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The SPARC SuperCluster
Oracle has been providing a lead in the Engineered Systems business for quite a while now, in accordance with the motto "Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together." Indeed it is hard to find a...
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SPARC at 25: Past, Present and Future
Join us online to celebrate a quarter-century of innovation. Watch Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim along with other significant SPARC contributors discuss the challenges and rewards of...
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Solaris Eye for the Linux Guy… Part III (hugepages = ISM)
This post has been a long time coming but recently, I have started working on some SPARC SuperCluster POC’s with customers and I am getting re-acquainted with my old friend Solaris and SPARC. If you...
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Analyzing IO at the Exadata Cell level… a simple tool for IOPS.
Lately I have been drawn into to a fare number of discussions about IO characteristics while helping customers run benchmarks. I have been working with a mix of developers, DBAs, sysadmin, and storage...
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Dtrace probes in Oracle 12c… v$kernel_io_outlier is populated by dtrace!!
Oracle 12c certainly has some great features, but for the performance guy like myself, performance monitoring features are particularly interesting. There are three new v$ tables that track anomalies...
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Migrate from AIX to Oracle Solaris in 4 Easy Steps
Do you fear migration downtime for your always-on applications and increase in already long IT projects backlog? Overdue for an upgrade on your AIX/Power systems running Oracle technology and/or...
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What to Expect from Our Top Oracle Solaris 11 Training Courses
Untitled Document by Mike Lanker, Senior Oracle University Instructor After many years of working with prior versions of Solaris, I was asked to learn and teach Solaris 11 classes. I wondered what...
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Is IBM POWER8 a Smart(er) Choice?
On Wednesday, April 23, IBM announced new POWER8 systems at the OpenPower Forum. But IBM customers might be disappointed, as it appears that IBM is shifting its strategic R&D focus to Linux on...
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SPARC and Solaris Leadership in the Cloud
Oracle’s SPARC systems and Solaris OS are co-engineered to provide efficient virtualization technology. SPARC virtualization is “Built into Firmware” which reduces costs and improves performance.Oracle...
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Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle's SPARC M6 and T5 servers, Oracle Solaris, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and Oracle Enterprise Manager have been co-engineered with Oracle Database and Oracle applications to...
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