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		<title>Pythian at RMOUG Training Days 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maryanne Birksted</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian is very excited to return to the much-awaited RMOUG 12 held in Denver, Colorado from February 14-16, 2012. Keep your eyes open for Alex Gorbachev, Marc Fielding, Don Seiler and Gwen Shapira in attendance. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers this year featuring a total of seven papers presented by Alex, Marc, Don [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School: Elementary Physics for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maris Elsins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hello World!” I guess that’s the most appropriate way to start my 1st blog post under pythian.com domain. I’m going to start slow, but hopefully will pick up speed and have at least couple of posts each month to share with you. I&#8217;ve been blogging at http://appsdbalife.wordpress.com until now and I haven’t decided yet what the future will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/26705/comparing-oda-and-exadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is in many ways similar to an Exadata quarter rack: they both use two similar compute servers in an engineered system configuration, with shared storage and flash storage. But in other ways, especially networking and storage, they differ significantly. In particular: Storage connectivity: ODA uses SAS direct attachment, while Exadata uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unofficial Oracle Database Appliance FAQ</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/26701/oracle-database-appliance-faq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started putting together some information about the Oracle Database Appliance in question-and-answer form. If you have an unanswered question, ask away in the comment section below. (Update: Oracle has come out with their official FAQ as well) Why ODA? ODA offers the benefits of engineered, pre-configured systems for environments too small for Exadata. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database Appliance &#8212; What Does It Mean for You and Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard about Oracle Database Appliance and what it does, I got really excited &#8212; I saw great potential in this product. When we got our hands dirty and started testing the appliance, I become confident that this product will be a hit. Now it&#8217;s finally the time when I can share my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Exadata &#8220;technology that most changed his life&#8221; &#8211; says Oracle ACE &amp; Pythian DBA Fahd Mirza.</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/25589/oracle-exadata-technology-that-most-changed-his-life-says-oracle-ace-pythian-dba-fahd-mirza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian&#8217;s Oracle ACE, Fahd Mirza appears in this month&#8217;s Community: Peer-to-Peer review &#8220;In With the New&#8220;, as published in the September/October 2011 issue of Oracle Magazine. Fahd states that &#8220;Oracle Exadata Database Machine&#8221; has most changed his life &#8211; changing the game, and setting very high standards of performance, support, scalability, reliability and unification. Shout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian named to presitigious Profit 200, announces Toronto office</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/23269/pythian-named-to-presitigious-profit-200-announces-toronto-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/23269/pythian-named-to-presitigious-profit-200-announces-toronto-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PYTHIAN NEWS UPDATE For the second year in a row, Pythian is proud to be named to the prestigious Profit 200 Ranking of Canada&#8217;s Fastest Growing Companies. Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the PROFIT 200 profiles the country’s most successful growth companies. Published in the Summer issue of PROFIT and online at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #222, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 12:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fahd Mirza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the birds have started their yearly migration back to their homes from the warmer areas to the relative less cooler areas in summer, bloggers are also touching base with the technologies which they cherish most and coming back with some master strokes. This new cool edition of Log Buffer, the coolest blog carnival covering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidation Is All About Costs</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22113/consolidation-is-all-about-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 02:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February, Jonathan Gennick asked me if I would be interested in writing a bit of content for an APRESS brochure to distribute at RMOUG Training Days. I thought it was a cool idea and chose the topic of database consolidation. I only needed 10 short tips but when I started to write, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database Consolidation &#8212; What&#8217;s Your Story? (book prize)</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/19759/oracle-database-consolidation-whats-your-story-book-prize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear blog readers, I&#8217;m working on a small story about database consolidation and interested to learn what are success and failures that others are going through. While we have our own experience at Pythian, I find it interesting to learn about what others are going through. If you have enough details, it would be nice [...]]]></description>
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