to Upgrade?” 2/13/08 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Please join us tomorrow for a complimentary Webinar from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET (10:00 - 11:00 a.m. PT) entitled, “Microsoft and Oracle are Ready to Upgrade - Are You?”
Matthew Zito, chief scientist of GridApp Systems, will discuss how SQL Server and Oracle database upgrades can be performed quickly and easily, allowing your IT organizations [...]

Undersized OCR Device Repercussions

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

What happens when you use a 10 MB raw device to store your Oracle 10.2.0.1 CRS OCR? Assuming that you don’t have a million services, you would never know that your system did not meet Oracle’s minimum platform requirements. That is until you decide to upgrade to 10.2.0.3 and you are stymied when [...]

Why IT Automation Will Be Big in 2008

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Listen to GridApp’s CEO, Rob Gardos, discuss why IT automation will be big in 2008 on Network World’s Panorama podcast:
http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/panorama/2007/121907pan-ITautomation.html

Oracle OpenWorld 2007: More than Just Pens and Squishy Toys

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

As a marketer, I am fully aware of the amount of time, organization, resources, and hard work required to pull off a successful event. A few weeks ago I attended my first Oracle OpenWorld, the mother of all tech events.
I have been to large trade shows before, but Oracle OpenWorld is in another league. The [...]

Clarity 4.0 is released and a look back at Clarity 1.0

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Well, today’s the day - after many months of scoping, spec’ing, designing, coding, testing, fixing, testing, fixing, testing, etc. - we have a new major revision of our flagship product, GridApp Clarity. This release is 4.0, and while many companies choose to make version jumps a purely marketing function (*cough* Solaris 2.6 to Solaris [...]

Data, Data, Everywhere…

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Data management is, for most organizations, driven by an extremely narrow set of requirements. If a customer makes an inquiry, you simply need to pull up that customer’s order information to give them sound support. If an application requires 100 parameters to be configured a certain way to work, one would suspect it [...]

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