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RAC Moves Mainstream – But Slower Than It Could Have?

Gartner’s recent article Oracle RAC Moved to Mainstream Use made me think about how important Oracle’s work has been around RAC — but also how its progress could have been even faster if not for stubborn complexity of the underlying physical infrastructure. Let me explain with an example. Oracle Grid, aka Oracle RAC, allows database [...] Read More

Virtualization and Hosting

Egenera has numerous hosting clients that use the Processing Area Network (PAN) architecture (and PAN Manager software specifically) to improve competitive advantage for their businesses. One of our largest customers leverages Egenera as part of the foundation for the fastest growing segment of their business – ascending to the top spot in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. [...] Read More

Grid is Great…But the Platform Matters!

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 [...] Read More

Solaris 10 x86: Mission Critical or Mission Possible?

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 [...] Read More

Virtualization 1.0-2.0+

So, what is “Virtualization 2.0″? And what’s “Virtualization 1.0″ for that matter? Starting with where the industry is moving…Virtualization 2.0 starts with removing the layers of complexity by virtualizing both above the operating system and below. That means going beyond server virtualization (Virtualization 1.0) and combining that with network and storage virtualization to transform data [...] Read More

Virtualization – assess for success

“How many VMs or Egenera vBlades can I put on one of your bare metal blades?” This is a question I am asked repeatedly. Unfortunately, there is no absolute answer as not all applications are created and hosted equally. Some of our customers run 40 vBlades on a single Processing Blade, while others run just [...] Read More