by Galileo Team | Jun 24, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
While Oracle has been responsible for bringing many revolutionary features to the enterprise RDBMS market throughout its 38+ year history, recent releases have left me scratching my head in wonder. As a UNIX/AIX Sysadmin as well as an Oracle DBA, I thought I’d share...
by Galileo Team | Jun 11, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
So IBM has released details on the new mid-ranged POWER 8 system – and it’s awesome! I’ve always felt, ever since POWER8 was GA, that there was a gap between the low(er) end systems and the high-end systems. This has been answered with the new POWER8 E850. It’s even...
by Galileo Team | Jun 10, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
When most people think of computing data storage, they think in terms of USB thumb drives, recordable CDs and DVDs and, of course, cloud storage solutions. Such storage options work very well when it comes to personal computing data. However, when it comes to...
by Galileo Team | Jun 3, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
As IT professionals, we’re always looking for ways to get the best performance out of our systems. On the systems side, much of the focus on optimizing performance is placed at the operating system layer (CPU attributes, memory tuning, I/O related tuning, etc)....
by Galileo Team | Jan 30, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
IT business storage requirements today must adhere to a labyrinth of confusing and contradictory government- and industry-decreed regulations. Increasingly, every bit and byte of data has to be categorized and stored to protect a business from any number of “what if”...
by Galileo Team | Jan 14, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
I think it’s important to stress your hardware as much as possible. It’s kind of like when you buy a new car, you always punch the gas a little bit to see what the thing can do! Likewise, with your enterprise hardware, you want to give it a little gas....
