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Articles for the keywords: zones
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09 Nov 2012
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SPARC T4 Servers Deliver Improved Performance on PeopleSoft Combined Benchmark [28399]
CPU Utilization in Application, Web, and Database Tiers Leaves Significant Headroom for Growth
Oracle's SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle's PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 combined online and batch benchmark achieved a world record 18,000 concurrent users experiencing subsecond response time while executing a PeopleSoft Payroll batch job of 500,000 employees in 32.4 minutes. This result was obtained with a SPARC T4-4 server running Oracle Database 11g Release 2, a SPARC T4-4 server running PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 application server, and a SPARC T4-2 server running Oracle WebLogic Server in the web tier. Average CPU utilization in the web tier T4-2 server was 17%, in the application tier 59%, and in the database tier 47% (online and batch).
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04 Nov 2012
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Amazon Outage Started Small, Snowballed Into 12-Hour Event [28322]
NetworkWorld October 23, 2012
"Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday," says Brandon Butler in "Network World."
He continues saying that, "AWS has not yet said what caused the failure, but the company posted frequent updates throughout the day. It noted a number of times that customers who have architected their systems according to AWS's best practices of spreading workloads across multiple availability zones were less likely to have experienced issues."
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31 Oct 2012
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How Customers Are Using Oracle Solaris 11 Features [28295]
ZFS Is Turning Out to Be a Great Favorite
Marcus Flierl, VP Solaris Core Engineering, comments on how Oracle Solaris 11 customers are taking advantage of the Image Packaging System and the snapshot capability of ZFS to run more frequent updates of not only the OS, but also the applications, and how they're using the network virtualization capabilities in Oracle Solaris 11 to isolate applications and manage workloads in the cloud. He cites examples of innovative uses customers are employing with Solaris 11, such as using the new patching system on top of ZFS. Updates are easier, he contends, with these new capabilities, especially ZFS snapshots that enable system restore.
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31 Oct 2012
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Security Capabilities and Design in Oracle Solaris 11 [28296]
Video Captures Three Big Guns in Solaris Security
Host Rick Ramsey of OTN captures Alex Barclay, Glen Brunette, and Darren Moffett for an off-the-cuff chat on Oracle Solaris security at Oracle OpenWorld 2012. Barclay comments on compliance reporting and extended policy; Brunette on security mandates, access control and immutable zones; and Moffett on the design of security protocols and achieving management of extended policies and administrative interfaces, and integration of the Solaris audit trail and the Oracle Audit Vault.
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23 Oct 2012
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Amazon Outage Started Small, Snowballed Into 12-Hour Event [28221]
NetworkWorld October 23, 2012
"Amazon Web Services has almost fully recovered from a more than 12-hour event that appears to have started by only impacting a small number of customers but quickly snowballed into a larger issue that took down major sites including Reddit, Imgur and others yesterday.
AWS has not yet said what caused the failure, but the company posted frequent updates throughout the day. It noted a number of times that customers who have architected their systems according to AWS's best practices of spreading workloads across multiple availability zones were less likely to have experienced issues..."
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