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		<title>Exadata Memory Expansion Kit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking at an Exadata X2-2 ordering document and noticed that it included 144GB of RAM. The sales rep pointed at the Exadata X2-2 datasheet and showed the 96GB to 144GB memory expansion option. Based on my reading of Intel Xeon (Nehalam) memory configurations, as long as each channel has a single dual-ranked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian partners with Scalar to provide full suite of Oracle services</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PYTHIAN NEWS Pythian and Scalar Decisions today announced a formal partnership providing Oracle customers an unparalleled one-stop shop solution provider in Canada. Combined, we can help Oracle customers develop, fulfill, implement, and manage their whole Oracle solution stack. Read the full press release. Related news. More about Scalar Decisions]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata OEM monitoring plugins are now available</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control monitoring plug-ins for Exadata have been released. This is great news for Exadata users, since important components like InfiniBand switches previously had no direct monitoring. The plug-in bundle includes five separate monitoring plugins: KVM monitoring: hardware monitoring and reboot notification for the built-in Avocent KVM unit. Cisco switch monitoring: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential data loss issue on Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got an Exadata Customer Advisory e-mail from Oracle, identifying &#8220;an important issue that needs your immediate attention&#8221; and pointing to MOS note 1265396.1. Note 1265396.1 talks of an issue with disk controllers in Exadata storage servers declaring false disk failures. In some &#8220;rare cases&#8221;, multiple such false failures occur at the same some, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A grand tour of Oracle Exadata, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the third installment of a series describing the Oracle Exadata platform. In part 1 we talked about hardware components, and in part 2 went on to discuss software. We now move on to how these components are packaged and licensed. Unlike version 1 of the Oracle database machine, which was sold in full-rack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A grand tour of Oracle Exadata, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian has full-featured Oracle Exadata Services complete with successful implementations and reference customers. When Oracle first introduced Exadata at OpenWorld 2008, it was aimed squarely at the data warehouse market dominated by Teradata, Netezza, and other pure-play vendors. Version 2, introduced a year later, has expanded the scope to include general-purpose mixed and even pure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #27: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon and welcome to issue 27. The number 27 according to numerology is &#8220;the symbol of the divine light&#8221; so I&#8217;ll try to do that ideal justice. We&#8217;re off to a good start, what with me actually getting this out on schedule and such, so let&#8217;s get to it while the day is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #26: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there and welcome to Blogrotate in which I, your humble host and blogger, bring to you interesting stories and events from the past week in the SysAdmin world. It&#8217;s been yet another busy week, which is why this is coming out on a Sunday again, so I am going to have to short list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #25: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Hudson, SA Team Lead</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good evening and welcome to this weeks edition of Blogrotate. It&#8217;s a bit later than usual this week due to client concerns but I could not let this week go by without something. This week, after all, is the release of Ubuntu 10.04LTS (Lucid Lynx) so I get to leverage my supreme blogging power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogrotate #24: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Fraser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of Blogrotate. Though I have been contributing to Blogrotate since its inception, this is the first time I have had the honour of posting it myself. Go me! Operating Systems Red Hat has announced the availability of a public beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6). [...]]]></description>
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