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 about the cloud and infrastructure monitoring among the team at...
There are several top approaches to server consolidation which can help businesses reduce total data center cost while preventing server sprawl.
One of the ways to engage with customers and offer up a competitive edge is to ensure optimal performance of the services being delivered.
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 virtualization, network complexity, advanced storage infrastructures,...
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. The most complicated problem required us to investigate our SAN...
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 else that might run into the same issues. I hadn’t touched Live...
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 the oldest Oracle tools and one of the most famous. Once connected...
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...
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...
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)....
