Data rush: Part 1

Data rush: Part 1

The Explosion “It’s not my fault,” said the Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) as he went back to his desk. The users in the New York office were frustrated with the database performance. Scott, a seasoned Oracle DBA walked back to his desk after a...
SSD is so 2013…

SSD is so 2013…

Flash storage and SSDs were all the rage the last couple of years. At all the major conferences this past year we saw a ton of smaller niche players jumping into this space. What I want to discuss in this blog is the next step in low latency storage. My colleague and...
Now where did I put that flash?

Now where did I put that flash?

For those of us who have been around the IT industry for a while, we have seen a lot of changes and an ever growing set of complexities as we ask our environments to continually do more for us. This has led to ever growing software tools that can manipulate data in...