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Category Archives: POWER7
Moonshot 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 not any dorm I had ever been in, not at a college that I had […]
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New 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 results, one on the M5-32 and one on the T5-8. The IBM POWER7+ with DB2 10 result from back in September was […]
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Life in the Fast Lane
I recently wrote about a college visit — Big Data, Performance, and Coconut Smoothies might as well be titled Big Data at the Big Ten. And the ability to collect, measure, and analyze this massive flood of data for meaningful insights requires important non-functional IT requirements like reliability, availability, security, and of course performance. The [...]
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Cisco: TV Everywhere, Benchmarks Nowhere
No more having to remember when Glee is on. Or what channel. Or whether I should record it. I read this morning that Cisco has just announced a new video platform — one that will in the future enable the TV shows and movies you want to watch to find you via software that uses [...]
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A Tale of IBM Great Expectations
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” Let’s look at the worst first. Last week HP announced new Itanium servers. But don’t get too excited. Were there industry standard benchmarks announced in the press release? — No, just “internal lab testing.” Last week I was meeting with [...]
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IBM’s Real Proof Points
Let’s focus today on just a few of the awesome proof points that IBM announced yesterday. What’s clear is that these are not just wild claims backed by no data. These are real, externally-reviewed and published leadership results across important workloads that you can really use as one source of input in comparisons of infrastructure. [...]
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Cloud and Data and Security, Oh My
Cloud Ready. Data Ready. Security Ready. With outstanding performance. Important themes for the Smarter Computing announcements today. The new offerings include: 1) the most powerful enterprise Power Systems to date, POWER7+ systems, 2) a new high-end disk storage system, the DS8870, and 3) key software for the IBM zEnterprise EC12. Read the press release. Analyze [...]
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Click Here for 10 Million: IBM vs. Exadata Redux
For a few minutes this morning I thought that I might win 10 million dollars. I had already envisioned inviting Larry Ellison for tea at my second home in the Cayman Islands. I had already reveled in the joy that these funds would bring to the non-profits I support. And then I read the contest [...]
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Dear Performance Advisor Sergio in Austin
Dear Elisabeth: I had an experience that I would like to share with your readers. The other day I had a check engine light show up in my car. To anyone else, this might be a non-issue, I always dread those lights. We all have our limitations, and mine is the inability to resolve any [...]
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Cisco/Oracle Super Saturday TPC-C
So now they’re trying to put another one over on us. “Super Saturday” for retailers, where you shop till you drop the Saturday before Christmas, has been officially moved to tomorrow, one week early. To give us more sales and more time to shop until we drop. I’m just getting tired of being told that [...]
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