Drill Down the I/O stack at UKOUG Tech13
It's just under a week to go before the doors open for the UKOUG Tech13 conference and the adjoining OakTable World UK 2013 sessions, so I thought I would write a very short blog post about what I will...
View ArticleDrill Down the I/O stack at UKOUG Tech13
It's just under a week to go before the doors open for the UKOUG Tech13 conference and the adjoining OakTable World UK 2013 sessions, so I thought I would write a very short blog post about what I will...
View Article20th Century Stacks vs. 21st Century Stacks
In the 1960s, Bank of America and IBM built one of the first credit card processing systems. Although those early mainframes processed just a fraction of the data compared to that of eBay or Amazon,...
View ArticleHadoop is Not Merely a SQL EDW Platform
I was recently invited to speak about big data at the Rocky Mountain Oracle User's Group. I presentedto Oracle professionals who are faced with an onslaught of hype and mythology regarding Big Data in...
View ArticleMore Than Just a Lake
Data lakes, like legacy storage arrays, are passive. They only hold data. Hadoop is an active reservoir, not a passive data lake. HDFS is a computational file system that can digest, filter and analyze...
View ArticleHadoop as a Cloud
The idea of clouds “meeting" big data or big data "living in" clouds isn’t simply marketing hype. Because big data followed so closely on the trend of cloud computing, both customers and vendors still...
View ArticleOracle’s In-Memory Database: The True Cost Of Licensing
At last, the long-awaited release of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has arrived, including the highly anticipated In-Memory Database Option. I have had the pleasure of being involved in the early beta stages...
View ArticleOracle’s In-Memory Database: The True Cost Of Licensing
At last, the long-awaited release of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has arrived, including the highly anticipated In-Memory Database Option. I have had the pleasure of being involved in the early beta stages...
View ArticleThe 7 Deadly Sins of Cloud Computing
As if anyone needs to be reminded, there’s a ridiculous amount of hype surrounding clouds and big data. There’s always oodles of hype around any new technology that is not well understood—I believe the...
View ArticleHPC versus HDFS: Scientific versus Social
There have been rumblings from the HPC community indicating a general suspicion of and disdain for Big Data technology which would lead one to believe that whatever Google, Facebook and Twitter do with...
View ArticleHow do you Explain Oracle in 50 Minutes?
I’ve done a very “brave”* thing. I’ve put forward a talk to this year’s UKOUG Tech14 conference titled “How Oracle Works – in under 50 minutes”. Yes, I really was suggesting I could explain to people...
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An Oracle Instance is Like An Upmarket Restaurant
I recently did an Introduction to Oracle presentation, describing how the oracle instance worked – technically, but from a very high level. In it I used the analogy of a restaurant, which I was quite...
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With Modern Storage the Oracle Buffer Cache is Not So Important.
With Oracle’s move towards engineered systems we all know that “more” is being done down at the storage layer and modern storage arrays have hundreds of spindles and massive caches. Does it really...
View ArticleFriday Philosophy – Building for the Future
I started my Oracle working life as a builder – a Forms & Reports Builder (briefly on SQL*Forms V2.3 but thankfully within a month or two we moved up to SQL*Forms V3, SQL*reportwriter V1.1 and...
View ArticleThe “as a Service” paradigm.
For the last few days I have been at Oracle Open World 2015 (OOW15) learning about the future plans and directions for Oracle. I’ve come to a striking realisation, which I will reveal at the end.The...
View ArticleFriday Philosophy Guest: Open Source Projects
This post is Guest Post by my friend Liron Amitzi, an Oracle Ace, presenter and instructor who specialises in Oracle design & infrastructure. You can find his blog over here. And with that, over...
View ArticleFriday Philosophy – The Singular Stupidity of the Sole Solution
I don’t like the ‘C’ word, it’s offensive to some people and gets used way too much. I mean “cloud” of course. Across all of I.T. it’s the current big trend that every PR department seems to feel the...
View ArticleOracle’s In-Memory Database: The True Cost Of Licensing
At last, the long-awaited release of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has arrived, including the highly anticipated In-Memory Database Option. I have had the pleasure of being involved in the early beta stages...
View ArticleOracle’s In-Memory Database: The True Cost Of Licensing
At last, the long-awaited release of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has arrived, including the highly anticipated In-Memory Database Option. I have had the pleasure of being involved in the early beta stages...
View ArticleOracle’s In-Memory Database: The True Cost Of Licensing
At last, the long-awaited release of Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 has arrived, including the highly anticipated In-Memory Database Option. I have had the pleasure of being involved in the early beta stages...
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