Database Consolidation Part 1 – Business Drivers and Technical Challenges
Database consolidation has been a big trend in the industry for a while now. You can see this if you read the IT press, or if you listen to the relentless procession of people queueing up to talk...
View ArticleDatabase Consolidation Part 2 – Shared Infrastructure Design Choices
Part one was all about the business drivers and technical challenges faced when building a database consolidation platform. Database consolidation is all about sharing infrastructure, so part two is...
View ArticleDatabase Consolidation Part 3 – It’s All About Capacity
In parts one and two of this article I blogged, extensively and laboriously, about database consolidation. I talked (at length) about the business drivers for this industry trend, then went on to...
View ArticleDatabase Consolidation Part 4 – Flash Memory Makes The Difference
[This is part four of a series of articles about database consolidation. Part one addressed the business drivers and technical challenges, with part two focussing on design choices. Part three was...
View ArticleDatabase Workload Theory
In the scientific world, theoretical physicists postulate theories and ideas, for example the Higgs Boson. After this, experimental physicists design and implement experiments, such as the Large...
View ArticlePredictions for 2014: DataBase-as-a-Service
It’s that time of year again where lots of people write articles which begin with the words “It’s that time of year again…” and make endless references to crystal balls, tea leaves and the benefits of...
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