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Oracle: Continued Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Oracle continues to amaze as another quarter passes with revenues again far exceeding analyst predictions. Oracle revenue shot was up 28 per cent to $5.31bn, from $4.16bn in Q2 2006 while global sales of Oracle software licences increased 38 per

Storage: Storage Backups Result in Business Disruptions

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses of all kinds are growing ever more data centric. And as a result, they are collecting ever more and more data. 59 percent of IT executives report feeling the pain of supporting massive amounts of data within their organizations.

Storage: Terabytes on Pinheads

By Dick Weisinger

Since 1965, transistors have relentlessly halved in size every twenty-four months according to Moore’s law. Storage bits have kept pace, shrinking in size at a phenomenal rate. (Actually the analog of Moore’s Law for Storage devices is called Kryder’s law

Storage: Companies Keep Dated Information Too Long

By Dick Weisinger

Lack of good governance and records management policies means that many companies hold onto information far longer than they should. And that could be a problem. A survey of companies found that 7 out of 10 companies are not purging

Storage: More than a billion served…

By Dick Weisinger

Files that is. IBM is pushing the envelope in supporting super-fast access to files across a shared-disk clustered file system. They call the new technology the General Parallel File System (GPFS). Typically a file server is a single machine that