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Posted in Industry News on Dec 22nd, 2007
After attending Larry Ellison’s exciting keynote address at Oracle World 2006, it was clear to me that Oracle Grid is still one of the top product initiatives that Oracle is working on. Larry mentioned how Oracle Grid or what many of us call Oracle RAC (real application clusters) allows Database Administrators to string 50 commodity [...]
Posted in IO Virtualization on Dec 7th, 2007
In a recent game of one-upmanship, both HP and IBM announced the ability to virtualize IO and scale this to hundreds of blades across a hundred chassis. I can just imagine the marketing gurus at HP and IBM, pinky in the corner of their mouths Austin Powers-like, stating that they can now virtualize thousand of [...]
Posted in Industry News on Dec 5th, 2007
Does Solaris 10 x86 work? Is it just hype? Is anyone using it? We get asked these questions a lot at Egenera. Solaris x86 is here to stay and adoption seems to be growing. The combination of bulletproof Solaris and commodity-based hardware components with mainframe class software is just too attractive to ignore. Like many [...]