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Bring the Industrial Revolution to your Oracle Workloads (Learn More by Stopping at Booth 801 at OOW 2015)

When I think of how technology has changed in the data center, I am always reminded of the history of the industrial revolution.  Wikipedia begins its definition and description of the industrial revolution in these words: “The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between […]

October 15, 2015 • 3 min read
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UCS at Collaborate 15: Simplify, Save, Increase Efficiency and Redefine the Word “Hardware”

I’m looking forward to Collaborate 15 where thousands of attendees travel to Las Vegas to learn, meet and improve their skills and understanding of Oracle databases and applications.   One of the main areas to see improvements in reliability, speed and cost of  Oracle database is the upgrading of server hardware.   Cisco UCS Servers and […]

April 8, 2015 • 2 min read
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UCS Integrated Infrastructure: Best of Breed Building Blocks in the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution

Clouds come in various flavors, but a common scenario is IT shops who have many applications on-premises (private clouds) and other workloads off-premise (public clouds).  This combination of private and public clouds is often called a hybrid cloud.  Integrating, customizing and securely delivering services based on hundreds of applications from dozens of vendors in public […]

October 31, 2014 • 3 min read
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New Cisco UCS Servers: Redefining Scale Up, Scale Up and Scale Out

Today is a big day and a turning point in the server world with Cisco’s partner Intel launching a new line of Intel® Xeon® processor E7 v2 product family cpus.  These new processors  offer numerous  benefits over their predecessors summarized in the next slide.  In addition, the Cisco UCS instantiation of these processors provides unique […]

February 18, 2014 • 2 min read