An IT infrastructure perspective on optimizing business applications
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…
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(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…
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A public transport company in a city called Galactic City, needs to replace its aging city buses with new ones. It asks three bus vendors what they have to offer and if they can do a live test to see…
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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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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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