Dec
20
More Insecure IPTVs
Last year I blogged about how I had fairly easily "hacked" the IPTV setup at a hotel in Asia, using
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Dec
14
Automating Oracle Snapshots
I've previously written about how to Creating a new Oracle Database using an Array Snapshot, but this process involved a
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Dec
06
Creating a new Oracle Database using an Array Snapshot
Over the past few months I've worked with a number of customers who have been struggling to use array-based snapshots
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Nov
08
Adding Volumes to XtremIO Consistency Groups
XtremIO 4.0 added the concepts of Consistency Groups and Snapshot Sets. These were added mainly to simplify the flow
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Nov
08
Dynamic Currency Conversion
If you've ever traveled internationally and used a credit card, odds are at some point you've been asked if you'd
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Aug
23
Friends Don't Let Friends Run Oracle on ZFS
I frequently get asked why I recommend against running Oracle DBMS on ZFS, and instead recommend using ASM. The filesystem
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Jun
27
Flash testing tools - CrystalDiskMark
CrystalDiskMark is the type of tool I wouldn't even normally look at due to it's focus market, but one of
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Jun
26
Flash testing tools - Diskspd
Some time ago I wrote about Microsoft's storage performance testing tool SQLIO, with the conclusion that it was unsuitable for
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Jun
24
ZFS and Intelligent Storage
It's been almost 10 years to the day since Sun Microsystems first released ZFS as a part of the Solaris
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Jun
17
Vdbench Curve
Some time back I wrote about the relationship between Queue Depth, IOPS and Latency.
This relationship can be particularly tricky
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