From on-premises specialist to cloud DevOps generalist – the DBA role has absorbed every wave of infrastructure change. Cloud adds one genuinely new pressure: the monthly bill.
Evolution of the DBA
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Databases Now Live In The Cloud
Gartner predicted 75% of databases in the cloud by 2022. The industry debate focused on migration – but not on the question that mattered most: what happens to performance?
Don’t Call It A Comeback
flashdba returns from retirement to ask the question nobody in the cloud conversation was asking: when 75% of databases move to the cloud, what actually happens to performance?
The Final Post: Hardware Is Dead
Well, my friends, this is it. The time has come to retire the flashdba jersey after more than seven years of fun and frolics. In part one of this post, I looked back at my time in the All-Flash storage industry and marvelled at the crazy, Game of Thrones-style chaos that saw so many companies arrive, … Continue reading The Final Post: Hardware Is Dead
Flash Debrief: The End (part 1)
Seven years ago this month, I created a blog and online presence called flashdba to mark the start of my journey away from Oracle databases (and DBAing) into the newly-born All-Flash Storage industry. Six years ago this month, I posted the first in what transpired to be a very long blog series attempting to explain the … Continue reading Flash Debrief: The End (part 1)
Oracle ASM and Thin Provisioning – How To Reclaim Space
It came to my attention last November that I had crossed the one year anniversary since my last post on flashdba.com. I was so surprised that I immediately decided to write a new post, which took another three months. There are reasons why I'm no longer posting technical blogs about databases and flash, but I'll … Continue reading Oracle ASM and Thin Provisioning – How To Reclaim Space
All Flash Arrays: Scale Up vs Scale Out (Part 2)
In the first post on the subject of Scale Up versus Scale Out, we looked at the reasons why scalability is a key requirement for storage platforms, as well as discussing the limits of Scale Up only architectures, i.e. systems where more capacity is added to the same fixed number of controllers. In this article, … Continue reading All Flash Arrays: Scale Up vs Scale Out (Part 2)
All Flash Arrays: Scale Up vs Scale Out (Part 1)
Imagine you want to buy some more storage for your laptop - let's say an external USB drive for backups. What are the fundamental questions you need to ask before you get down to the thorny issue of price? Typically, there is only one key question: How much capacity do I need? Of course there … Continue reading All Flash Arrays: Scale Up vs Scale Out (Part 1)
The Flash Insider: To POC or Not To POC?
Guest Post I'm excited announce another guest blog written by my good friend and funny-talking American cousin Nathan Fuzi. Like me, Nate comes from a database background but joined the all-flash storage revolution back in its infancy. Which means, like me, Nate how has a little tombstone on his résumé marked Violin Memory. But even though he … Continue reading The Flash Insider: To POC or Not To POC?
All Flash Arrays: Active/Active versus Active/Passive
I want you to imagine that you are about to run a race. You have your trainers on, your pre-race warm up is complete and you are at the start line. You look to your right... and see the guy next to you, the one with the bright orange trainers, is hopping up and down on … Continue reading All Flash Arrays: Active/Active versus Active/Passive
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