IBM's reaction to Sun/Oracle TPC-C announcement
I expected a reaction from IBM in regard of Sun/Oracle. But not such a lame one as provided by Mrs. Stahl of IBM. Let’s forget for a minute that TPC-C...
links for 2009-10-14
AppleInsider | Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage (tags: microsoft analysis it business backup history iphone phone 2009 cloud danger sidekick fail) Bartending/Cocktails/Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - Wikibooks,...
SPARC64 VII speed bump
The Fujitsu website already provides the press release for the speedbump of the SPARC64 VII: Now it’s available with 2.88 GHz for the M9000/M8000 and with 2.53 GHz for the...
links for 2009-10-13
Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) / Direct Strike Hard Target Weapon / Big BLU New Sun Storage: Quick as a Flash | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com But in terms of a true...
Brendan screaming at a storage array - revisited
Do you remember this video Brendan published on the very last day of the last year. He screamed at a single harddisk to demonstrate that Analytics is precise enough to...
TPC-C benchmark reports for the Sun/Oracle T5440/F5100 configuration
The results of the recent TPC-C benchmark are available at the TPC-C website. As usual you will find the Executive Summary and the Full Disclosure Report at that location, too....
Surveillance by variance-based radio tomographic imaging
This video at Youtube is a great demonstration what’s possible but it’s a horrible demonstration what’s possible as well: Surveillance by using wireless networks. Not by tracking an receiver/transmitter, just...
6000 blog entries
Just saw that this blog entry was the 6000th in this blog. :)
Ben Rockwood at Oracle World
Ben Summers wrote in a tweet “Famous Sun/Oracle merger sceptic sounds almost positive? http://is.gd/4fbN5” when linking to Ben Rockwoods (author of cuddletech.com, one of the best Sun/Solaris blogs) article about...
Sun Storage F5100 officially announced
Sun has now announced the F5100 officially. The specs are really impressive: The largest version with 80 FMods yields 1.6 Million read IOPS and 1.2 million write IOPS with 4k...
7,717,511 tpmC
A system from Sun has know the performance crown in TPC-C: 7,717,511 tpmC on a system with 12 T5440. The system used 60 F5100 Flash Storage Arrays. Interesting point: The...
Observations on memory reliability
Robin Harris points to an interesting study about DRAM failures in his blog storagemojo (BTW: Robins blog is really a great read). He points to the paper “DRAM Errors in...
links for 2009-10-11
Outsourcing Is High Tech's Subprime-Mortgage Fiasco - Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine? - Harvard Business Review (tags: business outsourcing risk economics innovation usa)
links for 2009-10-10
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NAS with OpenSolaris benchmarked
Interesting benchmark - FlexTk Performance: NAS Performance Comparison: An operating system for your NAS server should be selected according to your own file access patterns. If you are expecting to...
Hybrid Storage Pool in the S7000 series
Just as i wrote about SSD in the S7000, Brendan wrote an article about the top speed performance and performance characteristics of the hybrid storage pool in the S7000 series....
links for 2009-10-09
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Somewhat stable Solid State
A reader think it makes no sense to use the STEC SSD, and we should switch to the Intel X25E drives. That sounds reasonable at first as the X25E is...
A letter to the EU
That’s a a really interesting development. Mårten Mickos, the former CEO of Mysql AB, wrote a letter to Mrs. Kroes, the EU Commissioner for competition. It’s an really interesting read....
10.000.000$ challenge
Of course this challenge is a bold marketing stunt, but i like it … ;) If your Oracle database application doesn't run at least twice as fast on SUN hardware...