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Articles for the keywords: CMT
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26 Mar 2010
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Rethinking Scalability [22939]
A Further Look at the Hockey Stick Curve and Why Solaris Delivers
The subject of scalability becomes the topic considered by Stefan Hinker in his blog entitled "Some thoughts about scalability" in which he reviews the current thinking on the issue. The blog described the "hockey stick" curve that plots degradation of response time in terms of load. As Hinker notes, "a new product usually has a few large bottlenecks, and because they're large, the response time curve take off for infinity early, and goes almost straight up. Overloading the system even a little bit causes it to "hit the wall" and seem to hang. Response time is fairly flat until an inflection point, then heads up like a homesick angel."
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08 Mar 2010
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New Oracle-Sun Downloads [22841]
Most Recent and Popular Ones Listed
The Oracle-Sun downloads page offers the latest downloads along with a list of the top software visitors have downloaded. The page also offers its featured downloads, such as Java, NetBeans, GlassFish, JavaFX, OpenOffice.org, VirtualBox, and more. This article lists the most recent and top downloads, and links to access them.
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23 Feb 2010
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What Customers Can Expect from the New Sun [22848]
Streamlined Product Delivery, Long-deserved Emphasis on Sun Ray, Among Other Changes
It's safe to say that only Larry Ellison and a few of his top level Oracle executives really know "what's next for customers at Sun," but there is plenty of room for intelligent speculation on this score, and that is what Paul Murphy provides in his brief blog post on that topic. By and large, what Murphy sees will be welcomed by Sun customers.
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28 Jan 2010
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"Sun Systems for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software" [22752]
The Logical Choice for Enterprise Archival Storage
The need to develop data archiving capabilities is a challenge that every enterprise faces these days for any or all of several needs: whether to accommodate explosive data growth; to respond to the pressure to meet promised service levels and backup windows for users; to provide archive data retention and retrieval requirements; and to better manage rising energy costs. Dean Halbeisen's Sun BluePrints Online paper "Sun Systems for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software" details the openly architected, intelligent and massively scalable general purpose archive solutions Sun is developing to assist enterprise users in meeting these challenges.
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26 Jan 2010
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Sun BluePrints: "LDoms I/O Best Practices" [22736]
Configuring Highly Available Paths from Sun LDoms Guest Domains to Storage
The Sun BluePrints article "LDoms I/O Best Practices - Storage Availability with Logical Domains" by Peter A. Wilson discusses the approaches and trade-offs for configuring highly available paths from Sun Logical Domains (LDoms) guest domains to storage. Topics include I/O availability, multipath I/O with Solaris OS MPxIO, multipath I/O with virtual I/O failover, virtual I/O failover and network file storage, and multipath I/O to network file storage with virtual I/O failover.
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