Wiping the sweat from his brow, Fishworks Engineer Bryan Cantrill reflects on the release of the new major Sun Storage 7000 series software update, known as 2010.Q1. Producing this release was no mean feat, Cantrill writes, given that it involved building enterprise-grade storage on commodity components, incorporating entirely new elements like Flash, and creating an ambitious management stack entirely from scratch.
As the title reads, this book is an essentials guide to Solaris 10 ZFS. Numbering only 144 pages, the slim paperback is designed to show its readers how to deploy and manage ZFS file systems. It is particularly useful for those users who are new to Solaris or are using ZFS for the first time. It is easy to get ZFS up and running on a home system or business IT infrastructure by following the simple instructions in this book.
Christopher Chelliah, general manager for Exadata and Appliance solutions, Oracle Asia Pacific, said the flash storage integration within the second iteration of Oracle's Exadata Database Machine eliminates the need to source data from storage disks and cuts query processing time significantly. "Coupled with the hybrid columnar compression feature which groups data by column before compression, the flash storage can fit up to 50 terabytes of data," said Chelliah, as reported by IDG.
Results of the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.0 benchmark on Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and X6270 blade servers are available. This benchmarking report is particularly significant, writes Giri Mandalika in his Scratchpad blog, because the workload has both online transactions and batch processes and, furthermore, it is the first time Sun has published a PeopleSoft benchmark on x64 hardware running Oracle Enterprise Linux.
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