La strategia stile mainframe di Oracle

Ieri sera Oracle ha annunciato la nuova strategia/roadmap per SPARC e un nuovo SuperCluster capace di gestire più di 30 Milioni di tpmC! L’evento è stato presentato da Larry Ellison (CEO) and Jon Fowler (executive VP systems). l’annuncio Hmmm! Lo sappiamo tutti, il tpm-C è uno benchmark datato, stupido e poco realistico ma è ancora usato per provare la potenza teorica dei DB...

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Oracle's mainframe style lock-in strategy

Last night Oracle announced their SPARC roadmap/strategy and a new so-called SuperCluster capable to run more than 30M TpmC! The event was hosted by Larry Ellison (Oracle’s CEO) and Jon Fowler (executive VP systems). about the announcement Hmmm! We all know, tpm-C is a very stupid, old and non-realistic benchmark but it’s still used to prove the theoretical horse power of DB machines,...

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FAST but late

EMC officially announced FAST (Fully automated Tiered Storage) for their Symmetrix arrays nearly one year ago but you can find first pre-announcements dated nearly two years ago! Yesterday, HDS announced the availability of HDT (Hitachi dynamic tiering) on their shiny new VSP. Months ago, IBM announced the availability easy tiering on their DS8000. Last spring, 3Par (now HP) announced the...

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