Sit down, relax and get a focus on what’s really important: your business. Don’t worry about database availability (including backups, performance, etc…) and leave it all in our experienced hands.
As your trusted database partner, we deliver the best solutions for database availability. This way your business can fly high each day, just like the raven Munin (pronounced MO-nin, our company name).
Depending on your needs, we can augment or substitute your database team. With years of database experience, Monin ensures that you always get the best solution for each step of the database lifecycle: from advice/initial setup or review to its management and support, in your datacenter or in the cloud, with in-depth database monitoring if required.
Within the Oracle Partner Network, Monin is Oracle Platinum Partner and Oracle Cloud MSP (Managed Service Provider). Those partnerships ensure our experts always have in-depth knowledge as well as technical expertise of the Oracle products supported (Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM, MySQL, etc…) and the Oracle Public Cloud solutions.
Besides that, as part of the Cronos group, Monin can rely on the Microsoft Gold Partnership for the Microsoft SQL Server solutions delivered. This level of partnership provides access to a broad package of advantages at Microsoft to keep our experts on the cutting edge of their field.
In Norse mythology, Muninn (pronounced “MOO-nin”) and Huginn (pronounced “HOO-gin”) are a pair of ravens that fly all over the world and bring information to the god Odin. Huginn is old Norse for “thought”, Muninn is old Norse for “Memory”. From the perspective of Odin:
Hugin and Munin
Fly every day
Over all the world;
I worry for Hugin
That he might not return,
But I worry more for Munin.
Monin is derived from the pronunciation for Muninn.
As a solution driven database partner, Monin delivers innovative technology independent products and services to ensure an optimal and maximal availability of a customers’ databases.
Our database experts will always provide the best suitable solution, with respect for a customers’ expectations and possibilities. Our flexible attitude ensures an outstanding collaboration and quality.
The god Odin absolutely does not want to lose Munin, his memory. Our customers’ memory are their databases, storing all necessary data to do business.
Our goal is to become the trusted database partner for our customers which guarantees the best solutions for data(base) availability so their business can fly high each day, just like the raven Munin.
You have found the right Database Administrator with in-depth knowledge of the database, clustering, disaster recovery, etc… ? The DBA never takes a holiday, is never ill and reachable all year round? As a well-organized expert the DBA can tackle the daily issues and administration and still spend some time on innovation, without any overtime?
Migrating your application and database to a new version and/or new hardware? Need an extra hand to perform certain DBA tasks for a certain period? Or just want to rely on the advice of an experienced Oracle DBA?
Also want to react proactively to avoid database downtime? Trying to achieve the highest level of database uptime? Want to make sure nothing blocks the application users? Looking for a monitoring solution that’ll not overwhelm the DBA with unimportant messages?
Want to check if the databases are compliant with the latest security best practices? Really sure only the DBA can access all the data and stop the databases? What if disasters strikes, can everything still be restored without data loss?
Want to reduce the TCO for the databases (hardware, licenses, …)? Missing computing power on certain periods (due to: Christmas sales, end of fiscal year, …)? In need of offsite data protection?
Within Microsoft SQL Server databases, some fixed server-level roles are defined, providing a certain level of access and functionality. The role with the highest access and functionality is the SYSADMIN role. Only privileged users or administrators within the company are granted this role. Eddy Van Heghe, one of our experienced Microsoft SQL DBA’s, discovered a…
After the Spectre & Meltdown vulnerabilities (see https://monin-it.be/2018/01/17/meltdown-spectre-solution-linux-windows/) at the beginning of 2018, Intel now tackled 3 applications of another big vulnerability in their microcode: the L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) vulnerabilities. All three applications of L1TF are speculative execution side channel cache timing vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-3615: Affecting Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX): CVSS score 7.9/10 CVE-2018-3620:…
Oracle just released a security alert and is urging users to patch their oracle database installations to plug a critical security issue (this one even got CVSS score 9.9/10, which is really high and shows the importance to patch). The vulnerability can result in complete compromise of the Oracle Database and shell access to the…
UPDATED November 2018 On February 15th 2018 Oracle published note 2361478.1 (“Oracle Databases Need to be Patched to a Minimum Patchset/PSU/RU level before April 2019”), stating that database versions prior to 12.1.0.2 (except for 11.2.0.4) will need additional patching in order to be able to use database links after April 2019. This caused some confusion…
IMPORTANT UPDATE (January 31st 2018): both hardware and software vendors released patches for the Metldown and Spectre vulnerabilities. However, after a while they all found out the performance impact was bigger than expected. In some cases the patched systems even started to reboot unexpectedly from time to time. That’s why most vendors ask to wait…
Since the early days Oracle started to work with versions identified by sequential numbers: 2, 3, etc… until version 12c now. Each version has several releases, containing new features and bug fixes (like 12c Release 1 and 12c Release 2). Both versions and releases come available when Oracle thinks they’re stable and reliable for production…
Microsoft just made Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SQL Server 2016 available (November 15th 2016). However, this is not just a Service Pack like the other ones! Beside the fixes also released in Cumulative Update (CU) 1, 2 and 3, this Service Pack opens the gate to some exciting Enterprise features across all SQL Server…
On October 19th 2016, a serious Linux kernel vulnerability named Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195) was announced. This bug makes it possible for an unprivileged user to get write access to read-only memory mappings which lets them increase their privileges on the system. Checking the impact of this vulnerability, it’s really important to patch your Linux kernel…
Oracle customer and want to SAVE SOME MONEY? Oracle database 11gR2 free extended support is almost at its end. Time to upgrade or pay more to get less! Currently Oracle 12c Release 1 is the only version for which Oracle still delivers the Premier Support. For Oracle database version 11gR2 the premier support ended January…
No worries, just sit down and relax: Monin’s Database Managed Services are the answer for your peace of mind! Just check our brand new website http://www.monin-it.be for more information on how we can help to offload some of your stress when talking about databases. Depending on your needs, we can augment or substitute your database…
Do you like to come home with a smile?
