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TheCube interview EMC World 2014

Bart Sjerps 2014-05-06 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization

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

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Getting the most out of your server resources

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

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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VMware is really expensive

Bart Sjerps 2012-12-11 Oracle, Virtualization

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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Stop Idling – Start Saving

Bart Sjerps 2012-10-23 Oracle, Virtualization

One of my missions is to help customers saving money (Dirty Cache Cash). So considering the average enterprise application environment, I frequently ask them where they spend most of their IT budget on. Is it servers? Networks? Middleware? Applications? Turns…

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Save money by virtualizing Oracle

Bart Sjerps 2011-11-09 Oracle, Virtualization

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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