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Time for a change: Migrating Exadata to a modern All-Flash array

Bart Sjerps 2018-02-28 Deduplication, Oracle 4 Comments

  With Oracle’s uncertain SPARC future, the rise of very fast and capable All-Flash arrays and existing Exadata customers looking to refresh their hardware, I increasingly get questions on what platform we can offer as an alternative to Exadata or…

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Questions & Answers to replatforming webcast

Bart Sjerps 2017-02-13 FAQ, Oracle, Virtualization No Comments

A list of questions being asked to my most recent webcast on Oracle replatforming together with Madora Consulting. I decided to put the Q&A on the blog so anyone can benefit instead of just the 100+ attendees we had on…

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The IOPS race is over

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-08 Oracle, Performance No Comments

Infrastructure has always been a tough place to compete in. Unlike applications, databases or middleware, infrastructure components are fairly easy to replace with another make and model, and thus the vendors try to show off their product as better than…

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Baking a cake: trading CPU for IO?

Bart Sjerps 2016-02-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization 4 Comments

Sometimes I hear people claim that by using faster storage, you can save on database licenses. True or false? The idea is that many database servers are suffering from IO wait – which actually means that the processors are waiting…

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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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