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The Quick and Dirty Deduplication Analyzer

Bart Sjerps 2017-04-18 Oracle, Performance, Various 2 Comments

The best thing about being me… There are so many “me”s. — Agent Smith, The Matrix Reloaded One of our customers reported less than optimal space savings on XtremIO running Oracle. In order to test various scenarios with Oracle I…

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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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Putting an end to the password jungle

Bart Sjerps 2014-03-27 General, Innovation, Various 1 Comment

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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Linux Disk Alignment Reloaded

Bart Sjerps 2013-03-28 Oracle, Performance, Various 5 Comments

My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.  1,874 total…

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Looking back and forward

Bart Sjerps 2013-01-07 General, Various 3 Comments

I have been enjoying a short holiday in which I decided to totally disconnect from work for a while and re-charge my battery. So while many bloggers and authors in our industry were making predictions for 2013, I was doing…

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