Simple Cloud Costing? Galileo Cloud Compass to the Rescue! A video chat with the developers who bring right-sized cloud costing information in real-time. It all started with a casual conversation...
What is the best server consolidation approach to help your business?
There are several top approaches to server consolidation which can help businesses reduce total data center cost while preventing server sprawl.
3 reasons top-notch infrastructure performance is critical for service providers
One of the ways to engage with customers and offer up a competitive edge is to ensure optimal performance of the services being delivered.
Proactive IT Monitoring Prevents System Slowdowns
Part 1 of Series: Solving Today’s Top 5 IT Performance Management Challenges IT Performance is an important concern due to the complicated nature of application architectures—including layers of...
Part 2: Live Partition Mobility in IBM Power Servers – Debugging with IBM’s devscan Utility
I recently performed some Live Partition Mobility (LPM) testing for a customer, and ran into a number of problems – see Part 1 of this post for the full story on all of the problems and solutions....
Part 1: Live Partition Mobility in IBM Power Servers– Lessons Learned
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) is not a new feature for IBM Power servers, but I recently revisited it, and discovered some interesting problems (and solutions) that I wanted to share, to help anyone...
Useful Sqlplus Features and Tips
Sqlplus is the command line interface client for the Oracle database. It is used by DBAs to administer a database, by developers to develop server side software components, and others. It is one of...
Six Thoughts on Recent Oracle UNIX/Linux Release Enhancements
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....
The New Fancy POWER8 E850
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...
Achieving Processor and Memory Affinity using Dynamic Platform Optimizer on POWER Hardware
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...
Controlling the Storage Blob: Six Key Areas That Can Improve Storage Efficiency and Affordability
In the 1958 film “The Blob,” the blob begins as a small alien creature brought to earth via a meteorite, but it quickly begins consuming every human it contacts and becomes ever larger and voracious...