In April 2008 I have written this post : Application Performance Management
With
a. Oracle Enterprise Manager 10.2.0.5 Service Level Management,
b. REUI 6.0,
c. SOA mamagement pack and
d. Diagnostic Pack for middleware the solution is available.
A corporate can now implement a completely integrated APM solution based on the above four components of Oracle Enterprise Manager.
The new capabilities of REUI 6.0 include:
a. Full capture and replay of end user sessions.
b. Ability to link the slow performing JSP to the overall configuration in SOA management pack and then jump directly into the diagnostic tool (AD4J)
c. Customizable dashboards from the collected data.
What is REUI? "Real End User Experience Insight"! and What is 6.0? The new version released on 1st December 2009.
The ACTIVE MONITORING functionality is already provided by Enterprise Manager Service Level Management pack.
We hope these new tools will truly improve the Real End User Experience of the web applications.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Exadata V2 - World's First OLTP database machine
Last year the Exadata Database machine was announced for making the data warehouse performance improvement by moving the database query processing to the storage layer.
This year, the new Exadata V2 is proven to be the fastest database machine for OLTP applications.
The trick lies in the Flash solid state storage and the 40GBPS infiniband internal network fabric used between the DB servers and the Storage servers. The full rack contains 8 database servers and 14 storage servers. There are other configurations available.
All the flash storage (600 GB per storage server) is viewed as the extended memory of the servers and it has 72GB of DDR3 memory as the cache per database server....
Guess what, an open challenge to IBM can be found at http://www.oracle.com/features/exadatachallenge.html
So, why not try out for a $10 Million prize?
This year, the new Exadata V2 is proven to be the fastest database machine for OLTP applications.
The trick lies in the Flash solid state storage and the 40GBPS infiniband internal network fabric used between the DB servers and the Storage servers. The full rack contains 8 database servers and 14 storage servers. There are other configurations available.
All the flash storage (600 GB per storage server) is viewed as the extended memory of the servers and it has 72GB of DDR3 memory as the cache per database server....
Guess what, an open challenge to IBM can be found at http://www.oracle.com/features/exadatachallenge.html
So, why not try out for a $10 Million prize?
Friday, September 4, 2009
Oracle Open World 2009 a mega event
Three years back I was at Oracle Open World 2006 staffing one demo pod on "Deployment Best Practices for Enterprise Manager"
Again this year, back to this event where I am presenting a session and three hands on lab sessions to attendees.
Link to the Sessions
S309533 - Applications Management Best Practices with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Enterprise Manager Hands-on Lab: Oracle Application Testing Suite
Oracle Enterprise Manager Hands-on Lab: Oracle Data Masking Pack
Oracle Enterprise Manager: Oracle Real Application Testing
Event dates: October 11-15 2009
Catch me there!!
Again this year, back to this event where I am presenting a session and three hands on lab sessions to attendees.
Link to the Sessions
S309533 - Applications Management Best Practices with Oracle Enterprise Manager
Oracle Enterprise Manager Hands-on Lab: Oracle Application Testing Suite
Oracle Enterprise Manager Hands-on Lab: Oracle Data Masking Pack
Oracle Enterprise Manager: Oracle Real Application Testing
Event dates: October 11-15 2009
Catch me there!!
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Oracle Database 11g R2 released
Oracle has released the latest version of the worlds largest used database!
Key new features are:
"Shared Grid" with server pools for consolidating multiple applications into a single RAC cluster
"RAC One Node" for consolidating less critical application systems transparently get the benefits of easy movement etc.,
"ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)" in the storage management
"Instance Caging" for confining the database to specific cores in a SMP environments
"In-Memory Database Cache (IMDB Cache)" for moving the OLTP processing to the middle tier
capabilities to use the Disaster Recovery (Idle) infrastructure for Reposting and Backup operations.
It has several security enhancements as well.
This Oracle White paper has more details.
It is nice to hear about the new features from Tom Kyte. Being with oracle I had the opportunity to hear about the features directly from the "Architect" of those features!
Key new features are:
"Shared Grid" with server pools for consolidating multiple applications into a single RAC cluster
"RAC One Node" for consolidating less critical application systems transparently get the benefits of easy movement etc.,
"ASM Cluster File System (ACFS)" in the storage management
"Instance Caging" for confining the database to specific cores in a SMP environments
"In-Memory Database Cache (IMDB Cache)" for moving the OLTP processing to the middle tier
capabilities to use the Disaster Recovery (Idle) infrastructure for Reposting and Backup operations.
It has several security enhancements as well.
This Oracle White paper has more details.
It is nice to hear about the new features from Tom Kyte. Being with oracle I had the opportunity to hear about the features directly from the "Architect" of those features!
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Another Year....
Another year into the time making it 20 + 1 = 21 years of association with the computers.
This year is mostly focussed on the data center software infrastructure provisioning and public and private clouds. Application quality management and Application performance Management solutions.
This year is mostly focussed on the data center software infrastructure provisioning and public and private clouds. Application quality management and Application performance Management solutions.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Operations Management vs Quality Management
One of the challenges Information Technology faces eternally is to:
a. reduce the operational costs of a system/application in production
b. improve the quality of system/application in development
They are inter related. If any company manages one of these areas perfectly, the other area is redundant.
Let us assume company A has a perfect operations management. They can operationally manage any sort of product implemented, let the product has unlimited bugs, the operational management process is so strong that the business is never impacted due to the bugs in the IT due to its efficiency of operations management process and techniques. This is a nirvana of IT Asset operations management. All the systems are proactively monitored, the capacity problems are predicted upfront and fixed before hitting the limit; all the business KPAs are always met that too within the limited budget of operations management.
