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Announcing my Openworld 2013 presentation material

Bart Sjerps 2013-09-27 Oracle, Performance

Last Tuesday I had the privilege to present at Oracle Openworld 2013 together with Sam Marraccini (the guy with the big smile here in the pic) from EMC’s Flash products division. Sam introduced the various EMC Flash offerings we have,…

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Linux Disk Alignment Reloaded

Bart Sjerps 2013-03-28 Oracle, Performance, Various

My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.

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ZFS and Database fragmentation

Bart Sjerps 2013-02-26 Oracle, Performance

Yet another customer was asking me for advice on implementing the ZFS file system on EMC storage systems. Recently I did some hands-on testing with ZFS as Oracle database file store so that I could get an opinion on the…

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Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine: Timely Thoughtful Thoughts For The Thinking Technologist – Part I

Bart Sjerps 2012-11-05 Oracle, Performance

Awesome post by Kevin! Recommended read if you are interested in Oracle Exadata.

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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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