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…
Looking forward: 2016
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…
Putting an end to the password jungle
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,…
Linux Disk Alignment Reloaded
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.
Looking back and forward
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…