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| | You may remember my previous article about high-performance I/O for cloud databases, where I tested out the Silk Platform and got a single Azure VM to do over 5 GB/s (gigaBytes/s) of I/O for my large database query workload. The magic was in using iSCSI over the switched cloud compute network to multiple "data VMs" at the virtualized storage layer for high I/O throughput and scalability. Well, the Silk folks are at it again and Chris Buckel (@flashdba) just sent me screenshots of similar test runs using the latest Azure "v5" instance as the single large database node and they achieved over 10 GB/s scanning rate for reads and 6 GB/s write rate with large I/Os! - Linux, Oracle, SQL performance tuning and troubleshooting - consulting & training.
| | flashdba.com
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| | In the previous post, I ranted discussed the evolution of the DBA role, looking at how many additional functions the database administrator has inherited over the years: code fixer, virtualisation tamer, Linux / Windows juggler, reluctant storage administrator, application server hater, firewall botherer and all round fixer of any product badged as Oracle. But the...
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| | Cyberdyne Systems, is a global travel retailer with operations in 40 countries. Following a number of high-profile outages in 2020, the CIO and board decided to pursue a cloud-first strategy and to migrate existing workloads to AWS cloud.
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| The administration calls for a standardized federal playbook and review board for incident response, as well as changes to software procurement.