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Author: Bart Sjerps

The IOPS race is over

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-08 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Infrastructure has always been a tough place to compete in. Unlike applications, databases or middleware, infrastructure components are fairly easy to replace with another make and model, and thus the vendors try to show off their product as better than…

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Baking a cake: trading CPU for IO?

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 4 Comments

Sometimes I hear people claim that by using faster storage, you can save on database licenses. True or false? The idea is that many database servers are suffering from IO wait – which actually means that the processors are waiting…

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Looking forward: 2016

Bart Sjerps 2016-01-13 General, Various No Comments

We’re already over one week in 2016 and I realize I haven’t done much blogging lately. One of the things that kept me busy is development on Outrun, and the joint Oracle / EMC Solution Center (OSC) on which I…

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Silly Little Oracle Benchmark – RPM edition

Bart Sjerps 2015-09-16 Oracle, Performance No Comments

A while ago Kevin Closson announced a new release of the well-known SLOB kit. SLOB is a simple but powerful toolkit that drives lots and lots of IO on a real Oracle database (so for performance testing of database platforms,…

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Interview with Madora

Bart Sjerps 2015-09-10 Oracle, Virtualization No Comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Kay Williams of Madora Consulting. As many customers are overwhelmed by licensing, audit and compliancy issues, I highly recommend my EMEA readers to reach out to Madora if you need independent assistance in…

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