Archive for October, 2010
Friday, October 29th, 2010
Under the Imagine Virtually Anything alliance, Cisco, NetApp and VMWare have teamed up to deliver a shared virtualized server/network/storage infrastructure that can securely host multiple "tenants." This seems like A Good Thing, for all the usual reasons virtualization is good (lower costs, improved energy/space efficiency, faster deployments, etc). Yet they ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2010
No matter the kind of database - Oracle, SQL server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc - there are distinct kinds of monitoring for the DBA. There is the monitoring done to make sure everything is healthy and performing well, that allows you to plan for growth, allocate resources, and be assured things ...
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
One of the difficulties in IT environments is that redundancy can sometimes make outages worse. The problem being that redundancy can often give people (mostly justified) confidence in the availability of their systems, so they design architectures on the assumption that their core switch (or database, or load balancing cluster, ...
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