An IT infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
Another Frequently Asked Question: Is there any disadvantage for a customer in using Oracle/SUN ZFS appliances to create database/application snapshots in comparison with EMC’s cloning/snapshot offerings? Oracle marketing is pushing materials where they promote the ZFS storage appliance as the…
Although EMC and Oracle have been long-time partners, the Exadata Database Machine is the exception to the rule and competes with EMC products directly. So I find myself more and more in situations where EMC offerings are compared directly with…
Last week EMC announced that Oracle RAC on VPLEX stretched clusters is now officially supported and certified by Oracle! News Summary: Oracle has certified that EMC® VPLEX™ METRO in a stretch cluster configuration can provide Oracle Real Application Clusters…
Today I was giving a training to fellow EMC colleagues on some Oracle fundamentals. One of the things that was mentioned is something I have heard several times before: Oracle is claiming that EMC SRDF (a data mirroring function from…
A trivial question: What is the basic function of a storage system? I would say, the trivial function of a storage system is to store digital data and getting it back when you need it. To be specific: get the…