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Getting the most out of your server resources

Bart Sjerps 2013-12-05 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 12 Comments

As an advocate on database virtualization, I often challenge customers to consider if they are using their resources in an optimal way. And so I usually claim, often in front of a skeptical audience, that physically deployed servers hardly ever…

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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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VMware is really expensive

Bart Sjerps 2012-12-11 Oracle, Virtualization 8 Comments

A while ago somebody forwarded me a research paper from an “independent” research firm in which the cost of VMware and Oracle VM were compared. Interesting! Now you might wonder why, as someone working for EMC, I would care about…

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Save money by virtualizing Oracle

Bart Sjerps 2011-11-09 Oracle, Virtualization 5 Comments

I wrote an internal EMC memo on licensing issues with Oracle on VMware as I get a lot of questions on this topic. But I’d like to expand the question a bit. After all, my blog is named “Dirty Cache”…

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