During the last days, the the fight over MySQL’s future has heated up. The European Commission still hasn’t approved it, and Michael Widenius is calling upon all MySQL users to help “save” the popular open source database from Oracle. As a response, Oracle has published some promises about MySQL’s future that were meant to provide some counterweight to this call for help. I think these provide some interesting insights into what Oracle has planned. Continue reading Future of MySQL: How serious is Oracle about open source?
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After over a month of speculation and rumors, the Sun F5100 has finally appeared on Sun’s website. Most of the details published earlier were correct; in fact, the performance figures quoted earlier were lower than what’s currently being quoted by Sun.  Sun F5100 front view Switch vendor Brocade is reportedly looking for prospective buyers. HP and Oracle are named as interested parties; the Wall Street Journal that first reported this doesn’t provide much additional information about why this particular moment was chosen too look for buyers. Seeking Alpha thinks the timing isn’t that good, and that they should finish integrating their Foundry Networks acquisition first. Continue reading Brocade reportedly up for sale; is Oracle serious enough to buy them? After watching the webcast in which Larry Ellison unveiled their new “Sun Oracle Database Machine”, I was left wondering what the news was. Let’s summarize:
Continue reading Oracle Exadata server: where is the FlashFire technology? After the discovery of documentation about Sun’s F5100 flash array two weeks ago, the internet was full of speculation about when it would be launched. The Register expects the final product to be revealed by Oracle as part of a demo machine that will shatter the TPC-C performance benchmark: Continue reading More (and less) about the Sun F5100 StorageMojo is one of the first sites to report about an exciting product that will (probably) be released by Sun soon: the F5100 flash array. It’s a 1U rackmount system that contains 80 flash modules. The main innovation for this system are the flash modules themselves; Sun uses an SO-DIMM socket to connect the flash modules. According to what I’ve heard so far the modules will initially be available with a capacity of 24 GB, with 48 GB versions following later to bring the total capacity of the array to 4TB. Continue reading F5100: 1U, 4TB flash storage from Sun Sun has just posted details about their Q4 revenues in a filing to the SEC. As expected, total revenues dropped. But what might be more interesting is that their storage division is doing all right; their Open Storage systems appear to be a big hit with customers.  Sun storage revenue George Crump just blogged about the reliability of cloud storage; as he points out, anything you store “in the cloud” will go down or be unreachable at one time or another. I personally think most companies storing data with cloud storage providers such as Amazon’s S3 or Rackspace’s Cloud Files realize this might happen, and plan accordingly; but still the “Hybrid Cloud Storage” solution proposed by Crump might be worth investigating: Continue reading Are there any real advantages to cloud storage? Yesterday, Imation announced that they are the first licensed manufacturer to start producing LTO-5 tapes. LTO-5 is the successor of the current LTO-4 tape standard, doubling raw capacity from 800 to 1600 GB. Transfer speeds are up as well, improving slightly from 120 to 180 MB/second. Continue reading Imation announces first 1.6 TB LTO-5 tapes |
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