Let us assume company B has a perfect quality management. Right from the architecture up till implementation all the quality processes are perfected and the product goes live with absolutely no defects. Once implemented there is no need for any operational management. Absolutely no monitoring is required, no performance issue will be there and no bugs to fix.
The "Perfection" in one of the areas means the "Redundancy" of the other area.
Company A's method of perfecting the operations is a "short term solution" until all the applications are replaced by Company B's method of perfect quality.
The FACT is, none of the today's corporates have patience to perfect any one of them. They concentrate on "improving" both the areas slightly in cycles. This attitude leads to never ending cycles of replacing the applications and continuing to spend a lot of money in maintaining them.
When the management starts to reduce the operational costs without any improvement of QUALITY of new IT implementations, the quality of operations will go down and impact the business KPAs.
So, sure method of reducing the operational expenditure is to Perfect the quality of IT systems/applications. That is the only way....
a. reduce the operational costs of a system/application in production
b. improve the quality of system/application in development
They are inter related. If any company manages one of these areas perfectly, the other area is redundant.
Let us assume company A has a perfect operations management. They can operationally manage any sort of product implemented, let the product has unlimited bugs, the operational management process is so strong that the business is never impacted due to the bugs in the IT due to its efficiency of operations management process and techniques. This is a nirvana of IT Asset operations management. All the systems are proactively monitored, the capacity problems are predicted upfront and fixed before hitting the limit; all the business KPAs are always met that too within the limited budget of operations management.
Let us assume company B has a perfect quality management. Right from the architecture up till implementation all the quality processes are perfected and the product goes live with absolutely no defects. Once implemented there is no need for any operational management. Absolutely no monitoring is required, no performance issue will be there and no bugs to fix.
The "Perfection" in one of the areas means the "Redundancy" of the other area.
Company A's method of perfecting the operations is a "short term solution" until all the applications are replaced by Company B's method of perfect quality.
The FACT is, none of the today's corporates have patience to perfect any one of them. They concentrate on "improving" both the areas slightly in cycles. This attitude leads to never ending cycles of replacing the applications and continuing to spend a lot of money in maintaining them.
When the management starts to reduce the operational costs without any improvement of QUALITY of new IT implementations, the quality of operations will go down and impact the business KPAs.
So, sure method of reducing the operational expenditure is to Perfect the quality of IT systems/applications. That is the only way....
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Private Clouds Again
As mentioned in the previous blog post on Private Clouds, the vendors are coming out with some products on this technology.
IBM launched the CloudBurst and HP BladeSystem Matrix.
All the three types of private clouds look promising at the current moment; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Service oriented, self-provisioning model of Cloud and the pay-as-you-go billing are key factors of success for Clouds.
IBM launched the CloudBurst and HP BladeSystem Matrix.
All the three types of private clouds look promising at the current moment; IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Service oriented, self-provisioning model of Cloud and the pay-as-you-go billing are key factors of success for Clouds.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Google Fusion Tables
Q. Is Google experimenting with "Clouding" the "database"?
It looks to be.....
One can now upload upto 100MB table with a total limit of 250MB as of now to this new experiment.
It is surely a step towards taking the spreadsheets to the cloud. But will it pose a problem to BIG database vendors too in future?
Let us wait and watch.....
To know more about Fusion Tables go through FAQs and play around.
It looks to be.....
One can now upload upto 100MB table with a total limit of 250MB as of now to this new experiment.
It is surely a step towards taking the spreadsheets to the cloud. But will it pose a problem to BIG database vendors too in future?
Let us wait and watch.....
To know more about Fusion Tables go through FAQs and play around.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Next dimension in search - Google Squared
Google has released a new search tool - Google Squared. This provides a structure to the unstructured data. It searches for all the related information and puts the data into a "Square" - a typical spreadsheet format. One can add rows and columns to it and save the Square.
It looks very good at the first look. All the best Google!!
http://www.google.com/squared
It looks very good at the first look. All the best Google!!
http://www.google.com/squared
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Private Clouds
An interesting trend emerging is the concept of "Private Cloud" in the Data Center Management Area.
This trend eventually combines the strengths of
a. Standardization of overall infrastructure based on open standards
b. Virtualization of server resources
c. Seemless Provisioning of applications
d. Pay-as-you-go billing models and charge back of IT resources based on consumption
e. Services oriented architecture (SOA)
Their main advantages over the "PUBLIC clouds" are
1. less risk of security related issues
2. more control over the network bandwidth and availability
In my opinion, some big IT houses will adopt to "Private Clouds" to get the benefits of cloud computing while keeping the control in-house in the short term. As the technology advances and matures, it will also benefit the PUBLIC CLOUD providers!
This trend eventually combines the strengths of
a. Standardization of overall infrastructure based on open standards
b. Virtualization of server resources
c. Seemless Provisioning of applications
d. Pay-as-you-go billing models and charge back of IT resources based on consumption
e. Services oriented architecture (SOA)
Their main advantages over the "PUBLIC clouds" are
1. less risk of security related issues
2. more control over the network bandwidth and availability
In my opinion, some big IT houses will adopt to "Private Clouds" to get the benefits of cloud computing while keeping the control in-house in the short term. As the technology advances and matures, it will also benefit the PUBLIC CLOUD providers!
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