Improving HammerDB Benchmark Test Results
HammerDB is a very popular benchmark tool for testing multiple different database engines, including Oracle, SQL Server and…
Building a Home Fibre Router Firewall
We recently changed over from Vodafone VDSL to Chorus UltraFast Broadband (UFB) Fibre Max with Vodafone (See Vodafone…
Oracle in VMware Environments – This Time Without FUD!
I think John Troyer sums today at Oracle OpenWorld up well – Hell Freezes Over? VMware Support on…
Rouge FUD: RedHat Support in Nutanix Virtualized Environments
RedHat is one of the pioneers of the Open Source community with their distribution of Linux called RedHat…
Sizing Solutions Across CPU Generations
When the time for refresh of your existing IT equipment comes, no doubt you’ll have some old CPU’s.…
Nutanix and The Shrinking Datacenter Packing a Big Punch
By now most readers will know that Nutanix can scale linearly to meet almost any enterprise data center…
In Memory Performance, Hyperconverged Simplicity – Nutanix AHV Validated for SAP HANA Production
Just after SAP Sapphire in Orlando I wrote about how Nutanix AHV had been validated for SAP HANA…
In Memory Performance, Hyperconverged Simplicity – SAP HANA Validated on Nutanix AHV
Last week SAP had their annual SapphireNow event in Orlando, Florida with over 20K people in attendance. Nutanix…
Stop Playing Russian Roulette With Your Data
Some vendors in the storage, hyper-converged, and cloud industries may be playing Russian Roulette with their customers’ data.…
10 Flying Tips Gained From 2 Million Miles Experience
I’m currently in Milan, Italy, after spending over 24 hours combined in a couple of different planes. This…