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		<title>Solaris 11 &#8211; First Impressions as Storage Server</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solaris 11 has been release a few days ago. I was anxious to upgrade as I was using Solaris Express 2010.11 for some time and I was hitting a couple of bugs. One was a nasty IP layer bug (BAD TRAP: type=e (#pf Page fault) rp=ffffff005c9b1040 addr=20 occurred in module &#8220;ip&#8221; due to a NULL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live RAC SIG Web-cast Today: Oracle ASM 11g &#8212; The Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick announcements&#8230; If you didn&#8217;t manage to attend my presentation, Oracle 11g ASM &#8212; The Evolution, during RMOUG or other conferences, you have a chance to see it online today. I&#8217;m doing it a web-cast at RAC SIG. It&#8217;s today, 4-Mar-10 at 12:00pm EST (9:00am PST).]]></description>
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		<title>This IBM Storage Fails Too Often, so Let&#8217;s Switch to EMC and Be Done&#8230; NOT!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.pythian.com/news/3991/expensive-high-end-modern-sans-never-fail-not/]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle ASM 11g &#8212; The Evolution (slides from RMOUG10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle ASM 11g Release 2 &#8211; The Evolution Oracle Automatic Storage Management has proven to be one of the most widely adopted new features in Oracle Database 10g and it has been dramatically improved in the later 11g releases. This presentation will explain what changes are solved by ASM, how these challenges are solved, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>{Expensive &#124; High-End &#124; Modern} SANs Never Fail&#8230; Not!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/3991/expensive-high-end-modern-sans-never-fail-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business continuity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we heard the assurance of storage administrators (fueled by the SAN vendor&#8217;s claims) that their top-of-the-shelf SAN arrays simply cannot fail. Unfortunately, reality proves this wrong and we see it regularly with our customers. At the moment of this writing, one of our DBA teams has just completed failover to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEXT vs. VARCHAR</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/7129/text-vs-varchar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On first glance, it looks like TEXT and VARCHAR can store the same information. However, there are fundamental differences between the way TEXT fields and VARCHAR fields work, which are important to take into consideration. Standard VARCHAR is actually part of the ISO SQL:2003 standard; The TEXT data types, including TINYTEXT, are non-standard. Storage TEXT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing Sydney Oracle Meetup #6 &#8212; Storage for Oracle Databases</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2869/announcing-sydney-oracle-meetup-6-storage-for-oracle-databases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/2869/announcing-sydney-oracle-meetup-6-storage-for-oracle-databases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #6 &#8212; storage for Oracle databases When: June 17, 2009 5:30 PM. Please RSVP Yes/No/Maybe. Where: Our usual location at Sydney CBD. Level 3 this time! Details: We will start at 5:30PM with pizza and drinks and roll on from there as usual. Note that we are meeting at the level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different Technology Stacks On Production and DR?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1478/different-technology-stacks-on-production-and-dr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/1478/different-technology-stacks-on-production-and-dr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was at the NetApp office in North Sydney for the presentation on NetApp SnapManager for Oracle. It was good opportunity to learn more about NetApp snapshots while working on a project for one of our clients in Sydney. It was an especially interesting topic as I have some experience using Veritas Checkpoints [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Storage QoS?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/759/where-is-storage-qos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the era of consolidation, storage has not been left out. Different systems are made to share the same storage boxes, fiber-channel switches and networks. Inside a typical storage box, we have front-end and back-end controllers, cache, physical spindles shared amongst different applications, databases, backup destinations, and so on. The impact of backup on normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>750G Disks Are BAHD for DBs: A Call To Arms</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/170/750g-disks-are-bahd-for-dbs-a-call-to-arms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/170/750g-disks-are-bahd-for-dbs-a-call-to-arms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Vallee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the morning newspaper with a cup of coffee, well, actually I was reading slashdot.org, and I tripped across this story about some new 750G disks @ 7200 RPM soon to be released by Seagate. This filled me with a sense of dread about having to, once again, go through the process of [...]]]></description>
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