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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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Monkey Business

Bart Sjerps 2011-08-31 General, Innovation, Oracle 1 Comment

Maybe you have heard the story of the Monkey Experiment. It is about an experiment with a bunch of monkeys in a cage, a ladder, and a banana. At a certain point one of the monkeys sees the banana hanging…

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Thin Provisioning

Bart Sjerps 2011-04-06 General, Oracle No Comments

Some customers ask us – not surprisingly – how they can reduce their total cost of ownership in their information infrastructure even more. In response, I sometimes ask them what the utilization is of their storage systems. Their answer: often…

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Innovation with Flash Drives – part 1

Bart Sjerps 2011-02-09 Innovation No Comments

This is an article I wrote a while ago (mid 2009), a while after EMC introduced Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD’s) and albeit a bit outdated, it is a valid introduction to Enterprise Flash Drive technology. It also explains the differences…

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