EASIER, FASTER, SAFER...for Beginners and Experts on Sun ZFS, Java, Solaris, VirtualBox for ISV and Partners

A picture says more than a thousand words! Have a look at the picture below. The pictures nicely documents what scalability on a large SMP systems means.[Read More]

Le mercredi 2 décembre à 11h00 - heure de Paris - Sun Starup Essentials vous invite à découvrir l'offre de Planet-Work, notre partenaire hébergement.

Frédéric Vannière, Directeur Technique, vous expliquera comment il a mis en oeuvre les fonctionnalités de virtualisation de Solaris et de ZFS pour proposer des packages d'hébergement souples, évolutifs et économiques. En route pour le Cloud Computing !


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If I consider the gain in latency that an SSD brings versus a capacity disk - in the region of 100x - the solution seems obvious. Swapping must be much faster with an SSD. Since RAM is expensive versus SSD, I could even be tempted to design a system with little RAM and a large swap space on SSDs. In other words, I can ask myself if trying to prevent my system to page is still a good fight?[Read More]

Désolé, il ne reste plus de place pour cette matinée du 24 novembre dédiée à l'optimisation des performances MySQL.[Read More]

I've been working with 2 startups to understand how their infrastructure behaves today and what could prevent them to scale, which led me to show how to run a quick diagnostic on an existing system and to restate some key fundamentals in terms of scalability.[Read More]

ZFS compression improves IO perf by 1.35x, saves disk space by 1.77x, and reduces power consumption by 1.09x. Find out more.[Read More]

A big thank you to everyone who attended the Java Professional Day in Langen. Here's my JavaFX material as promised:[Read More]

I did a quick check about what ZFS compression brings in terms of IO performance and I also measured the impact on power consumption - a good opportunity to familiarize with the OpenSolaris Power Management. This article describes my experiment and provides the results.[Read More]
Take advantage of some free technical Webinars conducted by Sun's experts.[Read More]
Here is the follow up on the best practices to secure MySQL in production[Read More]
Here are a set of post-installation best practices to bring MySQL security to the next level.[Read More]
So I just added the TweetMeme feature to this blog, but I have to confess, the integration did not go as smooth as I was expecting[Read More]
MySQL backup soon becomes an important matter when the database is used in production. The pain-point comes from the fact that while backuping, the database is not available to respond to client requests anymore. ZFS snapshosts bring a new and straightforward approach that enables to backup MyISAM or InnoDB in less than a second[Read More]
Sun invites you to join a free Webinar on how databases can take advantage of the next wave in storage techologies. ZFS, SSDs and the Open Storage line of products from Sun are changing the rules in the database storage industry[Read More]
Le 9 septembre à 17h00 Sun Startup Essentials vous propose un webinar sur la conception d'une application pour mobile...[Read More]
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