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
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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
All Flash Arrays: Controllers Are The New Bottleneck
Today's storage array market contains a wild variation of products: block storage, file storage or object storage; direct attached, SANs or NAS systems; fibre-channel, iSCSI or Infiniband... Even the SAN section of the market is full of diversity: from legacy hard disk drive-based arrays through the transitory step of tiered disk+flash hybrid systems and on to modern All-Flash Arrays (AFAs). If … Continue reading All Flash Arrays: Controllers Are The New Bottleneck
New Installation Cookbook: Oracle Linux 6.7 with Oracle 11.2.0.4 RAC
I've updated my install cookbooks page to include a new cookbook for installation of Oracle 11.2.0.4 Real Application Clusters on Oracle Linux 6.7. This is also the first one I've published since I left the employment of Violin Memory to work for Kaminario, so this install uses a Kaminario K2 All Flash Array. However, it applies very well … Continue reading New Installation Cookbook: Oracle Linux 6.7 with Oracle 11.2.0.4 RAC
How the Next Generation of Flash Storage is Changing the Economics Of SaaS Businesses (Recorded Webinar)
This week I had the opportunity to record a webinar on a subject very close to my heart, the Software-as-a-Service industry. From 2003 to 2007 I managed the production infrastructure for a global SaaS company through the transition from startup to acquisition (partly by Salesforce.com). At the time, SaaS was a relatively new phenomenon, predating any concept … Continue reading How the Next Generation of Flash Storage is Changing the Economics Of SaaS Businesses (Recorded Webinar)
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