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Announcing qdda 2.0

Bart Sjerps 2018-05-142024-11-29 Innovation, Oracle, Performance

It’s almost a year since I blogged about qdda (the Quick & Dirty Dedupe Analyzer). qdda is a tool that lets you scan any Linux disk or file (or multiple disks) and predicts potential thin, dedupe and compression savings if…

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Oracle Data Placement on XtremIO

Bart Sjerps 2015-01-29 Innovation, Oracle, Performance

Many customers these days are implementing Oracle on XtremIO so they benefit from excellent, predictable performance and other benefits such as inline compression and deduplication, snapshots, ease of use etc. Those benefits come at a price and if you just…

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Putting an end to the password jungle

Bart Sjerps 2014-03-27 General, Innovation, Various

With my blog audience all being experts in the IT industry (I presume), I think we are all too familiar with the problems of classic password security mechanisms. Humans are just not good at remembering long meaningless strings of tokens,…

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The public transport company needs new buses

Bart Sjerps 2014-01-31 Innovation, Oracle, Performance

A public transport company in a city called Galactic City, needs to replace its aging city buses with new ones. It asks three bus vendors what they have to offer and if they can do a live test to see…

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Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX

Bart Sjerps 2013-01-22 Innovation, Oracle, VPLEX

Here’s an EMC video on Youtube about Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX. Very nice, check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E

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