Notes from Oracle, Chapter 3 in the Series
Once again, I received a marketing email from Oracle this morning. And once again, hoping that it contained exciting new data on the T5, I was sadly disappointed. I can not fathom why they continue to...
View ArticleNew Oracle M5 and T5 SAP Benchmark Results: No SPARC at all
If you were hoping for some Last Friday Night excitement from Oracle’s new SPARC servers announcement this week, we haven’t seen it yet. Oracle just this morning published two SAP SD 2-tier benchmark...
View ArticleOracle’s New T5 TPC-C: Where’s the SPARC?, Part II
With Oracle’s new SPARC server announcement today, we are all still waiting in anticipation (take your pick of Rocky Horror or Carole King) for something exciting. The just released TPC-C benchmark...
View ArticleOracle’s SPARC T5 and M5 Benchmarks: Lather, Rinse, Repeat
I think I’ve said this before but one of my most absolute favorite movies is Groundhog Day. (Attention: spoiler is coming but since the fricking movie is from 1993 and most of us were old even way back...
View ArticleMoonshot vs. Metrics
Some of you may know that last week I was on some college visits. I love this time of info sessions, tours, cafeterias, classrooms, and dorms. I even got to stay in a real dorm one night. Funny, it was...
View ArticleOn Fencing Claims and Real World Benchmarks
I am so intimately familiar with fencing it’s not funny. I’ve had épées, foils, and even sabers at my house. I’ve been to Junior Olympics (as a spectator, of course). My washer has seen fencing...
View ArticleShoe Fetish or Benchmark Comparison ?
Last month I visited the Fashion Institute of Technology’s new exhibit “Shoe Obsession.” And for anyone who relishes shoes, this was the place to be. You enter the dark rooms and the glass cases are...
View ArticleThe National Security on the T5-4 and Big Data
There’s been a lot of talk the last few days on Big Data and when it’s “right” to capture and use it. Some say it’s a real invasion of privacy. Others realistically point out that it is the best way to...
View ArticleCome on Oracle, Get “With It” Benchmarking
I admit that many weekends this time of year you will find me (when I’m not enslaved by the leaf blower) curled up with a good old book on the old couch with my thankfully not so old dog. But this...
View ArticleCome on Oracle, Get “With It” Benchmarking
I admit that many weekends this time of year you will find me (when I’m not enslaved by the leaf blower) curled up with a good old book on the old couch with my thankfully not so old dog. But this...
View ArticlePOWER8 (and No. 23) is King
So it was just announced that LeBron James will be back wearing No. 23 for his return to the Cleveland Cavaliers next season. Cleveland, the old “mistake by the lake” and my current hometown, has had a...
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