IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly known as General Parallel File System – GPFS) is a highly scalable, flexible, reliable, and high performance clustered file system. While many clustered file systems...
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Use lkdev For Oracle ASM Disks and VSCSI Disks – But Use with Caution!
The AIX Logical Volume Manager (LVM) makes the management of disks, volume groups, and logical volumes very easy, especially when compared to many of the other UNIX and Linux volume managers....
Why is Infrastructure Performance Management Such a Challenge?
It’s the question of the ages. Or at least the question since IT data centers came into being. Goodness knows, there are a boat load of platform tools available – and there is a ton of data. Yet,...
Connecting to an Oracle Dataguard Physical Standby Database with the TDPOSYNC Utility
Many Oracle environments run backups from their Dataguard physical standby database, if applicable. This is best practice in the field because it allows you to offload any overhead of a database...
How a Company Leveraged IT Investments – Not Staff Additions – to Grow Revenue
How many times have you heard business executives say something along the lines of “IT investments are an overhead, while an investment in sales goes directly to the bottom line?” If you have, I...
Product Enhancements: AIX and Linux Environments
We are pleased to announce the availability of enhancements to the Galileo Performance Explorer Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) suite. These updates provide additional reports,...
PCIe Adapter Virtualization with SR-IOV
Within the world of POWER hardware, the PowerVM SEA (Shared Ethernet Adapter) has been the standard when it comes to virtualizing an ethernet adapter for quite some time. With the introduction of...
The Advantages of IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) vs. HDFS for Big Data
IBM’s Spectrum Scale! Have you not heard of it yet? Spectrum Scale is IBM’s GPFS file system widely used for large scale enterprise clustered file systems that need to scale up to petabytes 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...
Tiering Up: The Data Storage Balancing Act for Businesses
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...
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...