An IT infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
While busy preparing another blogpost on my dedupe analyzer tool, I was triggered to write a quick hotlist of reasons why one would strategically choose VMware virtualization over Oracle multitenant option if the goal is to achieve operational and cost…
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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 861 total views
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As more and more customers are moving their mission-critical Oracle database workloads to virtualized infrastructure, I often get asked how to deal with Oracle’s requirement to reproduce issues on a physical environment (especially if they use VMware as virtualization platform…
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In previous posts I have focused on the technical side of running business applications (except my last post about the Joint Escalation Center). So let’s teleport to another level and have a look at business drivers. What happens if you…
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My colleague Vince Westin published this great post on his blog: During his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Larry Ellison launched the new Exadata X3. The new version appears to have some nice new capabilities, including caching writes to…
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