Blogs
Reporting and Analytic Applications for pennies using Cloud Computing
Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Tue, 10/28/2008 - 19:42Some of our more cutting-edge clients (thanks Dave!) asked how we might help them leverage Cloud Computing to host their applications. The advantages of cloud computing are easy to see because the cost of storage and computing is measured in pennies per hour/gigabyte and works especially well for reporting and analysis applications.
Here are some examples (a la Mastercard style!)
Backup and restore Essbase cubes using Amazon S3
Posted by Narendra Kumar on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 02:52This post demonstrates the use of Amazon S3 to archive and restore Oracle Essbase Cubes.
The advantages of doing this include:
Oracle Hyperion System9 configuration using console option
Posted by Narendra Kumar on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 01:46Please find the below steps and screen shots to configure Hyperion System9 products
Start configuration tools from .../f360/hyperion/common/config/sh configtool.sh -console
The screen wil display the list of products you installed and pending for configuration, select the pending products by keying respective numbers and then press 0 to continue...
How to create a base EC2 image for Oracle Essbase
Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 21:49Oracle has now officially certified 11g, Oracle XE, Enterprise Linux and Oracle Fusion for Amazon Web Services' Elastic Computing Cloud (AWS EC2). Information about AWS and EC2 can be found here.
Using Xming for X11 applications on an EC2 machine
Posted by Narendra Kumar on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 21:36Xming is a Windows application. You can download the "Xming Microsoft Windows program installer" using the below link http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/ it’s a normal Windows executable setup.exe. So, run it and follow the on-screen instructions.
Installing PUTTY
Most likely you will want to use ssh to connect to the remote host. So install PuTTY as a ssh client for Windows: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
Oracle Essbase on Amazon EC2 using cubeFlex AMI
Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Sun, 09/28/2008 - 02:40I am going to show you how to get started with Essbase using our Amazon Images. Using the AMI, I am able to have a fully installed EPM machine with Shared Services, Essbase, Administration Services, Integration Services, Provider Services, BI Services and UI Services in 15 mins. Not that you would EVER want to run all of those on the same machine! So lets get started
Oracle Announces Products and AMIs for the Cloud
Posted by full360 on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 22:49Oracle released its AMIs for the cloud. The important piece of news in this is that customers can use their oracle licenses on the cloud, with the following conversion:
