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A Tool to Migrate Oracle to NoSQL
I’m thinking about writing a piece of software. I would probably do it in Python. The general idea is to empower customers to be able to migrate Oracle database data to NoSQL, and to do so at scale. I.e. Petabytes … Continue reading
Soooo, What’s a “Converged Infrastructure” Exactly?
I have been looking at a lot of stuff relating to the notion of a converged infrastructure. The essential idea is this: The legacy platform, i.e. a single-image, physically booted server, typically attached to a SAN, is hopelessly outdated. This … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, database, emc, nutanix, oracle, scaleio, simplivity, storage, vmware
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Is ExaData an “Appliance”
My boss, Sam Lucido, raised the following question on the Everything Oracle at EMCwebsite: Appliances such as microwave ovens, refrigerators, iPods, iPads and TVs are excellent examples of the ease-of-use approach. Bringing the inherently complex world of Oracle databases together with the ease-of-use approach … Continue reading
Oracle Licensing on VMware – no magic
Acknowledgements to Bart Sjerps for this content. There seems to be a lot of confusion on licensing when customers consider running Oracle databases on VMware. Part of the confusion is caused by Oracle on purpose (classic FUD) by suggesting licensing … Continue reading
Darryl Smith’s Oracle RAC Recent Blog Post
EMC IT’s Darryl Smith recently issued an outstanding blog post on our ECN community, the subject of which was: Is Oracle RAC Becoming More of a Corner Case? I thought I would add a few thoughts to Darry’s blog post. I … Continue reading
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Tagged emc, ha, oracle, rac, virtualization, vmware, vsphere
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Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Technical Sessions: Part 1
This begins a series of blog posts on the subject of technical sessions that EMC presented at OOW2011. To begin with, we will examine the session that I co-presented with Kevin Jernigan entitled Clone Oracle Databases Online in Seconds with Oracle … Continue reading
Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Keynotes
I attended Oracle OpenWorld 2011 as usual this year, at which I co-presented a technical session with Kevin Jernigan on the subject of Direct NFS clonedb. Since I had a full conference pass, I was able to attend many of the keynotes at this event. … Continue reading
Announcing the Oracle Heretic Blog
Many of you have been following me for some time on the Oracle Storage Guy blog. I have been continuously receiving page hits and comments on blog posts I made years ago. I am grateful for all of the support … Continue reading
Oracle Heretic 