Want to have fun with your colleagues?
Are you eager to learn and searching for opportunities?
Do you already feel the excitement after reading those questions?
We can tell you a lot about the chances, the atmosphere, the innovation, the entrepreneurship, etc… within Monin.
But as it’s all about people, it’s probably much better to let them tell how it is to work for Monin:
“At Monin we work within a very nice professional atmosphere combined with the necessary fun. As part of the Microsoft SQL team, I’m serving customers together with my colleagues. The team is really great, always willing to help day and night. Due to the number of customers we serve, I learn something new every single day. If it’s not by self-study, it’s by solving an issue at one of our customers. Monin offers plenty of challenges which keep me motivated!”Davy
“Working for Monin is something I never encountered before. Thanks to the Family atmosphere, created by all the nice colleagues but also by the bosses, I never encountered a morning where I did not feel happy to go to work. There is no huge big wall between us and the management which means we can always hop in for a talk or a laugh but also with all our questions and concerns. The fact that we work with flexible hours and the possibility of home working makes this job very interesting in combination with a family life. We receive a lot of opportunities, trainings when needed, but also interesting and challenging projects at a broad range of customers.
All of this (and a lot more) makes me a very happy person. This does not only have a positive impact on my personal life, but also on the collaboration with colleagues. At the end, even our customers benefit from this as they always receive help from well-motivated and trained people.
If it depends on me: I will never leave here on my own, they will have to force me ;)”Kristof
Working at Monin is working in a small company that is backed by the knowledge and potential from a large group with knowledge in almost the complete IT-stack.
Because we work for a lot of customers no single day is the same. Challenges and opportunities come in from all directions.
Colleagues are there to help you whenever needed and an occasional event tops it off.Dave
“It must sound crazy but working at Monin is all I always dreamed about. Coming from Spain, leaving the land where I was born, leaving my family and friends behind, learning a language I never saw in my life, starting an IT career 6 years after graduating with not that much experience was really difficult. Even before my first day at Monin I already felt I was part of this family. Until now I still feel the support of my colleagues. They believe in me even when I hardly can do it which makes me feel motivated to continue. Working at Monin surely is a challenge as you’re constantly growing and learning. I am fortunately surrounded by masters and they always have a hand for me. Sharing the knowledge and learning is fascinating and I hope this family keeps growing. If it depends on me, I will always be here to see the great things happening.”Carmen
It is really great to work at Monin. We are giving the best to all of our customers and constantly learning and discovering new ways on how to improve the quality.
Beside of that, there’s a very deep knowledge of database technologies and the components around, as a large number of customer, all with their own type of environment, need to be managed.
Within the Monin community, colleagues are eager to help and are constantly trained and coached to learn new things.
At the end, Monin really is a people driven company with a family-oriented atmosphere.Thierry
All on top of the benefits also earned at other companies. Those are the open positions:
Together with the team of Microsoft SQL Server DBA’s, you will make the difference for our customers by managing their database environment: from advise/initial setup or review to its management and support, within a local datacenter or the cloud. Plenty of challenges to tackle!
You’ll be the one to start the Open-Source DBA team, as we receive more and more requests from our customers for MySQL and/or PostgreSQL DBA’s. In this role you define together with us how the team should grow, the training path for juniors, the go-to-market strategy, etc… But the BEST OF ALL: you get the chance to grow to one of the best Open-Source DBA’s by following courses, perform challenging projects, etc… Are you willing to be challenged?
