essbase on solaris – are you mad?
Several years ago Sun began a project to update and consolidate the business intelligence tools used at Sun and we decided on Hyperion as we had a variety of Hyperion tools already: Brio, Essbase. This was a few years before the Oracle acquisition of Hyperion and we wanted to run on Solaris. This meant we [...]
sss update: solaris, sparc, servers
Following up from John Fowlers Oracle Systems / Storage Product Briefing on Tuesday, 10th August it was exciting to see the focus on application performance and tuning for SPARC: “2x plus performance improvement every 2 years”. For those that missed it, you can view the On Demand Webcast here and download the slides here. This [...]
focusing on the strengths
One thing I’ve noticed from the Oracle acquisition is the re-focusing on Sun strengths around the engineering talent that Sun had: Solaris, Sparc, servers and technology integration and innovation. This talent also developed such cool things as zfs, dtrace, F5100 storage array, hybrid storage pools and unified storage. As my MBA tutor tells me, one [...]
