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…
Interview with Madora
A while ago I was interviewed by Kay Williams of Madora Consulting. As many customers are overwhelmed by licensing, audit and compliancy issues, I highly recommend my EMEA readers to reach out to Madora if you need independent assistance in…
Fun with Linux UDEV and ASM: Using UDEV to create ASM disk volumes
Because of the many discussions and confusion around the topic of partitioning, disk alignment and it’s brother issue, ASM disk management, hereby an explanation on how to use UDEV, and as an extra, I present a tool that manages some…
Getting the Best Oracle performance on XtremIO
(Blog repost from Virtual Storage Zone – Thanks to @cincystorage) UPDATE: I’ll say it again because there seems to be some confusion: THIS IS A REPOST! Original content is from the Virtual Storage Zone blog (not mine). Just reposted here…
TheCube interview EMC World 2014
Being interviewed yesterday at EMC World 2014 by Wikibon and SiliconAngle. Enjoy! Update: You can find a report of the interview here: Best Practices for Putting Your Oracle Database into the Cloud